Benefit Concert for the 2010 Cambodian Youth Arts Festival
Starring Diane Phelan and Marc de la Cruz

Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) and Partners will kick off the 2010 Cambodian Youth Arts Festival with a Benefit Concert at the CJCC on August 3 at 7:00 pm. The concert features two of the lead international stars of the popular Khmer Rock Opera, Where Elephants Weep, and will include songs from the opera and the popular Broadway musical, West Side Story.

Diane Phelan and Marc de la Cruz, both of whose performing credits include New York’s Broadway, are returning this year as volunteer artists at the Youth Arts Festival. They have assembled a song cycle for the benefit concert with selections from Him Sophy’s original score of Where Elephants Weep, a modern telling of the traditional tale of Tum Teav. Other songs have been selected from Leonard Bernstein’s popular score, West Side Story, also a modern telling of an ancient myth, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The composer Him Sophy will conduct the traditional orchestra that played the original opera to accompany the two stars who will also be accompanied by acoustic piano.

The proceeds from this prestigious artistic event will go directly to support the Cambodian Youth Arts Festival. Join us August 3 starting at 6:15 pm with a cocktail reception followed by the concert at 7:00 pm.

Tickets are $10* and will bo on sale soon at:
The CLA Office: #128G9 Sothearos Blvd. Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamkamorn
Java Café & Gallery: 56 Sihanouk Blvd. Phnom Penh, Cambodia 023 987 420, 012 833 512
Tickets will be on-sale at CJCC box office after 6:00 pm the night of the Concert.
*50% discount for artist and students

Seating is limited

Location: Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center
Time: 03 August · 18:30 – 20:30

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