Listen to An American Soldier, Act I Scene 2: You Can Do Better (Josephine, Danny) by American Composers Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan, Brian Vu & Hannah Cho

An American Soldier, Act I Scene 2: You Can Do Better (Josephine, Danny)

American Composers Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan, Brian Vu & Hannah Cho

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An American Soldier, Act I Scene 2: You Can Do Better (Josephine, Danny)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

American Composers Orchestra

American Composers Orchestra

Orchestra

Carolyn Kuan

Conductor

Brian Vu

Tenor

Hannah Cho

Soprano

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Henry David Hwang

Henry David Hwang

Librettist

Huang Ruo

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Silas Brown

Recording Engineer

Jan "Stan" Kybert

Jan "Stan" Kybert

Immersive Mixing Engineer

Adam Abeshouse

Producer

Doron Schachter

Doron Schachter

Recording Engineer

Lyrics

JOSEPHINE

Danny Chen, hear me out

You’re a fool!

Who cares if you’re bored?

You get good grades!

What kind of Chinese are you?

What else you gonna do?

Where else you gonna go?

So why are you standing here?

What’s with that pamphlet?

Nei kei hai dou zou muh?

Nei tai muh yeh tai

Muh ye yao muh ye hou tai

“Are you army strong?”

What’s that even mean?

DANNY

Josephine --

JOSEPHINE

The army? Really?

Don’t tell me ...

DANNY

I’ve been thinking --

JOSEPHINE

You’ve got to be kidding.

No, no, no, no

You haven’t, you haven’t

You are not thinking at all!

DANNY

My parents won’t approve --

JOSEPHINE

Hey, they are right!

DANNY

So I'll sign up,

Not tell them til it’s done

JOSEPHINE

No, no, no!

Danny, are you nuts?

You can do better,

Much better than the army,

You’ll get shot,

And blown up far away.

The army’s for people

Who got no other choices,

But we got offers

Come to St. Francis with me!

Be the all-American

Chinatown dream.

DANNY

Yeah.

Written by: Henry David Hwang, Huang Ruo

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