STRATEGIC ENTERTAINMENT | Hong Kong 1999-2005

While pioneering theater as a tool to train and coach executives in Asia, I also produced and directed bespoke live theater for corporate clients. We had anywhere from four to a hundred and four actors, singers, musicians, dancers, costume and set designers, stage managers and crew on the payroll at any given time, depending on the size of the project:

A dancing rabbit who tapped his way through one of Hong Kong's busiest shopping malls carrying his stage like a suitcase. Actually, we had MANY bunny-themed shows, including one that included a "Construction Bunny"?? 

A group of Santa's elves who found themselves in an empty theater, began trying on costumes and proceeded to perform showstopping numbers in one of my very favorite of our shows, "Elves on Broadway".

A specially commissioned evening with Edgar Allen Poe which took place at his own funeral. Iris Stoner researched and wrote the piece which was performed by Doug Baker.

The transformation of an exclusive private club into a 1920's speakeasy complete with dockside roughnecks outside the entrance,  a kindly Geppetto-like cobbler who measured  guests up for "cement shoes", and a clawfoot bathtub filled with gin!

One of our biggest productions  for Sun Hung Kai Properties was "Snoopy's Super Summer Circus". It introduced four characters that would perform every weekend in New Town Plaza mall for the next four years..

The Good Buddies was a live bilingual, musical, interactive, family show. The message was "we can be very different from each other and still be best friends".  I also wanted to create entertainment that got children talking with their parents, and it was thrilling to watch that happen. Delightful writer Rebekah Walters joined us late 2003 to help with Good Buddies scripts. Many students of mine from HKAPA performed as Good Buddies and in shows for corporate clients.

Charles Teo a former student at the HKAPA, talented singer, dancer and musician, was my wingman at Strategic Entertainment, and he composed the music, I wrote the lyrics and along with Sheri Dorfman we recorded the vocals for the Good Buddies CD at Hugh Trethowan's recording studio. These songs give a pretty you a pretty good idea of what The Good Buddies was all about.