The Korea Society is thrilled to sponsor The Dive: The Songs of Julia Riew featuring Julia Riew, Claire Kwon, Natalie Choo and others at 54 Below, Broadway's supper club.
Fred Ebb Award Winner Julia Riew returns to 54 Below and makes her New York City solo concert debut. The evening will feature original music from a variety of projects including Julia’s viral musical Dive (previously known as Shimcheong: A Folktale), a fantasy-novel-inspired song cycle, and some of her other greatest online-and-onstage hits. Stepping into the solo spotlight for the first time, the composer-lyricist will be joined by rising theater stars to perform in a joyous celebration of lyric, melody, and the diversity across our experiences.
The concert will feature performers Claire Kwon (Always Famous), Emily Borromeo (The Prom Nat’l Tour, School of Rock), Juliet Lee, Kevin Perdido (Always Famous), Marina Kondo (KPOP, Frozen Nat’l Tour), and Natalie Choo. The band will be led by music director Simon Broucke, and will feature Noah Weisbart on guitar, Shelby Blezinger-McCay on Drums, Skyler Volpe on Bass, and Jeremiah Blacklow on violin.
THE DIVE: THE SONGS OF JULIA RIEW
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 7 PM
Use code RIEW5 for $5 off of Main Dining Room or Bar Rail cover charge;
Cover charge starts at $35, plus a $25 food/beverage minimum.
About the Performer:
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Julia Riew is a Korean-American composer, lyricist, librettist, and writer from St. Louis and currently based in New York City. She is primarily known for her musical Dive (previously known as Shimcheong: A Folktale), which amassed over 100k followers online and over 16 million streams on an animated music video of its titular song in Korea. Julia graduated from Harvard University in May 2022 and is First-Year in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. In her first year out of college, she has been named the 2022 Fred Ebb Award winner, Playbill’s Featured Songwriter of the Month, A Woman to Watch on Broadway, and the recipient of the 2022 Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship under the mentorship of composer Laurence O’Keefe (Legally Blonde, Heathers). Julia was the inaugural recipient of the Musicians United for Social Equity (MUSE) Linda Twine Scholarship (2021), a member of the first MUSE One-on-One Mentorship Program (2021-22) (mentor: Jeanine Tesori), and a member of the inaugural Maestra Music Mentorship Program (2020-21) (mentor: Deborah Wicks La Puma). Her past works include Alice’s Wonderland, an original musical co-written by J Quinton Johnson (Hamilton), Jack and the Beanstalk: A Musical Adventure (The American Repertory Theater’s 2020 Family Musical), and Thumbelina: A Little Musical (The A.R.T. 2019 Family Musical). |
