Today is a very special day!

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Today is the Opening of Zuccotti Park at The New York International Fringe Festival

 
 
YES!!!! It's opening day for Zuccotti Park and we want to say, Congratulations to everyone who has made it possible!!!! THANK YOU ALL... THANK YOU SO MUCH. "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/gratitude.html
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/gratitude.html
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/gratitude.html
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/gratitude.html
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/gratitude.html


Today, we are back to sharing what we believe to be a  labor of love: a developmental process where 25 wonderful performers celebrate achievement after investing innumerable hours in discovering, adapting, work-shopping and evolving the potential of our piece.

Today is about sharing these steps with our audience, and getting the needed feedback in order to improve the work even further. Today is also about bringing the awareness of our role and responsibility to society and to being an American citizen... and beyond that, a Citizen of the world. We all are responsible to make the world we live in, a better one; And to stand for what is RIGHT! As we proved YESTERDAY during our 2 hour tech time, IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING!

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”


In the journey, every second of process reminds me that THIS is MY PRESENT, AND MY FUTURE... I LOVE DIRECTING! and I pray each day for a healthy LIFE IN THE THEATER; Loving, sharing and discovering with HUMANS THAT PLAY, people who is open and willing to give their best every second of the journey.

                                                                           "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"

The hard work, dedication, discovery and devotion of our entire cast and team would come to live from today until August 28th when we engage into the magic of live theater at FringeNYC - The New York International Fringe Festival.

Composer Vatrena King said: "We feel like the luckiest people in the world, Luis Salgado!!! Thank you for sharing your brilliance AND your heart with us! And we LOVE the entire cast! (And Rachel Dean of course!!) <3 Sweet and amazing." - 

Production assistant Poppy Peach-Nichols posted: "I looked down and there were tears on my notebook. It was then that I realized my face was wet and the tears had just streamed down my cheeks. Luis Salgado, you are all heart!!!!! This show is beyond words!"


I can't be but grateful!

THANK YOU UNIVERSE FOR EVERY SINGLE SECOND, EVERY "SIMPLE" DISCOVERY, EVERY DAY WE WALK!!!!! THAT'S ALL!!!!

I'm Excited for being a part of this earth and of this IMPORTANT TIME, where we all must take a stand and VOTE, TO LOVE, TO FIGHT, TO STAND AS ONE AND MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR US ALL! TIME TO SHARE OUR VALUES, DREAMS, DESIRES and support those of our people.

"Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost." - Chaplin

I am honored to have The 2016 Fringe Festival cast be so wonderful, Chelsea Rose Amoroso, Leanne Brunn, Elizabeth Casper, Jessica Cherniak, Daria DeGaetano, Brian Fender -Shirley, Ryan Neal Green, LaRon Hudson, Alex Grayson, Tim Kava, Wendy Lazarus, Matthew Martinez, Rebecca Mueller, Paloma Muñoz, Cait Murphy, Kevin D. O'Neil, Jenna Perez, Alex Sanders, Dana Scurlock, Joshua Tavares, Alexander Tomas, Chris Tuck, Michael J. Verre, Joshua Wanger, and Kris Watkins. THANK YOU ALL!

My Salgado Productions team consulting all departments are Lighting Designer: Herrick Goldman, Scenic Consultant: Kate Rance, Costume Consultant: Harry Nadal, Production Supervisor Heather Hogan, Assistant Director Valeria Cossu, General Management will be in the hands of Salgado Productions in partnership between Jacob Seidman and Denisse Ambert. YOU GUYS MAKE IT EASY FOR US ALL! GRACIAS!

And the amazing PHOTOS BY Ari Romero will keep this memories alive for ever!

Thank you Catherine Hurd,Vatrena King and Poppy Peach-Nichols for believing in me, Salgado Productions and my entire team! And did I say how amazing Rachel Dean and Giancarlo de Trizio are? The music will be kicking!

Festivals like this are a GIFT to an artist’s developmental process. The writers get to see their work realized on stage and learn from it. Directors and creative teams get to exercise vision and deal creatively with the limitations.. Actors evolve as performers and all of this teamwork, -the element of LOVE, and the technique needed to make it come to life, under very restricted circumstances- is an example of what we are and can achieve as a community. IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENT in moments where we feel our communities divides more and more." said Salgado and concluded "We can always take a stand and commit to taking ACTION as PEOPLE as IT IS our RIGHT but also our responsibility.


 

PERFORMANCES at:
The Flamboyan Theater at the Clemente Center -107 Suffolk St. NY, NY

Wednesday Aug. 17th - 4:30pm
Sunday Aug. 21st - 2:45pm
Wednesday Aug. 24th - 9:45pm
Saturday Aug. 27th - 7:00pm
Sunday Aug. 28th - 12:00pm

Get your tickets now

 Here are more pictures by Ari Romero:












Come see the spirit and stories of Zuccotti Park The Musical starting August 17! 


Written by Catherine Hurd and composer Vatrena King our cast will share their hearts in every song.

Support new artists!
Support new work!
Support new dreams!


WE OPEN TODAY:
http://www.zuccottiparkmusical.com/
www.SalgadoProductions.com

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