Ticket pick up time: 20 mins prior to the start of the show
Tickets pick up location: SMG pickup table, Box office, 597 Fuxing Zhong Lu

The 2019 tour will be BYU Young Ambassadors ninth time to China in the past 40 years.

 

On May 17 of this year, a cast of more than 200 BYU students will travel to China. China Spectacular 2019 will be the biggest show to date, combining eight groups from BYU to make one grand production that showcases the best of what the university has to offer. With venues in Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai, the show will include performances from Living Legends, International Folk Dance Ensemble, the Ballroom Dance Company, Young Ambassadors, Vocal Point, the Chamber Orchestra, the Cougarettes, and the Dunk Team with Cosmo.

 

“The show’s theme is based on five circles of aspects that are important to our lives,” says producer Michael Handley: family, harmony, friendship, learning, and love. He adds, “The show is highly entertaining, energetic, fun, and lively.”

 

Each group was carefully chosen to bring China Spectacular to life and help celebrate the 40 years of friendship between BYU and China. While many members of Living Legends and the Ballroom Dance Company will be on other tours in Brazil and Europe, those groups are lending a few alumni to represent them during the China tour.

 

“It is the largest, most complex tour we’ve ever taken abroad,” says executive producer Jeff Ringer. “We hope that this tour will be a great experience for the student performers and great entertainment for the audiences. Beyond that, we hope the show helps raise the profile of BYU and highlights the deep academic connections between BYU and China.”

 

The students are also getting excited about this huge collaboration. “By us performing and being good examples of talent and kindness, it can bring more peace for us as a people and bring more joy through the universal language of music and dance,” says Chamber Orchestra member Jamie Baker.

 

While they wait for the other groups to arrive, the BYU Chamber Orchestra will perform at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. They plan to ask locals for help with one of their numbers. “It requires extra players,” says Baker, “so we’ll have some players from the areas we visit who will sit in and play with our orchestra, which will be exciting.”

 

Many of the groups have translated pieces into Chinese in honor of the tour. Additionally, the students are enrolled in a culture class where they learn traditions of the Chinese people and a bit of Mandarin, so they can speak with audience members and friends.

“It’s been really such a wonderful relationship with China,” says Boothe, “and we’re so excited to go back and continue building that friendship that’s been going now for 40 years.”

 

 

Liberty Fanfare 
Prologue 
Go my son 
Come Alive

Dance: POW WOW 
acappella: Happy

With Malice Toward None 
American Clog:Old Joe Clark, Best Day Of My Life/Go Big
Overture To West Side Story
Circle of life
Roar of the Cougars – Seize The Day
Dunk Team and Cosmo
Cougarettes Hip-Hop Number
Riverdance
A million dreams

Everything About You 
Phantom Of The Opera Medley 
Butterfly Lovers Concerto
Hoop Dance

Arise, and Shine 
Come Alive Reprise 
Encore – Mo Li Hua