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“I did it without really even thinking about it. And it’s like the more that we sang it, the more I realized, ‘Dang, if a tornado could sound like anything, I would put that melody to it.’

Tim Dang, who served as artistic director of EWP for more than 20 years, directed a 1998 revival of “Pacific Overtures” that inaugurated the David Henry Hwang Theater.

Dang’s return to EWP to direct another production of this hugely ambitious musical turns out to be one of the best things to have happened in 2024, at least from a theater perspective.

French engineer Emilien Dang, whose RB Rail oversees the project, blamed recent global crises for the big spike in costs: “Our initial estimate hadn't taken into account the Covid pandemic and high inflation - and the situation in Ukraine has dramatically increased the cost of material.”

“Silver Lake doesn’t give a dang about your Open Source ideals. It just wants a return on capital.”