Visual Communications and the Chinese American Museum proudly presents: LONG STORY SHORT An award-winning film by director Christine Choy ("Who Killed Vincent Chin?") With an introduction by actress Jodi Long Saturday, February 7, 2009, 5 p.m. Pico House at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (across from Union Station) 425 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California 90012 RSVP by Feb. 5, 2009: Chinese American Museum, (213) 485-8567 Please arrive by 4:45 p.m. to be guaranteed a seat In 2001 Asian American actress Jodi Long was cast in a Broadway-bound revival of “Flower Drum Song” with a new book written by David Henry Hwang. "Flower Drum Song" was based on San Francisco's Forbidden City nightclub, one of many nightclubs that came to be known as The Chop Suey Circuit where her vaudevillian parents were performers. Jodi grew up playing backstage and in the wings of theaters from one coast to another. But it was at The Forbidden City in 1959, where her parents were headlining, that her father got the call to go to New York and audition for a new Broadway play—Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song,” a play he subsequently performed in until he was fired. Meeting at NYC's China Doll nightclub, Jodi's parents teamed up to put together their own nightclub act, Larry and Trudie Leung. Besides the Chop Suey Circuit, they played The Borscht Belt, The Palace and, for seven minutes of live television, The Ed Sullivan Show. Decades later, Jodi goes on a search to find that Ed Sullivan Show footage, the only known record of her parents’ act. Larry’s recollection of the night was that they had “bombed.” After much searching, Jodi shares with them the show they have never seen; a grainy video providing them and others a look back to a young couple on the threshold of a dream. Actress and documentary subject Jodi Long will be available for a Q&A session following the screening. For more info on the screening: Visual Communications: www.vconline.org Chinese American Museum: www.camla.org __________________________________ Check back for late-breaking events, or send an e-mail to subscribe to the mailing list by writing to: info@vconline.org