Word: ashong
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...comparison is unfair. Ashong describes some of his Hollywood experiences in disbeleif--like going to the Dreamworks studio and meeting Spielberg for the first time, and seeing executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and Arsenio Hall strolling through...
Still, in many ways, Ashong has more at stake in his musical, which he hopes will be his "crowning artistic achievement...
...musical is a more personal project for Ashong, one that stems from his own experience growing up in Africa and the United States. He hesitates to describe it as autobiography, but says "there's something of me in each and every one of [the characters...
...story focuses on two half-brothers growing up in the United States, one of whom is African and the other African-American. Ashong says he chose a musical because during his Fall 1995 semester in Ghana, he realized how fundamental oral literature and music were to African identity...
...plus side, Ashong certainly seems to be happy that he is not stuck in the library doing research but is combining a number of different interests...