second-generation
🎟️Tickets now on sale!🎟️
The Golden Door: an American immigrant song cycle
🗓️ DATES AND TIMES:
Friday, July 18, 7:30pm
Saturday, July 19, 7:30pm
Sunday, July 20, 2pm
📍VENUE: Seattle Open Arts Place (Formerly known as 18th & Union). 1406 18th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
🎫 TICKETS: Tickets are choose-your-own-price and available here:
https://soap.thundertix.com/events/248923
(also in bio)
✨The Golden Door is a new musical theatre song cycle based on the real words of people in American immigrant communities. A cast of five standout Seattle musical theatre performers, joined by a live band, brings to life a series of songs drawn from interviews conducted by Vahdat with members of BIPOC immigrant communities across the U.S. Using these interviews, historical documents, and her own identity as a second-generation Iranian-American, Vahdat has crafted a show that honors, explores, and celebrates these diverse stories.
These performances are presented as a co-production with Seattle Open Arts Place, and serve as an encore of a performance originally presented through the Artists at the Center program on the Seattle Center Armory Stage in June 2025.
Prefer a livestream? Tickets to a livestream of the July 19 performance, available on-demand until July 26, can be purchased at
soap.thundertix.com/events/248928
The show is approximately one hour, with no intermission. The venue is accessible for those using wheelchairs.
CAST
Adele Lim
Becca Mercado
Caitlin Sarwono
Matthew Reyes
Melisa Cedillo
COMPOSER, LYRIC ADAPTOR, PIANIST and DIRECTOR
Shaudi Bianca Vahdat
PERCUSSIONIST
Alan Echison