Diamonds are a Showgirl’s Best Friend
A Mini-Cabaret Theatre Show
with Mayuka Ezure
Lumi the showgirl is fed up with her charming but unreliable boyfriend Vittorio, a classic mama’s boy. Just when she’s had enough, he calls with a tempting surprise. He claims to have found a rare African diamond. Is it a scam? A gift? Or his version of a proposal? Kuni Makami’s light-hearted jazz piano, Jim Su’s dreamy live painting and a dazzling cast of dancers and models bring Lumi’s adventures to life onstage. Sparkling love… the allure of blue diamonds. An unforgettable night of cabaret.
Mayuka Ezure is a multitalented artist, bilingual actress, singer, dancer, and scriptwriter originally from Japan. A graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in 2018, she has appeared in numerous independent films including Japanese Borsch, Duke of NY (dir. Eric Rivas), Strip (dir. Osaretin Oghmwen), and N’yarey (dir. Nazar Germanov). Her performance as Nina—a Japanese exchange student whose dreams are shattered by a toxic relationship—in Black Out (dir. Cherry Fu) earned her Best Actress awards from Global Indie Film Festival, Eastern Europe Film Festival and Vision International Film Festival. She starred in Rip Van Winkle, a feature by Frank Durant), and contributed the theme song, Orchid’s Dream. She aspires to heal, inspire, and energize herself and those around her through the power of storytelling.
Performance/arthouse Micro Pilot
A Pilot Collaboration
Six writers deliver a short work in prose or poetry, 5 minutes maximum, each of which gets assigned to six different actors who then have 24 hours to prepare a short live performance with music. The resulting live performances can serve as a launch point for micrométrage film production to feed Bronx World Film programming and begin creating a local production unit.
