Shen Yun Chicago Audience: “Please Don't Ever Let the Show Go Away”

Over the Easter Weekend, New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts held three performances at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Theatergoers were enchanted. Ali Tucker, owns an event planning company, Ali Tucker’s Artistic Entertaining. She watched Shen Yun with her husband on a date. Tucker said, “Shen Yun has been a feast for the senses. Visually, I've never seen anything like it. The sound is spectacular. You can feel the touch of the performers with every graceful move that they make.” Shen Yun showcases China’s vast history and diversity with story-based classical Chinese dance. Tucker said Shen Yun is her first Chinese cultural experience, and it’s been educational. “The stories—for me it's been a compilation of opera, of vignettes. Almost like it's a concert, but it's all different eras. I've been absolutely amazed that we go way back in history— You know, 5000 years ago to the current day. I'm being educated.” said Tucker Dr. Paul Kent, MD is a Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Specialist with the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He said Shen Yun helped him see the real China, “You get to see what China is really about, and the beauty and the diversity and the culture and the infinite amount of different peoples that are part of this amazing land.”