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Arts Preview: When Rick met Marsha … a Cabaret

When Rick Lau first met Marsha Yuan, both knew it wasn't just by chance.

In May, the two veteran performers sat down at a cast meeting for the theatre production I-Ching, which premiered in Los Angeles in September, and they connected immediately.

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Marsha Yuan and Rick Lau are kindred souls. Photo: Lowell Lo

In May, the two veteran performers sat down at a cast meeting for the theatre production I-Ching, which premiered in Los Angeles in September, and they connected immediately.

"I believe we all meet people in our lives for a reason," says Yuan, a Chinese-American singer, dancer and actress, and former Miss Hong Kong first runner-up in 1999.

"When we met, I knew we were meant to do something together," says Lau, a locally born Australian cabaret and theatre singer who has performed in Hong Kong and overseas.

The on-stage chemistry they shared in I-Ching inspired Lau to initiate another collaboration.

"I was planning my own cabaret show for November and I thought: why not do it together?" he says.

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