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Out of everything I have experienced and covered in 44 years, Journey from the East is one of the most unique, different, and for lack of a Touchstone Theatre has created a fascinating, thoughtful and creative piece of theater in “Journey to the East,” a free, large-scale, outdoor performance that continues through this weekend at the Chinese Harmony Pavilion on South Bethlehem’s Greenway. It’s the conclusion of a two-year project exploring the impact of the Chinese community in Bethlehem and the Lehigh Valley. The show combines elements of the American Wild West with Chinese mythology an adventure that certainly is unlike anything else you have ever seen in the Lehigh Valley, taking the audience on unexpected journeys featuring fantastical dragons, demi-gods and ghosts who intermingle with a disgraced gun-slinger, a feisty saloon owner and a Bible-spouting preacher, in amusing and enlightening ways. at the Chinese Harmony Pavilion on the Greenway in Bethlehem’s Southside. The show will be repeated tomorrow, April 19, and Saturday and Sunday next weekend, April 25 & 26. mentor Norman Girardot, emeritus professor of As*an Studies at Lehigh University, which just happens to be in the neighborhood! has been a major advocate of the use of pinyin, the alphabetic script for writing Mandarin Chinese. He has taught at Harvard (where he earned his Ph.D) and is presently on the faculty at University of Pennsylvania. Pigsy, Anna, Horsey, the President, the Chinese diplomat, the Secret Service Guy, the Old-Timer, and Maggie, in front of the Harmony wonderful piece called “Touchstone completes its ‘Journey’ with audacious street theater joining the American Wild West and Chinese call ’em cowboys now, but back in the days of the “real” Wild West, things were somewhat different from what many of us learned from American TV and the movies. The same is most likely true for folks growing up in China with the story of the Journey to the West — a