Bubble artist Melody Yang has done many shows in the past for Discovery Cube Orange County’s annual event featuring soapy fun for kids, but when the show debuts Wednesday, it will be a bit different.
Yang, who usually does the laser show as her brother handles most of the bubble tricks, will be doing Bubblefest solo this time around, and she will be taking over the production as a new mom.
Yang’s son was born in January of last year.
“It’s changed my perspective on a lot of things, and it will change the way I interact with the kids,” Yang told City News Service.
In the past, Yang would do an interlude with bubbles in which children volunteers are called up on stage for a snow storm of suds.
“Bringing the kids on stage, I always felt like I was a kid — like I was their friend,” Yang said. “With this new outlook on my life and having a son and bringing kids on stage, now I would still be friendly, I would still be like a friend, but at the same time it will be more educational, teaching them, showing them, explaining to them in a different manner. When you have a child you teach them what you know and I feel like that’s come to me more now.”
Bubblefest had to be canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, but it was revived in July of last year during the COVID-19 lull. It usually is presented in the spring, and is back on its regular schedule this year.
Yang’s brother, Deni Yang, who is doing the show in New York now, wasn’t sure last year if his sister would be able to participate in the July production, but she did her laser show as in years past.
“It felt so good to be back, you know what I mean? Like things picked up again,” she said. “The energy from the audience was a high — like a drug. It was amazing. Just to be back, to have anyone back is good, positive energy.”
This year she is going it alone, which isn’t so unusual, she said.
“I did the Australia tour by myself,” she said. “And I run the show in New York sometimes by myself.”
Melody Yang said, “I’ll probably do a few tricks that Deni doesn’t do” at this year’s Bubblefest.
The show also features a variety of bubble-themed activities for the kids to participate in after the show, which runs through April 17 at Discovery Cube OC, 2500 N. Main St., Santa Ana.
