"My friend got me a ticket ... he wanted to give me a surprise of watching a live kungfu show," he said.
Yu Fei, who plays Hui Guang, was almost mobbed by the audience after the show - everyone eager to take photographs with him or get his autograph.
"It means a lot to us ... performing on Broadway, which offered a great platform to us to spread Chinese culture and Shaolin kungfu," said Yu, who has been practicing martial arts for eight years.
"I didn't expect the Broadway audience to like it this much."
The tricks the kungfu artists performed with sticks, bowls and bricks wowed the audience the most. For many of them, watching such a show was like "seeing a Bruce Lee movie being filmed in one take".
The show has received widespread acclaim, with the array of interviews with the media keeping them busy even off stage.
Soul of Shaolin was featured in CBS2 News morning show on Jan 17, where the main actors were invited to showcase their kungfu skills.
The performance is the first of shows that will hit Broadway every January with the aim of spreading knowledge about Chinese culture.
By Zhang Yuwei/Chen Jia
Editor：Wang Nan
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