Fan Yang (born 1962) is a Canadian bubble artist. Among his productions is the Gazillion Bubble Show, an off-Broadway production that has run for nearly 20 years.
Early life Fan Yang was born in Vietnam in 1962; his father is Hungarian and his mother is a Haiphong native.
Career Yang has earned international notice as a result of his complex displays of bubble theater. He developed his own bubble solution formulas and equipment to create bubbles and has broken bubble-related world records on numerous occasions.Graeber, Laurel. "Gazillion Bubble Show", The New York Times, July 6, 2007"Fan Yang, sorcerer performs in Vietnam", Vietnam.net, March 19, 2006 Yang produces the Gazillion Bubble Show, a family-friendly "multimedia presentation" in which he "entertains with bubble sculpture, music, laser effects and video projections [and] incorporates ... lots of audience participation ... encasing volunteers in bubbles". The show has run off-Broadway in New York City for nearly 20 years and is set to close on September 7, 2026, after 6,802 performances.Gans, Andrew. "Gazillion Bubble Show Will End Nearly 20-Year Off-Broadway Run in the Fall", Playbill, June 16, 2026 Due to heightened demand after the announced closing, the show was extended through January 17, 2027. He has staged it elsewhere, including Las Vegas, Nevada. His wife, Ana Yang, has performed the show in his absence.
World records
Fan's first 11 world records related to bubbles: Berlin, Germany, 1992: The largest spherical soap bubble. (2.3 m circumference) Pacific Science Center Seattle, Washington, August 11, 1997: The world’s largest bubble wall. (47.4 m lengthwise) Hollywood, California, May 5, 1999: The most bubbles inside 9 concentric bubbles, inside each other. Paris, France, March 29, 2000: The most bubbles inside 11 concentric bubbles inside each other. Wavrin, France, April 1, 2000: Passage into a bubble hemisphere. His daughter slid into a bubble hemisphere going through the bubble film without bursting it. Helsinki, Finland, October 20, 2001: Record for the most concentric bubbles. (12 domes) Stockholm, Sweden, November 27, 2001: Record for the most bubbles attached on each other in mid-air (9). Santa Ana, California, April 7, 2004: World record for The Most People Inside a Soap Bubble (8 people) New York City, United States, March 18, 2005: Guinness World Record for the most people inside a soap bubble at Toys 'R' Us Santa Ana, California, April 12, 2006: Encapsulating 15 pairs of people in their own bubble cubicles for 5 seconds and linking them together to create a "Mega Bubble Cage"Pak, Ellyn. "Bubble artist sets world record", The Orange County Register, April 13, 2006 Madrid, Spain, May 25, 2006: Encapsulating 22 people inside a single soap bubble. Chicago, Illinois, United States, January 30, 2008: Encapsulating 100 people inside a single soap bubble on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Television performances
Late Night with David Letterman; NBC The Ellen DeGeneres Show; NBC Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon; CBS The Statler Brothers Show; TNN Disney-MGM NHK-TV; Japan RAI-TV; Italy Canale 5; Italy ZDF-TV; Germany TF-1; France Nickelodeon-Universal Studios, Florida, U.S. Television Chile Guinness Prime Time FOX TV, CCTV Beijing, China Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) TLC; U.S., (The Learning Channel) LWT (London Weekend Television); CCTV BBC; Canada Cirque du Soleil Soltrombubble bath spa soap chocolate at anabubble.com SBS, South Korea Beirut, Lebanon (Biel) Ordinary/Extraordinary, Florida, 1996
See also Tom Noddy The Amazing Bubble Man
References
External links Science of Bubbles World Records with Soap Bubbles Review by Barbara Mehlman and Geri Manus on New York Theatre Guide - Online First bubble show in Russia