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North American Works Directory Listing
| Composer: |
Christopher Butterfield
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| Librettist: |
John Bentley Mays
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| Other Artistic Personnel: |
Owen Underhill (music director)
Keith Turnbull (stage director)
David Gaucher (set designer)
Mary Kerr (costume designer)
Stéphane Mangeau (lighting designer)
Bill Coleman (choreographer)
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| Original Cast: |
Stacie Robinson (The Chanteuse Emmy Hennings)
Michael Colvin (The Artist Hugo Ball and The Artist Vladimir Mayakovsky)
Lori Klassen (Another singer and Dancer Alice More)
Shaunaid Arnette (Miss Ranovalla of Singapore the Negro Giantess)
Tracey Scher (Mrs. Koreitsky the Tattooed Lady)
Nanette Canfield (The Demoiselle Marie On Her Ponies and Tsarina)
Eric Shaw (Stromboli the Human Torch, Thomas Edison, and Tsarevitch)
Daniel May (The Amazing Onzali and Joseph Stalin)
Michael Maniaci (V.I. Lenin)
Darren Bonin (The Dandy Tristan Tzara)
Nicholas Coulter (The Drummer Richard Huelsenbeck)
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| Premiere Date: |
August 05, 1998
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| Producing Company: |
The Banff Centre for the Arts
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| Description: |
"This music drama is not history, nor even about something that happened once. It is full of subterfuges and evasions, itching powder, stink bombs, paraphrases, and booby traps. It is music as literature, as painting, as architecture; music that takes the side of contamination and impurity, refusing to discriminate. It is music that has a hard time remembering when it is and where it is. Neither the music nor the play itself is about self-expression. It is about the coincidences of life, the discovery, through art, of what is happening now. It is what is happening now, here—to the composer and librettist, the singers and dancers, choreographers and producers and beholders. It is what is happening to any soul who seeks to dwell creatively, in liberty and mercy, on the troubled ground of our century's ending."
—John Mays
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| Character List (Major): |
2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, contralto, 2 tenors, bass, male soprano
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| Orchestration: |
17 players
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| Musical Style: |
Contemporary music theater
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| Contact: |
Kelly Robinson, Artistic Director, The Banff Centre
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| Address: |
Theatre Arts, Box 1020 STN 21
Banff AB T0L 0C0
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Schedule of Performances Listings
Zürich 1916
( Butterfield)
Wednesday, August 05, 1998 - Banff Centre
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