Loving Repeating
A chamber musical by Stephen Flaherty: Lyrics by Gertrude Stein adapted by Frank Galati from a 1934 lecture that Gertrude Stein delivered at the University of Chicago.
About Face Theatre, Chicago - 14 March, 2006
Synopsis
According to notes on the show, " Loving Repeating explores the romantic world of Gertrude Stein: her capricious love affair with language, with self-expression, and with her lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas according to production notes. "The musical follows Stein from her student days in the late 19th century to the height of her artistic era in Paris as one of the 'lost generation,' a term she coined referring to those who came of age between the two world wars."
Musical Numbers
- Monologue: "Now I am going to read…."
- Monologue: "And then I went to college…"
- A Sonatina Song
- Loving Repeating
- There Are Many That I Know
- A History of One
- A Sonatina Song Reprise
- A Lyrical Opera Made by Two to Be Sung: Setting
- My Wife Is My Life
- Come Fire Fly
- A Large and Loose Caramel
- A Cow Coming
- A Lyrical Opera: Finale
- Monologue: "When I was a a dinner party…"
- Kiss My Lips She Did
- The Thirteenth of April
- As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story
- Do as They Do So
- Monologue: "One day, November fifteenth to be exact…"
- The Fifteenth of October
- As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story: Finale
- Monologue: "Now ! Can't you see that when language…"
- Kiss My Lips She Did Reprise
- Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
- Men
- Such a One
- Loving Repeating Reprise
- Lifting Belly
- A Bun for My Bunny
- Finale