Nightclub Cantata
Revue: Music and lyrics by Elizabeth Swados: Comprising twenty original songs, set to texts drawn from contemporary prose and poetry
Theatre: Top of the Gate, Off-Broadway - January 9, 1977 (145 perfs)
Synopsis
Using a fast-moving revue format, this immensely inventive theatre piece provides a truly distinctive and delightful experience for performers and audiences alike.
The material, all set to original music by Miss Swados, is drawn from the works of such writers as Sylvia Plath, Muriel Rukeyser, Carson McCullers and Miss Swados herself, and runs the gamut from hilarious farce to the sadness of lovers' parting. The result, in the words of Clive Barnes, "is an all-singing, all-dancing, all-acting show a show that is clearly a life view about people, animals and the things we do to one another."
Cast:
4 men, 4 women.
Musical Numbers:
- Adolescents
- The Applicant
- Are You With Me?
- The Ballad of the Sad Café
- Bestario
- Bird Chorus
- Bird Lament
- The Dance
- Dibarti
- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
- Indecision Isabella
- On Living
- Pastrami Brothers
- Raga
- Things I Didn't Know I Loved
- To the Harbour Master
- Ventriloquist and Dummy
- Waiting
- Waking This Morning