Nightclub Cantata
The Village Gate
Upstairs
Previews Began: -
Opening Night: January 9, 1977
Closing Night: May 15, 1977
Composer: Elizabeth Swados
Concept: Elizabeth Swados
a joyful song cycle of world literature about survive, what compels us back to life and to living as one. Featuring texts by Elizabeth Swados and Brian Avidan, Nazim Hikmet, Nancy Larrick, Isabel Leitner, Eve Merriam, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Muriel Rukeyser, and Delmore Schwartz.
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
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Karen Evans
Rocky Greenberg
Paul Kandel
Joanna Peled
Shelley Plimpton
David Schechter
Elizabeth Swados
Mark Zagaeski
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