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