elegies: a song cycle
TRACK LISTING:
2- mister choi & madame g
3- looking in/mark's all-male thanksgiving
4- only you
5- joe papp
6 & 7- peggy hewitt & mysty del giorno/passover
8- infinite joy
9- the ballad of jack eric williams (and other 3-named composers)
10- fred
11- elevator transition
12- dear reader
13- monica and mark
14- anytime (i am there)
15- my dogs
16- venice
17- 14 dwight ave., natick, massachusetts
18- when the earth stopped turning
19- saying my goodbyes/boom boom
20- looking up
21- saying our goodbyes
MAKESHIFT PRODUCTIONS with CAPITAL STAGE presented
ELEGIES: A SONG CYCLE
by WILLIAM FINN
featuring
MICHELLE AVDIENKO
MARTHA OMIYO KIGHT
CRAIG HOWARD
JERRY LEE
JEREMIAH LOWDER
direction
MARCY GOODNOW
music direction
GRAHAM SOBELMAN
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14th-WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17th, 2005
Tony Award-winner William Finn, known for his clever lyrics and musical style that mixes elements of pop, rock, R&B and jazz, has created a buoyant, uplifting evening of witty and moving songs that serve as musical love letters to people who have touched his life. Mr. Finn is best known for his Tony-award winning Falsettos (and recent 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee). Elegies is collection of tunes that utilizes his uncanny ability to write songs that are simultaneously hilarious and heart-felt. The pieces all celebrate the lives of important people in his life – they span topics as diverse as the 9/11 tragedy to losing his favorite dog. Especially poignant are the songs that discuss his mother’s last days and a song he wrote for the funeral of his goddaughter’s mother. The song cycle doesn’t dwell on the sadness of these stories, though, and attempts to remember their high points – to celebrate these people and their lives.
(l-r, michelle avdienko, jerry lee, martha kight, jeremiah lowder, craig howard)
