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CheapTix Sundays, $20.00 (all tickets for all Sunday evening performances at 7:00pm; tickets must be purchased in person at the NYTW box office). Description: One lyricist and 18 composers join forces to create a unique music/theatre event in Songs from an Unmade Bed, a solo work that propels a smart, resilient, wry, and ultimately romantic gay New Yorker through the heartaches and triumphs of love in the big city. Mark Campbell's lyrics on the endlessly surprising experience of urban romance have been set by an eclectic roster of today's musical artists, including Debra Barsha, Mark Bennett, Peter Foley, Jenny Giering, Peter Golub, Jake Heggie, Stephen Hoffman, Lance Horne, Gihieh Lee, Steven Lutvak, Steve Marzullo, Brendan Milburn, Chris Miller, Greg Pliska, Duncan Sheik, Kim D. Sherman, Jeffrey Stock, and Joseph Thalken. Michael Winther performs this funny, sexy, elegiac, ironic work with direction by David Schweizer and music direction by Kimberly Grigsby. Dates:
Songs from an Unmade Bed: First preview, Thursday, May 12; opening night, Tuesday, May 24; final performance, Sunday, June 19 Performance
schedule: AfterWords
(post-performance discussions): About
the artists: Mark Campbell (lyrics, Songs from an Unmade Bed) wrote the libretto for Volpone, a full-length comic opera with music by John Musto that premiered at Wolf Trap in March 2004. Other productions include: The Paradise Project with composer Michael Torke (The Kitchen); Splendora (Bay Street Theatre Festival and American Place Theatre, directed by Jack Hofsiss); Chang & Eng (Spirit of Broadway Theatre); Akin (presented by Music-Theatre Group at La Mama, music by Richard Peaslee); Light Shall Lift Them (produced by BAM’s Next Wave Festival at the Harvey – formerly Majestic – Theater); Nothing Forever (Workshop Production, New York Theatre Workshop); The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May (Olney Theatre); Ring Around the Rosie for the Parsons Dance Company (music by Richard Peaslee, produced by Music-Theatre Group at the Joyce Theatre); Awakening (P.S. 122); and Broken Morning (HERE). Mark was honored with the first Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist. Other awards include: two Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Rockefeller Foundation Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, a Drama Desk Award nomination, and a 2004 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. Jocelyn Clarke (adaptation, Score) is the Commissioning Manager of the Abbey Theatre. Former lead theatre critic with The Sunday Tribune for nine years, he has taught theatre criticism and dramaturgy at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Drama Studies Centre Dartington College, Columbia University, and most recently at Thread, the Dublin Fringe multidisciplinary development initiative. He is an artistic staff member of the Sundance Theatre Lab in Utah and Florida. He has written four adaptations for SITI Company – Bob adapted from interviews with director Robert Wilson, Alice's Adventures from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Underground, Room from the writings of Virginia Woolf, and Score, based on the writings of Leonard Bernstein. For the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company in Sligo, Ireland he has written adaptations of Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, and for The Ark, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish. He is currently working on a new project, Reunion, with SITI Company. Tom Nelis’s (performer, Score) work with the SITI Company includes: Orestes; The Medium (Obie Award); Going, Going, Gone; War of the Worlds – Radio Play; War of the Worlds; Lilith; Score; and Dionysus, a collaboration with The Suzuki Company of Toga. Other work: Aida (The Palace Theater, Broadway); Wintertime (La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf); Ahab in Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick (World Tour); the title role in Henry VI (Joseph Papp Public Theater); Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Minetta Lane); Hot Mouth (Manhattan Theatre Club); Richard Foreman’s Pearls for Pigs (World Tour); D.H. Lawrence’s I Rise in Flames Cried the Phoenix (HERE). Mr. Nelis teaches the Suzuki Technique and Viewpoints Training for the SITI Company as well as at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. M.F.A. University of California, San Diego. David Schweizer (director, Songs from an Unmade Bed) has been directing new works in theatre, opera, and performance for thirty years both nationally and internationally. His first work at NYTW was the world premiere of The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador by Charles Mee, live score by Peter Gordon, and his latest was the staged reading of The Trials of Persephone. Recent New York work includes William Hamilton’s White Chocolate at the Century Center, Wintertime by Charles Mee at Second Stage, and the Obie award winning chamber opera And God Created Great Whales by Rinde Eckert. He recently staged Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s gothic opera The Mines of Sulphur at Glimmerglass Opera. Michael Winther’s (performer, Songs from an Unmade Bed) credits include: Broadway: Mamma Mia; 1776; The Crucible; Artist Descending a Staircase; Damn Yankees. Off-Broadway: Radiant Baby (NYSF/Public); Hapgood (LCT); Berlin to Broadway; Forever Plaid; Predator’s Ball (BAM); Tony `n’ Tina’s Wedding (creator/original cast). Regional: Great Expectations (Goodspeed); Galileo (Yale Rep); King Lear (Old Globe); Jacques Brel (Santa Fe Stages); Frog and Toad (NY Stage & Film); Plaid Tidings (Pasadena Playhouse); McCarter, Syracuse Stage, Ford’s, Coconut Grove. Concerts include: Hear&Now! (Lincoln Center’s American Songbook 2001/2002); Robert Kapilow’s What Makes It Great? (Lincoln Center, Jordon Hall); New York Philharmonic; Merkin Hall; Symphony Space. Film/TV: Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Independence Day, Universal Soldier, “Law & Order,” “Mary & Rhoda,” “NY News,” “Rocket Power,” “Wild Thornberrys.” Graduate of Williams College.
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