Month: October 2015
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TWENTY YEARS IN A “NEW WORLD”
October 12, 1995, was the first performance of Songs for a New World at the WPA Theatre on W. 23rd St. in Manhattan. Almost no one saw it, the reviews were polite but dismissive, and the theater doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet Songs for a New World lives on, in its wonderful cast album (produced…
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JRB RESIDENCY SET LIST 10/1: KATE McGARRY, CYNTHIA ERIVO & TONY YAZBECK
Last night was exactly the kind of night that this residency was built for – the premiere of two new songs, beautiful performances and surprising reinventions of older material, a wide variety of styles and energies all feeding each other, great musicians making music together, and an audience that was ready to follow wherever the…