Ghost Quartet - music, lyrics, and text by Dave Malloy
directed by William Thomas Hodgson
Dave Malloy's quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as "a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey" in which "a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries."
Audiences won't want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812), with Ghost Quartet what many consider to be his most enchanting work.
The cast includes award-winning artist Rinde Eckert (piano, organ, slide guitar, percussion, vocals), an inaugural Doris Duke Artist (2012), recipient of an Alpert Award (2009), Guggenheim Fellowship (2007), and a Marc Blitzstein Award (2005), and a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Eckert is joined by Ami Nashimoto (cello, ukulele, erhu, percussion, vocals), Veronica Renner (accordion, autoharp, percussion, vocals), Monica Rose Slater (glockenspiel, accordion, harp, percussion, vocals), and Michael Perez (percussion, vocals).
"Halloween is the perfect time for a ghost story," said Director and OTP Co-Artistic Director William Thomas Hodgson, "and the show enraptures you. In the stories that overlap, all these iterations of ghosts relate to each other. It's a meditation on many different types of ghosts, like the ghost of regret, a past lover, a mistake, a thing that haunts you--or a literal ghost, an apparition. It's also about love, betrayal, and keeping memories alive--and all of that is encapsulated in a ghost story."
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directed by William Thomas Hodgson
Dave Malloy's quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as "a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey" in which "a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries."
Audiences won't want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812), with Ghost Quartet what many consider to be his most enchanting work.
The cast includes award-winning artist Rinde Eckert (piano, organ, slide guitar, percussion, vocals), an inaugural Doris Duke Artist (2012), recipient of an Alpert Award (2009), Guggenheim Fellowship (2007), and a Marc Blitzstein Award (2005), and a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Eckert is joined by Ami Nashimoto (cello, ukulele, erhu, percussion, vocals), Veronica Renner (accordion, autoharp, percussion, vocals), Monica Rose Slater (glockenspiel, accordion, harp, percussion, vocals), and Michael Perez (percussion, vocals).
"Halloween is the perfect time for a ghost story," said Director and OTP Co-Artistic Director William Thomas Hodgson, "and the show enraptures you. In the stories that overlap, all these iterations of ghosts relate to each other. It's a meditation on many different types of ghosts, like the ghost of regret, a past lover, a mistake, a thing that haunts you--or a literal ghost, an apparition. It's also about love, betrayal, and keeping memories alive--and all of that is encapsulated in a ghost story."
Ghost Quartet - music, lyrics, and text by Dave Malloy
directed by William Thomas Hodgson
Dave Malloy's quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as "a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey" in which "a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries."
Audiences won't want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812), with Ghost Quartet what many consider to be his most enchanting work.
The cast includes award-winning artist Rinde Eckert (piano, organ, slide guitar, percussion, vocals), an inaugural Doris Duke Artist (2012), recipient of an Alpert Award (2009), Guggenheim Fellowship (2007), and a Marc Blitzstein Award (2005), and a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Eckert is joined by Ami Nashimoto (cello, ukulele, erhu, percussion, vocals), Veronica Renner (accordion, autoharp, percussion, vocals), Monica Rose Slater (glockenspiel, accordion, harp, percussion, vocals), and Michael Perez (percussion, vocals).
"Halloween is the perfect time for a ghost story," said Director and OTP Co-Artistic Director William Thomas Hodgson, "and the show enraptures you. In the stories that overlap, all these iterations of ghosts relate to each other. It's a meditation on many different types of ghosts, like the ghost of regret, a past lover, a mistake, a thing that haunts you--or a literal ghost, an apparition. It's also about love, betrayal, and keeping memories alive--and all of that is encapsulated in a ghost story."
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directed by William Thomas Hodgson
Dave Malloy's quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as "a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey" in which "a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries."
Audiences won't want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812), with Ghost Quartet what many consider to be his most enchanting work.
The cast includes award-winning artist Rinde Eckert (piano, organ, slide guitar, percussion, vocals), an inaugural Doris Duke Artist (2012), recipient of an Alpert Award (2009), Guggenheim Fellowship (2007), and a Marc Blitzstein Award (2005), and a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Eckert is joined by Ami Nashimoto (cello, ukulele, erhu, percussion, vocals), Veronica Renner (accordion, autoharp, percussion, vocals), Monica Rose Slater (glockenspiel, accordion, harp, percussion, vocals), and Michael Perez (percussion, vocals).
"Halloween is the perfect time for a ghost story," said Director and OTP Co-Artistic Director William Thomas Hodgson, "and the show enraptures you. In the stories that overlap, all these iterations of ghosts relate to each other. It's a meditation on many different types of ghosts, like the ghost of regret, a past lover, a mistake, a thing that haunts you--or a literal ghost, an apparition. It's also about love, betrayal, and keeping memories alive--and all of that is encapsulated in a ghost story."
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