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AWFUL EVENT! 

PGF BAC Residency
​Supplemental Materials

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Select Musical Numbers from AWFUL EVENT! 
All files were recorded in a rehearsal studio at New York Theatre Workshop, please forgive their rough quality.

"The Sighing Song" Mary Todd laments her inability to control her sorrow - Singer, Birgit Huppuch
"Eau eau eau" Young Clara Harris performs Mary Todd's throat in need of water... in french - Singer, Jamilyn Manning-White
"The March of the Men" The Men watching over Lincoln's dying body narrate the passage of nine hours - Singers, Full Company
"She's Empty" Mary Todd's reproductive organs sings the blues - Singers, Adina Verson, Jamilyn Manning-White, Mirirai Sithole
"Make Me a Coffin Booth" John Wilkes Booth saws Mary Todd Lincoln in half - Singer, Birgit Huppuch

Production Photography from workshop of AWFUL EVENT!
Presented as part of Ars Nova's ANTFEST 2016


Collaboration: THUNDERBODIES production photos
Written by Kate Tarker, directed by Dustin Wills


Video Excerpts from previous productions
Excerpts from Black Snow and Baal, directed by Dustin Wills

Dustin Wills Baal/Black Snow from Dustin Wills on Vimeo.


Collaboration: Frau Trude
Frau Trude, a concert opera composed and orchestrated by Daniel Schlosberg, performed as part of the New Haven, New Music Festival with Yale Opera students. Workshop directed by Dustin Wills.
(opera starts at 1:39)


Daniel Schlosberg recently featured in the New York Times for his work with the Dover Quartet on music for David Lynch's relaunch of the Twin Peaks series. A number of similar themes can be found layered throughout AWFUL EVENT!
READ THE ARTICLE BY CLICKING HERE