Lingoland
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Feb 28, 2005
Closed Mar 20, 2005
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The York Theatre Company presents the world premiere of LingoLand, a musical revue with words by Kenward Elmslie and music by a wide array of composers. The show is directed by James Morgan with musical supervision by Jack Lee.
For five decades a leading figure in the New York School of Poetry, Kenward Elmslie is also a librettist, lyricist, playwright, composer and visual artist. LingoLand reflects the breadth of Elmslie's work. It includes theater songs, opera arias, poems, poem songs, tall tales, memories, and scenes from plays all woven together, and includes projections of works by some of the artists with whom Mr. Elmslie has worked, including Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Larry Rivers and Alex Katz. The show features music by Claibe Richardson as well as such composers as Ned Rorem, Jack Beeson and Steven Taylor. It also includes new songs with music by Doug Katsaros, Joshua Rosenblum, Andrew Gerle and Steven Dolginoff.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
The York Theater Company bases its self here in this midtown venue in the basement of St. Peter's Church at CitiCorp. Wheelchair accessible and very comfortable the theater produces a season of new plays and musicals including the occassional cabare [...] Read More
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On the walls in the lobby at Lingoland, the musical revue at the York, are magnetic tiles of random words -- the kind that people put on their refrigerators. You're encouraged at intermission to rearrange them to form thoughts, semi-thoughts, or Dadaist nonsense. Unfortunately, this is an apt metaphor for Lingoland, a self-described "collage" derived from the works of lyricist-librettist-poet-visual artist Kenward Elmslie, who is right up there on stage, reading his work from a lectern and providing tenuously linking narration as the show is performed by a talented cast. The words and thoughts in the revue feel as random and unfocused as those on the lobby walls, sometimes arresting or evoca[...]