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Music Theatre of Madison Debuts AN AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY Concept Album Next Month
Individual songs will be released weekly from May 14-June 11, with eleven songs on the album in total.by BWW News Desk
Music Theatre of Madison s concept album, An American Mythology is debuting in May of 2021. It is available for pre-order for $15.99 at musictheatreofmadison.bandcamp.com. Individual songs will be released weekly from May 14-June 11, with eleven songs on the album in total. The songs will also be available for individual purchase.
An American Mythology asks the creators and the audience Who Are Our Heroes? What is the canon of American Mythology? Who is in our American Pantheon? What lessons do we learn from them? Where does our magic come from? Where are the myths we find within our own myths? Teams of artists explore these themes though their own myths in musical styles from rap to folk to pop and more. They chose their own subject matters and styles.
Theater in the Before and After times
Gwendolyn Rice watched a lot of theater this year, even after live productions were shut down
As we all know, this year was strange. Every part of our lives was upended, and for those whose work involves live performances, this was an understatement. Collectively, we have lost so much during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with epic loss of life and livelihoods, we have lost intimate connections with friends and loved ones. We have also lost the experience of being an audience â united in a time and place, attention rapt, heartbeats in sync, inhaling a singular performance and exhaling applause.
A year of survival and reinvention
Artists, venues and organizations persist through the dark times
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The 91-year-old Barrymore Theatre will come out the other side of the pandemic, says general manager Steve Sperling.
Oh, the things I learned while talking to arts folks about surviving the COVID-19 pandemic. Bill Brehm, director of the Stoughton Opera House, planted grass for the first time this spring, and was enjoying watching it grow, except under the ferns. Steve Sperling, manager of the Barrymore, is more worried about Madison restaurants than music venues. Mark Bitney, a veteran Overture stagehand, has been keeping bees, playing trumpet and recording music. Kirk Stantis, executive director of the Bartell Theatre, kicked one of the door frames at the theater in frustration, and then apologized to the building.