MUSIC THEATRE WORKS ADDRESSING AIDS

  • MUSICALS AND REVUES
  • OPERAS
  • * denotes artist whose death was AIDS-related (refer to composer catalogue entries for further source information)
    ** denotes artist living with HIV/AIDS


    MUSICALS AND REVUES:

    PETER ALLEN* (songs), NICK ENRIGHT (book for U.S. production); MARTIN SHERMAN (book for original Australian production): The Boy From Oz (1998). Recorded: EMI International.

    ERIC LANE BARNES: Fairy Tales (1995). Recorded: Firefly Records

    MICHAEL BARTO: The Wizard of AIDS (1988?).

    ROBERT BERG (music), WENDELL JONES and DAVID STANLEY (words): AIDS, The Musical (1991).

    TRISTAN BONS, TY KROLL and FILIP VON UEXKULL (music), ROBERT GOULD and JIMMY GRANSTROM (book and lyrics): The Dying Game (year unknown).

    KARL BROWN and MATTHEW MCQUEEN (words and music):
    The AIDS Show (1984)
    Unfinished Business: The New AIDS Show (1985)

    CY COLEMAN (music) and IRA GASMAN (lyrics): The Life (1997). Recorded: Sony Classical SK-63312 (Broadway); RCA 68001 (concept album)

    STEPHEN DOLGINOFF: Most Men Are (1995). Recorded: Original Cast 9532 (highlights)

    WILLIAM FINN (music), James Lapine and William Finn (book): The Falsettos, musical. Consists of: March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990). Recorded: DRG 12581 (March of the Falsettos)

    BRIAN GARI: A Hard Time to be Single (1991). Recorded: Original Cast 913

    BOY GEORGE (music), MARK DAVIES-MARKHAM (book): Taboo (2002).

    STEVE GOLDRING: And Now, For My Next Life (1992).

    JANET HOOD (music) and BILL RUSSELL (book, lyrics): Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (1993). Recorded: First Night Cast 35 (original London cast); Fynsworth Alley 302 062 113 2 (New York concert cast)

    PAUL KATZ (music) and HENRY MACH (book): Dirty Dreams of a Clean-Cut Kid (1990).

    JONATHAN LARSON: Rent (1996). Recorded: Dreamworks 50003 (original New York cast); several foreign language recordings

    DAN MARTIN (music) and MICHAEL BIELLO (lyrics): Breathe (1999). www.biellomartin.com

    SCOTT MILLER: In The Blood (1995)

    CYNDY O'CONNELL (music) and LARRY JOHNSON (book, lyrics): All That He Was (1993). Source: Samuel French, Inc., 45 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, (212) 206-8990. Recorded: Highly Unlikely 72066

    JAMES J. MELLON: An Unfinished Song (1991). Recorded: Triangle

    STEVE SCHALCHLIN** (music) and JIM BROCHU (libretto): The Last Session (1997). Recorded: EMG Productions 1004. www.bonusround.com

    GLENN SCHELLENBERG (music), JOHN GREYSON and GLENN SCHELLENBERG (lyrics): Zero Patience, A Musical About AIDS (1994). Recorded: Milan 887971

    MICHAEL STOCKLER (music), JIM MORGAN (lyrics and book), MERLE HUBBARD and JOHN SCHAK (book): Quilt: A Musical Celebration (1992). Source: Music Theatre International www.mtishows.com

    TOM WILSON WEINBERG: Ten Percent Revue (1988). www.users.voicenet.com/~weinberg/index.htm

    FRANK ZAPPA: Thingfish (1984). Recorded: Rykodisk

    Members of the FREDDIE HENDRICKS YOUTH ENSEMBLE OF ATLANTA: Times (date unknown). www.fhyea.org


    OPERAS:

    JAN BACH: Kimberly's Song (1999) (one-act opera—not yet premiered).

    MICHAEL CHING (music) and HUGH MOFFATT (libretto): Out of the Rain (1998) (opera). Michael Ching, The University of Memphis, Campus Box 526331, Memphis, TN 38152-6331

    VITTORIO FURGERI: Al-Phonsine (Il Traviato) (opera—not yet premiered). Vittorio Furgeri, 353 West 57th Street #2240, New York, NY 10019

    MARTIN HENNESSY (music) and MARK CAMPBELL (libretto): A Letter to East 11th Street (2004) (chamber opera for tenor, actress, piano quintet and percussion).

    LOREN LINNARD (music) and DONALD BRIGGS (libretto): The Least of My Children (1989), Opera in Two Acts.

    MARTIN NEAR (music): Six Characters in Search of an Opera: A One-Act Opera Responding to the AIDS Pandemic (2002). Text by the cast of Project ARIA.

    MARC ALLEN TRUJILLO* (music) and EDWARD GALLARDO (book and lyrics): Fantasma, A Street Opera (1989). Source: The Shukat Co., Ltd, 340 West 55th Street, Suite 1A, New York, NY 10019, (212) 582-7614




     
    MUSIC ARCHIVE CATALOGUE
  • INTRODUCTION by Joseph Dalton
  • INDEX OF COMPOSERS
  • INDEX OF MUSICIANS
  • MUSICAL WORKS ADDRESSING AIDS
  • APPENDIX 1: Concerts, Recordings & Commissions
  • APPENDIX 2: The Benson Series
  • INDEX TO GENRES AND FORMS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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