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Kings, Giants & Robots @ NYC's Sheen Center

  • The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture 18 Bleecker Street New York, NY, 10012 United States (map)

PROGRAM
VICTORIA BOND—How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct (puppet operetta), libretto by STEPHEN GRECO
HERSCHEL GARFEIN—King of the River, text by STANLEY KUNITZ
ROBERT PATERSON—The Companion (one-act opera from Three Way), libretto by DAVID COTE

AMERICAN MODERN ENSEMBLE
Geoffrey Andrew McDonald (Garfein and Paterson) & Victoria Bond (Bond), Conductors
Doug Fitch (Bond) & John de los Santos (Paterson), Directors
Featuring Puppeteers Andy Manjuck and Dorothy James

CAST
Ariadne Greif, Soprano
Glen Seven Allen, Tenor
Robert Wesley Mason, Baritone
Keith Phares, Baritone
Jonathan Greene, Baritone

Co-presented by Mostly Modern Projects & Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct made possible in part with support from the Jim Henson Foundation

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.