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Where's Dick? Pandemic Edition

opera in 1 act
libretto by Michael Korie
opera
Edition: Performance material

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Description

Inspired by the Boldface Headlines of the 1980s, Where’s Dick? is a comic book indictment of the criminals and criminality of the Reagan era. The opera premiered more than thirty years ago at the Houston Grand Opera with Richard Foreman directing and John DeMain conducting. It has not dated. Stump Tower became the President of the United States! Where’s Dick? grew out of the performance practices of the 1980s and is indebted to New Vaudeville clowns, espeically Bill Irwin. Old Vaudeville, too, and comics, detective fiction and Film Noir. Mostly it was a receptacle for our outrage at the corruption we saw everywhere. Our instrument was not anger but humor - rude, ribald and ridiculous. What was at first a three act, then a two act opera is now the length of a cartoon. The opera almost became a cartoon with Greg Ford directing and characters by Doug Compton. While this new version is much shorter, it is not short on the indignation that fueled its original. And the times they have only changed for the worse!

Orchestral Cast

1(pic).0.1(bcl).tsax(asax).bsax.0-0.2.1.btbn.0-egtr.bgtr.kybd(melodica)-1perc(timp, chimes, piatti, cowbell, anvil, vibraslap, sleigh bells, guiro, jaw harp, drumset (kick, s.d, 4tom-t), cym (crash, ride, chinese, hi-hat, agogo bells)-va.vn.db (all singers and instruments amplified)

Content

1. Christmas Eve in the City and Danger Lurks … Everywhere!!! 2. Where Were You at the Time of the Crime? 3. Niag’ra Falls 4. Slicker 5. Simple Solution 6. The City Orphanage 7. Where Were You at the Time of the Crime? (Reprise) 8. Don’t Tease the Baby 9. Yeah, I Killed Her 10. Orangutango! 11. Little Stumpie 12. Sweet Nightmares (Lullaby) 13. Slap Your Neighbor’s Face
An Audience Participation Number 14. Switch Bottoms with Someone (Reprise) 15. Slap Your Neighbor’s Face (Reprise) 16. Mostro dell’Amore (Monster of Love) 17. Boldface Headlines 18. Yeah, I Choked Her (Reprise) 19. There’s a Little Dick in All of Us!

More Information

Title:
Where's Dick? Pandemic Edition
opera in 1 act
libretto by Michael Korie
story by Michael Korie and Stewart Wallace
Edition:
Performance material
Level of difficulty:
advanced - difficult
Publisher/Label:
Sidmar Music (administered exclusively by Schott Music Corporation, New York)
Year of composition:
2020 (1989)
Duration:
85 ′

Technical Details

Product number:
LSMC 50815

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