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The Singing Biologist
The Singing Biologist is a sexy musical about a charismatic young jazz singer who mixes music with science to explore the boundaries of love--with a biologist, a Brother, and a boy wonder. Rose prepares her biggest show for a prestigious theater and recruits biologist Shandra to join her troupe. Shandra's smitten colleague Dana insinuates himself into the bargain by supplying the band with music he's composed from DNA. In a heady dance to the opening curtain Rose meets Brother Hugh, a biology and ethics teacher, in an online chat room and they blithely launch an experiment in romantic tragedy; the theater management plots against Rose's company; and the lives and loves of her colleagues play to the insistent backbeat of human nature. This unprecedented feature takes an intellectual twist, ambitiously wringing ethics, religion, science, and love into an inquisitive romance that puts flesh on the premise: It takes a rockin' scientist to sing a modern love song.
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My Father And The Wars
This is the second part of Robbie McCauley's performance trilogy based on her family history, a black family in the US, starting from slavery in the south and following the migration north during the Second World War. The first part of the trilogy is San Juan Hill; the third part is Indian Blood. This performance was directed by laurie carlos at Henry Street Settlement NYC, Oct. 1986.
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Congo New York--original version, Maine Arts Festival 1988
Congo New York, an African Anthropologist returns home on a mission of self discovery. This is the original version of the piece by Robbie McCauley and Ed Montgomery, performed by Sedition Ensemble at the Maine Arts Festival in Portland, Maine, Summer 1988. Taped by Portland Maine PBS, Congo New York was developed as on opera and the first reading of Act I was given in 1994 - also available online.
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Nicaragua In Perspective
Musical performance piece by Ed Montgomery and Robbie McCauley on the theme of Nicaragua and the US government efforts, under President Reagan, to topple the Sandanistas. Performed in 1983 at Taller Latinoamericano in NYC. Slides by Ed Montgomery.
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