Preamble to the Constitution trio with trumpet

This is a workshop from the new opera/musical, RED WHITE & BLUE with Contemporary Opera Los Angeles on September 6, 2007, directed by Tom Villano.

RED WHITE & BLUE is a "Play within a Play" and has three acts: Act I: "The Audition." Act II: "The Rehearsal" Act III: "The Performance".

In this clip from Act III, we see the Girls in Red (Edith Evanski) White (Delaina Brown) and Blue (Lisa Boyd) singing the U.S. State Capitols in alphabetical order. They were all supposed to wear the unflattering column dresses that looked like potato sacks, but the Girl in Blue decided to wear something form fitting and flashy for their first number. The Girl in White changed her dress for the 2nd number, and has been saying that her descant vocal line sounds like a fairy, so she puts on a fairy costume for this 3rd appearance, and the Girl in Red in steals the red Hawaiian dress from the previous singer so that she can finally get out of that ugly column dress and look fabulous too. The audience is surprised and delighted by their costume choices.

The Trumpet player decides to continue the dual with the Girl in White by popping up and playing in the middle of her big money notes (high soprano notes), thus ruining her big diva moment.


Music by Susan Asbjornson words by Alexander Hamilton, William Johnson, Rufus King, James Madison, and Gouverneur Morris. Orchestra conducted and music orchestrated by Pancho Burgos, Bill Protzmann on piano. www.ContemporaryOpera.com


"We, the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

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