It is the 23rd longest-running show in Broadway history. Ticket demand is so high that the company added two performances to meet the demand, organizers said.Īvenue Q opened off-Broadway in 2003 and moved to Broadway later that year, where it won a Tony Award for Best Musical. The show deals with the anxiety and problems facing young adults as they make their way in a world of humans and puppets like Sesame Street, only with adult language and subject matter. Call 40 or visit City Repertory Theatre (CityRep) presents hit Broadway musical comedy Avenue Q, which runs through Sunday. “I’m not sure that this show is really for veterans, although we would love to see them there if they choose to come, but really for those of us who aren’t veterans so we can understand what they go through, have a window into it at least. “We see this performance is an opportunity to increase awareness of what veterans go through,” Glaubitz said. It’s really well represented by the changes in the pitches and how high or how low and how intense they are.”ĭue to the “very triggering” nature of the opera’s themes, Glaubitz said a therapist from Veterans Affairs will discuss post-traumatic stress disorder before the performances. “He’s very angry he’s very confused he’s very sad. “My particular character goes through a lot of changes in emotion on a dime,” Chiang said. … There’s some really gorgeous moments, too.”īaritone André Chiang, who plays older Jim, said the opera’s complicated music and overlapping vocals articulate the conflicted and complex feelings behind the lyrics. “As is trying to depict these really complex and hard emotions, he writes music to match the emotions, so it’s not all beautiful and gorgeous. “If you listen to some of the music, some of it is very jagged sounding,” Glaubitz said. The opera is “probably the most difficult musical thing” Painted Sky Opera has attempted, Glaubitz said. The older version of his wife is just really realistic and raw and expressing the whole feelings of the family.” … When he comes back, he’s trying to be this normal person again, but it’s almost like he keeps on getting sucked back to that younger version of himself. And likewise the younger version of himself is this person who’s undergoing this horrible torment in captivity. She was a real person and sometimes was happy and sometimes was upset and had her faults, but he’s idealized her. Through these nine years of captivity, he keeps on recounting all the wonderful things and building her up into this person that she wasn’t really. He forgot about all the hard times that they endured. “She’s is the idealized version of what Jim Thompson remembered his wife to be, so she’s almost not a real person. “The younger version of his wife is not actually what his wife was,” Glaubitz said.
Glaubitz said the older and younger versions of Jim and Alyce are essentially “four different characters.” … I think there is a key moment where she does kind of sort it out again and sees that she did what she could. In my view, at least, by the time Jim comes home, she’s had some resolution, and now it’s been thrown up in the air again. I think Alyce in particular probably spent a lot of years very confused about how she should feel and whether or not the choices she was making were the right choices. … It’s not until later in the opera when that kind of sorts itself out and each character gets to share their moments with the audience and become a little more of like an individualized person instead of this figure woven into this horrible story of anger and betrayal. You’re going back and forth between present and past, and you really feel this anxiety. “The parts are overlapping and intertwining. Soprano Saira Frank, who plays the older version of Alyce, said the opera’s unconventional structure represents the characters’ inner turmoil.
In the opera’s English lyrics, often taken from quotes from interviews, past and present versions of Alyce and Jim convey their sides of the story and confront past and present trauma.
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… It’s about a person who was captured in 1964, and he didn’t come back until 1972, and the world was completely different at that point and his family also had to figure out how to be without him and then when he came back had to figure out how to be with him again.” “We have veterans dealing with and difficulty reentering into American culture that has changed since they went on their tour of duty, and that is a huge issue that we face every day with the various conflicts we have around the world. “A lot of times we hear about opera being a historical piece - something that’s only relevant to people who are interested in what happened 100, 150 years ago - but this is something about our society, what we’re dealing with right now,” Glaubitz said. “He writes music to match the emotions, so it’s not all beautiful and gorgeous.”
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