Dave Malloy's GHOST QUARTET Extends Through Nov 8 at The Bushwick Starr

The Bushwick Starr has extended Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet. Performances now run through November 8th, 2014. The show will run Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8pm through Nov. 1, plus the following added performances:

MONDAY, NOV. 3 at 8pm
THURSDAY, NOV. 6 at 8pm
FRIDAY, NOV. 7 at 8pm
SATURDAY, NOV. 8 at 8pm

Award-winning composer Dave Malloy presents a new song cycle about love, death, and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries: a warped fairy tale about two sisters, a treehouse astronomer and a lazy evil bear; a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"; a purgatorial intermezzo about Scheherazade and the ghost of Thelonious Monk; and a contemporary fable about a subway murder. Throughout these four stories two women (Brittain Ashford and Gelsey Bell) cross paths, sometimes as strangers, sometimes as sisters, sometimes as lovers, sometimes as mother and daughter.

Ghost Quartet is a theatrical presentation of an album, "Ghost Quartet," by a new chamber music ensemble, Ghost Quartet. Blurring the line between theater and contemporary music performance, the show is staged in the round, with the musicians seated amongst the audience. The piece is scored for four voices, cello, guitars, dulcimer, autoharp, piano, keyboards and percussion, and is inspired by murder ballads, doo-wop, angular bebop, Chinese folk, Islamic adhan, and the music of Bernard Herrmann and George Crumb.

The album will be released on October 25th, with a special release party following the show that night.

Ghost Quartet is written and composed by Dave Malloy, and developed and arranged with the ensemble: Malloy, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 stars Brittain Ashford and Gelsey Bell, and cellist Brent Arnold. The show is directed by Annie Tippe and dramaturged by James Monaco, and designed by the ensemble.

The Bushwick Starr theater is located at 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wykcoff]. Directions: Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right. For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS. Tickets are $18.00 at www.thebushwickstarr.org.

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