Music and libretto by Marc Lowenstein, based on the screenplay by Richard LaGravenese
A jazz-inflected adaptation of the film about a half-crazed beggar on a mission to find the Holy Grail.
Marc Lowenstein is a Los Angeles-based composer, conductor, and performer. He graduated from Harvard University and received a Ph. D. in Music Composition from University of California, Berkeley. He currently teaches at the California Institute for the Arts.
Conductor: Marc Lowenstein
Ann: Emily Langford Johnson
Parry: Andrew Drost
Jack: Michael Zegarski
Lydia: Melissa Fogarty
Nurse/Customer3/Boy: Rebecca Ringle
Customer 1: Amanda Borst
Customer 2: Erin Elizabeth Smith
Excerpt 1(9:43)
Jack sings drunkenly to a Pinnochio doll before attempting suicide. In a search for healing and sanity, Parry tells the story of the Fisher King.
Excerpt 2(3:29)
Lydia takes care of a comatose Parry in a hospital ward.
