How do these emotions collide during time spent alone in quarantine? When James opens a box of artifacts from his first breakup, after months of self-isolation during COVID-19, he reckons with memories that haunt him of a first queer love gone awry.
This is Different Stars a new queer song cycle for four voices, composed and written by Karl Saint Lucy (with works from William Shakespeare). which will premiere online on August 15th @ 7pm EDT
Starring James Jackson, Jr. of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Strange Loop at Playwrights Horizons.
Victoria Huston-Elem star of first national tours and regional productions Finding Neverland, Into The Woods, Sunset Boulevard and The Addams Family.
Danielle Buonaiuto: co-founder of ChamberQUEER and experimental vocal duo REXDuo.
Karl Saint Lucy: featured on John Cameron Mitchell’s Anthem: Homunculus. Composer of F#@ing Identical Twins at Upright Citizens Brigade in N.Y. and L.A.
The premiere, directed by Raquel Cion, will benefit QORDS, “a music-centered summer camp for LGBTQ youth with a special focus on queer and transgender youth of color living in the American South.
To View https://www.differentstars.live/
Labels: 2020, song cycle
