Mark Alburger, Works: John Millington Synge

Sunday, May 11, 2003

The Playboy of the Western World, Op. 111

Op. 111 THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

(May 11, 2003) (after John Millington Synge)

Act I

Act II

Act III

Westeurasian frolic inspired by the (pseudo-) Easteurasian fantasy of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, with Monty Pythonesque Oedipal allusions to The Chieftains, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, and swing jazz.

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Playboy_of_the_Western_World%2C_Op.111_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performances:

August 23-26, 2007
San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions
Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, CA
PEGEEN MIKE - Eliza O'Malley
SEAN KEOGH - William Loney
JIMMY FARREL - Kristen Jones
PHILLY CULLEN - Harriet March Page
MICHAEL JAMES - Karl Coryat
CHRISTY MAHON - Robert Benda
WIDOW QUIN - Beth Henry
SARA TANSEY - Kat Cornelius
HONOR BLAKE - Cynthia Weyuker
NELLY MCLAUGHLIN - Alexis Lane Jensen
SUSAN BRADY - Lisa McHenry
OLD MAHON - Mark Alburger

Promotional shot (Suzanna Mizell, Lisa McHenry, Robert Benda, Karl Coryat, Kat Cornelius, William Loney)

Poster, on a double bill with Steven Clark's Dionysus. Rehearsal Shots, Piedmont Piano, Oakland, CA

Act II A m17 "Nobody in there this morn" (McHenry)

Act II A m105 "Sarah Tansey, Susan Brady" (Benda, Henry)

Act II A m178 "I am thinking Lord God sent him" (Benda, Henry)

Act II A m182 "You are heroes, surely" (McHenry, Henry, Benda)

Act II A "There now, drink a health to wonders" (Henry, Benda)

Act II B m178 "And you'd be using bribery?" (Henry, Benda)

Act II B m194 "It's true all girls are fond of courage, and do hate the likes of you" (Henry, Loney)

Act II B m211 "What would you give me?" (Henry, Loney)

Act II B "Oh, Widow Quin, I will give anything"

Act II B m236 "If you could see yourself"

Act II C m64 "Best be wary of a mortified scalp" (Henry, Alburger)

Act II C m70 "In the splendor of the sun" (Henry, Alburger)

Act II C m76 "My own wickedness, is that it?" (Alburger, Henry)

Act II C m96 "He never pulled his weight?" (Henry, Alburger)

Act II C m100 "Up and hiding" (Henry, Alburger) Dress Rehearsal Stills:

Act I C m14 "Is it yourself is fearing the polis?" (Jones, Page, Benda, Coryat)

Act I E m220 "She did not" (O'Malley, Benda, Henry)

Act II A m93 "Mister, you are welcome" (McHenry, Cornelius, Benda, Weyuker, Lane-Jensen)

Act II A m18 "Husband to the Widow Quin" (Henry, Cornelius, Benda)

Act II B m154 "See this, Mister?" (Henry, Benda, Loney)

Act II C m54 "I want to destroy'm for breaking" (Alburger, Henry)

Act II B m58 "Ugly Streeler" (Henry, Alburger)

Act II C m96 "Making faces" (Henry, Alburger)

Act II C m100 "He up and hiding" (Henry, Alburger)

Act II C m111 "Which way is he fled?" (Henry, Alburger)

Act II C m115 "Can overtake him? (Henry, Alburger)

Act II C m120 "Let you give good vengeance" (Benda, Henry)

Act II D m48 "You'll be like me" (Henry, Benda)

Act II D m72 "How would a lovely girl like you know about lonesome?" (Henry, Benda)

Act III A m29(1x) "His father's rotten in the ground by now" (Jones, Page)

Act III A m29 (2x) "Some with full teeth and some haven't but one" (Jones, Page)

Act III A m38(1x) "Lay your eyes on this skull" (Jones, Page, Alburger)

Act III A m47(1x) "It was my own son that hit me." (Jones, Page, Alburger)

Act III A m38(2x) "I saw coasting schooner passing" (Page, Alburger)

Act III A m55 "Do you know what? That man's raving." (Henry, Page, Alburger)

Act III A m94(1x) "I'm poorly only." (Jones, Page, Alburger, Henry)

Act III A m94(2x) "He's poorly only." (Jones, Page, Alburger, Henry)

Act III B m19 "I'm thinking we'll have right sport" (Henry, Page)

Act III C m62 "Stop that, will you!" (Jones, O'Malley, Benda, Cornelius, Alburger, McHenry, Coryat)

Act III C m82 "It's himself pretending to be dead" (Jones, O'Malley, Benda, Page, Alburger, Cornelius, McHenry, Coryat)

Act 3 C m119 "You're after making me a mighty man this day." (Jones, Page, Benda, Alburger, Cornelius, McHenry)

Act III D m14 "They're turning against you, my lad" (Henry, Benda)

Act III D m18 "Come by the back door" (Henry, Benda)

Act III D m52 "Twist a hangman's knot" (Coryat, Page, Loney, Jones"

Act III D m55 "He's the wickedest and the worst with me" (Loney, Coryat, O'Malley, Page, Jones)

Act III D m57 "You take the rope, Pegeen." (O'Malley, Loney, Coryat, Page, Jones)

Act III D 141 "Are you coming to be killed third time?" (Coryat, Lane-Jenson, Benda, Weyuker, Alburger, Loney)

Act III D m148 "They're taking me to the peelers." (McHenry, Coryat, Benda, Lane-Jenson, Weyuker, Alburger, Loney)

Act III D m150 "They're going to have me hanged." (McHenry, Coryat, Benda, Lane-Jenson, Weyuker, Alburger, Loney)

Act III D m164 "Well, little I care about such things." (Jones, O'Malley, Page, Benda, Loney, Coryat, Alburger)

Act III D m169 "I the captain with his heathen slave." (Lane-Jenson, Benda, Alburger)

Act III D m176 "Master of all fights!" (Lane-Jensen, Weyuker, Benda, Alburger)

Act III D m195 "I've lost The Playboy of the Western World!" (Cornelius, McHenry, Loney, Coryat, O'Malley)

Video Captures from Performances:

Act I A m56 "Isn't it long the nights are" (Loney, O'Malley)

Act I B m40 "If you're afeard let Shawn stop along" (Coryat, Loney, Page, O'Malley)

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