THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST
RADY&BLOOM COLLECTIVE PLAYMAKING
EACH PERFORMANCE IS A CELEBRATION & AN INVOCATION
SHOWS :
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Exploding onto the frontiers of uninhabited California, the only female in the entire Gold Rush town of Cloudy Mountain sets up her saloon. Mythologized in David Belasco's grandiose 1911 novel, and canonized as one of the great spaghetti westerns - a play-turned-novel-turned-Puccini-extravaganza, this modernized golden paradigm is a new music and soul-filled ode to the unexplored and untouched expanse of our nation’s forgotten periphery, and the baffling potential successes of what could’ve been.
"In those strange days, people coming from God knows where, joined forces in that far Western land, and, according to the rude custom of the camp, their very names were soon lost and unrecorded, and here they struggled, laughed, gambled, cursed, killed, loved and worked out their strange destinies in a manner incredible to us of to-day. Of one thing only are we sure—they lived!"
David Belasco’s epigraph to “The Girl of the Golden West”
THE GIRL
OF THE
GOLDEN WEST
JUNE 17 2013
ANT Fest
at ARS Nova, NYC TICKETS
AUGUST 2012
Ice Factory at The New Ohio Theater, NYC
MAY 2012
3B Development Residency at IRT Theater, NYC
AWARDS
Rady&Bloom awarded the Manhattan Community Arts Fund (MCAF) supported by the New York State Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to present the premiere in 2013
“COLLABORATORS JEREMY BLOOM AND BRIAN RADY HAVE ELEVATED THE HIGH SENTIMENT OF A HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MELODRAMA INTO A MUSICAL RICH WITH FEELING.”
5th Wall Theater Review
THE TEAM
Adapted & Directed by Jeremy Bloom
Music by Catherine Brookman,
Ellen O’Meara & Joe White
Featuring Catherine Brookman,
Starr Busby, and Brian Rady
Sound Design by Matthew Gantt
VIDEO TRAILERS
TRAILER: CAST INTERVIEWS & REHEARSAL
TRAILER: MUSIC REHEARSAL
TRAILER: EXCERPTS FROM THE SHOW
TRAILER: EXCERPTS FROM THE SHOW
VIDEO SAMPLES
3 MINUTE EXCERPT: FINALE
3 MINUTE EXCERPT: “GOLD”
PHOTOS BY JAMES MATTHEW DANIEL
PRODUCTION
PACKAGE:
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