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After being deserted in her wheelchair while her cranky nurse goes shopping, the title character of AGNES persuades a stranger to kill her, thus releasing her from her limited and unhappy life.

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two construction workers achieve new insight into their lunch hour woes when the Virgin Mary pays them an unexpected and confused visitation

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The final piece of the Suite, the melodic ELEANOR SLEEPS HERE, is a heart rending examination of the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok as they're being flown over Washington by Amelia Earhart. (see FIRST LADY SUITE)

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The sundry characters of EULOGY FOR MISTER HAMM wait on line to use their flop house's one available bathroom, and find they must unwillingly band together when they fear that their superintendent may be dead.

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The first piece, the staccato, yet hauntingly lyrical OVER TEXAS, takes place aboard Air Force One on November 22nd, 1963. Mary Gallagher, the First Lady's personal secretary, and Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary to the President, are trying to relax as they fly into Dallas. Mary, exhausted by the lifestyle, is coaxed into napping by the cool, collected, Evelyn. Mary's dreams become portentous nightmares as they are haunted by a ghostly Jackie and an eerie Lady Bird. (1 man, 4 women.) The brassy, bouncy WHERE'S MAMIE? Takes place in Ike and Mamie's bedroom at the White House, yet quickly turns into a time-travel fantasy as Mamie, melancholic and alone on her birthday, is paid a visit by Marian Anderson. Marian whisks Mamie off to Algiers to confront Ike about his affair with his driver, Kay Summersby, and warn him of the racial strife he'll face later in life as President. (1 man, 3 women.) The comical OLIO presents Margaret Truman at a recital trying her best to sing as she's constantly, hilariously, being upstaged by First Lady Bess. (1 man, 1 woman, or 2 women.) The final piece of the Suite, the melodic ELEANOR SLEEPS HERE, is a heart rending examination of the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok as they're being flown over Washington by Amelia Earhart. (3 women.) FLEXIBLE CASTING: the New York production used an ensemble of 1 man and 6 women playing 13 women and 1 man.

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Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa; Book by Sybille Pearson; Based on the novel by Edna Ferber

Epic in vision and scope, swept with passion and violence, touched by humor and sorrow, Giant is the powerful story of a Texas rancher and his Virginia-born wife as they face increasing challenges in their marriage and family in an ever-changing American landscape.

Mitzi E Newhouse Theater, New York

1994

P&S Productions

Dramatists Play Service, NY, Original cast recording: RCA (62680)

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Ten nameless characters pair up in ten different scenes of sexual pleasure and/or despair. One character from each scene moves on to the next, seemingly dumping his old partner in favor of new prey. The play begins in 1900 with a Prostitute soliciting an unwilling Soldier. The next scene takes place in the 1940s, and the Soldier, afraid of dying in the war, tussles with a sympathetic Nurse. Next, the Nurse becomes a 1960s dominatrix over her patient, an upper-crust College Boy with wild leanings. In the 1930s, the College Boy reappears as the impotent partner of an adulterous Young Wife who can only have relations with him in seedy, out-of-the-way places. Meeting the woman's Husband in the next scene, we see why she's been driven to such moral turpitude. In her loneliness, the Wife dances a haunting pas-de-deux with the mirror image of her repressed, sensual self. Experiencing the Wife's scene from a totally different perspective, we then meet the Husband as a closet homosexual (and on the Titanic, no less), using the ship's imminent demise to steal a tango with a gorgeous boy hustler called the Young Thing. Shifting to a 1970s disco, a bisexual Writer lures the Young Thing home only to feel the creeping certainty of a morning-after desertion. Finally, the circle of lovers closes where it all began. A Senator quits his relationship with an Actress because of political liabilities, then seeks the Prostitute from the first scene, whom he desperately wishes he could love. A tableau begins forming in the background, with all the couples singing "Hello Again" over and over in a moody recognition of love's inescapable pull.

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Book, music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa (suggested by the short stories of Deborah Eisenberg)

"I never really knew what I was like until I quit smoking, by which time there was hell to pay." So observes Charlotte, a young writer of short stories as she confronts her past, present and future in post 9/11 Manhattan. With the help of her well-intentioned friends, Marco and Kathy, Charlotte embarks on a modern-day odyssey as she desperately attempts to fill her nicotine-starved days with swimming at the Y and jogging, but to no avail. She's a stranger in her own body, and it's not a pretty thing. Flashbacks to earlier years when she first arrived in New York bump up uncomfortably with her present. She's confronted by eccentric demons of her past: her ex-lover Robert (who pops up to criticize her at the most inopportune moments); the quintessential New York roommate-from-hell, Cinder; and a former employer, Mr. Bunder, a proponent of the five-martini lunch. Charlotte is also haunted in her dreams by her adolescent heroine, Anne Frank, who warns her of the danger of flotsamthe accumulation of psychic and emotional debris that interrupts the flow of one's life. Unable to act on impulse and unable to connect with her friends, Charlotte begins to atrophy, until finally, the dam breaks. She discovers to her horror, and ultimate relief, that she has always been running away from herself; not only does she have to kick her smoking habit, she has to overcome her addiction to fleeing. Once she begins clearing away the flotsam, Charlotte is able to be a better friend, a better writer and (yes, there is such a thing) a better New Yorker. As opposed to swimming against the tide, alone and without direction, Charlotte realizes that sometimes, like little fish, it's smarter and safer to swim with the school.

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The action of LUCKY NURSE takes place in a single night. Madge, a nurse who works with newborns, worries about having to put her dog to sleep because he's getting too old. Her friend Jerry leaves his shift to cruise a singles bar where he meets and seduces Sherri. Afterwards, Sherri takes a cab home and meditates on her frequent one-night-stands, but the driver upsets her and she jumps out. Finally, the cabbie ends up at the hospital to have a look at the baby he abandoned only hours ago while Madge looks on and wonders, unknowingly, how anyone could desert their child in the middle of a cold night.

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The comical OLIO presents Margaret Truman at a recital trying her best to sing as she's constantly, hilariously, being upstaged by First Lady Bess. (see FIRST LADY SUITE)

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OVER TEXAS, takes place aboard Air Force One on November 22nd, 1993. Mary Gallagher, the First Lady's personal secretary, and Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary to the President, are trying to relax as they fly into Dallas. Mary, exhausted by the lifestyle, is coaxed into napping by the cool, collected, Evelyn. Mary's dreams become portentous nightmares as they are haunted by a ghostly Jackie and an eerie Lady Bird. (see FIRST LADY SUITE)

Signature, Washington DC

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words and music by Michael John LaChiusa, suggested by the stories of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, as translated by Takashi Kojima

little powerhouse of a show whose sheer intensity will knock you flatand make you think. LaChiusas stagecraft is sure, and his edgy, pop-flavored score commandingly individual. He is thinking hard about the future of the postSondheim musical, and in SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE he has gone a long way toward showing us what it will look like. Wall Street Journal. Mr. LaChiusa delivers songs that strike at the heart. They throb with both communal feelings of hope and anxiety and a specific sense of character. The warmth arrives like a sunburst in GLORYDAY where the notions of truth and belief are extended to a cosmic level. In song the characters blossom into individuals whose timbres and cadences identify them as specifically as the shapes of their heads and bodies. NY Times. SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE has all the music youd want from Broadwaycool jazz and all-purpose poploaded with some of the most succinct, precise, sexually frank lyrics Ive heard in musical theater. Philadelphia Inquirer. An intelligent, adult musical that entertains and astonishes at the same time&This smoky, sexy saga enhanced by LaChiusas muscular, jazzy score, flecked with Japanese influences and tough, punchy lyrics, makes SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE a highly original, even innovative journey. A.P. Sassily innovative, consistently tantalizing and insidiously memorable, the protean race of the music through jazz, Tin Pan Alley, show tunes and classical is riveting. We get triple suspense leading us into an aural and emotional kaleidoscope. The show will make you feel, think and, above all, groove. Bloomberg.com. A typically smart work from Michael John LaChiusa, SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE is a must-see. Star-Ledger. LaChiusas tight-knit composition, with its feverishly racing, New Yorkily compulsive stream of words, is the strongest single piece of music theatre he has yet made. Packed with excitement the story is a gemstone, its multiple facets revealing new meanings as each characters interpretation gets told. Village Voice.

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The brassy, bouncy WHERE'S MAMIE? takes place in Ike and Mamie's bedroom at the White House, yet quickly turns into a time-travel fantasy as Mamie, melancholic and alone on her birthday, is paid a visit by Marian Anderson. Marian whisks Mamie off to Algiers to confront Ike about his affair with his driver, Kay Summersby, and warn him of the racial strife he'll face later in life as President. (see FIRST LADY SUITE)

The Theatre of the Riverside Church, NY

2007

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Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa, Book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C Wolfe, Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March

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