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Suzanne at St. Ann's Warehouse

  •  Mon, Mar 24 2008, 3:42 PM

    Suzanne at St. Ann's Warehouse

    http://stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=24 

    Don't think this has been posted yet. Only drawback? Lowest price ticket is $300. It is a benefit concert, which accounts for the high price.

    Courtesy of the St. Ann's website:

    St. Ann's Warehouse Gala Benefit
    Hal Willner’s
    Stay Awake Live
    The 20th Anniversary Concert
    Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films

    Featuring from the Original Cast Album
    Terry Adams of NRBQ
    Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra
    Maud and Garth
    Hudson
    Suzanne Vega
    and the Voice of Ken Nordine

    also featuring

    Steve Buscemi
    David Byrne
    Gavin Friday
    Beth Orton
    Richard Strange
    Martha Wainwright


    Wed | Apr 2

    6:30 pm: Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
    8:00 pm: American Premiere of STAY AWAKE LIVE
    9:15 pm: Dinner and dessert

    St. Ann’s Gala 2008 will feature a concert celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the release of Stay Awake, record producer Hal Willner’s historic compilation of music from the Vintage Disney Songbook. First presented last summer at the Meltdown Festival in London, Stay Awake has never been performed live in America. Best known for a groundbreaking series of multi-artist tribute albums interpreting the work of composers such as Nino Rota, Kurt Weill and Thelonious Monk, Willner (often imitated, never duplicated) set out to match surprising material with extraordinary musicians from the nether regions of pop, rock, jazz and the avant garde, all thrown together to brilliant effect. Stay AwakeLive is an amalgam of the bizarre and the familiar, performed by a soon-to-be-announced spectrum of enticing artists. As Meltdown director Jarvis Cocker described this eclectic mix of enchanting, somber and, at times, sardonic adaptations of tunes from The Jungle Book, Snow White, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, etc.: “Love ‘em or hate ‘em, if you leave the theater without having shed a tear you’re something less than human.”

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