Lower East Side Performing Arts Presents The Two Cents Opera by Elodie Lauten, Weekends from March 12 to 29 at Theater for the New City in Manhattan Lower East Side Performing Arts (LESPA), Inc. presents The Two-Cents Opera, with book, score and direction by Elodie Lauten for three weekends, from March 12 to 29 - Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM and Sundays at 3PM at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue at 10th Street in Manhattan. The Two-Cents Opera is about creative survival in an insecure world and is Elodie Lauten's fantasy about writing an opera where real, surreal and supernatural co-exist. In this new work, the composer relates to the experience of writing an opera as an adventure in the absurd. Autobiographical slices of reality are woven in with surreal elements, ??66rom a twice-removed perspective that never lacks humor. Performers will be baritone Gregg Lauterbach, sopranos Karmen Kluge and Jennifer Greene (who plays the Composer), mezzo soprano Mary Hurlbut and baritone Ulysses Borgia. Dancer Khoi Bao Le (currently with the White Wave Dance Company and Martha Graham School) will improvise choreography in the role of the Trickster. The instrumental accompaniment is provided by Jonathan Hirschman on guitar, Andrew Bolotowsky on flute, Rafael DeStella on contrabass, Bill Ruyle on percussion, Elodie Lauten on piano and alternatively a playback of programmed electronic tracks. Performer bios, YouTube videos and more about The Two-Cents Opera at http://www.elodielauten.net/twocents.html. This event is sponsored by Lower East Side Performing Arts, Inc., a nonprofit organization striving to make classical music accessible and affordable, and is presented in cooperation with Theater for the New City and their Executive Director Crystal Field. Visit them at http://www.geocities.com/lesperformingarts. Tickets for these performances are $12 and $10 Students/Seniors - TDF accepted, and can be purchased online at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/85/1235937600000. For more information, please call 212-388-0202 or visit http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Tel: 516-586-3433 Website: http://www.jamesarts.com *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html