by Frank Gagliano | Jan 12, 2021
THE PRINCE OF PEASANTMANIA(Fairy-tale Extravaganza for grownups) “INNOCENT: What is there in them that makes them mean and ugly and vicious? —makes them, in their agony, need to punish each other? Yes: EACH OTHER! The answer’s there —there in that daisy chain of...
by Frank Gagliano | Jan 11, 2021
WHAT “. . .BODONI. . .” IS ALL ABOUT FROM THE BODONI COUNTY SONGBOOK ANTHOLOGY is a 21st Century combination Our Town/Spoon River/Jacques Brel on acid. FROM THE BODONI COUNTY SONGBOOK ANTHOLOGY was first developed at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s...
by Frank Gagliano | Jan 6, 2021
Part 3 of 3 in the Voodoo Trilogy Part 1: In the Voodoo Parlour of Marie LaveauPart 2: The Commedia World of Lafcadio B CONGO SQUARE “AND THEY’RE DANCING, THESE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE,GOD PARDONED THEM BOTH.FOR THE MIGHTY WILL ALWAYS BE PARDONED,IF THEY’RE...
by Frank Gagliano | Jan 5, 2021
Raymond Benson plays the Overture from The Resurrection of Jackie Cramer Composed by Raymond Benson, Words in the musical theater piece by Frank Gagliano, copyrighted 1977 by Gagliano and Benson, copyright renewed. Recorded at home during 2020 quarantine. THE...
by Frank Gagliano | Dec 27, 2020
San Ysidro San Ysidro©(A piece for chorus, brass and percussion) (In memory of those massacred at a McDonald’s Restaurant in San Ysidro, California, on July 18, 1984) Music: JAMES REICHERT Text: FRANK GAGLIANO [“SAN YSIDRO” TEXT ANDMP3’S FOLLOW] [A Note From...
