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Kaliyuga Arts presents
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CARELESS RHAPSODY
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Kaliyuga Arts presents
OUT
OF THIS WORLD
UP FROM
THE GROUND
Written
and Performed by Dan Carbone
SIGN
FELT!
(a show
about nothingness)
Created and Performed by
Alexandra Tatarsky
When two visionary performer/playwrights from
opposite coasts converge for the first time ever,
theatrical fireworks ensue! Kaliyuga Arts, resident
theatre company of Catskill’s new Bridge Street Theatre,
having established a reputation for presenting
innovative, cutting edge material in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, New York City, and now in the Hudson Valley,
presents what promises to be their wildest evening ever:
A surreal performance art double-bill called OUT OF
THIS WORLD.
The evening will open with
UP FROM THE
GROUND by Dan Carbone
followed by
SIGN FELT! (a show about nothingness) by
Alexandra Tatarsky.
If Flannery O’Connor had ever written an episode
of “The Twilight Zone”, it would probably have turned
out something like Dan Carbone’s UP FROM THE GROUND in
which a young boy discovers a beautiful and potentially
dangerous world inside an unearthly blossom that has
mysteriously appeared in his parents' cornfield. When it
premiered at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 1998,
Brad Rosenstein of the SF Bay Guardian called it
“brilliantly demented…one of the strangest, funniest,
and most oddly touching performances at this year’s
Fringe.”
Perhaps most renowned for not actually
being Andy Kaufman’s daughter, performer Alexandra
Tatarsky’s SIGN FELT! is the first chapter in her
attempt to create a full-evening adaptation of Goethe’s
classic novel of adolescent angst and artistic striving,
“Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship.” It premiered at a
festival for female solo performance at La Mama ETC in
New York City in 2014, and has played this past year in
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, the
Bronx, and Brooklyn.
Dan Carbone has been active in San
Francisco Bay Area theatre since 1995 as a both a
playwright and performer. His solo performance piece Up
From the Ground, won Best of the SF Fringe 1998 and SF
Bay Guardian Goldie and Upstage/Downstage Awards, and
was nominated for a Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle
Award for “Best Solo Performance”. Other plays have
included Salvador Dali Talks to the Animals, The Pilgrim
Project, An Impersonation of Angels or The Enigma of
Desire, There Be Monsters!, Kingdom of Not, The Dark
Room Series (including Dan Carbone & His Million Dollar
Legs!), Father Panic, and The Wounded Stag & Other
Cloven-Footed Tales of Enchantment. Dan is a graduate of
the Film School of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and
has acted in, and contributed material to, numerous
videos by the legendary underground filmmakers George
and Mike Kuchar. Recently, Dan has been performing with
Andrew Goldfarb (aka The Slow Poisoner) as “Kingdom of
Not”, and their first CD Journey to the Far Side of the
Room was released to great acclaim in 2013. The band
will be embarking on an East Coast tour almost
immediately after Dan’s Bridge Street Theatre engagement
concludes. Dan currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
http://www.dancarbone.net
http://kingdomofnot.bandcamp.com
“Dan Carbone brings an astounding child-like and
personal imagination to his work, augmented by the
techniques of a seasoned performer with a wide array of
singing, mime, and acting skills. It’s a wild ride into
a surreal world that mixes memory and fantasy into a
magical concoction.” Philip Proctor, Firesign
Theatre
“Dan Carbone is a delightful oddity among
local solo performers – his off-kilter perspective on
reality and its illusions creates a strange, funny, and
disturbing-in-a-good-way hybrid of Flannery O’Connor,
The Twilight Zone, Mister Rogers, and Jonathan Winters.”
Kerry Reid, SF Metropolitan
“In a town where
every conceivable wrinkle in solo theater seems to have
been ironed out long ago, Dan Carbone crept out from
under the bed and lit the mattress on fire … Jonathan
Winters meets Cocteau.” Brad Rosenstein, SF Bay
Guardian
Alexandra Tatarsky
is a writer and performer from New York City. Her
original pieces have played at La Mama ETC, Vox Populi,
the Emerald Tablet, and Bronx Art Space as well as
living rooms, vaudeville tents, stairwells, and bars
across America. Other theatrical appearances include the
monster bride in Lilac Co.’s Frankenstein for the
Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, Chaos: and
Other Worldly Possessions with Truant Arts, and Horror,
or Her Mirror, an adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
directed by Rosalie Lowe. She has collaborated with
Fakehead on the underground webseries Zhe Zhe and
Powerless, a feature film shot during the 2012 blackout
in NYC. Called “endlessly entertaining” by
nytheatre.com, she often performs as a mound of dirt and
was famous on the Internet for two days as Andy
Kaufman’s daughter.
http://tar-tar.biz
“Phenomenal. Like Andy Kaufman meets Harpo Marx.”
Josh Kornbluth, Solo Performer
“I was enamored,
impressed…stunned even. And…moved. Tatarsky does in the
theater what needs to be done, time and again, to bring
us into the present moment.” Matvei Yankelevich,
Poet
“A stunning pleasure to watch … One of the
freshest, most impressive things I have seen in a long
time.” Mitsu Hadeishi, Performance Curator
CARELESS RHAPSODY
The
Wit & Wisdom of Lorenz Hart
Eric Michael Gillett
Broadway's Eric Michael Gillett (The Frogs, Sweet Smell of Success, and Kiss Me, Kate) uses the wit and wisdom of Lorenz Hart to remind us all that, while love can be experienced with abandon, carelessness of the heart can make for a messy sort of romance. Hart, a wildly gifted lyricist responsible for songs such as “Blue Moon,” “Little Girl Blue,” “I Wish I Were in Love Again,” “You Took Advantage of Me,” “My Funny Valentine,” and “Isn’t it Romantic?,” inspired generations of lovers through his words. Gillett brings new life to these ballads of luck in love to craft “an intimate self-portrait of a man in the thrall of show business dreams, for whom popular standards are platforms for unguarded confessions.” (The New York Times)
Eric Michael
Gillett is the proud recipient of five
Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs Awards,
including the 2012 MAC Award for Outstanding Major
Artist (Male), two separate awards for outstanding
direction, the 1995 Male Vocalist Award and in 2014,
Outstanding Special Production for his revue, The Amanda
McBroom Project. He has been seen on Broadway in
the original casts of Kiss Me, Kate (1999 revival),
Sweet Smell of Success, and The Frogs. He is
honored to have made his New York City Ballet debut as
‘Father’ in this production of Brecht/Weill’s Seven
Deadly Sins starring Patti Lupone and Wendy Whelan.
Eric Michael conceived and directed Dance On, the
2010/2011 edition of New York’s beloved Big Apple
Circus. Lincoln Center audiences have also seen
him in the New York City Opera productions of
Cinderella, and Candide. Off- Broadway: “Papa”
Denny Doherty in Dream a Little Dream at the Village
Theatre, 'Richard' in the York Theater's workshop of the
new musical, The Tutor, as well as Silent Laughter
(Lambs), Good Companions (York), Of Thee I Sing
(Encores), Frankenstein (37 Arts), Roller Derby (Alvin
Ailey), December Fools (Abingdon), Time and Again
(Manhattan Theatre Club), and the Carnegie Hall staging
of Show Boat. Film and television credits include
Maid in Manhattan, The Judge, The Producers, Good God,
multiple Law & Order episodes, and Ed.
For twelve
years, Eric Michael appeared as the Ringmaster of
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Visit
Eric Michael Gillett at
www.ericmichaelgillett.com
Don Rebic is a New York City-based musical director, conductor, composer, and pianist whose distinguished, four-decade career has spanned the worlds of Broadway, jazz, cabaret, and classical music. Whether accompanying world-renowned vocalists, conducting Broadway and symphony orchestras, or performing his own jazz compositions, Don is known for his versatility, charm, and brilliant musicianship. Don moved to New York City after graduating college with a degree in piano performance. Within a year, he was conducting the 1977 Broadway revival of Jesus Chris Superstar. Don’s Broadway credits also include Dancin’ and Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse; Teaneck Tanzi starring Deborah Harry and Andy Kaufman; and Anything Goes starring Patti LuPone. He has conducted for the national companies of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Chita Rivera. As an in-demand accompanist and musical director, Don has worked with such luminaries as Peggy Lee, Kiri Te Kanawa, Barbara Cook, Laura Theodore, Betty Buckley, Dixie Carter, Morgana King, Lainie Kazan, Mary Cleere Haran, Margaret Whiting, Regis Philbin, Tovah Feldshuh, Christine Andreas, Christine Ebersole, Victoria Clark, Karen Gross, Julius la Rosa, Ricky Martin, and José Carreras. He conducted the Pittsburgh and Dallas Symphony Orchestras and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as Leslie Uggams’ musical director for 24 years and has served as musical director for cabaret icon Karen Akers for 23 years. In 2009, he won the Backstage Bistro Award for outstanding musical director.
