The Making of a Musical ...
The Window King
A Brooklyn Village Songbook
A Brooklyn Village Songbook
The audience gets to see how a play becomes a musical; how the orchestration is created right before their eyes! Showcase presentations performed as dance workshops, staged readings, and musical revues!
"The Window King" is about a young African-American couple who decide not to bring a child into the world. Their modest Park Slope apartment in Brooklyn, NY turns into a free-for-all when an image appears on the window of what looks to be the Virgin Mary holding the Baby Jesus. The neighbors are captivated by the image. Crowds gather outside the brownstone and want to pray, sing and dance to the ‘Window King.’ Soon the hype is so widespread, the couple is swept up in this whirlwind of a spiritual spectacle.
DC Theater Arts describes the Helen Hayes Awards recommended production of “The Window King” as “A resonant vision on view at Live Garra Theatre. It is an engrossing new play prompted by a terminated pregnancy told in the context of a love relationship and a neighborhood community. Programmed by Live Garra Theatre ‘prior’ to the devastating decision in Dobbs, The Window King pulses with a poignant originality that is both timeless and right on time.”
By John Stoltenberg
Parental guidance is advised; this play contains adult themes and explicit content.
DC Theater Arts describes the Helen Hayes Awards recommended production of “The Window King” as “A resonant vision on view at Live Garra Theatre. It is an engrossing new play prompted by a terminated pregnancy told in the context of a love relationship and a neighborhood community. Programmed by Live Garra Theatre ‘prior’ to the devastating decision in Dobbs, The Window King pulses with a poignant originality that is both timeless and right on time.”
By John Stoltenberg
Parental guidance is advised; this play contains adult themes and explicit content.
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