USTheater, Opera, and Performance
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(alphabetical by playwright)
John Adams and Peter Sellars (USA)
"Unrighteous Deaths" (on Goodmans' and Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer) by Douglas Messerli
"Unaltered Images of Movement" (on Adams', Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry's Available Light) by Douglas Messerli
Thomas Adès (England) with Tom Cairns (England)
"The Haunted House" (on Adès' The Exterminating Angel) by Douglas Messerli
Richard Alder and Jerry Ross (USA)
"Hey There" (from The Pajama Game) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
songs "I've Never Be Jealous Again" and "7 1/2 Cents) [from movie version, link]
"Unaltered Images of Movement" (on Adams', Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry's Available Light) by Douglas Messerli
Thomas Adès (England) with Tom Cairns (England)
"The Haunted House" (on Adès' The Exterminating Angel) by Douglas Messerli
Richard Alder and Jerry Ross (USA)
"Hey There" (from The Pajama Game) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
songs "I've Never Be Jealous Again" and "7 1/2 Cents) [from movie version, link]
Aeschylus (Ancient Greece)
Ilse Aichinger (Austria)
Edward Albee (USA)
"Explaining Things" (on Albee's At Home at the Zoo) by Douglas Messerli
"Getting Martin's Goat" (on Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) by Douglas Messerli
"Explaining Things" (on Albee's At Home at the Zoo) by Douglas Messerli
"Getting Martin's Goat" (on Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) by Douglas Messerli
"Living Darwinism" (on Albee's Seascape) by Douglas Messerli
"The Next Invasion" (on Albee's A Delicate Balance) by Douglas Messerli [link]
Peter Allen (Australia)
"I Go to Rio" (performance, link)
Ana Maria Alvarez (USA)
"Celebrating the 'In-Between'" (on her choreography of Contra-Tiempo Urban Dance Company at the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts)
Leroy Anderson, Jean and Walter Kerr, and Joan Ford (USA)
"Who's Been Sitting in My Chair" from "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs" by Douglas Messerli
"The Next Invasion" (on Albee's A Delicate Balance) by Douglas Messerli [link]
Peter Allen (Australia)
"I Go to Rio" (performance, link)
Ana Maria Alvarez (USA)
"Celebrating the 'In-Between'" (on her choreography of Contra-Tiempo Urban Dance Company at the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts)
Leroy Anderson, Jean and Walter Kerr, and Joan Ford (USA)
"Who's Been Sitting in My Chair" from "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs" by Douglas Messerli
Eleanor Antin (USA)
"On Credit" (on Before the Revolution) by Douglas MesserliJulie Archer and Lee Breuer (USA)
"The Locked Windows" (on Archer's and Breuer's Peter and Wendy) by Douglas Messerli
John Arden (England/Ireland)
"Pulling Down the Roof" (on Serjeant Musgrave's Dance) by Douglas Messerli
Bea Arthur (USA)
"Jenny Pirate" (by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill)
Antonin Artaud (France)
"To Have Done with the Judgment of God' (radio performance, link)
Robert Ashley (USA)
"An American Original" (on the death of Ashley and a concert in 2015 at Redcat in Los Angeles)
Louis Armstrong (USA)
"Dinah" (1933) [link]
Charles Atlas (photographer), Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener (choreographers) (USA)
"Communal Rituals and Desires" (on Atlas', Mitchell's and Riener's Tesseract) by Douglas Messerli
Charles Aznavor (France)
"La Boheme" [link]
Back to Back Theatre (Australia)
"Playing the Play" (on Ganesh Versus the Third Reich) by Douglas Messerli
Béla Balázs see Béla Bartok
Joe Arias (USA)
"Strange Fruit" on Arias' Billie Holiday Centennial Concert) by Douglas Messerli
Joey Arias and Basil Twist (USA)
"This Is It" (on Arias with a Twist and Michael Jackson) by Douglas Messerli
Paul Badura-Skoda (Austria/USA)
"A Sacred Domain" (on the death of Paul Badura-Skoda) by Douglas Messerli
Zelim Bakaev (Russia)
Murdered Russian pop-singer, killed in Chenya evidently because he was gay [link]
Two songs, including his famed "Nana."
George Balanchine (Russia/USA)
"Gems of Abstraction" (on Balanchine's ballet Jewels performed by the Mariinsky Ballet) by Douglas
Messerli
Amiri Baraka (USA)
"Essential Dichotomies" (on Baraka's "The Toilet" and on his life and poetry) by Douglas Messerli
Djuna Barnes (USA)
"Freeling Family" (on Djuna Barnes' Biography of Julie van Bartmann) by Douglas Messerli
Three from the Earth
"The Days on Jig Cook" (on George Cram Cook and the Provincetown Players)
"Djuna Barnes' Roots," (on the short plays of Djuna Barnes) by Douglas Messerli
"The Songs of Synge"
The Antiphon
J. M. Barrie (b. Scotland/England)
"The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" (printed play)
"The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" (radio play with the Barrymores)
"Bond of Age" (on Barrie's "Rosalind" and "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals") by Douglas Messerli
"The Locked Windows" (on Archer's and Breuer's Peter and Wendy, based on a novel by J. M. Barrie) by Douglas Messerli
Lionel Bart (England)
"Who Will Buy?" (from Bart's Oliver!) from My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas
Messerli
Béla Bartok (Hungary)
"Locking Up Being" (on Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle) by Douglas Messerli
"What's Love Got To Do with It?" (on Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle) by Douglas Messerli
Tina Bausch (Germany)
"You Know What I Mean" (on Bausch's Ten Chi and Richard Foreman's Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland) by Douglas Messerli
John Beasley/MONK'estra (USA)
"The Sweet Sound of Dissonance" (on MONK'estra performance at Broad Stage) by Douglas Messerli
Samuel Beckett (Ireland/France)
"Be Again" (on Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape)
"Nell's Death" (on Beckett's Endgame) by Douglas Messerli
"Living in the Details" (on Beckett's Waiting for Godot) by Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles
Production)
"Little Catastrophes" (on Beckett's Act Without Words II, Come and Go, Catastrophe, Footfalls, and
Krapp's Last Tape) by Douglas Messerli (at Los Angeles' Odyssey Theatre)
"Sweating It: Three Mid-Century Tragi-Comedies) (on Beckett's Waiting for Godot) by Douglas Messerli (New York Production)
"Performing Iconic Theater" (on Beckett's Happy Days) by Douglas Messerli
"Talking the Tears Away" (on Beckett's Happy Days) by Douglas Messerli
Interview with and performance of Krapp's Last Tape by Harold Pinter
Belarus Free Theatre (Belarus)
"Sunday, Bloody, Sunday (2)" (on the company's Being Harold Pinter) by Douglas Messerli
David Belasco (USA)
The Return of Peter Grimm
Hans Bellmer (Germany)
"Notes on the Ball Joint"
Shelley Berc (USA)
A Girl's Guide to the Divine Comedy
Alban Berg (Germany)
"Desire Severed from Award" (on Berg's Lulu as performed at the MET Opera) by Douglas Messerli
Irving Berlin (USA)
"There's No Business Like Show Business" (from Annie Get Your Gun) by Douglas Messerli from
his "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs"
André De Shields (USA)
"The Wiz and the Tin Man" (on my relationship with André De Shields)
Hector Berlioz (France)
"Delusion and Dream" (on Berlioz' Les troyens) by Douglas Messerli
Elmer Bernstein and Carolyn Leigh (USA)
"Shakespeare Lied" (from Bernstein and Leigh's How Now Dow Jones) by Douglas Messerli
Felix Bernstein (USA)
Singing "Goodbye Old Girl" from Damn Yankees at age 12
Jamie Bernstein (USA)
"A Family Circus" (on Jamie Bernstein's Famous Father Girl) by Douglas Messerli
Leonard Bernstein (USA)
"America" (from Bernstein's West Side Story) by Douglas Messerli
"The Best of All Possible Productions--To Date" (on Bernstein's Candide) by Douglas Messerli
"I Can Cook Too" (from Bernstein's On the Town) by Douglas Messerli
"It's Love" (on Bernstein's Wonderful Town) by Douglas Messerli
"Ohio" (from Bernstein's Wonderful Town) by Douglas Messerli from My Favorite Musical Theater
Songs
"Something's Coming" (from Bernstein's West Side Story) from My Favorite Musical Theater Songs, by Douglas Messerli
"Spiritual Uplift" (on Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti)
"Three Bernstein New Yorks" (on Bernstein's On the Town, Wonderful Town, and West Side Story) by
Douglas Messerli
Chuck Berry (USA)
Chuck Berry singing "Johnny B. Goode" / live performance [link]
Shyam Bhatt (England, lives USA)
"One of Us" (on Bhatt's Treya's Last Dance) by Douglas Messerli
Thomas Bird (USA)
"Testimony" (on Bird's one-man performance Bearing Witness) by Douglas Messerli
Susan Birkenhead (USA)
see Bob Martin
Georges Bizet (France)
"Love vs. Faith" (on Bizet's The Pearl Fishers) by Douglas Messerli
"Three Hateful Figures" (on Bizet's Carmen) by Douglas Messerli
Jens Bjørneboe (Norway)
The Bird Lovers
"Cataloging Evil" (on Bjørneboe's The Bird Lovers and Semmelweis) by Douglas Messerli
Lily Blau (USA)
"Differential Equations" (on Blau's The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll) by Douglas Messerli
Marc Blitzstein (USA)
"I Wish It So" (from Juno) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
Jerry Bock (USA)
"On the Side of the Angels" (on the deaths of Bock, Joseph Stein, and Tom Bosley) by Douglas Messerli
"Writing Tenderly" (on Jerry Bock's, Sheldon Harnick's and Joe Masteroff's She Loves Me) by Douglas Messerli
Maxwell Bodenheim and Ben Hecht (USA)
The Master Poisoner
BodyTraffic Dance Company (USA)
"D(elusive) Minds" (on their Wallis Annenberg Center Performance in September 2019), by
Douglas Messerli
"Let's Keep Dancing" (on their Wallis Annenberg Center Performance) by Douglas Messerli
Tom Bosley (USA)
"On the Side of the Angels" (on the deaths of Bock, Joseph Stein, and Tom Bosley) by Douglas Messerli
Matthew Bourne (England)
"Dance of Surprises" (on Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures) by Douglas Messerli
"Making Swan Lake Dangerous Again" (on Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake) by Douglas Messerli
David Bowie (England)
"My Death" (Jacques Brel's song, "La Mort" sung by Bowie] [link]
"Panic in Detroit" (sung by Bowie) [link]
"The Port of Amsterdam" ("Amsterdam") (Jacques Brel's song sung by Bowie) [link]
Jane Bowles (USA)
"A Necessary Remedy" (on Bowles' In the Summer House) by Douglas Messerli
Ethan Braun (USA)
"Dying for Love" (on Braun's and Adam Linder's The Want) by Douglas Messerli
Bertolt Brecht (Germany)
"Moon of Alabama" from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (from My Favorite Theater Musicals) by Douglas Messerli
"Moon of Alabama" from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Selected Audio Works
see Kurt Weill
Stephan Brecht (b. Germany/USA)
"Stage and Street" (on the theater writings of Brecht) by Douglas Messerli
Jacques Brel (Belgium)
Douglas Messerli | "Jacques Brel Is Dead and Worth Resurrecting" (on Jacques Brel Is Alive and
Well and Living in Paris)
"Dans le port d'Amsterdam" (sung by Brel) [link]
"Fanette" (sung by Brel) [link]
"La Mort" (sung by Brel) [link]
"Quand on n'a que l'amour" (sung by Brel) [link]
"Les Vieux" ("Old Folks") (sung by Brel) [link]
Lee Breuer (USA)
Porto Morco
"Barnyard Philosophers" (on Breuer's Summa Dramatica and Porco Morto) by Douglas Messerli
Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell (USA)
"You Great Big Beautiful Doll" (on Mabou Mines Dollhouse) by Douglas Messerli
Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe (USA)
"Everybody Leaves" (on Brickman's, Elice's, Gaudio's, and Crewe's Jersey Boys) by Douglas Messerli
Benjamin Britten (England)
"Celebrating Liberation" (on Eric Crozier's and Britten's Albert Herring) by Douglas Messerli
"The Darkness Understands and Suffer" (on E. M. Forster, Eric Crozier, and Britton's Billy Budd) by Douglas Messerli
"The Piper's Son" (on Myfanwy Piper's and Britten's The Turn of the Screw) by Douglas Messerli
Peter Brook (with Marie-Hélène Estienne and based on The Mahabharata, by Jean-Claude Carrière
(England)
"Going On" (on The Battlefield) by Douglas Messerli
Brooklyn Rider (USA)
"Dreaming Through Music" (on their performance with Magos Herrera) by Douglas Messerli
William DuBois (USA)
"To the Hills" (on DuBois' Haiti) by Douglas Messerli
Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert, and Frank Loesser (USA)
"The Company Way" (on How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying) by Douglas Messerli
see also Frank Loesser
Jez Butterworth (England)
"Sunday, Blood Sunday" (on Butterworth's Jerusalem) by Douglas Messerli
John Cage (USA)
"Nothing on a Lecture (on Robert Wilson's performance of Cage's Lecture on Nothing) by Douglas Messerli
Maria Callas (USA-Greece)
Callas singing from Madama Butterfly [link]
Alexi Kaye Campbell (Greece/England)
"Both Sides of Love" (on Campbell's The Pride) by Douglas Messerli
Karel Čapek (Czechoslavakia / now Czech Republic)
R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Al Carmines (based on Gertrude Stein) (USA)
In Circles (based on Stein's "A Circular Play"
Promenade (with Maria Irene Fornes)
Aimé Césaire (Martinique)
"Trying to Be Everything" (on Césaire's Une Saison Au Congo) by Douglas Messerli
Anton Chekhov (Russia)
"The Dogs Howl" (on Chekhov's The Seagull) by Douglas Messerli
Moose Charlap (music) (with Irene Mecchi (teleplay, based on the play by J. M. Barrie), Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics, with additional lyrics by Amanda Green) and Jule Styne (music) (USA)
"Walkin' the Plank (on Peter Pan Live! [TV production, 2014]) by Douglas Messrli
Marissa Chibas (with Erik Ehn and Travis Preston) (USA)
Listening (on Chibas', Ehns', and Preston's Brewsie and Willie) by Douglas Messerli
Lucinda Childs (USA)
"Unaltered Images of Movement" (on Childs', Adams', and Gehry's Available Light) by Douglas Messerli
Julia Cho (USA)
"Dead Languagaes" (on Cho's The Language Archive) by Douglas Messerli
Jean Cocteau (France)
Complete recordings of theater, performances and other works (link with UBUWeb)
Nat King Cole (USA)
"Tenderly," sung by Cole with piano by Oscar Peterson, 1957 [link]
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (USA)
"Hey, Look Me Over" (on Coleman's and Leigh's Wildcat) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by
Douglas Messerli
"I've Got Your Number" (on Coleman's and Leigh's Little Me) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
Betty Comden and Adolph Green (see also Jule Styne)
Betty Comden and Adolph Green (see also Leonard Bernstein)
Barbara Cook (USA)
"Getting to Know Her" (on Cook singing at the Wallis Annenberg Theatre) by Douglas Messerli
George Cram Cook (USA)
"The Days of Jig Cook" (on Cook and the Provincetown Players) by Djuna Barnes
George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell (USA)
Suppressed Desires
"Celebration of Suppression" (on Cook's and Glaspell's Suppressed Desires) by Douglas Messerli
David Crosby (USA)
"She's Got To Be Somewhere" (song) [link]
Eric Crosier (England) see Benjamin Britten
Noël Coward (England)
"Breaking Away" (on Coward's Blithe Spirit) by Douglas Messerli
"Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" (from Sail Away) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by
Douglas Messerli
Bob Crewe see Marshall Brickman
Nilo Cruz (USA)
"Literature Stirs the Emotions" (on Cruz's Anna of the Tropics) by Douglas Messerli
Tim Crouch (England)
"The Miracle of Art" (on Crouch's An Oak Tree) by Douglas Messerli
Stan Daniels (USA) see Joseph Stein
Gordon Davidson (USA)
"Creating Los Angeles Theater" (on the death of Gordon Davidson) by Douglas Messerli
Claude Debussy (France)
"The Outsiders" (on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande) by Douglas Messerli
Andy de Groat (USA)
"Expanding Time: Centers of a Whirling World" (on de Groat's career at the memorial service videoed by
Jacob Burkhardt's "Andy Dances at Judson Church September 17, 2019) by Douglas Messerli
Shelagh Delaney (England)
"Permanent Outsiders" (on Delaney's A Taste of Honey) by Douglas Messerli
"Thieves of Love" (on Delaney's A Taste of Honey) by Douglas Messerli
André De Shields (USA)
"The Wiz and the Tin Man" by Douglas Messerli
Mark Dion (USA)
see David Lang
Fats Domino (USA)
"Ain't That a Shame" (sung by Domino)
Gaetano Donizetti (Italy)
"Battling Divas" (on Giuseppe Bardari's and Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda) by Douglas Messerli
"Marie Gets Her Man and Her Gun" (on Donizetti's La fille du Régiment) by Douglas Messerli
"Scarf and Ring" (on Donizetti's Roberto Devereux) by Douglas Messerli
"Things Change" (on Donizetti's Roberto Devereux LAOpera) by Douglas Messerli
Vernon Duke (USA)
"Taking a Chance on Love" (on Duke on John Latouche's musical Cabin in the Sky) by Douglas Messerli from "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs"
Antonín Dvořák (Czechoslavakia)
"Raping Nature" (on Dvořák's Rusalka) by Douglas Messerli
Billy Eckstine (USA)
"I Want to Talk About You" (song-link)
Elevator Repair Service (USA)
"Problems with the Text" (on Elevator Repair Services' Arguendo) by Douglas Messerli
Rick Elice (USA)
"Wasted on Youth" (on Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher) by Douglas Messerli
see also Marshall Brickman
Everly Brothers (USA)
"Bye Bye Love" (on the Everly Brothers and Phil Everly's death) by Douglas Messerli
Daniel Ezralow (USA)
"Pure Ecastasy" (on Ezralow Dance's Primo Passo) by Douglas Messerli
Marianne Faithfull (England)
"There's No Moon in Paris" [link]
Cy Feuer (USA)
"The Brotherhood" (on Cy Feuer and his death) by Douglas Messerli
Karen Finley (USA)
"The Escaped Unicorn" (on Finley's performance The Expanded Unicorn Gratitude Mystery) by
Douglas Messerli
William Finn and James Lapine (USA)
"And Where Are Your Now?" (on Finn's and Lapine's Falsettos) by Douglas Messerli
"Something Bad Is Happening" (on Finn's and Lapine's Falsettos) by Douglas Messerli
See also James Lapine
Ronald Firbank (England)
"The Princess Zoubaroff"
Ella Fitzgerald (USA)
"Summertime" (by George and Ira Gershwin, 1968, with the Tee Carson trio) [link]
John Fleck (USA)
"Somewhat Off the Road" (on Fleck's Blacktop Highway) by Douglas Messerli
Richard Foreman (USA)
Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland
"The Unfortunate Truth of My Situtation" (on Foremlan's Old-Fashioned Prostitutes) by Douglas
Messerli
"You Know What I Mean" (on Foreman's Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland and Tina Bausch's
Ten Chi) by Douglas Messerli
Maria Irene Fornes (b. Cuba/USA)
"The Power of Desperation" (on The Conduct of Life) by Douglas Messerli
"A Very Long Walk" (on Promenade) by Douglas Messerli
"Rain of Summons" (on Fefu and Her Friends) by Douglas Messerli
"Two Kinds of Screams" (on Fefu and Her Friends) by Douglas Messerli
Simone Forti (born Italy, USA)
"A Different Voice: An Interview between Simone Forti and Douglas Messerli"
Jackson C. Frank (USA)
singing "Milk and Honey" and "Blues Run the Game"
Scott Frankel (USA) see Doug Wright
Aretha Franklin (USA)
"A Diva of the People" (on the death of Aretha Franklin) by Douglas Messerli
Bruce Jay Friedman (USA)
"The Confession" (on Friedman's Steambath) by Douglas Messerli
Max Frisch (Switzerland)
"The Conflagration" (on Frisch's The Arsonists) by Douglas Messerli
George Furth (USA) see Stephen Sondheim
Juan Gabriel (Mexico)
"Amor Eterno" [link]
Peter Galison (USA) (see William Kentridge)
Armand Gatti (Monaco/France)
Two Plays: The 7 Possibilities from Train 713 Departing from Auschwitz and
Public Song Before Two Electric Chairs
George and Ira Gershwin (USA)
"It Ain't Necessarily So" (on the Gershwin's Porgy and Bess) by Douglas Messerli
Susan Glaspell (USA)
Trifles
see also George Cook Cram
Betty Garrett (USA)
"I'm Still Here: Two Valentines" (on performances by Garrett and Eliane Stritch) by Douglas Messerli
Bob Gaudio see Marshall Brickman
Jack Gelber (USA)
"Eye to Eye" (on Gelber's Square in the Eye and Arnold Weinstein's Red Eye of Love) by Douglas Messerli
George and Ira Gershwin (USA)
"I Got Rhythm" (from their Girl Crazy) from My Favorite Theater Musicals by Douglas Messerli
"Summertime" (sung by Ella Fitzgerald, 1968, with the Tee Carson trio) [link]
"It Ain't Necessarily So" (on the Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at the MET Opera) by Douglas Messerli
Robin Gibb (an the Bee Gees) (England)
"Close Another Door" [link]
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (England)
"The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze (from The Mikado) by Douglas Messerli from his "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs"
Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Lucinda Childs, and Christopher Knowles (USA)
"This One Is Being Very America" (on Glass, Wilson, and Child's Einstein on the Beach) by Douglas Messerli
"Send in the Clowns" (on Glass' Akhnaten) by Douglas Messerli
Gob Sqaud (based in Germany/Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah
Thom, Bastian Trost, and Simon Will)
"The Past Becomes the Future" (on Gob Squad's production of Creation (Pictures for Dorian) by
Douglas Messerli
James Goldman (USA)
"Slightly Sour" (on Goldman's and Sondheim's Follies) by Douglas Messerli
Annie Gosfield (with Yuval Sharon) (USA)
"Architecture Saves the Day" (on Gosfield's and Sharon's opera War of the Worlds) by Douglas
Messerli
Philip Kan Gotanda (USA)
"Mixed Messages" (on Gotanda's Remember the I-Hotel) by Douglas Messerli
Carel Gott (Czech Republic)
Singing https://ustheater.blogspot.com/2019/10/httpswwwyoutubecomwatchvuhoiuqwj22k.html
Allen Graubard (USA)
"Comment on Gellu Naum's The Taus Watch Repair Shop"
Alice Goodman, Peter Sellars, and John Adams (USA)
"Six Degrees of Insanity" (on Goodman's, Sellars', and Adams' Nixon in China) by Douglas Messerli
David Greenspan (USA)
Son of an Engineer
"Going Nowhere" (on Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are) by Douglas Messerli
Tammy Grimes (USA)
"Are You Sure?" (on the death of singer/actor Tammy Grimes) by Douglas Messerli
John Guare (USA)
"On Red Eye of Love"
Dan Guerrero (USA)
"Mariachi to Merman" (on ¡Gaytino! ) by Douglas Messerli
Adam Guettel (USA)
"Losing Your Mind" (on The Light in the Piazza) by Douglas Messerli
Buddy Guy (USA)
"Can't Be Satisfied" [link]
Peter Hall (England)
"Animal Uproar" (on George Orwell's Animal Farm) by Douglas Messerli
Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers (USA) see Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
George Frideric Handel (England)
"An Adventure into a Nearly Forgetten World of Opera" (on Handel's Agrippina at the MET) by
Douglas Messerli
"Tears and Hope" (on Handel's Giulio Cesare) by Douglas Messerli
Lorraine Hansberry (USA)
"The Reluctant Warrior" (on Hansberry's Les Blancs) by Douglas Messerli
"Survivors" (on A Raisin in the Sun) by Douglas Messerli
E. Y. Harburg and Burton Lane (USA), My Favorite Theater Songs, "How Are Things in Glocca Mora?" by Douglas Messerli
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock (USA)
My Favorite Theater Songs,"Will He Like Me" (from Harnick and Bock's She Loves Me) by Douglas Messerli
"Writing Tenderly" (on Harnick's, Bock's and Masteroff's She Loves Me) by Douglas Messerli
James Harris (USA)
"Theater in the Merry-Go-Round" (on James Harris's An Illegal Start) by Pablo Capra
Cailin Maureen Harrison (USA/Ireland)
"Attempting to Save a People Who Do Not Need Saving" (on Harrison's Defenders) by Douglas
Messerli
Lou Harrison (USA)
"Pacific Music" (on Harrison's concert at Redcat, Music of the Pacific) by Douglas Messerli
Lorenz Hart (USA)
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" (from Hart's and Richard Rodgers' Pal Joey) by Douglas
Messerli "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs"
Paul Hindemith (Germany/USA)
"Explaining to the US What Evil Is All About" (on Murderer, Hope of Women (Mörder, Hoffnung der
Frauen) by Douglas Messerli
Robert Hunter (USA)
"Robert Hunter: Poet" (on Hunter's lyrics for The Grateful Dead) by Douglas Messerli
Václav Havel (Czech Republic)
"The Orange Door (on Havel's Largo desolato, ranslated from the Czech by Tom Stoppard) by
Douglas Messserli
John Hawkes (USA)
"The Empty Pool" (on Hawkes' The Innocent Party) by Douglas Messerli
Jake Heggie (USA)
"The Face of God" (On Heggie's and Terrence MacNally's Dead Man Walking) by Douglas Messerli
"Embracing the Cannibal" (on Heggie and Gene Scheer's Moby-Dick) by Douglas Messerli
Jerry Herman (USA)
"Dolly Will Never Go Away" (on Herman's Hello, Dolly!) by Douglas Messerli
"Put on Your Sunday Clothes" (on Herman's Hello, Dolly!, from My Favorite Musical Theater Songs) by Douglas Messerli
Sebastian Hernandez (USA)
"The Smell of the Rose" (on Hernandez's Hypanthium) by Douglas Messerli
Magos Herrera (Mexico)
"Dreaming Through Music" (on her performance with Brooklyn Rider) by Douglas Messerli
Matthew S. Hinton (USA)
Drake Disappears
Lucas Hnath (USA)
"What Does It Mean to Believe?" (on Hnath's The Christians)
Billie Holliday (USA)
"Pennies from Heaven" sung by Billie Holiday [link]
"Stormy Weather" sung by Billie Holliday (1952) [link]
Billie Holiday singing "September Song" and others
Hotel Modern (and Arthur Sauer)
"Toy Soldiers" (on their production of The Great War) by Douglas Messerli
Hotel Modern
"Toys" (on their production of Kamp) by Douglas Messerli
Maureen Huskey (USA)
"A World of Endless Picnics" (on Huskey's The Woman Who Went to Space as a Man) by Douglas
Messerli
Henrik Ibsen (Norway)
"The Man Who Stands Alone" (on Ibsen's An Enemy of the People) by Douglas Messerli
When We Dead Awaken
"When We Dead Awaken" (on Ibsen's play) by C. H. A. Bjerregaard
Hedda Gabler
"Burned Up" (on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler) by Douglas Messerli
"Ibsen's New Drama" by James Joyce
Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (Italy) see Giacomo Puccini
Eugene Ionesco (Romania / France)
"Sweating It: Three Mid-Century Tragi-Comedies" (on Ionesco's Exit the King, Waiting for Godot and West Side Story) by Douglas Messerli
"Growing Horns" (on Ionesco's Rhinoceros) by Douglas Messerli
Charles Ives (USA)
"Three Quarter Tone Pieces"
Hugh Jackman (Australia) and cast
"I Go to Rio" from The Boy from Oz [link]
Michael Jackson (USA)
"This Is It" (on Jackson's filmed rehearsals and Joey Arias and Basil Twist's Arias with a Twist) by Douglas Messerli
Tom Jacobson (USA)
"Asking Questions" (on Jacobson's Captain of the Bible Team Quiz) by Douglas Messerli
Henry James (USA)
Summersolft
Alfred Jarry (France)
Early chansons, lectures about Jarry, and a film version of Ubu Roi (link to Ubuweb)
Ubu Roi (movie version by Jean-Christophe Averty)
David Javerbaum (USA)
"Holy Lite" (on Javerbaum's An Act of God) by Douglas Messerli
Jen Jenkin (USA)
"Heart of Darkness" (on Jenkin's Dark Ride) by Douglas Messerli
Dream Express (link with Jenkin's site)
John, Paul, and Mary [Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers] (USA)
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone" [link]
Elton John (England)
Your Song / link
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company (USA)
"Dancing Deep Memories of the Past" (on Bill T. Jones' Analogy Trilogy at UCLA's Royce Hall)
Tom Jones (USA)
see Harvey Schmidt
Ben Johnston (USA)
"Hovering Over and Beneath" (on Johnston and Harry Partch) by Douglas Messerli
Rajiv Joseph (USA)
"Accidents of History" (on Joesph's Archduke) by Douglas Messerli
"Damaged Goods" (on Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries) by Douglas Messerli
"Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright" (on Joseph's Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo) by Douglas Messerli
James Joyce (Ireland)
"Ibsen's New Drama"
Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin (England)
"Loud and Quiet" (on Kelly's and Minchin's Matilda) by Douglas Messerli
John Kelly (USA)
"Against Linear Time" (on John Kelly's Time No Line) by Douglas Messerli
Robert Kelly (USA)
"Monologues for Orpheus: A Dance Play"
Adrienne Kennedy (USA)
"Herselves: A Chamber Piece" (on Kennedy's Funnyhhouse of a Negro) by Douglas Messerli
William Kentridge (South Africa)
"Undoing, Unsaying" (on Kentridge, Philip Miller, Dada Masilo, Catherine Meyburgh, and Peter
Galison's Refuse the Hour) by Douglas Messerli
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (USA)
"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine" (from Showboat) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by
Douglas Messerli
"Ol' Man River" (from Showboat) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach (USA)
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (sung by The Platters, 1958) [link]
Pat Kinevane (Ireland)
"Going Home to Milk the Cows)"(on Pat Kinevane's Before at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble) by
Douglas Messerli
B. B. King (USA)
"The Thrill" (on a performance and King's death) by Douglas Messerli
Benjamin Ensley Klein (USA)
"Ann, the Fast-Talking Texas Broad" (on Klein's Ann) by Douglas Messerli
Oscar Kokoschka (Austria)
Murderer the Women's Hope
Muderer, the Women's Hope (repost)
Bernard-Marie Koltès (France)
"Men in the Streets" (on the Zeromski Theatre's production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields) by Douglas Messerli
Michael Korie (USA) see Doug Wright
Alfred Kreymborg (USA)
Jack's House (A Cubic-Play)
Lima Beans
"Food for Love" (on Kreymborg's Lima Beans) by Douglas Messerli
Damish Kudaibergen (Kazakhstan)
"Adagio" (sung by Damish Kudiabergen) [link]
Tony Kushner (USA)
"Crashing Through the Ceiling of Despair" (on Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches) by Douglas Messerli
Tom La Farge (USA)
Talking While Shaving
Burton Lane (USA) (see E. Y. Harburg)
Scott LaFaro [USA] [link]
"Some Other Time" with the Bill Evans Trio at the Village Vanguard
Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek (USA)
"No One's Home" (on Lane's and Yazbek's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) by Douglas Messerli
David Lang (USA)
"Where Is Evil?" (on Lang's and Dion's Anatomy Theater) by Douglas Messerli
James Lapine (USA)
"Out of the Woods" (on Lapine's and Sondheim's Into the Woods) by Douglas Messerli
Orlando di Lasso (Flemish/Belgium)
"Redeeming the Future" (on di Lasso's Lagrime di San Pietro [Tears of St. Peter] by the Los Angles
Master Chorale) by Douglas Messerli
Miklos Laszlo (Hungary/USA)
"Working Against Love" (on Laszlo's Parfumerie) by Douglas Messerli
John Latouche (USA)
"Slipping Again" (on the Latouche biography by Howard Pollack, The Ballad of John Latouche) by Douglas Messerli
See also Jerome Moross
Arthur Laurents (USA)
"Three Bernstein New Yorks" (on West Side Story and two other Bernstein musicals) by Douglas Messerli
"Sweating It: Three Mid-Century Tragi-Comedies" (on West Side Story and plays by Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco) by Douglas Messerli
"The Coward's Hand" (on Laurents' Home of the Brave) by Douglas Messerli
"A Necessary Vacuum" (on Laurents' Gypsy) by Douglas Messerli
Deborah Lawlor (USA)
"Leaping Out" (on Lawlor's play Freddy) by Douglas Messerli
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (USA)
"The Gang's Still Here" (on Lawrence's and Lee's The Gang's All Here) by Douglas Messerli
"My Broadway Hit" (on a celebration for Jerome Lawrence) by Douglas Messerli
Daniel Lentz (USA)
see Vicki Ray
Stacey Levine (USA)
"The Good House" (in Levine's Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small) by Douglas Messerli
Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small: A Ten Minute Play
Adam Linder (USA and Germany)
"Dying for Love" (on Linder's and Ethan Braun's The Want) by Douglas Messerli
Frank Loesser (USA)
"Chance and Chemistry" (on Loesser's, Swerling's and Burrows' Guys and Dolls) by Douglas
Messerli
My Favorite Musical Theater Songs, "Adelaide's Lament" (from Guys and Dolls) by Douglas Messerli
My Favorite Musical Theater Songs, "I Believe in Your" (from How to Succeed in Business without
Really Trying) by Douglas Messerli
My Favorite Theater Songs, "Luck Be a Lady" (from Guys and Dolls) by Douglas Messerli
My Favorite Theater Songs, "Never Will I Mary" (from Greenwillow) by Douglas Messerli
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (USA)
"On the Street Where You Live" (on Lerner and Loewe's song from My Fair Lady) by Douglas Messerli
Craig Lucas (USA)
"Losing Your Mind" (on The Light in the Piazza) by Douglas Messerli
Kirk Lynn (USA)
"Approaching the Real" (on Lynn's The Method Gun) by Douglas Messerli
Tracy Letts (USA)
"Muddy Boots" (on Letts' August: Osage County) by Douglas Messerli
Joshua Logan (USA) see Oscar Hammerstein II
Alvin Lucier (USA)
"The Music of Our Own Ears" (on The Ever Present Orchestra and Alvin Lucier)
Taylor Mac (USA)
"Hey Jude" (on Mac's play Hir) by Douglas Messerli
Terrence MacNally (USA) see Jake Heggie
Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
The Intruder
Claudio Magris (Italy)
To Have Been
Voices: Three Plays
Malpaso Dance Company (Cuba)
"The Square and the Tower" (on the company's performance at The Wallis Annenberg Center for
Performing Arts) by Douglas Messerli
F. T. Marinetti (and others) (Italy)
"The Futurist Synthetic Theater"
Bob Martin (USA)
"Warm Up" (on Martin's, Charles Strouse's, and Susan Birkenhead's Minsky's) by Douglas Messerli
Dada Masilo (South Africa) (see William Kentridge)
Jules Massenet (France)
"Between Duty and the Devil" (on Massenet's Werther) by Douglas Messerli
"Dream and Language" (on Massenet's Cendrillon) by Douglas Messerli
Joe Masteroff (USA)
'Writing Tenderly" (on Masteroff's, Harnick's and Bock's She Loves Me) by Douglas Messerli
Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russia)
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Tragedy in Two Acts with a Prologue and an Epilogue
The Bathtub (adapted by Paul Schmidt)
Missy Mazzoli (USA)
"Glimpses of a Vaster Landscape" (on Mazzoli's opera Song from the Uproar) by Douglas Messerli
Murray Mednick (USA)
"White Lace and Red Poetry" (on Mednick's play Mayakovsky and Stalin) by Douglas Messerli
Gian Carlo Menotti (Italy / USA)
"Is There Anyone To Whom the Heart Can Be Explained?" (on Menotti's opera The Consul) by
Douglas Messerli
Bob Merrill (USA)
"Mira (Can You Imagine That?)" (on Merrill's song from Carnival!) by Douglas Messerli
see also Jule Styne
Catherine Meyburgh (South Africa) (see William Kentridge)
Julia Migenes (USA, lives Paris)
"Frozen on a Bed of Chance" (on Migenes' La Vie en Rose) by Douglas Messerli
Benjamin Millepied (b. France / USA)
"The Architectonics of Love" (on the L.A. Dance Project's performance at The Wallis Annenberg
Center for Performing Arts) by Douglas Messerli
Arthur Miller (USA)
"Tearing Down Bridges" (on Miller's A View from the Bridge) by Douglas Messerli
"Whatever Happend to Willy Loman?" (on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman) by Douglas Messerli
Tim Miller (USA)
"Tokyo Tim"
Philip Miller (South Africa) (see William Kentridge)
Rashaun Mitchell (USA) (see Charles Atlas)
Meredith Monk
"A Great Opera Brought Into the Repertoire" (on Monk's Atlas) by Douglas Messerli
Yves Montand (France)
"Les Feuilles Mortes" (Autumn Leaves)
Jerome Moross and John La Touche (USA)
"Lazy Afternoon" (on Moross' and La Touche's The Golden Apple) by Douglas Messerli
Jelly Roll Morton (USA)
"An American Epic" (on Poor Dog Group's production of The Murder Ballad [1938]) by Douglas Messerli
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Germany)
Douglas Messerli Bad Day on the Seville Streets (on Lorenzo da Ponte's and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts's Don Giovanni)
Douglas Messerli Terrifying Twists (on Lorenzo da Ponte's and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro)
Douglas Messerli Emblems of Love (on Emanuel Schikaneder's and Mozart's The Magic Flute)
Nico Muhly (USA)
Douglas Messerli Tumbling Through Their Own Sentences (on Muhly's opera Marnie)
see also Nicholas Wright
David Mynne (England)
"A Man of Different Stories" (on Mynne's performance of A Christmas Carol) by Douglas Messerli
Gellu Naum (Romania)
The Taus Watch Repair Shop
Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse (England)
"Who Can I Turn To" (on Newley's and Bricusse's song) by Douglas Messerli
Jeton Neziraji (Kosovo)
"Interpretation of Dreams" (on Neziraji's Department of Dreams) by Douglas Messerli
Jacques Offenbach (Germany/France) (with Jules Barbier and Michael Carre. based on E.T.A.Hoffmann)
"Love and Tears" (on Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann) by Douglas Messerli
John O'Keefe (USA)
"Afraid of Sleeping" (on O'Keefe's All Night Long)
Reapers
"What Have We Reaped?" (on O'Keefe's Reapers)
Eugene O'Neill (USA)
"Dancing with a Dead Man" (on O'Neil's A Moon for the Misbegotten) by Douglas Messerli
"The Awakened Emperor" (on O'Neill's The Emperor Jones) by Douglas Messerli
"Standing in the Moonlight" (on O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!) by Douglas Messerli
"Life in a Cage" (on O'Neill's The Hairy Ape) by Douglas Messerli
"In Control" (on O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night) by Douglas Messerli
"Written in Tears and Blood" (on O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night) by Douglas Messerli
"Tortuous Nights" (on O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night) by Douglas Messerli
"The Endless Voyage" (on O'Neill's Glencairn Plays) by Douglas Messerli
The Moon of the Caribees
Jerry Orbach (USA)
"Try to Remember" from The Fantasticks by Jerry Orbach [link]
The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (USA)
"Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails and Hoots" (on Luigi Rusolo and The Orchestra of Futurist Noise
Intoners) by Douglas Messerli
Rogelio Orizondo and Teatro El Público
"A Tragic Cabaret" (on Antignón, un contigente Épico) by Douglas Messerli
Joe Orton (England)
"After All, People Might Talk" (on Orton's Loot) by Douglas Messerli
"Identity in Dashes" (on Orton's What the Butler Saw) by Douglas Messerli
George Orwell (England) (see Peter Hall)
Eric Overmyer (USA)
"The Fire Within" (on Overmyer's Dark Rapture) by Douglas Messerli
"Past Present Future Tense" (on Overymer's On the Verge) by Douglas Messerli
Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone (USA)
"Look to the Rainbow" (on their musical The Book of Mormon) by Douglas Messerli
Suzan-Lori Parks
"Leap of Faith" (on Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2 and 3) by Douglas Messerli
Harry Partch (USA)
"Going/Gone Crazy" (on Partch: Windsong at Redcat) by Douglas Messerli
"Hovering Over and Beneath" (on Partch: Daphne of the Dunes) by Douglas Messerli
Erik Patterson (USA)
"Actually Touching" (on Patterson's play Handjob) by Douglas Messerli
Peter, Paul, and Mary (USA)
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone" (singers) [link]
"Peter, Paul, and Mary" concert on BBC 1965
Kier Peters (Douglas Messerli) (USA)
A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky
The Rumble
The Confirmation
"Confirming Reality" (on Peters' The Confirmation) by Douglas Messerli
"Kier's Secret German Audience" (on Peters' The Confirmation) by Douglas Messerli
The Wonder
Oscar Peterson (USA)
Peterson playing paino for Nat King Cole's song Tenderly from 1947
Stephen Petronio (USA
American Landscapes
Ben Phelps (USA)
see Vicki Ray
Edith Piaf (France)
"Milord" [link]
Francesco Mari Piave (Italy) see Giuseppe Verdi
Harold Pinter (England)
"Another Room" (on Pinter's The Room) by Douglas Messerli
"The Homecoming Gift" (on Pinter's The Homecoming) by Douglas Messerli
"Talk" (on Pinter's The Collection) by Douglas Messerli
"The Wasps" (on Pinter's A Slight Ache) by Douglas Messerli
"Service" (on Pinter's The Dumb Waiter) by Douglas Messerli
Interview with and performance of Krapp's Last Tape
The Platters (USA)
"Only You (and Only You)" [link]
Cole Porter (USA) [with P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse, Timothy Crouse and John Weidman]
"Anything Goes" (from Porter's Anything Goes "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs" by Douglas
Messerli
"Night and Day" (from Gay Divorce "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs" by Douglas Messerli
"Pure Poetry" (on Porter's Anything Goes) by Douglas Messerli
Aaron Posner (USA)
"The Heal' (based on Sophocles' Philoctetes) by Douglas Messerli
Francis Poulenc (France)
"Fanatical Martyrs" (on Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites) by Douglas Messerli
J. B. Priestley (England)
"The Circle of Time" (on Preistley's An Inspector Calls) by Douglas Messerli
Giacomo Puccini (music), Geuelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini (Italy) / David Belasco (USA)
"Going West" (on La faniciulla del West) by Douglas Messerli
Giacomo Puccini (music), Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (Italy)
"Facing the Cold" (on La Boheme) by Douglas Messerli
"The Blindfold" (on Madama Butterfly, MET production) by Douglas Messerli
"Fin de siecle" (on Madama Butterfly, LAOpera production) by Douglas Messerli
"A Kind of Turandot" (on Madama Butterfly, MET production, 2016) by Douglas Messerli
"The Barbarian Within" (on Turandot, MET production) by Douglas Messerli
Henry Purcell (England)
"Hello, I Must Be Going" (on Purcell and Nahum Tate's Dido and Aeneas) by Douglas Messerli
Philippe Quesne (France)
"Elemental Theater" (on Quesne's The Melancholy of Dragons ) by Douglas Messerli
Peter Quilter (England)
"An Incautious Overdose of Life" (on Quilter's End of the Rainbow) by Douglas Messerli
Hamind Rahanian (Iran / USA)
Hamid Rahmanian (with Vikas Menon) and music by Loga Ramin Torkian and Azam Ali
"The Bird and the Serpent in Love" (on Rahamanian's Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic) by Douglas Messerli
Nina Raines (England)
"Moonlight" (on Raines' Tribes) by Douglas Messerli
Maurice Ravel (composer) and Colette (libretto) (France)
"Bad Manners" (on Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Sorceries) by Douglas Messerli
Vicki Ray (USA)
"It's Elementary" (on Ray's piano concert at Redcat in Feburary 2016) by Douglas Messerli
"Simple Songs and Wild Variations" (on Ray's piano concert with Carole Kim, Rivers of Time) by
Douglas Messerli
Reidemeister Move (Robin Hayward, Christopher Willimas, and Charlie Morrow) (UK and USA)
"What Is Sound" (on Reidemeister's concert at REDCAT, 2018) by Douglas Messerli
Elmer Rice (USA)
The Adding Machine
"More Than Zero?" (on the musical version of Rice's The Adding Machine) by Douglas Messerli
Claibe Richardson and Kenward Elmslie (USA)
"Chain of Love" (from their The Glass Harp) by Douglas Messerli
Jack Richardson (USA)
"Locked Up" (on Richardson's Gallows Humor) by Douglas Messerli
Silas Riener (USA) (see Charles Atlas)
Paul Robeson (USA)
Robeson singing "The House I Live In" [link]
David Thomas Roberts (USA)
"Nocturne No. 2" [link]
"Roberto Clementee" [link]
Smokey Robinson (USA)
"Ooh Baby Baby," sung live [link]
Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer (USA)
"Shy" (from Once Upon a Mattress) My Favorite Musical Songs by Douglas Messerli
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (USA)
"Bali Ha'i" (from Rodgers' and Hammerstein's South Pacific) from My Favorite Musical Theater
Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" (from Hart's and Richard Rodgers' Pal Joey) by Douglas
Messerli "My Favorite Musical Theater Songs"
"Confused by Paradise" (on Rodgers' and Hammerstein's South Pacific) by Douglas Messerli
"June Is Bustin' Out All Over" (from Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Carousel) My Favorite Musical
Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Oh What a Beautiful Morning' (From Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Some Enchanted Evening" (from Rodgers' and Hammerstein's South Pacific) from My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Taming the Barbarians" (on Rodgers' and Hammerstein's The King and I and the film I Married a
Witch) by Douglas Messerli
Harold Rome (USA)
"I Know Your Kind" (from Destry Rides Again) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas
Messerli
"Miss Marmelstein" (from I Can Get It for Your Wholesale) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by
Douglas Messerli
Linda Ronstadt (USA)
"Blue Bayou" [link]
Linda Rondstat (performance in Stadthalle, Offenbach Germany [link]
Jerry Ross (see Richard Adler)
David Roussève and his dance company REALITY (USA)
"Rose Colored Glasses" (on Roussève's Halfway to Dawn) by Douglas Messerli
Gioachino Rossini (Italy)
"Hidden in Plain Sight" (on Rossini's La donna del lago) by Douglas Messerli
Sarah Ruhl (USA)
"Talking to Stones" (on Ruhl's Eurydice) by Douglas Messerli
Lugi Russolo (Italy)
The Art of Noises
"Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails and Hoots" (on Lugi Russolo and The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners) by Douglas Messerli
Kaija Saariaho (Finland)
"Love Across Space: The Hero as Poet" (on Saariaho's opera L'Amour de loin) by Douglas Messerli
Stephen Sachs (USA)
"Coming and Going) (on Sachs' Arrival & Departure) by Douglas Messerli
Kamala Sankaram (USA)
"Power Speaks Lies" (on Sankaram's opera Thumbprint) by Douglas Messerli
Sean San Jose (USA)
"Mixed Messages" (on San Jose's Presenting....the Monstress!) by Douglas Messerli
Aram Saroyan (USA)
Gertrude and Lew: A Double Bill
Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik [USA] [see Frank Wedekind]
Gene Scheer [see Jake Heggie]
Janet Schlapkohl (USA)
"The Same but Different" (on Schlapkohl's My Sister) by Douglas Messerli
Roland Schimmelpfennig (Germany)
"Telling the Story As It Is Being Told" (on Schimmelpfennig's The Arabian Night and Woman from the Past)
Arthur Schnitzler (Austria)
Hands Around or La Ronde
"An Endless Dance" (on Schnitzler's La Ronde) by Douglas Messerli
Robert Schenkkan (USA)
"A Bigger Wall Than Ever Imagined" (on Schenkkan's Building the Wall) by Douglas Messerli
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (USA)
"My Cup Runneth Over" (from I Do, I Do!) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Try To Remember" (from The Fantasticks) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas
Messerli
Steven Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson (USA)
"Finale" (on Schwartz and Hirson's Pippin) by Douglas Messerli
James Scott (USA)
"The Princess Rag" (1911) [link]
Peter Sellars and John Adams (USA)
"A Body Transfixed by the Noonday Sun" (on Sellars' and Adams' The Gosepl According to the Other Mary) by Douglas Messerli
"Six Degrees of Insanity" (on Goodmans', Sellars' and Adams' Nixon in China) by Douglas Messerli
William Shakespeare (England)
"Even the Fool Is Hung" (on Shakespeare's King Lear) by Douglas Messerli
Jackie Shane (USA/Canada)
"Waking the Dog" [link]
George Bernard Shaw (England)
Heartbreak House
"Keeping the Homefires Burning" (on Shaw's Heartbreak House) by Douglas Messerli
Wallace Shawn (USA)
"Even the Thought" (on Shawn's A Thought in Three Parts) by Douglas Messerli
"The Survivor" (on Shawn's The Designated Mourner) by Douglas Messerli
Martin Sherman (USA)
"Talking Sex" (on Sherman's Bent) by Douglas Messerli
Dmitri Shostakovich (USSR)
"Shrill Charm" (on Shostakovich's Nos (The Nose) by Douglas Messerli
Sam Shepard (USA)
"Them and Us" (on Shepard's Killer's Head and The Unseen Hand) by Douglas Messerli
"Unburying the Dead" (on Shepard's Buried Child) by Douglas Messerli
Troye Sivah (b. South Africa, lived Australia, now USA)
"Bloom" song [link]
"Lucky Strike" [link]
"My My My" song [link]
"Plum" song [link]
Stephen Sondheim (USA)
"The Believers and Those Who Have Lost Faith" (on Furth's and Sondheim's Merrily We Roll
Along) by Douglas Messerli
"In Buddy's Eyes" (from Follies) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Into the Woods" (on Lapine's and Sondheim's Into the Woods) by Douglas Messerli
"Johanna" (song from Sweeney Todd) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Losing My Mind" (from Follies) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Losing My Mind" (on Stephen Sondheim's Side by Side by Sondheim) by Douglas Messerli
"Not a Day Goes By" (on the song from Merrily We Roll Along) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs
by Douglas Messerli
"Convincing the Soloist to Join the Band" (on Furth's and Sondheim's Company) by Douglas
Messerli
"Send in the Clowns" (from A Little Night Music) from My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by
Douglas Messerli
"Sweating It: Three Mid-Century Tragic-Comedies" (on West Side Story, Waiting for Godot and Exit the King) by Douglas Messerli
"A Necessary Vacuum" (on Laurents' and Sondheim's Gypsy) by Douglas Messerli
"Slightly Sour" (on Goldman's and Sondheim's Follies) by Douglas Messerli
see also Leonard Bernstein
see also Mary Rodgers
see also Richard Rodgers
see also Jule Styne
Sophocles [Greek]
see Aaron Posner
James Strah (USA)
"Shadowing the Shadows" (on Strah's and the Wooster Group's North Atlantic) by Douglas Messerli
Gertrude Stein (USA)
Brewsie and Willie (see Marissa Chibis)
Do Let Us Go Away
a short documentary with original photographs of Stein's and Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts
In Circles (music by Al Carmines)
a recording from the Santa Fe Opera of Stein's and Virgil Thomson's opera The Mother of Us All
(UBUweb link)
The Mother of Us All (television broadcast from The Metropolitan Musuem of Art)
What Happened: A Five Act Play
Mexico
Joseph Stein (USA)
"Moving on Down" (on Stein and Stan Rice's Enter Laughing) by Douglas Messerli
"On the Side of the Angels" (on Stein, Jerry Bock, and Tom Bosley and their deaths) by Douglas
Messerli
John Steppling (USA)
Sea of Cortez
"The Verge of Possibility" (on Steppling's Sea of Cortez) by Douglas Messerli
Sting (England)
"Sailing Off to Save Their Souls" (on Sting's and Lorene Campbell's The Last Ship)
Richard Strauss (Germany)
"A Dance of Death" (on Strauss' Salome, MET Opera production)
"O Terrible Night" (on Strauss' Salome, LAOpera production)
"Taking Up the Axe" (on Strauss' Electra)
"Yes, Yes" (on Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, MET Opera production)
Billy Strayhorn (USA)
see David Roussève
Barbra Streisand (USA)
"Songs Porcelain and Silver-Plated" (Streisand's 2017 concert) by Douglas Messerli
Michael Stewart (USA)
see Jerry Herman
August Strindberg (Sweden)
Creditors
"Adam and Snake" (on Stridberg's Creditors) by Douglas Messerli
Miss Julie
"The Crazy Lady" (on Strindberg's Miss Julie) by Douglas Messerli
"The Quarantined Couple" (on Strindberg's The Dance of Death) by Douglas Messerli
"Strindberg As Absurdist" (on Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata) by Douglas Messerli
Elaine Stritch (USA)
"I'm Still Here: Two Valentines" (on performances by Stritch and Betty Garrett) by Douglas Messerli
Charles Strouse (USA) see Bob Martin
Meg Stuart (USA/lives Belgium)
"What Is Dance?" (on Stuart's Hunter) by Douglas Messerli
Christmas Styne (USA)
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) (from Gypsy) My Favorite Musical
Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"The Party's Over" (lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) (from Bells Are Ringing) My
Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"People" (lyrics by Bob Merrill) (from Funny Girl) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas
Messerli
Jule Styne (USA) see Arthur Laurents or Stephen Sondheim
Jule Styne (USA) see Moose Charlap and others
Jo Swerling (USA) see Frank Loesser
John Millington Synge (Ireland)
Riders to the Sea
"The Songs of Synge" (on Synge's plays) by Djuna Barnes
Tabaimo and Maki Morishita (Japan)
"Active Fruits" (on Fruits Borne Out of Rust by Douglas Messerli)
Bill Talen and Savitri D (USA)
"Tigers Got to Hunt" (on Talen's and Savitri D's Reverend Bill and the Life After Shopping Gospel
Choir: The Earth-a-Llujah Earth-a-Llujah Revival!) by Douglas Messerli
Margaret Leng Tan (USA)
"A Queen of the Piano" (on Tan's performances of Phyllis Chen and George Crumb) by Douglas
Messerli
Booth Tarkington (USA)
Clarence
Nahum Tate see Henry Purcell
Ronald Tavel (USA)
Andy Warhol's Horse
Lives and Loves of Hedy Lamar
Modest Tchaikovsky (see Peter Tchaikovsky)
Peter Tchaikovsky
"What's Love Got To Do with It?" (on Tchaikovsky's Iolanta) by Douglas Messerli
Fiona Templeton (b. Scotland/USA)
"The Poet's Theater of Fiona Templeton: An Enviornmental View" (on Templeton's You, the City) by James Sherry
David Thompson, John Kander and Fred Ebb (USA)
"On the Cusp" (on Thompson's, Kander, and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys) by Douglas Messerli
Virgil Thomson (USA) see Gertrude Stein
Mccoy Tyner (USA)
performing life in 1975 [link]
Luis Valdez (USA)
"Dreams Destroyed by Hate" (on Valdez's Zoot Suit) by Douglas Messerli
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (on Valdez's Valley of the Heart) by Douglas Messerli
Jean-Claude van Itallie (b. Belgium/USA)
"A Ceremony About Evil" (on van Itallie's The Serpent at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble) by Douglas Messerli
Aristides Vargas (Argentina)
"The Traveling Table" (on Vargas' La Razón Blindada (Armored Reason) by Douglas Messerli
Sarah Vaughn (USA)
"Tenderly" (singing Walter Gross and Jack Lawrence's composition live) [link]
Royce Vavrek (Canada) [see Missy Mazzoli]
Giuseppe Verdi (Italy)
"Buried Alive" (on Antonio Ghislanzoni's and Giuseppe Verdi's Aida) by Douglas Messerli
"Hold My Hand" (on Joseph Méry's, Camille du Locle's and Verdi's Don Carlo) by Douglas Meserli
"Count Down" (on Piave's and Verdi's La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux
Camelias) by Douglas Messerli
"Everybody's Fooled) (on Bioto's and Verdi's Falstaff, based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of
Windsor and King Henry IV) by Douglas Messerli
"Living in a Glass House without Being Able to See In or Out" (on Bioto's and Verdi's Otello,
based on the play by Shakespeare) by Douglas Messerli
Gore Vidal (USA)
"The Compromise" (on Vidal's The Best Man) by Douglas Messerli
Matei Visniec (Romania)
"The Mirror of Truth" (on Visniec's Old Clown Wanted) by Douglas Messerli
Mal Waldron (USA)
"All Alone (full album) Solo Piano Jazz" [link]
The Walker Brothers (USA)
"The Sun Ain't Going to Shine" [link]
Richard Wagner (Germany)
"The Devil Meets His Angel" (on Wagner's The Flying Dutchman) by Douglas Messerli
"The Sacred and the Profane" (on Wagner's Parsifal) by Douglas Messerli
"The Sublime and the Ridiculous" (on Wagner's Tristan und Isolde) by Douglas Messerli
"Casting Out the Self" (on Wagner's Die Walküre) by Douglas Messerli
"The Gods Fall in Love with Earth" (on Wagner's Die Walküre) by Douglas Messerli
Enda Walsh (England)
"Keeping to the Script" (on Walsh's The Walworth Farce) by Douglas Messerli
"Pool of Survivors" (on Walsh's Penelope) by Douglas Messerli
Lula Washington (Dance Theatre) (USA)
"Pleasure and Faith" (on Lula Washington's Dance Theatre performance at the Wallis Annenberg
Theatre Arts) by Douglas Messerli
Ethel Waters (USA)
"Stormy Weather" sung by Ethel Waters (1933) [link]
The Weavers (US singing group)
"If I Had a Hammer" [link]
Frank Wedekind (Germany) [see also Steven Sater and Duncan Shiek (USA)]
"An Audience of the Deaf and Blind" (on Spring Awakening, the musical)
Kurt Weill (Germany/USA)
"A Lost Alabama: Mockingbird in Reverse" (on Weill's Rise and Fall of the city of Mahagonny) by Douglas Messerli
"Explaining to the US What Evil Is All About" (on Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins) by Douglas
Messerli
Recording of Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) Berlin, 1930 [link]
"Mack the Knife" (from My Favorite Musical Theater Songs) by Douglas Messerli
"Moon of Alabama" from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (from My Favorite Theater
Musicals) by Douglas Messerli
Arnold Weinstein (USA)
Red Eye of Love
"Eye to Eye" (on Weinstein's Red Eye of Love and Jack Gelber's Square in the Eye) by Douglas
Messerli
Mac Wellman (USA)
Bad Penny
The Hidden Part of the US Constitution
The Offending Gesture
"Apropos of The Offending Gesture"
"Tails/Tales" (on Wellman's Bad Penny) by Douglas Messerli
"What American Abandons Abandons America" (on Wellman's Two September) by Douglas
Messerli
"Harm's Other Way: Some Notes on Mac Wellman's Theater" by Marjorie Perloff
"A Linguistic Fantasia" (on Wellman's A Murder of Crows) by Douglas Messerli
"Music from Another World" (on Wellman's The Hyacinth Macaw) by Douglas Messerli
"You Can't Go Home Again" (on Wellman's Second-Hand Smoke) by Douglas Messerli
"There Are No Such Things as Crows" (on Wellman's The Lesser Magoo) by Douglas Messerli
"Mac Wellman" (interview) by Linda Yablonsky [link]
Arnold Wesker (England)
"Work, Eat, and Die" (on Wesker's Roots) by Douglas Messerli
Oscar Wilde (Ireland)
The Importance of Being Earnest
"Nothing But the Truth" (on Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest) by Douglas Messerli
Thornton Wilder (USA)
"Archetypal America" (on Thornton Wilder's Our Town) by Douglas Messerli
Tennessee Williams (USA)
"An Afternoon with Tennessee Williams" (on Sebastian Glavez's one-play play) by Douglas Messerli
"Dependent Independents" (on Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire) by Douglas Messerli
"Performing Iconic Plays" (on Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire) by Douglas Messerli
"Rise and Shine" (on Williams' The Glass Menagerie) by Douglas Messerli
"Bow Down and Be Dim" (on Williams' Vieux Carre) by Douglas Messerli
"End of the Road" (on Williams' Camino Real) by Douglas Messerli
"Left in the Lurch" (on Williams' play version of Baby Doll) by Douglas Messerli
"Medea's Last Dance" (on Williams' In Masks Outrageous and Austere) by Douglas Messerli
"The Making of Blanche DuBois (on Williams' The Eccentricities of a Nightingale) by Douglas
Messerli
Robert Wilson (USA)
"Nothing on a Lecture (on Robert Wilson's performance of Cage's Lecture on Nothing) by Douglas
Messerli
Ermano Wolf-Ferrari (composter) and Enrico Goslisciani (libretto) (Italy)
"Bad Manners" (on Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di susanna (Susanna's Secret) by Douglas Messerli
Dorian Wood (USA)
"The Rough Voice of Tenderness" (on Dorian Wood's Xavela Lux Aeterna) by Douglas Messerli
The Wooster Group (USA)
"Bow Down and Be Dim" (on the Wooster Group's performance of Williams' Vieux Carre) by
Douglas Messerli
"Forces of Gravity" (on the Wooster Group's production of Cavalli's La Didone) by Douglas
Messerli
"Rattling" (on The Wooser Group's production of The B-Side: "Negro Folklore from Texas State
Prisons" A Record Album Interpretation) by Douglas Messerli
"Shadowing the Shadows" (on the Wooster Group's production of North Atlantic) by Douglas
Messerli
"Shakespeare as Ceremonial Dance" (on the Wooster Group's performance of Cry, Trojans based on
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida) by Douglas Messerli
"Searching for Cantor" (on the Wooster Group's A Pink Chair) by Douglas Messerli
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) (Poland)
"Confusion of Dichotomies" (on Witkacy's The Two-Headed Calf) by Douglas Messerli
Douglas Messerli
"Forces of Gravity" (on the Wooster Group's production of Cavalli's La Didone) by Douglas
Messerli
"Rattling" (on The Wooser Group's production of The B-Side: "Negro Folklore from Texas State
Prisons" A Record Album Interpretation) by Douglas Messerli
"Shadowing the Shadows" (on the Wooster Group's production of North Atlantic) by Douglas
Messerli
"Shakespeare as Ceremonial Dance" (on the Wooster Group's performance of Cry, Trojans based on
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida) by Douglas Messerli
"Searching for Cantor" (on the Wooster Group's A Pink Chair) by Douglas Messerli
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) (Poland)
"Confusion of Dichotomies" (on Witkacy's The Two-Headed Calf) by Douglas Messerli
Elizabeth Wray (USA)
Doug Wright (USA)
"Winter in a Summer Town" (on Wright's, Scott Frankel's and Michael Korie's Grey Gardens) by Douglas Messerli
Nicholas Wright (USA)
see Nico Muhly
Grzegorz Wróblewski (Poland/Denmark)
Turning Point
Miwa Yanagi (Japan)
"Can You Hear My Voice?" (on Miwa Yanagi's Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose's Last Tape) by Douglas Messerli
Ozaki Yutata (Japan)
Ozaki Yutaka for being me (87 Ariake Colosseum song by Ozaki Yutata [link]
Ozaki Yutata song by the Japanese pop-singer [link]
William Butler Yeats (Ireland)
Love and Death (manuscript version)
Stefan Zeromski Theatre (Poland)
"Men in the Streets" (on the Zeromski Theatre's production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields) by Douglas Messerli
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