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A Smiling Girl Go Go Girl
from the 2010 New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio
Lyrics by Dael Orlandersmith
Vocals: Sarah Corey, April Armstrong, Pearl Sun

A coming-of-age song about a young girl leading a double life and struggling against the dark world surrounding her.


So Close My Love
from the 2010 New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio
Lyrics by Sharon Bridgforth
Vocals: April Armstrong and Adam Kantor

A woman on the run waits at a train station. Behind her on a television, a man sings a song from another time that joins them for a brief but singular moment.


Song Excerpts from Passage of Dreams
Music and orchestrations by Jeff Tang
Words by Katie Baldwin Eng
Studio Cast: Beth Kirkpatrick, Tina Stafford, Elizabeth Munn,
Emily Swallow, Sal Sabella, Orville Mendoza, David Anderson, Gilles Chiasson, Leslie Kritzer, and Donna Vivino
Music Director, Piano: Rick Bertone, Bobby Nafarrete
Violin: Tina Huang, Rob Rival, Cello: Marika Hughes,
Guitars: Christian Imboden, Drums: Sean McDaniel
Recorded and Mixed by I-Hua Tseng (Bessie's Birthday and Thirst) and Bobby Nafarette (Passage of Dreams)

Night Calls from "Passage of Dreams"

Opening number featuring three dreamers preparing for sleep.

Summer Night/Max from "Bessie's Birthday"

This song occurs while Bessie's family is preparing for Bessie's 30th birthday party, and Delphine and Max are arriving from New York.

My Sister's Face from "Bessie's Birthday"

A duet between Delphine (Emily Swallow) and Bessie (Elizabeth Munn) about how life might have been.

Grillin' from "Bessie's Birthday"

Max (Sal Sabella), a vegetarian, is introduced to the finer aspects of grilling meat by Delphine's carni-phile father, Sam (David Anderson).

Rain from "Thirst"

A nuclear family in a near-future devastated by a fifteen-year drought tries to remember exactly what rain was.

Home demo from "August in Blue"

Music and lyrics by Jeff Tang
Vocals: Manoel Felciano
Piano: Jeff Tang
Recorded and Mixed by Bobby Nafarrete

de los Chans film score excerpt from "Cha Cha de los Chans"

Directed by Mark Heyman
Composed and performed by Jeff Tang