Ghost Quartet
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About the show
- Written by: Dave Malloy
- Premiered: 2014
- Categories: 2010s, Experimental, Musical Theatre, One Act, Storytelling
- Setting: Various
Ghost Quartet is a song cycle about love, death, and whisky.
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Synopsis
A camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries: a grim tale about two sisters and a treehouse astronomer, a retelling of Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, a purgatorial intermezzo about Scheherazade, and a contemporary fable about a subway murder.
These stories intersect, interlock, and interact in strange and dreamlike ways, featuring an array of musical styles and thematic elements.
The show is known for its unique structure, haunting music, and the intimate, immersive experience it creates.
Songs from Ghost Quartet
- I Don’t Know
- The Camera Shop
- Starchild
- Subway
- Usher, Part 1
- Soldier & Rose
- Any Kind of Dead Person
- The Astronomer
- Four Friends
- Fathers & Sons
- The Telescope
- Tango Dancer
- Lights Out
- The Photograph
- Bad Men
- Usher, Part 2
- Prayer
- Hero
- The Wind & Rain