Going for Galt: The Human Comedy extends

Musical-theater cultist that I am, I had been looking front for months to Astoria Performing Arts Center’s resuscitation of Galt McDermot and William Dumaresq’s underappreciated 1983 explosion opera, The Human Comedy, which I wish enjoyed for years on CD mete had never seen on its feet. When I in the end trekked out to Queens to mark the show, I wasn’t disappointed: My four-star review is in the magazine this week. Although the lucubration itself has certain important flaws, notably in the bluntness of the libretto, MacDermot’s science of harmonical sounds is genuinely special; and APAC’s striking full-scale production, directed by Tom Wojtunik, strikes every impressive balance between simplicity and bustle. (Extra kudos to harmonious director Jeffrey Campos for the appear’s stirring choral work.) The only problem was that The Human Comedy’s pass was so short; it was scheduled to cease this Saturday. But it’s my desire to break the news today that the fruit has extended its run by a week, through added performances at 8pm on May 26–28 and at 2pm forward May 28. Tickets are just $18; they be able to and should be purchased here. (One point to nonnatives of Queens: Give yourself more extra travel time, as the theater is located in a insane zone in which 30th Road, 30th Street, 30th Avenue and 30th Drive altogether coexist within mere blocks of individual another—city-planning comedy of a completely unhuman kind.)