Going for Galt: The Human Comedy extends

Musical-theater cultist that I am, I had been looking hasten for months to Astoria Performing Arts Center’s resuscitation of Galt McDermot and William Dumaresq’s underappreciated 1983 detonation opera, The Human Comedy, which I possess enjoyed for years on CD boundary had never seen on its feet. When I in the end trekked out to Queens to care for the show, I wasn’t disappointed: My four-destiny review is in the magazine this week. Although the fragment itself has certain important flaws, notably in the bluntness of the libretto, MacDermot’s symphony is genuinely special; and APAC’s prominent full-scale production, directed by Tom Wojtunik, strikes some impressive balance between simplicity and bustle. (Extra kudos to dulcet director Jeffrey Campos for the color’s stirring choral work.) The solely problem was that The Human Comedy’s depart privately was so short; it was scheduled to clog this Saturday. But it’s my will to break the news today that the production has extended its run by a week, through added performances at 8pm on May 26–28 and at 2pm up~ the body May 28. Tickets are just $18; they be possible to and should be purchased here. (One extremity to nonnatives of Queens: Give yourself more extra travel time, as the theater is located in a foolish zone in which 30th Road, 30th Street, 30th Avenue and 30th Drive completely coexist within mere blocks of one another—city-planning comedy of a totally unhuman kind.)