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The Carbon Copy Building

A comic strip opera by Michael Gordon, David Lang & Julia Wolfe

Theo Bleckmann (Porter, Delivery Boy), Tony Boutté (Emetine, Chewing Gum Remover), Katie Geissinger (Emanuel Majuscule, Semele), Toby Twining (Architect, Manager, Waiter) John Benthal (electric guitar), David Cossin (percussion), Martin Goldray (keyboards) & Bohdan Hilash (clarinets)

The Carbon Copy Building

A comic strip opera by Michael Gordon, David Lang & Julia Wolfe

Theo Bleckmann (Porter, Delivery Boy), Tony Boutté (Emetine, Chewing Gum Remover), Katie Geissinger (Emanuel Majuscule, Semele), Toby Twining (Architect, Manager, Waiter) John Benthal (electric guitar), David Cossin (percussion), Martin Goldray (keyboards) & Bohdan Hilash (clarinets)

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About

The plot revolves around a pair of buildings constructed from the same architectural plan. One stands on a wide, wealthy avenue and the other on the forgotten alley of a fringe neighbourhood.Architecturally, the buildings and their plans are identical, but their uses and the people and businesses that inhabit them could not differ more. Combining the striking projections of Katchor's comics with powerful virtuoso performances, the production inventories the contents of the buildings, explores the parallel yet opposite lives of their inhabitants, and uncovers the strange and hilarious places in which the two worlds overlap, finally bringing together the odd lives of each building over a single piece of cherry cheesecake.

Contents and tracklist

In the fall of 1929 (Architectural Historian)
Track length6:40
The Palatine building on Park Manure Avenue (Porter)
Track length2:09
Eating utensils made of the cheapest steel (All, Early Birds, Waiter)
Track length4:34
Oh, I wonder: Is This gum of period or recent origin? (Semele, Porter, Gum Remover)
Track length4:32
At dusk, Park Manure Avenue Is, empty and deserted (Porter)
Track length4:17
Where Is That boy? (Emanuel Majuscule, 2 Assistants)
Track length2:43
What's the hurry? (Delivery Boy)
Track length5:37
We're obliged to keep a copy of each application going back to 1947 (Philip Emetine, 3 Panelists, Mayonnaise)
Track length5:50
I blame the tenants for the building's state of disrepair (Manager)
Track length5:17
There Is, of course, no commercial basis for our work (Philip Emetine, Manager)
Track length4:20
Delivery Boy Biography
Track length3:20
Oh, (Semele, Philip Emetine)
Track length5:29
Would you care for dessert? (Waiter, Semele, Philip Emetine)
Track length5:24
One third of a creme-caramel with shattered glaze (Emanuel Majuscule, 3 Embalmers)
Track length4:30
The delivery boy rises at noon and flees (Architectural Historian, Emanuel Majuscule, Assistant)
Track length6:57
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