Music Theater Ballets - DAVID EDGAR WALTHER DEEP PASSIONATE NIGHT MUSIC

DAVID EDGAR WALTHER DEEP PASSIONATE NIGHT MUSIC

Music Theater Ballets
(in the order that they appear in Jo The Bagger)
Gaynocchio:  30 minutes parody of Carlo Collodi's work, for up to 3 high and 3 low voices, dancers, narrator, flute and guitar.   Gaypetto creates a gay puppet, narrated by a very queer cricket. DVD created from alternate version: "Pinocchio" libretto by the composer, Florence Whipple, and Kristin Webb One hour, after Collodi. Commissioned and premiered by North Shore Civic Ballet and The Putnam Court Players (Mary Saunders, soprano, Kristin Webb, flute, and Russell Southcott, guitar, with the composer (bass).  Choreographed by Florence Whipple, Jimmy Ray as Pinocchio.   Cablecast on BNN TV.
The Phone Call: 15 minutes: alto, counter-tenor, dancers and piano. A woman comes out to her fundamentalist mother. Features dancing gay giraffes and rams, and lesbian lizards and bears, and self-replicating living rocks. Incomplete and unperformed.
Phone Sex:  20 minutes: 2 mimes, narrator, Bb and piano; Cablecast on BNN-TV, with John Cristensen (narrator), Leonard Diggins and the composer (mimes) with music performed by the composer, animation by the composer. A man receives provocative phone calls from a mystery caller; narrated by his lover. Shown at Mobius in a program of censured works.
Confessions of a Fat Slut:   25 minutes: low voice and synthesizer; narrator and 4 other characters. Slightly cut version was cablecast with Brian Mark and Tony Stegal (the two lovers: Harold and Tom) and Jimmie Morone (Harold's mother; Jennie the land lady) with the composer performing the music (bass, synthesizer). A gay man dates two heavy men. Otherwise unperformed.
Snow White:   20 minutes: Bb with piano: Snow White, a gay man with multiple personality disorder, faces various identities and demons as shown in the 7 other works. The black singer, Matthias Black, worshiped from afar by Snow White is murdered in a racial hate crime incident. Unperformed.

Pantomimes (in the order that they appear in Jo The Bagger)
The Vampire:  20 minutes: dancers and synthesizer, with narrator. Synthesized realization.   Unperformed.
Phone Sex:  20 minutes: 2 mimes, narrator, singer and piano; Cablecast on BNN-TV, with John Cristensen (narrator), Leonard Diggins and the composer (mimes) with music performed by the composer, animation by the composer. A man receives provocative phone calls from a mystery caller; narrated by his lover. Shown at Mobius in a program of censured works.
Gay Pride:  10 minutes: mimes and piano: The challenges of finding and losing a spouse to hate crime. Unperformed.
Peter Pansy:  15 minutes:  soprano, alto, tenor, bass, dancers, and synthesizer. Hook meets an awful end after tries to have his way with (lipstick lesbian) Pinker Bell. Features another rock song. Unperformed.