My Life With Albertine
Encyclopedia
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...
musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
with book by Richard Nelson
Richard Nelson (playwright)
Richard Nelson is an American playwright and librettist. He wrote the books for the musicals James Joyce's The Dead and the Broadway version of Chess.-Personal life:Nelson was born in Chicago, Illinois....
, music by Ricky Ian Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon is an American composer of songs, stage musicals and opera. The death of his lover from AIDS inspired Dream True and Orpheus and Euridice...
, and lyrics by both. The 2003 musical is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel by Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu...
, entitled In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its considerable length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine." The novel is widely...
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Musical numbers
- Is It Too Late?
- Balbec-by-the-Sea
- Lullabye
- Ferret Song
- My Soul Weeps
- Talk About the Weather
- The Different Albertines
- Sad Balbec
- My Soul Weeps (Tango)
- But What I Say…
- Song of Solitude
- I Want You
- I Need Me a Girl
- But What I Say… (reprise)
- Sometimes
- The Street
- The Letters
- Albertine's Last Letter
- If It Is True