Songs from The Talking Band's "Peripherals"

3 The Small : Crushpoint

2 Aunt Suzanne

1 Black Birds

Songs from The Golden Toad, Episode Four. 

The last episode in the Golden Toad Karaoke bar is a crossroad, a place where all the characters lives finally intersect. As the name suggests, it is a place of transformation and revelation. What seems ordinary or even repulsive may show itself to be resplendent, and conversely a gilded surface may reveal a toad lurking beneath.

(photo credit, Suzanne Opton)

Puppet Rap

Try And Try from Shimmer and Herringbone (2024)
composed by Ellen Maddow.

Shimmer and Herringbone (2024)

Try And Try

Insomnia from Shimmer and Herringbone (2024)
composed by Ellen Maddow.

Insomnia

Poop in a Cup from Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless (2022)
by Ellen Maddow.

Lemon Girls Live - Poop in a Cup

Hat Dance from Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless (2022)
by Ellen Maddow.

Lemon Girls - Hat Dance

Usually Shoes from Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless (2022)
Composed by Ellen Maddow.
Vocals: Lizzie Olesker, Louise Smith, Patrena Murray, Ellen Maddow.

Lemon Girls Live - Usually Shoes

Written by Paul Zimet
Composed by Peter Gordon
Direction: Paul Zimet
Sets: Christine Jones
Lights: Lenore Doxsee
Costumes: Kiki Smith
Choreography: Karinne Keithley
Music Direction: Allison Sniffen
2005: Residency at Stanford University High School Summer College (performances and workshops)
2001: La MaMa, ETC

Journal Song 2

Journal Song 4

Bestiary

Sweet Emeline

Hello Stranger

This is the Closest to Paradise

He Makes a Lovely Woman

Journal Song

Boudin Blanc

All Seek Paradise

Fusiform Gyrus: Five Eight

Since its founding in 1974 by Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow, and Tina Shepard—all former members of Joseph Chaikin’s seminal Open Theater—The Talking Band has remained a cornerstone of New York City’s avant-garde theater community. The New York Times called them “one of the boldest and most venerable politically minded companies in New York experimental theater.” American Theater magazine has deemed them “one of the most exceptional theater companies in the country.”

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