In this episode of Let Me Ascertain You, the Civilians' podcast, we hear a recording of OH, THIS IS SUCCESS!, the Lobby Project for the Encores! Off-Center production of Road Show.
This episode of Let Me Ascertain You is the third and final recording of the 2019 Lobby Projects, created by The Civilians in Residence with New York City Center. The Lobby Project is a series of pre-performance events featuring a musical theater performance based around the themes of each Encores! Off-Center production.
OH, THIS IS SUCCESS! was created using The Civilians’ signature investigative approach, utilizing interviews with community members from all over New York City with a variety of life experiences. The project centers themes of familial expectation, responsibility, legacy, conceptions of success and failure, and how those definitions change over time.
OH, THIS IS SUCCESS!
Created by Matt Barbot, Ilana Becker and Christina Quintana (CQ)
Based on interviews by The Civilians
Cast: Varín Ayala, Onyie Nwachukwu, Elise Santora and Lauren Villegas
Musical Numbers:
“What is Success?” by Aya Aziz
Performed by: Varín Ayala, Onyie Nwachukwu and Elise Santora
“Time (is your most precious commodity)” by Jacob Brandt
Performed by: Elise Santora with Varín Ayala, Onyie Nwachukwu, Lauren Villegas and Jacob Brandt on guitar
“Help Me To Chill” by Jaime Lozano
Performed by: Onyie Nwachukwu
“And The Most Beautiful Cat” by Michelle J. Rodriguez
Performed by: Varín Ayala, Onyie Nwachukwu, Elise Santora and Lauren Villegas
Director: Ilana Becker
Music Director: Steven Cuevas
Stage Manager: Megan Webb
Producer: Amy C. Ashton
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The Civilians is a company that creates new theater from creative investigations into the most vital questions of the present. Through a number of artistic programs, the Civilians advances theater as an engine of artistic innovation and strengthens the connections between theater and society.
An artist-led company, the Civilians creates and produces new theater and pursues its artistic mission through programs serving artists and the public. The company’s work is grounded in investigative theater, an artistic practice rooted in the process of creative inquiry that brings artists into dynamic engagement with the subject of their work. Artists look outward in pursuit of a question, often engaging with individuals and communities in order to listen, make discoveries, and challenge habitual ways of knowing. The ethos of investigative theater extends into production, inviting audiences to be active participants in the inquiry before, during, and after the performance.
Since its founding in 2001, the Obie Award-winning company has supported the creation of 14 original shows, and its work has been produced at many theaters in New York, nationally, and internationally. Last season saw two highly successful shows: "Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play" at Playwrights Horizons, which was included in eight Top 10 of 2013 Lists, and "The Great Immensity" at The Public Theater. The Civilians’ work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Oberon Books, Ghostlight Records and Playscripts, Inc.
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