SUNY Cortland present "The Bone Harp"
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Dowd Fine Arts Center
106 Cheney Hall
Cortland, NY
Contact
performingartsdepartment@cortland.edu.
SUNY Cortland students, the campus community and the public will get a rare opportunity to help shape a new musical loosely based on a macabre, centuries-old Scottish ballad involving a murder between sisters, a harp fashioned from the victim's bones and a ghostly reckoning.
That future musical, “The Bone Harp,” is currently being fine-tuned for its formal professional premiere.
CreateTheater’s Professional College Musical Theatre Partnership has teamed up with SUNY Cortland’s Performing Arts Department to present two staged readings of the heavily revised script for the musical — called a libretto — that originated several years ago in Chicago.
“The idea is when you do a developmental reading, the focus of the project is on giving the writers an opportunity to see how the material plays out, the text and the music and the lyrics,” said Kevin Halpin, professor of performing arts and director of the upcoming prototype production at Cortland.
The two performances of “The Bone Harp,” will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11, in the Dowd Fine Arts Theatre. Both performances of “The Bone Harp” are free and open to the public. To reserve tickets for the musical read-through in the Dowd Fine Arts Center, RSVP via email.