Songs For A New World

Directed By Emily Prior with Musical Direction by Matthew Woolever. This contemporary song cycle weaves characters and history together, illuminating the timelessness of self-discovery. Brown transports his audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue to meet a startling array of characters ranging from a young man who has determined that basket-ball is his ticket out of the ghetto to a woman whose dream of marrying rich nabs her the man of her dreams and a soulless marriage.