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Music from 1804. Action set in 1988. A new opera (in English). A Roadkill Opera tells the story of the hour before the lights go up on opening night for a comedy improv troupe in Jackson Hole, Wyoming–the Roadkill On A Stick Frozen Foods Theatre Company. Based (loosely) on a true story from a fast-developing tourist town, this original English libretto by Parker is set to music by Ferdinando Paer (Napoleon’s maitre de chapelle).
A Roadkill Opera, a new 59-minute opera by Stephan Alexander Parker was workshopped by Jeffrey Dokken at Artomatic 2012 in Crystal City, Virginia; premiered at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint in Washington DC in January 2016; and performed by the Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia (SONOVA) at the James Lee Community Theater in Falls Church, Virginia, in October 2016. You can now do it yourself using the libretto from the 2016 shows, the sheet music used for all shows to date, and the backing tracks from the studio recording. The book includes photos from the January 2016 shows.
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A Roadkill Opera Overture: Conductor’s Score & Parts – November 24, 2017 by
A Roadkill Opera: Piano/Vocal List Price: $18.00
If you read music and want to follow along with the show; if you want to play and sing the show for your own amusement; if you want to get a present for the music lover who has everything, you can be sure they do not have this: every note for the singers and piano accompaniment is included.
A Roadkill Opera: Parts for Wind Instruments List Price: $18.00
If you read music and want to follow along with the show live or recorded; if you want to play the show for your own amusement; if you want to get a present for the music lover who has everything, you can be sure they do not have this: every note for the wind instruments is included.
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A Roadkill Opera: Parts for Timpani & String Instruments List Price: $18.00
If you read music and want to follow along with the show live or recorded; if you want to play the show for your own amusement; if you want to get a present for the music lover who has everything, you can be sure they do not have this: every note for the timpani and string instruments.
A Roadkill Opera: Conductor’s Score List Price: $36.00
This is the full orchestral score, large enough to read while conducting. Parts sold separately. Please note that rights to perform A Roadkill Opera in public must be secured separately.
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Music from 1804. Action set in 1988. A new opera (in English)
Music from 1804 by Ferdinando Paer
Libretto by Stephan Alexander Parker
Jeffrey Dokken, Music Director & Conductor
A Roadkill Opera is a mashup of a backstage screwball comedy set in 1988 Wyoming with music from Ferdinando Paer’s 1804 opera Leonora. It tells the story of the hour before the lights go up on opening night for the first professional gig for an amateur improv sketch comedy troupe–the Roadkill On A Stick Frozen Foods Theatre Company–at the legendary Silver Dollar Bar in the Wort Hotel in Jackson Hole. During that hour, they find out their showroom will be torn down after their run. Hilarity ensues.
The full studio album has been remastered from the 2013 CD release. It is presented on three sides of this two-disc LP set.
Improv sketch comedy recorded live in 1988 Wyoming
Frozen Roadkills on a Stick & Cod Piece Dining Room sketches written by Ed Bachtel
Jackson Hole written & performed by Dave Rohrer
The comedy troupe had a one-night-only Greatest Hits! show on Friday the 13th, March 1992, at the Pink Garter Theatre. Here for the first time are presented the studio version of Dave Rohrer’s wistful song Jackson Hole; live highlights from the 1992 comedy show; and a bonus live excerpt from the October 2016 production of A Roadkill Opera at the James Lee Community Theater in Falls Church, Virginia, as presented by the Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia (SONOVA).
A Roadkill Opera
Side 1
Overture
Impress Them
In A Clearing
Side 2
Cod Piece Dining
Jello
Different Things
Geo
Suppose
Butterflies
Side 3
Torn Down
Opening Night
Finished
Glory
Roadkill on a Stick Frozen Foods Theatre Company
Jackson Hole
Frozen Roadkills on a Stick (feat. Christopher Dews, Ed Bachtel, Stephan Parker, and Louise Gignoux)
Cod Piece Dining Room
National Anthem
Glory (reprise, feat. Laura Wehrmeyer, Kelly Curtin, Larry Boggs, and Jeffrey Dokken)