Death for Five Voices

Has anyone else seen this? I thought it was one of the best scores I have heard in a long time. Just beautiful. Great orchestrations as well. There were some problems with the book, a little clunky at times, but it kept my attention. I thought it was a great production and a really lovely evening in the theatre. Just curious what other people thought. It's playing at the Sheen Center Blackbox theatre, which I thought was a great venue! I had never been there before.

Updated On: 4/5/16 at 07:28 AM

Saw it today and totally agree with both of the above posters



Little known fact from the program is that the composer of this operatic piece is also the composer/lyricist of the incoming "The Honeymooners". What a stretch for this guy.

Updated On: 4/10/16 at 07:47 PM

That was a bit of mystery to me as well.

Saw this and unfortunately walked out at intermission. The score really was beautiful for a chamber choir, and I attend a lot of choir concerts actually so in that respect I did appreciate it quite a bit. Beautiful music that sounded from another era but used a lot of contemporary harmonization. I thought the song about the dissonance was very clever, however the book was not only clunky, it was completely lacking in three act story-telling structure. If Marsha Norman says you need to know 10 minutes into a show when you are going to be able to leave... let's just say I spent all of act 1 wondering when I was going to be able to leave.

I do agree with everyone above though that the score was really masterful, and the singers were all wonderful. I would love to hear this in concert form without the book which contained a series of unrelated scenes, none of which seemed to further the plot.

This composer is great though, I've enjoyed his other works at Prospect Theatre - this gives me high hopes for The Honeymooners so long as they have a strong book.

Worked with Prospect and they are an under rated team. Awesome people. Hope Honeymooners makes it.