yeast nation [hollman & kotis]
[04/2024]
music & lyrics | MARK HOLLMAN
book & lyrics | GREG KOTIS
music director | MICHAEL MCBRIDE
movement director | NATALJA AICARDI
scenic designer | GEORGE CEDERQUIST
costume designer | KATE SETZER-KAMPHAUSEN
lighting designer | DAVID GOODMAN-EDBERG
photographer | KARL SODERSTROM
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This is Yeast Nation: an above-ground swimming pool filled to the brim with beach balls.
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Jan-the-Elder (Chris Comanescu) is King of the Yeasts.
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Jan-the-Wise (Sam Varghese) reads out the Strictures.
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Jan-the-Wretched (Madalynn Baez) will be punished for eating too much.
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Jan-the-Unnamed (Grace Zieman) invites the audience to 'Hear the Song'.
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Jan-the-Sweet (Emerson Cobbley) discovers she has a 'Burnin' Soul'.
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Jan-the-Second-Oldest (Keaton Payne) vows 'Change the World' around Sweet.
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Little sister Jan-the-Sly (Emily Gale) plots against her father (Elder) and brother (Second)
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Second rejects Sweet as 'Not the Yeast You Used to Be'.
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Second shares the life-giving muck with Sweet
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...as they fall in love.
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'Stasis is the Membrane'.
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Wise forces Sweet to be his Date.
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Sly reveals the illegal muck to the Yeast Nation.
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All will be revealed... in Act Two!
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Sly convinces Wise not to be 'A Traitor to Love'.
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The Chorus remind us that 'Love Equals Pain'...
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...as the Unnamed and Sweet agree.
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Jan-the-Elder rises to the afterlife in 'Doom-Love-Doom'.
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"Yeast Nation" reminds us that 'The World Won't Wait'.
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Jan-the-Unnamed welcomes us to "Yeast Nation".
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The Yeasts sing the praises of Jan-the-Elder.
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Jan-the-Elder proclaims The Strictures.
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Jan-the-Sweet suffers in her private nook.
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Jan-the-Sly conscripts Jan-the-Famished.
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Jan-the-Wise seduces Jan-the-Sweet.
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Jan-the-Second-Oldest gives birth to the New One: "Me Good".
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Jan-the-Sly and Jan-the-Wise are not "Traitors to Love".
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Jan-the-Second-Oldest and Jan-the-Wise clash as "Life Goes On".