Sex and the Bible: A cabaret opera by Mark Alburger

I recently finished a two week run, with Goat Hall Productions, of Mark Alberger's cabaret opera: SEX AND THE BIBLE. I premiered the roles of Benjamin, Tamar, God, and in addition to being a cast memeber I was also the associate director and choreographer for the show! The opera was a highlighted feature in San Francisco's drama magazine, Theater East Bay!

About the show:
Composer Mark Alburger, director Harriet March Page, and associate director/choreographer Crystal Philippi, have retooled these Biblical scenarios into a contemporary Sin City of Las Vegas, featuring Heavenly Emcee and a cast of familiar Satanic Lounge Lizards, suspicious Godfather Patriarchs, alluring Femmes Fatales, and Trailer Trash Hangers-On. From the Stonewall Ashes of Sodom and Gomorrah through the Action Hero Governor of Samson and Delilah, other allusions are brought into the mix, via Alburger's eclectic, postminimal, style-appropriating score and the creative staging in this WORLD PREMIERE production featuring sextets of singers and instrumentalists in a minimum-clothing-optional environment reflecting the iconography of millennia.

“Alburger’s music blows the dust out of the ears of opera-goers….superior to several far more elaborate and expensive modern operas.” -- Jeff Kaliss, Commuter Times