Nightmare Alley

WORLD PREMIERE
April 13 – May 23, 2010
Geffen Playhouse
Los Angeles

 

 

Synopsis

Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Brielle
Directed by Gilbert Cates

Nightmare Alley explores the darker side of human nature by taking us into the world of carnies, cons, and clairvoyants.  With a score as wild as a funhouse and as emotionally evocative as a beautiful tightrope walker, this new musical tells the story of shocks that await you inside the big tent.  Based on the darkly evocative 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name, which became the subsequent cult-classic film noir, Nightmare Alley is a night at the theater full of wondrous feats and enough spirit to make believers of us all.

Songs

Opening -- The Ten In One
I Get By
Lucky Heart
Human Nature
This Is Not What I Had Planned
Science
Indecent Exposure
All Will Come To You
Surrender
You've Gotta Believe
What Do Ya' Think?
Cross That River
Why Don't You Hear Me?
Nobody Home
I Still Hear It All
Don’t You Love To Watch?
Hear Me Now Reprise
Your Last Second Chance
Surrender Reprise
One Last Time To Pretend
The Séance/Nobody Home Reprise
Nightmare Alley
Epilogue

 

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