Young Goodman Brown
(1995) Based on the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown is an opera with music by Phillip Johnston, libretto by R. Foreman, directed by David Hershkovits, originally produced in 1995 at LaMama ETC, NYC by Target Margin Theater.
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Drawn To Death: A Three Panel Opera
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman (Maus I, Maus II) and avant-jazz composer Phillip Johnston scrutinize and welcome that bastard, hunchback dwarf of the arts — comix! — to the rarified world of music theater in Drawn to Death: A Three Panel Opera.
The work chronicles the rise and fall of the American comic book from its birth in the 1930’s to its near-death in the 1950’s, as well as the destruction of two of the industry’s leading cartoonists.
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Do Good And You Will Be Happy
Book and lyrics by Hilary Bell, music by Phillip Johnston
Do Good And You Will Be Happy is a work of music-theatre based on Cole’s Funny Picture Book, a Victorian series of children’s books written by Australian book store owner, moralist and visionary E.W. Cole. It is a project I have worked on off and on with my wife, Australian playwright Hilary Bell. Over the last 10 years, we have had a number of development workshops and readings, but have never convinced a professional theatre to produce it. At the moment it is ‘on the shelf’.
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