AMERICAN POP
SAT • AUG 15 • 8 PM
Written by Michael Friedman • Directed by Trip Cullman
Musical Direction by Ben Moss
OBIE winner Michael Friedman, who wrote music and lyrics for the hit history rock-musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (“rowdy, dopey and devastatingly shrewd”—The New York Times), offers this work-in-progress theatrical history of popular song in the sheet music era—from 1846, when the first nation-wide hit tune was written by Stephen Foster, to 1923, when Bessie Smith’s recording triumph forever changed the economics of song-making. Commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pop “is about the politics of pop music, and also the joy of pop music, and also the ugliness of pop music,” Friedman says. “And it’s about money.” The five-member cast will be directed by prolific Off Broadway theater artist Trip Cullman.

This show is rated PG-13 (mature subject matter).  This show wil run approximately 2-1/2 hours with intermission.

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