Premiered at The Raven’s Beak,
New Orleans, LA – 5/23/2011
Act 1
TRAVELOGUE
CAR WITH NO REVERSE
IT WEREN’T WORTH TEXAS
WAYMORE ON THE PROWL
NOTHING BUT A SUNSET
THE CLOCK WINKED
DEADWOOD
AS IF NOTHING EVER HAPPENED
SUICIDE CAFÉ
Act 2
SCRATCH
A NEW MYTHOLOGY
SECOND HAND SOMETHING
SUFFER THE CHILDREN
UNCERTAIN PREMONITION
BUDDHISM FOR IDIOTS
STILL ME
THE SKY
WHATEVER
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
TESTAMENT
WAKE
Act 3
LE BANQUET
LAST NIGHT ON EARTH
MOUNTAIN
SURYA NAMASKAR
HOT YOGA CHICK
DRAMATURGE
FALLEN ANGEL
ONE BIG THING
SEVERED CAUTION
APRIL FOOLS FOR BOBBY LEE
HOUSE OF BROKEN PEOPLE
MR. SUNSHINE
PRODIGAL SON
LORELEI’S SONG
I portrayed the knave of hearts again,
A role it would seem I was made for.
I ventured off script and silenced my critics
By drinking them under the table.
Classically trained in the tavern arts,
I’m a boozy, bibulous sot.
A virtuoso of chugging a tankard,
A maestro of downing a shot.
I've been typecast as a barfly.
It's the same old morality play.
I’ll adlib my lines to upstage the lead,
And be star of this grim cabaret.
The Prairie dogging contra versies Oh, the queen of dramaturge absurd this stick stinking stirrer A interdiction of artless showmanship Dramatis personae that’s pure over acting bull in a glass house better left in an outhouse
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