GHOST QUARTET


Music, Lyrics, and Text by Dave Malloy

Ghost Quartet is a happily haunted musical about love, death, and whisky. We listen in as four friends drink and spin yarns about two fairy tale sisters, a tree house astronomer and a lazy evil bear, a subway tragedy and the ghost of Thelonious Monk. As the evening winds on and glasses empty, we realize the narrative threads are interweaving into a centuries-long tale of encounters with the otherworldly. Ghost Quartet seductively pulls at our desire to believe in ghosts and subtly asks us why these stories continue to endure and multiply in the human imagination.

Composer Dave Malloy, Tony-nominated createor of the Broadway hit “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812″, draws inspiration from a number of spooky stories – Snow White and Rose Red, Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”, Arabian Nights and others – as well as a variety of musical styles, including gospel, folk ballads, honky-tonk anthems of heartbreak, electropop, doo-wop and jazz.

Produced by Penfold Theatre Company
Blue Genie Art Bazaar & The Driskill Hotel — Austin, Texas

COLLABORATORS

Creative Team

  • Director Liz Fisher
  • Lyricist / Playwright / Composer Dave Malloy
  • Music Director Austin Kimble
  • Musicians Austin Kimble, Megan Pritchett, Stephen Mansolo
  • Scenic Design / Tech Directors Patrick & Holly Crowley 
  • Lighting Design Megan Reilly
  • Costume Design Aaron Flynn
  • Sound Design Lowell Bartholomee

Cast

  • Megan Tabaque as Brittain
  • Sarah Marie Curry as Gelsey
  • Shane Satterfield as Dave
  • Nathan Daniel Ford as Brent
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PRAISE FOR GHOST QUARTET

Press

Awards

Ghost Quartet Awards

WINNER: B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Movement Design
Nomination: B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Production of Musical Theatre
Nomination: B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Direction of Musical Theatre
Nomination: B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in Musical Theatre
Nomination: B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in Musical Theatre
Nomination: B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Music Direction
Nomination: B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Selected as one of the Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019 by Robert Faires from the Austin Chronicle

Selected as one of the 10 Favorite Arts-Related Things of 2019 by Wayne Alan Brenner from the Austin Chronicle