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CATEGORIES: SPECIAL OCCASION;TRAVEL;APPOINTMENT
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SUMMARY:Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441460307=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2012-03-16=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2012-04-15=0D=0A=0D=0AWORLD PREMIER! FUTURITY is an original indie-rock musical by Brooklyn-band The Lisps. A theatrically staged song cycle, FUTURITY tells the story of a Union soldier in the Civil War who is an aspiring inventor. The work fuses traditional Americana, found text, experimental music, and The Lisps' own brand of quirky co-ed pop.=0D=0A=FUTURITY chronicles the experiences of young Julian Munro, an aspiring inventor and science fiction visionary in 1864 who spends his days breaking up Confederate railroad tracks as a grunt in the Union army. Julian copes with the destruction and monotony around him by imagining a far-fetched science fiction future. Guided by his brilliant mentor, the famous metaphysician Ada Lovelace, Julian weaves an epic fantasy that folds a utopian, high-tech future back into the dark reality of war. Though a long distance collaboration Julian and Ada attempt to devise an omnipotent steam-powered artificial intelligence destined to end war and all of humanity's attendant miseries. The music in FUTURITY melds traditional Americana, Brechtian choral elements and contemporary indie-rock, resulting in a unique and compelling portrait of war, human imagination, and technological hubris.=0D=0A= =0D=0A=music and lyrics by César Alvarez with The Lisps=0D=0A=book by Molly Rice and César Alvarez=0D=0A=directed by Sarah Benson=0D=0A= 
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