Ghost Quartet is Dave Malloy’s second most well known musical, just as weird as, if not weirder than, Great Comet. The show has been performed Off Broadway and small venues in cities across the United States.
You can listen to ghost quartet here: https://davemalloy.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-quartet
Dave’s Website describes Ghost Quartet as follows:
A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey.
A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a treehouse astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk.
Ghost Quartet is
Brent Arnold (vocals, cello, guitar, erhu, dulcimer, percussion)
Brittain Ashford (vocals, autoharp, keyboard, percussion)
Gelsey Bell (vocals, metallophone, Celtic harp, accordion, percussion)
Dave Malloy (vocals, piano, keyboard, ukulele, percussion)
Music, Lyrics, and Text by Dave Malloy
Developed and Arranged by Ghost Quartet
Directed by Annie Tippe
Production & Lighting Design by Christopher Bowser
Sound Design by Dave Malloy
Dramaturgy by James Harrison Monaco
Assistant Direction by Ambrym Smith
Developed with from The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA, and The Bushwick Starr
Productions:
The Bushwick Starr (World Premiere), Brooklyn NY, October 2014
The McKittrick Hotel, NYC, Jan - May 2015
Mt. Tremper Arts, Mt. Tremper NY, July 2015
American Repertory Theater, Cambridge MA, Sept 2015
Curran Under Construction, San Francisco CA, Oct 2015
Life in Deep Ellum, Dallas TX, April 2016
Joe’s Pub, NYC, July 2016
Maria Hernandez Park, Brooklyn NY, July 2016
Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 2016
Next Door at New York Theater Workshop, NYC, October 2017
Erickson Theater, Seattle Theater Group, Seattle WA, January 2018
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