Dream:\u00a0A Freudian Musical, from Jonathan Larson Grant winner Daniel Emond (Kill the Whale), will play a set of performances at Joe’s Pub November 15 and 22. The evening is being music directed by JT Kaufman, and presented in partnership with YoungArts.<\/p>\n
The dream-set show centers on Sabina Spielrein, a psychoanalyst with her own history of supposed “hysteria” who counted Carl Jung as a lover and Sigmund Freud a mentor. Press notes describe Emond’s score as blending the musical styles of “Joanna Newsom, Sam Smith, Wagner, Eminem, and everything in between.”<\/p>\n
The cast will feature Ellie Barone (Hightown)\u00a0as Sabina, Jordon Bolden (The Kill Room)\u00a0as Jung, Emond (The Great Comet) as Freud, and Jo Lampert<\/a> (Joan of Arc)\u00a0as S. Spielrein. The evening will also feature special guest Samantha Pauly<\/a> (The Great Gatsby).<\/p>\n The performance’s band will feature Rick Martinez on drums, Julia Henderson on cello, Trevor Brown<\/a> on bass, and Odetta Hartman and Allie May on violin. Orchestrations are by Emond, and Joshua Henderson<\/a> serves as associate music director.<\/p>\n “What began as a meditation on dreams, a subject which has captivated me since I was little, has carried me through\u00a0the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Sabina Spielrein, all of whom who used the dreams and their latently divined meanings to explain a rapidly shifting modern world,” shares Emond in a statement. “In my first musical Kill The Whale, I threw every color of paint I knew against the wall to produce an epic and varied headbanger. The score of Dream is a different kind of tapestry\u2014a score\u00a0that plays as delicately with its themes, while manically it will suddenly turn, throwing its toys around in moments like Freud’s aggressive rap sections.”<\/p>\n