BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UNL_UCBCN//NONSGML UNL Event Publisher//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Music CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Central METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Central LAST-MODIFIED:20130619T123847Z BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20070311T080000 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20071104T020000 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20080309T010000 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US/Central:20120311T193000 UID:65337@events.unl.edu DTSTAMP:20020131T020000 SUMMARY:BIG RED SUN DESCRIPTION:Alisa Belflower and Musical Theatre students will premiere a n ew musical in a reading on Sunday, March 11 at 7:30 pm in Kimball Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public. \n\nBIG RED SUN is a ne w musical about a young musician being raised by a single mom. When the i maginary heroes of his childhood can no longer fill the void, the son sea rches for his long-lost father in post-WWII America. His questions uneart h a dark family secret. The war carved a silent divide between those who fought and those who waited––a truth unshared. Their son’s unrelent ing quest shatters the silence. While the dizzying energy of jazz and the noise of rock-and-roll replaced the simple melodies of Kern and Berlin, an American innocence vanished.\n\nThe performance is immediately followe d by\nA TALKBACK with the creative forces behind this new musical, guest artists Georgia Stitt and John Jiler.\n\nGEORGIA STITT (BIG RED SUN’s c omposer) is a composer and a lyricist. Her musicals include: Big Red Sun (NAMT Festival 2010, Harold Arlen Award in 2005, written with playwright John Jiler); Hello! My Baby (a “new-fashioned” musical written with E mmy Award winner Cheri Steinkellner using the great American songbook), T he Water (winner of the 2008 ANMT New Voices in American Musical Theatre) , written with Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko); Sing Me A Happy Song (a musi cal revue); and Mosaic (commissioned for Off-Broadway in 2010, written wi th Cheri Steinkellner). In 2007 she released her first album, This Ordina ry Thursday: The Songs Of Georgia Stitt. With lyricist Marcy Heisler she wrote and recorded Alphabet City Cycle, a song cycle for soprano and viol in, featuring vocalist Kate Baldwin. Georgia’s latest album, My Lifelo ng Love, was released in 2011, featuring performances by Anika Noni Rose, Brian D’Arcy James, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Shoshana Bean, Susan Egan, Heidi Blickenstaff, Michael Arden, C hristopher Jackson, Laura Osnes, Kate Baldwin and Michael McElroy. Her re cords are on the PSClassics and Sh-K-Boom labels. Also a music director, Georgia was the vocal coach for the 2008 season of the NBC hit "America's Got Talent." She was the assistant music director for the NBC TV specia l “Clash of the Choirs,” the on-camera vocal coach for the NBC realit y TV show “Grease: You’re The One That I Want,” and the Production Music Coordinator for the Disney/ABC TV musical “Once Upon A Mattress starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett. On Broadway she was the assi stant conductor of Little Shop of Horrors and the associate conductor of the Encores! production of Can-Can starring Patti LuPone. Also on Broadw ay: Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, and the national tour of Parade. Georgia received her M.F.A. in Musical Theat er Writing from New York University and her B.Mus. in Music Theory and Co mposition from Vanderbilt University, where she graduated magna cum laude . She is a recipient of the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Fellowship, the Harold Arlen Award, and the Sue Brewer Award for excellence in music composition . Georgia lives in Los Angeles and New York with her husband, composer/ly ricist Jason Robert Brown, and their two daughters.\n\nJOHN JILER (BIG RE D SUN’s bookwriter & lyricist) is a writer of both drama and prose. He was the recipient of both the Richard Rodgers Award and the Kleban Libret tists' Award for his musical Avenue X, which played in New York at Playwr ights' Horizons and on stages around the world. He was a runner-up for th e Weissberger Prize for his first full-length play Sour Springs. His work has been seen coast to coast, from the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrigh t's Conference to the Kennedy Center to Seattle Rep and many places in be tween. His most recent book, Sleeping With The Mayor, was named a New Yor k Times' "Most Notable Book." The Village Voice called his first book, Da rk Wind, "a classic." As a journalist he has also written for the NY Time s, The Nation, and The Village Voice, where the stories that led to Avenu e X and Sleeping With The Mayor first appeared. Among his current theatri cal projects are Big Red Sun, a World War Two era story with composer Geo rgia Stitt seen at last year’s NAMT festival, and Explicit Vows, a one- man show at both Playwrights Horizons and the Flea Theatre. In his former life as an actor he appeared at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the H artford Stage Company, and Chicago's Body Politic, where he won the Chica go Drama Critic's Best Actor Award. He has just completed his first novel , North Of Here, and three new plays; Channel, seen last year at Labyrint h Theatre, Sirocco, recently unveiled at the Actors Studio, and a brand n ew play, Revolution. A native New Yorker, John Jiler graduated from the U niversity of Hartford.\n\nThere will be a discussion with the composer Ge orgia Stitt and playwright John Jiler following the performance. LOCATION:KIMBALL RECITAL HALL URL:http://events.unl.edu/music/2012/03/11/65337/ DTEND;TZID=US/Central:20120311T210000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR