MISSED:CONNECTIONS
A contemporary musical theater revue, created by Andrew Gerle and Catie Davis
Choreographed by Banji Aborisade, Music Directed by Andrew Gerle, Scenery by Frank J. Oliva, Costumes by Danté Anthony Baylor, Lighting by Kelley Shih, Sound by Scott Stauffer, Props by Mary Grace Moran, PSM Darielle Shandler
Presented by the Manhattan School of Music at Neidorff Karpati Hall, October 2021
After a year of virtual everything, do we even remember how to connect with one another? Missed:Connections used the music of the last 10 years to celebrate the beautiful, awkward, funny, painful, and joyous act of coming together – in short, everything we’ve been missing. The songs included, from writers with Tony Awards to those not yet produced, touch that need for connection in waysthat are joyful, poignant, funny, frustrating, awkward, and always deeply human. There is no concrete story, but through-lines and resonances naturally emerged as we created playful collisions between characters from different worlds.
Photos by Steven Pissano and Kelley Shih