Christie Lee Gibson

Orphée aux Enfers, Sacred Music, and Art Songs

Christie — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:59:06 +0000

Quelle chance!

I’m going to be spending six weeks this summer with the Franco-America Vocal Academy in southern France working on French vocal music. I will play Orphée in the mezzo version of Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers, perform solos in concerts of sacred music by Gounod and Saint-Saëns, and prepare songs of contemporary composer Isabelle Aboulker under her tutelage. I will also get to take lessons in singing, movement, and French. And did I mention spend six weeks in the south of France in the summer?

Specific performance dates TBA.

Voice & Violin Recital

Christie — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:59:06 +0000

My violinist sister Julia and I are teaming up to present a lunchtime recital at St. Paul Cathedral in downtown Boston on June 16th. We’ll be playing Vaughan Williams’s “Along the Field” - settings of A.E. Housman poems - and folk song settings by Rebecca Clarke.

Wednesday, June 16th
12:00-12:30 sharp *time change* (no longer at 12:15)
St. Paul Cathedral
138 Tremont St, across from Park Street Station
Boston, MA

$5 suggested donation goes to benefit the church’s organ fund.
This event is open to the public and you are free to bring your lunch!

College/Bound

Christie — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:00:06 +0000

A World Premiere Staged Reading of College/Bound, a new musical by Marlena Merrin.

College/Bound is a dramatic comedy about family expectations and college aspirations. There are complications, revelations and transformations. This is a full-length show (2+ hours) and is appropriate for adults and mature teenagers. (Unfortunately we can’t accommodate children under 13, including infants, on June 12th)

When: June 12th 2pm
Running time: 2.5 hours including a 15 minute intermission

Where: Margaret Jewett Hall within the First Congregational Church. The church is on the corner of Garden Street and Mason Street. The entrance to the Hall is actually on Mason Street.
Directions

Cost: $5

Boston Theatre Marathon

Christie — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:52:21 +0000

Every year a multitude of thespians from companies of all sizes all over Boston converge on the BCA to present 50 new ten-minute plays to the public. I will be directing Fort Point Theatre Channel’s piece this year: Confirmed Sighting by Patrick Gabridge.

Time of day TBA.

Stir a Memory/Fort Point Art Walk

Christie — Sun, 09 May 2010 23:40:55 +0000

The smell, the taste of food are so evocative. Krina Patel and Mary Driscoll of the Fort Point Theatre Channel are teaming up to present “Stir a Memory”, a celebration of food and associated experiences, as part of this spring’s Artwalk.

I’ll be reading in the 4pm session on Sat. May 8th.

Visit Krina’s site.

From Places Unknown

Christie — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:59:25 +0000

by Jennifer Dubois
Presented by 11:11 Theatre Company

April 30 @ 8pm
May 1, 6, 7, & 8 @ 8pm
May 2 @ 3pm
At the Factory Theatre, MAP

Laura and Jonah, a childless couple, deal with the arrival and care of a foreign-exchange student. After the student’s death, the two form separate and competing narratives about who the student was and what their interactions with her meant. These divergent stories challenge the couple’s marriage and, ultimately, their sense of reality. I play Alice, one of Laura and Jonah’s neighbors (read: foil).

$15 Online Presale, $17 at the Door
Thursday, May 6 is pay-what-you-can at the door
Tickets

Der Zwerg

Christie — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:59:50 +0000

Who could love a Dwarf? OperaHub presents Zemlinsky’s heartbreaking tale of love and disillusionment. This semi-autobiographical one-act makes a long-overdue Boston appearance.

I’m one of the Princess’s small Entourage.

DER ZWERG (The Dwarf)
By Alexander Zemlinsky
Libretto by George Klaren, based on Oscar Wilde’s
The Birthday of the Infanta

FREE ADMISSION!

Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 8pm
Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 8pm
Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 3pm + 8pm

Plaza Black Box Theatre, The Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston [map]

TICKETS
In the spirit of accessible opera for all, tickets to the Boston performances of Der Zwerg are absolutely free and may be reserved in advance by emailing tickets@operahub.org with your name, phone number, requested performance date, and number of seats.

Chekhov’s Last Love

Christie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:59:48 +0000

This full-length play is part of the New England Russian Theatre Festival at the Boston Playwright’s Theatre. The show follows Chekhov and the actress Olga Knipper who created leading roles in his plays and whom he eventually married. I play Masha, Anton Chekhov’s sister and caretaker whose life is bound up in her brother and his work.

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
949 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
February 18, 19, 20, 21, 2010

February 18 and 19: $15 adults, $12 seniors and students
February 20 Gorky’s Park Children’s Program - $8 adults, $6 seniors and students, $5 children, Under age 5 free!
February 20 and 21 Half day - $15 adults, $12 seniors and students; All day $25.00
Rush tickets available $5 cash only (all four days) Available only 10 minutes before curtain, based on availability

Carny Knowledge

Christie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:59:31 +0000

For six marvel-filled nights in January and February, playwrights, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, and roustabouts, along with diverse practitioners of the carny crafts, will create an unforgettable evening of ballyhoo, burlesque, and incomparable entertainment.

Carny Knowledge draws its inspiration from the sideshows that spread across the nation from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. In most any town of any size, curious onlookers would gather near the midway of the fair or the circus to hear sideshow barkers tout the wonders available to those willing to pay just a few cents to see what they couldn’t view anywhere else in those days before international air travel and television . . . before the exploration of every corner of the planet seemed to rid the world of mystery. Carny Knowledge will join short theatrical works, carnival sideshow acts, the Carny Band, and artistic installations to create an environment enveloping audiences and performers alike.

I will be directing John Weagly’s Scuffle and Jump and acting in Peter Cavell’s Tales of the Midnight Carnival.

Carny Knowledge
Silvia Graziano & Marc S. Miller, Impresarios
January 29-February 6, 2010
18+
Cambridge YMCA Theatre
820 Mass. Ave.
Central Square, Cambridge MAP

Tickets

Shulamis

Christie — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:30:23 +0000

The Harvard Yiddish Players proudly present a landmark bilingual production of Abraham Goldfaden’s operetta Shulamis, the most popular Yiddish play of all time. While wandering thirsty through the desert, the beautiful young Shulamis is rescued by the handsome Avisholem, who swears to marry her upon his return from Jerusalem. When Avisholem fails to come for her and marries Avigail instead, Shulamis pretends to go mad in order to keep her vow to him, yearning both for his return and for revenge. Her choice is at the center of this timeless Biblical operetta of love and deception, of the price of revenge and the power of forgiveness. I will be playing Avigail.

Show Times:
Wednesday, December 2nd @ 8:00 PM
Thursday, December 3rd @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 5th @ 8:00 PM
Sunday, December 6th @ 2:00 PM
Sunday, December 6th @ 8:00 PM

Produced in cooperation with the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene
Directed by Debra Caplan and Cecelia Raker
Music Directed by Lidiya Yankovskaya and Choreographed by Gabrielle Orcha
In a new translation by Nahma Sandrow
and featuring a new musical score arranged by Zalmen Mlotek

More Info

Harvard’s Agassiz Theatre in Radcliffe Yard
Garden Street/5 James Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors. Tickets can be purchased from the Harvard Box Office by phone at 617-496-2222 or online. For group sales, please contact Debra.