Maelstrom is a one act operetta that premiered in Portland, OR in July 2009. It has been nominated for three PAMTA's:
Best Original Musical
Best Score
Best Set Design
The original recording was made during the July 23, 2009 performance of Maelstrom at the FireHouse Theater in north Portland, Oregon.
Tracklist:
Prelude
Butterfly Aria
Quartet for the End of the World
Baby Girl Aria
Bryan’s Proposal Aria
The Aria of Death
Intermission Tuning & Zombie Clean-up
The Aria of Guilt
Anna & Jeremy’s Duet
Butterfly Reprise
Claire’s Lament
The Battle
Baby Girl Reprise
Maelstrom Lullaby
Aria for the End of the World
Tracklist:
Prelude
Butterfly Aria
Quartet for the End of the World
Baby Girl Aria
Bryan’s Proposal Aria
The Aria of Death
Intermission Tuning & Zombie Clean-up
The Aria of Guilt
Anna & Jeremy’s Duet
Butterfly Reprise
Claire’s Lament
The Battle
Baby Girl Reprise
Maelstrom Lullaby
Aria for the End of the World
“Maelstrom is a delicious 90 minutes of high-concept pandemonium.”
- Willamette Week
Synopsis
In this hybrid of the stage, concert hall, and movie theater, our two heroines, Anna and Claire, and our two heroes, Bryan and Jeremy, find themselves locked inside a quarantined hospital, when an out-of-control virus begins turning doctors, researchers, patients, and security guards into mindless, brain-eating monsters. Friends betray friends; lovers propose marriage and attempt to kill one another; murder becomes morally ambiguous...In the end, they must decide whether life is worth the effort it takes to live, not just survive.
