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SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Hold onto your seats -- youre in for a ride through time -- 100 years into the past. Your TV emcee, Felix, would like to tell you about Russias most famous bogeyman. But whose story is this really? Who can you trust? Who can really tell the story?
Singer: Brad Siebeking

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CHANGING TIMES

A peasant village in Siberia comes alive with debate and dancing. Listen to the old traditions contesting the new ideas from the West. The village is the home of Rasputin, a place of wooden houses, muddy streets and perennial streams. What has come to disturb this eternal peace? THE CHORUS:  Sarah Bierstock;  Sarah Carmody; Mike Curran; Greg Dinger;  Lynn Malkine;   Sarah Nelson;  William O'Neill;  David Rossiter; Chuck Snyder;

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WHAT I SEE
Is the boy (Rasputin) in the barn a simpleton or a saint? He talks to horses and imagines scenes from the Bible. His neighbors wonder - but mostly taunt him. Only the horses listen to his dreams of joy and revelation.
Singer: Stephen Scarpulla

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GOOD THOUGHTS
Grigori Rasputin returns home after years of wandering as a pilgrim across Russia. He is lucky to have a wife as understanding as Praskovye, who is learning to live with a very different kind of husband. His own words, taken from his writings, expose their shared need for hope, tenderness and sympathy. The question is -- can they prevail?
Singers: Harriet & Paul Tomasko

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VISION
Rasputin finds a suggestion of his own boyhood dreams in the young Tsarovich. The Tsarovich, crippled by illness, and Rasputin, deformed by oddity -- are united in their capacity for vision. But what price will the visionary exact?
Singers: Paul Tomasko & Stephen Scarpulla

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I CAME TO LEARN   
The Second Act begins with Matriona's wistful but confident thoughts about her future -- as St. Petersburg reveals itself to her adolescent imagination.  What will she REALLY learn before the show is over?
Singer: Logan Frankel

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STAIRCASE NOTES
The Tsar paid detectives from his secret police to watch over Rasputin -- both to protect the self-styled holy man, and to guard the Tsar from scandal. The detectives became fond of their ward, and often played games with him as he arrived, drunk, back at his small apartment.
Singers: Gordon Cook, Richard Morton, Andy Robinson

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THE WORLD OUTSIDE

Near the end of the show, after death and destruction, the Tsarovich sings of a world that he hopes one day to rule. This melancholy song, with its childlike lyrics, sum up his aspirations -- and his touching innocence.
Singer: Stephen Scarpulla

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*A CD of the entire score is available to interested theatres and directors. Email Michael Bitterman for more information.

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