Love Could Drive a Person Crazy: A Musical Revue
A Note from the Production Team:
It seems like every song in the world is about love in some form or another. Love can inspire us, change our lives, or, sometimes, drive us crazy. But love is never pure in form. It is always complicated by myriad other emotions: fear, regret, self-doubt, arrogance, lust, even hate. It seAppeems counterintuitive that such an intense emotion bears a striking resemblance to its opposite, yet the two can be difficult to differentiate. This show explores love and hate in all their varied forms, through different musical styles, from slow, sweeping ballads to frenetic pre-marital jitters, to powerful soulfullaments. Each song illuminates a different aspect of the intense emotions someone can feel for another person.
With this show, we wanted to create an opportunity for people who have not been able to work on a Columbia musical before. We have theatre students and engineers, Broadway veterans and performers who have never been in a musical before. All of them bring a unique perspective to their songs and characters.
We invite you to use these perspectives to make your own. 1s love the reason for living or just not worth the trouble? A necessity or an inconvenience? A cause of hope or doom? Or maybe it’s some of alI these things at once. You decide.Love Could Drive a Person Crazy played during the Spring 2008 season.
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Playbill
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Cast and Crew
Cast
Danaya Almenares-Mesa (CC ’10)
Rick Betita (SEAS ’10)
Heather Duckworth
Yonatan Gebeyehu
Claire Halberstadt
Emily Kaplan (BC ’11)
Gabe Miner
Aaron Rotenberg (GS/JTS ’09)
Ricky Schweitzer
Sasha Thompson (CC ‘ 09)
Emily Wallen (BC ’11)
Anna Weinstein*Appears courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Creative Team
Director: Bryan Hobgood
Director: Alessandra Hirsch (BC ’08)
Producer: Michael Leibring
Producer: Darcy Zacharias
Asst. Producer/Stage Manager: Rachel Weiss
Lighting Designer: Katherine Trendacosta
Sound Designer: Will Schuessler (SEAS ’09)Band
Katherine Hicks on Piano
Kevin Hsieh (CC ’11) on Bass
Daniel Miranda (SEAS ’10) on Drums
Allison Oldfather (BC ’08) on Violin
Press
The Columbia Spectator wrote a preview for Love Could Drive a Person Crazy which can be found here.