music,
lyrics & script JIM
BAUER
art, art direction & script RUTH
BAUER
Pick
of the week . . . A Dada-inspired multi-media masterpiece.
- New York City's
OffOffLine.com
I
was struck that a show with the Blue Flower's originality had
been written with such craft. I love the unflinching nature of
it . Every word is unexpected.
- MARK HOLLMANN, composer,
Urinetown
Haunting.
Beautiful writing, in both the narration and lyrics. We are living
in a period of history now just like the characters in this play.
They didnt quite know where they were going either.
- GREG KOTIS, book/lyrics,
Urinetown
Theater with a capital
'T' . . . brave, strong, unexpected and exhilarating . . . as
delightful as it is moving, as smart as it is beautiful.
- JULIA JONAS, offoffonline.com
Brimming with the
kind of feeling and inventiveness that musicals can never have
enough of.
- MATTHEW MURRAY,
talkingbroadway.com
"A rush of pure sensation.
- LOREN NOVECK, nytheatre.com
The music is just
so beautiful, ravishing. Its an incredibly personal musical
world, and yet, enormously evocative and universal.
- STEPHEN SCHWARTZ,
music/lyrics, Wicked
I loved this, just
wild about it. It's not going to be a normal show, no matter what
you do. If anyone tells you to 'normalize' this, just run, and
run fast.
- STUART ROSS, writer,
Radiant Baby
THE BLUE FLOWER
is a sponsored
project of the
NEW
YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS