NEFERTITI
Composer: David
Spangler
Lyricist: Christopher Gore; additional lyrics by Rick Gore
for post-1988 productions
Opened: September 20, 1977, Blackstone
Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Performances: 44
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Chicago cast recording are noted below.
Amun's Chant (added to subsequent revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Products DIDX-105721 (uncredited singer with musical direction by Ryan
McCall)
Angry Gods (added to subsequent
revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Products DIDX-105721 (uncredited singer with musical direction by Ryan
McCall)
Breakfast At
Thebes:
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Products DIDX-105721 (uncredited singer with musical direction by Ryan
McCall)
2. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti Productions (Ann Crumb with musical
direction by Eric Alsford)
City On The Horizon (added to subsequent
revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Products DIDX-105721 (uncredited singer with musical direction by Ryan
McCall)
2. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti Productions (Nicole Leach and Ensemble
with musical direction by Eric Alsford)
A
Difficult Translation (added to subsequent revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Productions (Ensemble with musical direction by Eric Alsford)
Heaven (added to subsequent
revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Products DIDX-105721 (uncredited singer with musical direction by Ryan
McCall)
2. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti Productions (Nicholas Rodriguez with
musical direction by Eric Alsford)
If I
Were You (added to subsequent revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Products DIDX-105721 (uncredited singer with musical direction by Ryan
McCall)
2. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti Productions (Alan H. Green and Nicholas
Rodriguez with musical direction by Eric Alsford)
Light Will Shine:
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Products DIDX-105721 (uncredited singer with musical direction by Ryan
McCall)
2. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti Productions (Ann Crumb, Nicholas
Rodriguez, Nicole Leach, and Ensemble with musical direction by Eric Alsford)
Prologue (added to subsequent
revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Productions (Avery Sommers and Mark A. Harmon with musical direction by Eric
Alsford)
There Is A River (added to
subsequent revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti
Productions (Alan H Green and Mark A. Harmon with musical direction by Eric
Alsford)
You Were Dancing (added to subsequent revivals):
1. Nefertiti, CD/Nefertiti Products DIDX-105721
(uncredited singer with musical direction by Ryan McCall)
2. Nefertiti,
CD/Nefertiti Productions (Avery Sommers with musical direction by Eric Alsford)
Unrecorded
Numbers:
Another Free Translation Brothers (cut prior to Chicago
tryout)
The Diary Of A Dying Princess Forevermore (cut prior to Chicago
tryout)
A Free Translation
Lama Su Apapi (cut prior to Chicago
tryout)
Legions Of The Night (cut prior to Chicago tryout)
Nothing Ever
Dies (cut prior to Chicago tryout)
Overture (cut prior to Chicago
tryout)
Penmut's Apology (cut prior to Chicago tryout)
Please Continue
(cut prior to Chicago tryout)
Soldier (cut prior to Chicago tryout)
Tiy's
Song: Fear Is A Faraway Country (cut prior to Chicago tryout)
Welcome To The
Army (Brotherhood Of Light) (cut prior to Chicago tryout)