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Jason Cady & The Artificials
12/19/2009 8:00 PM at Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor THE DATE IS WRONG, THE CONCERT WAS 3-19-09, Brooklyn, New York 11215
Cost: $10
Happiness is the Problem:
A Phono-Graphic Novel __________________________________________________________________________________________
"But, I mean, in order to, to actually do human trials you have to go through all this rigmarole, and rent is due, we don’t have time…"
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Happiness is the Problem is a two-act opera buffa and comic book about idealism and disillusionment. It stars three young women who sell an elixir of happiness derived from the secretions of slugs that they market as "Euphoressence."
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Deanna Neil, soprano;
Erin Flannery, soprano;
Lisa Komara, mezzo-soprano;
Mary Halvorson, guitar;
Jason Cady, synthesizer;
Joe Bergen, vibraphone;
Tim Dahl, bass;
Tomas Fujiwara, drums;
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music by Jason Cady;
comic book by Nadia Berenstein;
libretto by Nadia Berenstein and Jason Cady;
dialogue by Jason Cady, Nadia Berenstein and Amy Cimini
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