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Production Features:
“The Golden Cage” is a single-set, 2-Character concept musical with open casting for age, race, gender and body-type. It’s performable with solo piano or expandable for small ensemble. Written for multi-generational audiences, it’s effective for both musical-theatre and opera audiences.
- 80-Minute One-Act Musical
- 2 Characters – Open Casting for any age, race, gender and body type
- “A musical and lyrical masterpiece” Paul Gordon – Tony-Nominee
- Single, simple set
- A powerful story of freedom and connection
- For multi-generational audiences
- Scored for Piano or expandable to small ensemble
- Effective for both musical-theatre and opera audiences
- Supplementary Audience Resources include the “Cage Unlocker’s E-Journal” and author’s TEDx talk
Through a mythical, whimsical lens, “The Golden Cage” tackles some of the most pressing mental health issues of our day including isolation, behavioral addiction, blind ambition and generational achievement expectations – and the glory of transformation and connection.
Supplementary Audience resources include “The Golden Cage” downloadable journal with daily prompts from each character’s life choices. The author’s 13-minute TEDx talk about her personal journey developing the themes of the show is also available.
Soundtrack Recording of
“The Golden Cage”
How to Unlock “The Golden Cage”
For your theater, community, university – and yourself
Now both the show itself and the film of “The Golden Cage” are available to inspire and empower theater companies, performers, audiences and students in many ways:
- THEATER & OPERA COMPANIES can now LICENSE the show.
- PERFORMERS looking for a powerful VEHICLE can present concert, workshop or theatrical presentations of the piece.
- AUDIENCES IN REMOTE AREAS without access to live theater can VIEW the original workshop production as a film and have access to the composers “Unlocking the Golden Cage” podcasts and Journal.
- UNIVERSITIES and other EDUCATIONAL organizations can use the show in cross-department projects combining music, theater, philosophy, health and women’s studies.
Author’s TEDx Talk:
“How to Get Out of your Inner Cage”
STREAM THE FILM
In 2022 “The Golden Cage” was workshopped in NYC and filmed by the “Streaming Musicals” platform for distribution as a film. Producers please note that the original production was performed with solo piano. The orchestrations you’ll hear in the film were added in post-production.
There were four questions the author could never answer about the show – four answers that would unlock the meaning of the cage in her own life and show her the human connections that were missing.