The Comic Tragedy of San Po Jo
a musical about atomic testing & plutocracy
based on an idea of Russ Feldman
book & lyrics with Mark Kingdon
music: Leonard Lehrman, op.1
(45') 7/62
2 performances, Roslyn Public Schools, Roslyn, NY, 5/63
directed by Peter Jaffe, with the composer at the piano
17 numbers:
1) Overture (incl. #5, 8, 7, 4, 11 & 2, in that order)
2) Gypsy Song: We Forsee!
3) National Anthem
4) My Sad Secret (Love Duet)
5) We're Gambling (Quartet)
6) Art Song (Song of the Arts) (Solo, then Duet)
7) I'll Wake Up in the Morning, Sunday (Solo)
8) Atomic Anthem
9) Church Prelude
10) Church Chorales
11) Wedding Song (& March)
12) Reprise of #2: We Forsee!
13) JFL's Melodrama (Solo)
14) My Favorite Thing (Solo, with Chorus)
15) Interlude(s)
16) Reprise of #5: We Were Gambling
17) Finale (incl. Reprises of #4 & 2)
#1 Overture performed at Temple Sinai, Roslyn 8/20/1989
#11 Wedding March used for Variations, op. 51
premiered by Bill Cowderey, Ithaca, NY 7/29/78
Click here for a photograph of Ann Shalleck, Alan Pasnik, and Leonard,
singing a sample of it - and a video of Alan & Lehrman singing it -
at their June 9, 2007 high school class reunion.
Also from that high school class reunion:
Mark Kingdon & Leonard Lehrman (photo by Helene Williams)