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CELEBRATION is an attempt at a ritual musical. Based upon the ancient dramatic (and religious) enactment of the battle between Winter and Summer, it is set in a contemporary modern city on New Year's Eve. There at a party for the very rich, an innocent, green, young boy and a burnt out, decadent old man battle for the favours of an ambitious young actress. Overseeing it all, in the dual role of cynical bum and priestly narrator, is Potemkin, who invites us to join in this ancient celebration of the inevitable cycle of rebirth, the "seed beneath the snow."
CELEBRATION is an attempt at a ritual musical. Based upon the ancient dramatic (and religious) enactment of the battle between Winter and Summer, it is set in a contemporary modern city on New Year's Eve. There at a party for the very rich, an innocent, green, young boy and a burnt out, decadent old man battle for the favours of an ambitious young actress. Overseeing it all, in the dual role of cynical bum and priestly narrator, is Potemkin, who invites us to join in this ancient celebration of the inevitable cycle of rebirth, the "seed beneath the snow."
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