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Kansas City Choir Boy

A.R.T. Breakout

  • OCTOBER 1, 2015 – OCTOBER 10, 2015

  • OBERON

  • Run Time: 1 hour

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Music and Lyrics by Todd Almond
Directed by Kevin Newbury
Choreography by Sam Pinkleton
Musical Direction by David Bloom
Starring Courtney Love and Todd Almond

A mystery told through flashbacks, this one hour show tells the story of two lovers in small town America who separate when one goes in search of destiny and then disappears. Borrowing themes from ancient myth, Kansas City Choir Boy is a love song for the computer age and a product of the 24-hour news cycle that feeds on the stories of the anonymous “missing”.

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This performance contains strobe lights.

There will be no late seating.

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This performance contains strobe lights.

There will be no late seating.

Age Appropriateness

This performance has strong language and adult themes, appropriate for mature teenagers. Please note that OBERON is an 18+ venue and minors must be accompanied with an adult.

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WGBH

Courtney Love Rocks Theater Dreams In ‘Kansas City Choir Boy’

Courtney Love, the onetime front woman of the grunge-rock group Hole, widow of Kurt Cobain and she of the often tattered image, is still pushing boundaries. This time though, they’re all her own. 

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Courtney Love, the onetime front woman of the grunge-rock group Hole, widow of Kurt Cobain and she of the often tattered image, is still pushing boundaries. This time though, they’re all her own. 

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Edge Boston: Review Update :: Kansas City Choir Boy

Courtney Love is captivating. Even in her rather small role in “Kansas City Choirboy,” there is not a moment that you are not compelled to watch her.

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Courtney Love is captivating. Even in her rather small role in “Kansas City Choirboy,” there is not a moment that you are not compelled to watch her.

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WBUR The ARTery

WBUR The ARTery: Courtney Love In ‘Kansas City Choir Boy’: A Rock Opera Romance, Of Sorts

Love stayed within bounds and rather wrenchingly portrayed the late girlfriend of the unnamed singer-musician played by the younger Almond.

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Love stayed within bounds and rather wrenchingly portrayed the late girlfriend of the unnamed singer-musician played by the younger Almond.

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The Improper Bostonian

Improper Bostonian: Courtney Love Settles into ‘Kansas City Choir Boy’ at Oberon

Todd Almond backs a subdued Courtney Love in “Kansas City Choir Boy” at Oberon.

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Todd Almond backs a subdued Courtney Love in “Kansas City Choir Boy” at Oberon.

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Edge Boston

Edge Boston: Todd Almond on Writing, Performing with Courtney Love in ‘Kansas City Choir Boy’

EDGE speaks to Mr. Almond from his Brooklyn home about the show, its origin and working with Ms. Love.

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EDGE speaks to Mr. Almond from his Brooklyn home about the show, its origin and working with Ms. Love.

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The Boston Globe

Boston Globe: Courtney Love is attraction, but songs carry ‘Choir Boy’

Love is charismatic. She moves with a sultry swagger and her chemistry with Almond is apparent.

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Love is charismatic. She moves with a sultry swagger and her chemistry with Almond is apparent.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe: Courtney Love and Todd Almond perform an ‘album’ of greatest hurts

Todd’s stuff is very difficult for me. There’s a lot of pausing, and as he told me, the sex is in the pause. I had to learn that patience and enjoy it. It’s not second nature to me like four-to-the-floor rock is. But it’s new, which is exciting to me.

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Todd’s stuff is very difficult for me. There’s a lot of pausing, and as he told me, the sex is in the pause. I had to learn that patience and enjoy it. It’s not second nature to me like four-to-the-floor rock is. But it’s new, which is exciting to me.

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DigBoston

DigBoston: Talking Kansas City Choir Boy with Stars Courtney Love and Todd Almond

Well, I think that my favorite aspect of theater is the live quality of it, and the fact that you’re making art with [and] for the people that are in the room, at that exact moment.

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Well, I think that my favorite aspect of theater is the live quality of it, and the fact that you’re making art with [and] for the people that are in the room, at that exact moment.

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Billboard

Billboard: Courtney Love’s Opera, ‘Kansas City Choir Boy,’ Is Much Better Than You Would Expect

Love described the main characters to Billboard as “a boy and a girl that are the coolest in town.” As the too-cool-for-Kansas girl who loves her choir boy but needs something larger from life, Love is perfect: at turns playful, distant, resolute and lost. And for a play with no real dialogue, the relationship between Almond and Love feels genuinely sensual — even when they’re not making out sans shirts (Love keeps her bra on, of course), they move as if magnetically bonded to each other.

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Love described the main characters to Billboard as “a boy and a girl that are the coolest in town.” As the too-cool-for-Kansas girl who loves her choir boy but needs something larger from life, Love is perfect: at turns playful, distant, resolute and lost. And for a play with no real dialogue, the relationship between Almond and Love feels genuinely sensual — even when they’re not making out sans shirts (Love keeps her bra on, of course), they move as if magnetically bonded to each other.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Kansas City Choir Boy’: Theater Review

But she’s certainly a compelling, ethereal presence, at one point whipping off her shirt to reveal a black bra and later clad in a gorgeous black gown designed by Zac Posen. Effortlessly conveying both a youthful, ingénue-like quality and a harder edge that suggests her character’s dissipation, she’s good enough to make one wish she had given more attention to her acting career, which included a Golden Globe-nominated screen turn in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

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But she’s certainly a compelling, ethereal presence, at one point whipping off her shirt to reveal a black bra and later clad in a gorgeous black gown designed by Zac Posen. Effortlessly conveying both a youthful, ingénue-like quality and a harder edge that suggests her character’s dissipation, she’s good enough to make one wish she had given more attention to her acting career, which included a Golden Globe-nominated screen turn in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone: Courtney Love’s Opera Debut: Unsurprisingly Awesome, Slyly Punk Rock

The music is lean, balancing pop’s go-for-the-throat emoting with showier stage exposition, guitar-driven soft-rock passages and laptop electronica that sounds like Trent Reznor if he was weaned on Sondheim.

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The music is lean, balancing pop’s go-for-the-throat emoting with showier stage exposition, guitar-driven soft-rock passages and laptop electronica that sounds like Trent Reznor if he was weaned on Sondheim.

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New York Times

New York Times: A Bruising Love Throbs Anew

Ms. Love, looking trim and intense, her long blond hair caught in a tangled ponytail, portrays the onetime love of a dream-bound musician in Mr. Almond’s dramatically blurry but musically inviting work…

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Ms. Love, looking trim and intense, her long blond hair caught in a tangled ponytail, portrays the onetime love of a dream-bound musician in Mr. Almond’s dramatically blurry but musically inviting work…

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