The San Francisco Mime Troupe kicked off their 65th Season with AMERICAN DREAMS - A New Musical now through September 8th. The American Dream used to mean a job, a house, a car, a spouse, 2.5 kids & a 4 dog but what does it mean now? For some it is a good tide raising all boats, for others it is a tsunami that destroys everything. For some it is unity, for others it is dissolution. A handshake or a gun. One citizen’s dream has become another’s nightmare & those who fan the flames of the differences will gladly profit while democracy burns. AMERICAN DREAMS - A New Musical features a four-person cast that includes veteran SF Mime Troupe collective members Andre Amarotico (Oliver, Harold), Michael Gene Sullivan (Gabriel Pearse, Chancellor Quisling) & features Lizzie Calogero (Meliae Higgins, Emma) & Mikki Johnson (Paine Pearse). The musical is about Gabriel Pearce a Black man tired of liberal failures on the day after the presidential election. Giving up on progressivism wasn’t easy but casting his vote for a Conservative who promises to be grateful could mean a dream come true. However, for his daughter Paine - a teacher at a university caught between protesting students & threats to funding it’s a nightmare or was the lost election just a dream or will A.I. catch fire like Paine’s boyfriend Oliver sees in his nightmares. Whether you’re asleep or Woke what some see as nightmares others see as… American Dreams. AMERICAN DREAMS – A New Musical was
written by Michael Gene Sullivan, Music & Lyrics by Daniel Savio with Velina Brown director & Dred Scott musical director.
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