Written and Performed by David Cale
Lyrics by David Cale
Music by David Cale and Matthew Dean Marsh
Directed by Robert Falls
Arrangements and Music Direction by Matthew Dean Marsh

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– DAILY HERALD

Sept 15 - Oct 21, 2018 in Goodman's Albert Theatre

90 minutes, no intermission

We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time

A musical memoir of hope, family and transcendence.

Growing up, writer/performer David Cale escaped his parents’ fraught marriage by singing in his bedroom and tending to birds in his backyard animal hospital—until a tragedy changed everything. Lush songs—featuring “an exquisite six-piece orchestra” (PerformInk)—and an intimate portrait of his mother unite in Cale’s vivid “survival story, deeply moving in its courage” (Chicago Tribune).

 

 

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