Rock Piece Dagmar's Door No. 1 Performed at NYMF, Sept. 15

By: BWW News Desk Sep. 01, 2005

Composer/lyricist Jim Bauer, winner of a 2004 Jonathan Larson Award and writer of last year's acclaimed The Blue Flower at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, will return to this year's NYMF with Dagmar, a new band, and Dagmar's Door No. 1, a new music-meets-narrative experiment he started working on a couple of years ago. The 90-minute show will be performed at Makor (located in the Steinhardt Center of the 92nd St. Y at 35 W. 67th Street) on Thursday, September 15th at both 7:30 PM and 10 PM.

"Picking up down the road a piece from where David Byrne (Talking Heads) and David Bowie travel in their theatricalized music adventures, Dagmar has a surreal story cycling through the mountain-to-valley music arrangements about a guy who can't get out of bed in the morning and an excitable insect goddess who plunges through the ether to rescue him," as the show is described in production notes. The world-class six-piece band includes Bauer on vocals and guitar, the electrifying actor/singer Meghan McGeary (Hannah in The Blue Flower) on vocals and flute, Weimarband veterans David Rozenblatt and Pablo Rieppi on drums and percussion, Mat Fieldes on bass and Jennifer Choi on violin. He also says of the show's title: "To me the name 'Dagmar' connotes something Eastern European. There's also the mythology, the song cycle aspect of it. Dagmar is a goddess, a spirit from the farthest possible place, who visits this guy locked away in his little room."

"I was already working on the Weimarband project, a sort of mixture of 1920s German cabaret, Kurt Weill music with the kind of Texas country music that I grew up with. I see Dagmar as a continuation of that sound, but it's more freestyle. The music has no particular, pre-planned destination. It simply takes you. Open ended. It wants to travel," stated Bauer.

Dagmar's freestyle music of open-ended mobility can be heard on CD – a demo EP is currently available on the iTunes music store in advance of the studio recording of the full song cycle scheduled for October.

Tickets, which are $15, can be ordered by calling 212.601.1000 or visiting www.theatermania.com. For more information, visit www.dagmartheband.com.

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Rock Piece Dagmar's Door No. 1 Performed at NYMF, Sept. 15

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