The Hard Art Groop Presents: Cowtown
Filed under Chicago and Live Shows and Other Artistic Endeavors by Borch
Cowtown (The Musical The Opera)Welcome to Texlahoma, a quaint if not average town that knows only beef, dairy and football. Our story centers on a pair of cojoined twins who fall in love during the high school football half-time show and their subsequent struggle to get into the college of their choice.
Written by Hard Art Groop bassist John Elmquist and Jumpsuit, who split musical duties with HAG, Cowtown (The Musical The Opera) isn’t quite Orwell’s Animal Farm nor is it Oklahoma! It’s far too innocent and corrupt to be one or the other, what with songs about milk, football, eating meat, breathing meat, Siamese-twin-love… if there was a metaphor, I missed it, but I enjoyed all those puns, rhymes, and word-plays about cows.
What I mean is that it was very mooooooving.
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sounds like a round-up of themes! (ok, that was lame, but I couldn't resist!)
isn't cowtown fort worth?....im surprised you and sooner don't have large speaking parts in this ...
did that cow used to be golden calf?
i understand a golden calf may be worth more that a golden goose.
but i'd rather have bob or ruby.
Hayden, :), YDG My only speaking part was "Howdy, I'm Tawilliger Smog from Hog Junction!" high school play. Rube I'd rather have Bob & Ruby too.
Where can I see this performed?
Ah.... beef, dairy and football.
Did the twins want to go to seperate colleges? My brothers are twins and couldn't wait to go to different colleges. Probably not advised for the conjoined.
you can listen to the the whole thing here:
http://hardartgroop.com/albums/cowtown
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