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the musical
...because no woman should have to be naked to be notable.
book&lyrics:Germaine Shames music:Tareq Abuissa
When a second-tier American art museum unexpectedly receives Manet's Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe on loan for a landmark exhibition, the curator's wife learns a lesson in art history, l'amour, and the necessity of following one's dreams.
ENJOY SELECTIONS FROM THE SCORE
1. A New Exhibition! -
00:002. Naked -
00:003. Madame Duffee's Lament -
00:004. He Doesn't Get It -
00:00 5. Damn Good Life -
00:00 / 02:25
5. Damn Good Life -
00:006. Victorine -
00:007. You Were That Boy -
00:008. Paint the World -
00:009. Dead White Men -
00:0010. I'm Free! -
00:0011. Edouard Manet -
00:0012. Never Mine -
00:0013. Crashing Down -
00:0014. My Grace -
00:0015. Passion -
00:00Grace
Manet
Victorine
Grace
1/3
A troubled marriage. A burned-out artist finding her way back to wonder. Long-dead artist models stepping out from their paintings into a world changed beyond recognition. Magic and mischief conspire to make the opening of a landmark exhibition a life-changing renaissance.
Naked brings nineteenth-century Paris to the doorstep of a Midwestern museum and lays bare the hypocrisy of a patriarchal art world that disadvantages female artists while using female bodies for their own ends. With music, humor and love, Naked reminds us that no woman should have to be naked to be notable.
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