OPERA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
8:00 PM

thingNY & Varispeed:  Musical Voices Around a Table *
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on 3rd Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

$20 advance; $25 door
http://roulette.org/event/thingny-and-varispeed-musical-voices-around-a-table/

Two overlapping NYC New Music-Theater collectives unite to present an incredibly enticing program of vocal-theatrical works (all performed by people sitting around a table).  There's an avant-garde classic, Kenneth Gaburo's late-'60s vocal piece Maledetto, where seven "virtuoso speakers" recite texts about screws (this is one of those things where your response to the description gives a good indication of whether you'd like it:  I hear something like that and I'm like, I'm THERE!).  And there's a new piece:  Passover, by the guy who wrote the analysis of Maledetto linked above, Rick Burkhardt (one of the Three Pianos guys!  what a night that was!), in which a group of singer-musicians sit around the table, each relating a story of a friend's escape from adverse personal circumstances.  This music-theater will interest you, it will appeal to you, it will make you think (about screws and escape).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:   Three's Brewing, a brewpub run by a local brewery, serves very good beer (and not just from Three's) -- and food from The Meat Hook butchers!  (Kitchen closes at 11 -- so hurry!)