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We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time, a musical memoir written and performed by Obie Award-winning David Cale, will open the Goodman Theatre 2018/2019 Season.
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A musical memoir of hope, family and transcendence, Cale’s newest solo performance piece features songs he has written, with arrangements and underscoring composed by Matthew Dean Marsh—performed live by Marsh and a quintet of musicians at each performance.
“We are thrilled to open our new season with We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time—a strikingly beautiful new work from one of the most gifted artists I’ve been privileged to collaborate with over the course of 30 years,” said Goodman Artistic Director Robert Falls, who is directing this season opener production. “Highly personal and unusually intimate, David’s play is a complex journey of survival and transformation. I look forward to sharing this extraordinary story with Chicago audiences—many of whom first welcomed him here, so many years ago.”
We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time is described by Goodman Theatre as a humorous musical memoir told in a unique style. Growing up in an industrial English town, Cale escaped his parents’ fraught marriage by singing in his bedroom and tending to birds in the animal hospital he built in a garden shed—until a tragedy changed everything. Songs and story combine to give an intimate portrait of his mother—a charismatic woman trapped by her circumstances—providing a vivid testament of connecting to life when adversity is suddenly everywhere.
Cale returns to the Goodman for his seventh work, following previous productions of The Redthroats (1988), Smooch Music(1989), Deep in a Dream of You (1991), Somebody Else’s House (1993), Lillian (1997) and Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky (2005).
Cale has a long resume of musical credits. As an actor, Cale’s film and television credits include The Slaughter Rule, Pollock and The Good Wife. He has performed in plays on Broadway and off, including The Total Bent (Public Theater).
