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Course Description

Summary

Airline Highway examines a tight knit community of “outsiders” over the course of a single, legendary day.  The Hummingbird Hotel is the figurative or literal home for a group of strippers, French Quarter service workers, hustlers, and poets who are bound together by their bad luck, bad decisions, and complete lack of pretense.  Presiding over them is Miss Ruby, a beloved former burlesque performer who has requested a funeral before she dies.  As the people whose lives she has touched gather to celebrate her, they must face themselves, each other, and the consequences of the choices they have made.  Airline Highway shows us the tenuous hold that community, authenticity, and real-time ritual have on a rapidly gentrifying New Orleans. The play contains roles for 5M, 5W, 1GNC actors and Supernumerary roles for actors, dancers, singers and musicians of  6-20. Students involved in this production will be delving into the musical world of this play which include music from The Soul Rebels, Dr. John, Kanye West, The Brothers Osborne, James Booker, Nina Simone, Ada Louise Metz, and various hymns. Lisa D’Amour is a former student of Sherry Kramer; as well as a playwright and interdisciplinary artist and one half of the OBIE-Award winning performance duo PearlDamour.  Her plays have produced by theaters across the country, including Manhattan theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway, Playwrights’ Horizons, Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, Clubbed Thumb, (all in NYC), Children’s Theater Company (Minneapolis), The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia) and Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington D.C.).