A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION: a full-length musical adaptation of the play “The Equivalent of Sensation” by Arianna Rose

Music/lyrics by Amy Engelhardt. Book/lyrics by Arianna Rose

This developmental concert reading is part of MUSICAL THEATRE WEST’s New Works Reading Festival

The presentation is FREE but you MUST RSVP HERE

At the night before the unveiling of the million-dollar renovation of their renowned Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art, long dead sisters Etta and Claribel Cone suddenly materialize. "Family friend" Gertrude Stein and her paramour Alice Toklas (equally dead) also pop up, uninvited (much to Etta’s dismay). Their mission: to settle once and for all how the “Friendship” between Etta and Gertrude fell apart.  Their younger selves appear to help them sort it all out.  The surrounding artwork also miraculously comes to life, acting as a Greek chorus.