QUANTUM JANIS
BOOK, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY
RICHARD ISEN
DIRECTED BY
ROBERT LAWSON
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, AT 7:00 PM
Imagine an alternate universe where Janis Joplin had to navigate the music business in the psychedelic 1960s as an African American woman. Welcome to the world of Quantum Janis. Here, Janis made only one album, quit the music business and bought an old Victorian hotel in San Francisco where she aspired to create a hippie utopia. On this particular night, the audience follows Janis as she chases the famous rock version of herself realizing that she must reconcile her choices in life with her regrets and with a world that abandoned her “summer of love” dream long ago. Can she rekindle her ideals and find a way forward as she enters the autumn years of her life?
BOOK, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY
RICHARD ISEN
DIRECTED BY
ROBERT LAWSON
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, AT 7:00 PM
Imagine an alternate universe where Janis Joplin had to navigate the music business in the psychedelic 1960s as an African American woman. Welcome to the world of Quantum Janis. Here, Janis made only one album, quit the music business and bought an old Victorian hotel in San Francisco where she aspired to create a hippie utopia. On this particular night, the audience follows Janis as she chases the famous rock version of herself realizing that she must reconcile her choices in life with her regrets and with a world that abandoned her “summer of love” dream long ago. Can she rekindle her ideals and find a way forward as she enters the autumn years of her life?