BAM! Cradle Rock Style!
Reported by erun
Chocolate Genius' Marc Anthony Thompson, Ben Folds and the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt will perform two nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the venue's twentieth Next Wave Festival. The two performances, set for October 11th and 12th, are billed as the Next Wave of Song, and are part of a larger fourteen-performance schedule that includes the East Coast debut of Woyzeck, a musical directed by Robert Wilson, featuring music by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, as well as music by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and others; a Macbeth staged in twentieth century Asia; and Hard Nut, a recasting of The Nutcracker by the Mark Morris Dance Group. BAM's Next Wave Festival runs from October 1st through December 22nd. A complete schedule of events can be found at www.bam.org. More quotes from those involved can be found at RollingStone.com.