The Match Girl's Snow Queen
A Musical
Composer Facsimile Edition, 50 min.
Among Larson's theater projects are two with Joe Martin: a musical, The Match Girl's Snow Queen, produced in 1993 at American University in Washington, D.C. by Open Theatre, of which she was a founding member, and incidental music for a stylized production of Strindberg's Ghost Sonata in 1988 at American Showcase theater (published by I.E. Clark). With Michael Oliver, Larson wrote Seven Faces, a theater piece based on the seven stages of grief, that was performed as a song cycle in 1990 by the University of Maryland's 20th Century Ensemble.
Overture | mp3 | Over Plains | mp3 |
Match Girl's Song | mp3 | Robber Drinking Song | |
Troll Scene | mp3 | Wild Doves | mp3 |
In the Valley Grow the Roses | mp3 | Lullaby for Robber Granny | mp3 |
Sleigh Ride | mp3 | Over Plains | |
River Scene | mp3 | What Love Can Do | mp3 |
Flower Scene | Over Plains Snowflake Regiment |
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Hoping | The Years Go By | ||
Robbers Opening Scene | mp3 | Finale | mp3 |
The Open Theatre cast of the Snow Queen includes: Leigh Wirth as The Match Girl, Bert Wirth as The Grandmother, Lisa Lias as Gerda, Raquis Petree as Kay, Steve Wilhite as Crow & Robber & Granny, Deborah Holstine as Lady Crow, Ellen Boggs as The Finn Woman, Stella Davie as Robber Girl, Edie Senter as Princess & Lapp Woman & Snow Queen, Mark Simpson as Reindeer and, as many others, is in the Ice Chorus. The musicians are: Edith Di Bartolo, piano; Lillian Armstrong, flute; Kevin Cordt, trumpet; Jane Creagan, percussion; and Anna Larson, synthesizer. The director is Joe Martin and musical direction is by Anna Larson.