ANDY: A POPERA Program | Opera Philadelphia

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Program

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We l c o m e

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A N D Y: A P o p e r a

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Synopsis & Running Time

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Director's Note: Let's Play a Game

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Andy in His O w n Wo r d s

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Artists

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Q&A with Victoria Rogers For information about advertising in a Showcase program, contact Joe Ciresi at 215-790-5884.

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ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS

EXPERIENCE DISCOVERY

THE

2015-2016 SEASON

MOZART

DON GIOVANNI VO I C E S O F T O D AY

That sang Don Giovanni at AVA 2000 Burak Bilgili Othalie Graham Latonia Moore 2005 Ellie Dehn Bryan Hymel Michael Fabiano 2011 Michelle Johnson Taylor Stayton Chrystal E. Williams Nicholas Masters 2015

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CENTER CITY NOV 7-12 | LEHIGH VALLEY NOV 14 MAIN LINE NOV 17-19 | BUCKS COUNTY NOV 21 4

215.735.1685 | AVAOPERA.ORG

Photo by Kate Raines | Plate 3 Photography

Dear Friends, The road to the World Premiere of ANDY: A Popera began as all great artistic partnerships should begin: over yoga, pizza, and beer!

In early 2014, after a particularly grueling yoga session, we started talking about the artistic values shared by Opera Philadelphia and The Bearded Ladies Cabaret: utilizing great music, virtuosic singing, and theatrical experimentation to connect with contemporary audiences.

In the course of our conversation about ways to team Philadelphia’s opera company with its rising cabaret troupe, John brought up the great Andy Warhol, an artist who frequently appropriated popular culture and negotiated the realms of high art and low art, bringing everyday items like soup cans, Brillo boxes into a museum so that we looked at them from a new perspective.

By the end of pizza and beer, a Popera had been born!

These past two years have been a collaborative journey that has joyously forced both of our companies to abandon our usual ways of creating art in order to do something new. We created ANDY in three stages, releasing bits and pieces in popup performances and staging a cabaret show at the Wilma Theater 14 months ago, yielding which valuable insights into the work that informed its development to tonight’s final stage.

We have been fortunate to have the support of Knight Foundation throughout this process from its early development to its culmination on the stage. Victoria Rogers, Knight Foundation’s vice president for arts, and her staff have enthusiastically embraced our exploration of the phenomenon that is Andy Warhol. We thank them for their amazing support! We also thank the William Penn Foundation and The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for funding this exciting project.

This is the story of a boy who becomes a brand. The question we explore is: what is the cost? From the beginning, we have explored that question by bringing together artists and audiences from different fields, and we could not ask for a better venue than the Fringe Festival for this experiment to come alive.

Thank you for coming along for the ride!

Dav i d B . D e va n G e n e r al D i r e c t o r & P r e s i d e n t o p e r a p h i lad e l p h i a 5

john jarboe artistic director t h e b e a r d e d lad i e s

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Maestro Giovanni Reggioli, leads a thrilling cast including Steven Condy, Grant Youngblood, Victoria Cannizzo, Sharin Apostolou and Ryan MacPherson. Directed by Dean Anthony.

•COME REVEL WITH US• MAY 14-22, 2016

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ANDY: A Popera World Premiere

mu s i c Heath

Allen & Dan Visconti

t e x t John Jarboe in development with Sean Lally & ensemble

directo r

sound desi g n

Daniel Perelstein

video desi g n

Jorge Cousineau

John Jarboe

set desi g n Oona

Curley

costume desi g n Rebecca

lighting desi g n

properties desi g n

wig desi g n

Kanach

Mike Inwood Alice Yorke Rachael Geier

chorus mas t e r Elizabeth

Braden

a ssistant directo r

& dramatu r g Sally Ollove

stage manag e r

producti o n manag e r

Jason Pizzi Amy Kurzban

Production underwritten in part by

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ANTIGONE

BY Sophocles

TRANSLATED BY Marianne McDonald

DIRECTED BY Theodoros Terzopoulos October 7 - November 8, 2015

THE

HARD PROBLEM

BY Tom Stoppard

Zizka DIRECTED BY Blanka Zizka February 6, 6, 2016 2016 January 6 - February

AN OCTOROON

BY Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

DIRECTED BY Joanna Settle March 16 - April 10, 2016

THE CHRISTIANS

BY Lucas Hnath

DIRECTED BY Timothy Bond

CO-PRODUCED WITH Sycracuse Stage May 4 - May 29, 2016 Jennifer Kidwell, Sarah GliKo, JuStin Jain, JameS iJameS, ed Swidey, delance minefee PhotoS by matt SaunderS

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The C a s t JULIA WARHOLA Malgorzata Kasprzycka ANDREI Mar y Tuomanen EDITH Kristen Bailey CANDY Scott McPheeters VALERIE Kate Raines JOSEPH Sean Lally ANDY Members of the Opera Philadelphia Chorus

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production team Assistant Music Director.....................Daniel Kazemi Assistant to Dan Visconti..........................Rene Orth House Manager.......……………….…..Lorna Howley Assistant House Manager...........................Molly Yun Technical Director…........Seth Thomas Schmitt-Hall Assistant Technical Director.…..................Joe Daniels Master Electrician.................................Laura Schoch Assistant Stage Manager...............................Val Dunn Assistant Stage Manager Intern.............Sara Marinich Audio Engineer…………...........................Toby Pettit Video Operator………………..............Dan Dickerson Followspot Operators...........................Sara Marinich

Paul Deichmann Movement Consultant......................Scott McPheeters Wardrobe Run Crew…………..….........Camila Romero Assistant Costume Director...................Becca Austin Stitcher/Draper...…...................................Tara Webb Stage Crew.................................Simon Schmitt-Hall Rajiv Shah AJ Garrigus Ivan Dellinger

The bearded ladies company members

THE BAND

Special thanks to our warehouse landlord, Adam Ritter!

Conductor / Viola.............................Melissa Dunphy Keyboard.................................................Heath Allen Bass..................................................Steven Beskrone Drums...............................................Jimmy Coleman Guitar.......................................................Greg Davis

opera philadelphia CHORUS Soprano............................. Veronica Chapman-Smith

Noël Graves-Williams Alize Rozsnyai Alto........................................Katherine Mallon-Day Maren Montalbano Karina Sweeney Tenor.............................................David Young Koh William Lim, Jr. Steven Williamson Bass...............................................John David Miles James Osby Gwathney, Jr. Jackson Williams

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Artistic Director.......................................John Jarboe Associate Artistic Director.......................Sally Ollove General Manager........................Cynthia Janzen Rose Graphic Designer.................................Philip McFee Company Members.................................Heath Allen Kristen Bailey John Jarboe Rebecca Kanach Sally Ollove Daniel Perelstein Kate Raines

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to Swarthmore College Costume Shop and Camden Print Works for donations!

Thanks to Bahdeebahdu for the swanky intermission locale!

Thank you to Liz Filios and Jenn Kiddwell for their involvement in the development of ANDY! Thank you to the staff at the Andy Warhol Museum for their assitance in research for ANDY. ANDY: A Popera is part of the 2015 Fringe Festival

SYNO P SIS ANDY: A Popera is meant to be consumed naturally. If you’d like to read a synopsis of the show in advance, please take out your smartphone and click on the scANDY below.

Warning: spoilers ahead!

This production includes explicit language, sudden loud noises, sexual content, and nudity. It is in English with no supertitles and uses amplification. By attending the show, you are consenting to being filmed and photographed.

Approximate running time for ANDY: A Popera is 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.

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CURTIS

LA BOHĂˆME MANON

OCTOBER 3-4

NOVEMBER 19-22

World Premiere

EMPTY THE HOUSE JANUARY 21-24 CAPRICCIO

MARCH 2, 4, 6

Collaboration with Opera Philadelphia and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

MAY 4, 7, 8

Special Gala Performance: Amadeus Affair, May 6 TICKETS STARTING AT $5 CURTIS.EDU/TICKETS

S h a r e y o u r t h o u g h t s u s i ng # an d y p o p e r a w i t h @operaphila & @knowyourbeards

Taste of the Holidays Julian Milkis, Canadian clarinetist together with

Siberian Virtuosi from Russia December 17, 2015, 8pm Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center

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l e t ' s p l ay a g a m e !

Take out a smart phone (yours, your neighbor's, or one you find in the lobby space).

Turn it on, and turn the camera on you, ideally so that you can see yourself.

Do you look great?

Wow!

I think you look great.

You should capture that.

Yeah, that's great.

Feel free to take as many pictures of yourself as you want during the next two hours.

Enj o y t h e s h o w.

j o hn ja r b o e director

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in his own words

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D o n ' t pay any att e nt i o n t o w h at t h e y w r i t e a b o u t y o u . J u st m e as u r e i t i n i n c h e s .

A n a rt i st i s s o m e b o dy w h o p r o d u c e s t h i n g s t h at p e o p l e don ’t need to have. i n t h e f u t u r e , e v e r y b o dy w i l l b e w o r l d fa m o u s f o r f i f t e e n minutes.

I ' m a f r a i d t h at i f y o u l o o k at a t h i n g lo n g en ou g h, i t lo s es a l l o f i ts m e an i n g .

It ’ s n o t w h at y o u a r e t h at c o u nts ; i t ’ s w h at t h e y t h i n k y o u A r e .

A rt i s anyt h i n g y o u c an g e t a way w i t h .

I don ’t think people die. The y j u st g o t o d e pa rt m e nt st o r e s .

P e o p l e s h o u l d fa l l i n l o v e w i t h t h ei r e y es c lo s ed.

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"

Artists H e ath A l l e n Composer

e l i z a b e th braden

P r o f e ss i o n

c h o r u s m as t e r

Creator of music and words for rituals

p r o f e ss i o n Chorus Master & Director of Music

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Two: Wiseman and Fool

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

W h at i s a r t ?

Structures of play that offer us illusions of meaning and meaninglessness D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? I want to be soup...soup made from scratch

k r i st e n b a i l e y

v e r o n i ca cha p m an - s m i th

edith p r o f e ss i o n

truthteller

No (if we told, it wouldn't be a secret) W h at i s a r t ? Art is something much more than can be detailed in fifteen words or less D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Experience art, yes; be art, no

Amateur

chorus member p r o f e ss i o n

Opera Singer

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Beekeeper

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Chef, crafter, gardner

W h at i s a r t ?

Something that sees you just as you see it

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

W h at i s a r t ?

Aren't I?

Art to me is anything the evokes emotions for the audience/viewer or causes you to think of the world in a different light D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Yes

st e v e b e s k r o n e b ass p r o f e ss i o n

and teacher

j i m m y c o l e m an

Musician

drums P r o f e ss i o n

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Cat herder, but it's more of a hobby W h at i s a r t ? Human expression through chosen mediums

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

Drummer/Percussionist S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Laying Tile

Hell yeah!

W h at i s a r t ? The ability to express and ultimately communicate using life's gifts

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

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I am art!

jorge c o us i n e au

n o e l g r av e s williams

v i d e o d e s i gn e r

chorus member

P r o f e ss i o n

P r o f e ss i o n

Designer

Mommy, Singer, Teacher

"Farmer"

Craft Maven

A porthole

Something that is born out of the creative process that elicits an emotional response D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Yes, as part of artistic expression/the creative process but not in any static way

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

W h at i s a r t ?

W h at i s a r t ?

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

choice?

Do I have a

o o na cu r l e y s e t d e s i gn e r p r o f e ss i o n

Lighting Designer

ja m e s o s b y g wathn e y, j r .

Set Designer

chorus member

W h at i s a r t ?

p r o f e ss i o n

It's right in front of you

Singer, customer service team member, cashier

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

D o y o u wan t t o b e Art?

No

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Cigars and maple syrup W h at i s a r t ? That which is seen as art is art, art is beauty, beauty is what you see as beautiful D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? I want to be art

g r e g o r y d av i s g u i ta r p r o f e ss i o n

Guitar player/teacher

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Graffiti Artist

mike inwood

W h at i s a r t ?

l i g h t i ng d e s i gn e r

A nything that lights up

p r o f e ss i o n

your eye

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

We're all art

m e l i ssa d un p hy v i o la

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

work of art already

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

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Lighting Designer for the Macy's Christmas windows at their flagship store in New York City A social construct

Composer, performer, owner of the Hannah Callowhill Stage

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

W h at i s a r t ?

p r o f e ss i o n

Online flame warrior W h at i s a r t ? Useless

Lighting Designer

I already am

We are each a

Artists j o hn ja r b o e

d an k a z e m i

artistic director

ass i s tan t m u s i c

p r o f e ss i o n

director

Director, writer, actor, singer, Artistic Director of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

p r o f e ss i o n Music Director/Composer/ Orchestrator/Artist type

I used to get paid to make elaborate things out of cardboard W h at i s a r t ? No. Art is when... something is identified as such D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? My mind is telling me no but my body is telling me yes

r e b e cca k anach

d av i d k o h

c o s t u m e d e s i gn e r

chorus member

P r o f e ss i o n

p r o f e ss i o n A wand'ring minstrel

Hoarder, magic maker

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Rabbit whisperer, not so secret gnome W h at i s a r t ? Stuff... stored in the attic, wig heads on the mantle, glitter between the floorboards.

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? I am until I shower it off.

Perfume Wardrobe Consultant W h at i s a r t ? I don't feel totally qualified to answer this question D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Only if I can smell good while being art

m a l g o r z ata k as p r y z yc k a

A m y k u r z b an p r o d u c t i o n m anag e r

j u l i a wa r h o la

p r o f e ss i o n

P r o f e ss i o n

Manager

Warsaw born theatre director, performer and musician living in Paris.

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Secret underground Rock Star; Passionate lover of broken things, ocasional healer.

W h at i s a r t ? A movement, a process of transformation.

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? ...

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s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

French chef, amateur cabaret historian, queer activist, radical faerie W h at i s a r t ? A big important nothing, an aspiration, a prayer D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Never

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Production

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

might *wink*

I

W h at i s a r t ? Subjective beauty, most times difficult to execute

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

Eventually

s e an l a l ly joseph

sc o tt mcpheeters

p r o f e ss i o n

c andy

Performer

p r o f e ss i o n

Dancer, Movement Consultant/Cat

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Secretly lazy

W h at i s a r t ?

Anything can be art.

Someone decides.

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Herbalist

W h at i s a r t ?

Don’t art me

A practice

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

part of the creative process

I'd rather be a

william lim chorus member p r o f e ss i o n

A Professional Emergency Tenor

chorus member

Plant psychologist, Marilyn Monroe, Reincarnationer W h at i s a r t ? Caveman, seeing sabertooth, runs. - Science! Sabertooth trips. Caveman, sticking out tongue, chants "Womp, womp." Art! D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Art wants to be me

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

k ath e r i n e m a l l o n - d ay

p r o f e ss i o n

Opera singer

Woodworker, Landscaper, Black Belt W h at i s a r t ? Art embellishes and comments

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

art, not me

chorus member p r o f e ss i o n

P r o f e ss i o n

Opera singer

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

(Past) Dolphin research assistant; (Present) Backyard archaeologist W h at i s a r t ? Soulburst; life should be D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Now and forever

Yes but see the

maren m o nta l b an o

chorus member

Singer/actor/teacher

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j o hn d av i d miles

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Fairy godmother W h at i s a r t ? Art is what feeds your soul

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

Most days, yes.

Artists sa l ly o l l o v e

k ath r yn r a i n e s

ass i s tan t d i r e c t o r /

val e r i e

d r a m at u r g

P r o f e ss i o n

Photographer

P r o f e ss i o n

Dramaturg

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Seeker

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Dramaturgy is a secret profession W h at i s a r t ? What you want it to be

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

me to be art?

W h at i s a r t ?

opening

An

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

Do you want

Y

cynth i a jan z e n rose g e n e r al m anag e r

r e n e o r th

p r o f e ss i o n The Beadered Ladies General Manager

ass i s tan t t o t h e composer p r o f e ss i o n

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Composer

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Ninja/cracked iPhone repairwoman W h at i s a r t ? Art is art.

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

What is art?

d an i e l p e r e l st e i n s o u nd d e s i gn e r p r o f e ss i o n

Sound Designer

I am an interpreter of Dolley Madison, and could probably make it as a bricklayer W h at i s a r t ? For me, it is many things at different times. Right now it is a movement to sharing timeless and, hopefully, universal truths and to examine social constructs through a variety of mediums D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Art is too large and expansive for me alone. I would love to be a part of art

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

No

a l i z e r o z snya i

W h at i s a r t ?

...

chorus member p r o f e ss i o n Musician/ operatic singer/actor/ artist/performer

D o y o u wan t t o b e Art?

No

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

jas o n p i z z i s tag e m anag e r P r o f e ss i o n

Stage manager

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Yes

W h at i s a r t ?

which affect

Works

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

grow up 20

When I

Searching for unclaimed treasures/adventurer W h at i s a r t ? Anything that is created with an emotional response to something, intended to illicit an emotional response D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ? Art is not something someone is, it is something they create.

k a r i na s w e e n e y chorus member

st e v e n williamson

p r o f e ss i o n

chorus member

Opera singer

p r o f e ss i o n

Knitter extraordinaire

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Singer

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

It's a secret!

W h at i s a r t ?

Art is a captured moment of fleeting beauty

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

I am art

m a r y tu o m an e n

W h at i s a r t ? Art is "an adventure of the mind�

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

AM art alice yorke

and r e i

p r o p s m as t e r

p r o f e ss i o n

Actor/playwright

p r o f e ss i o n

Bandit

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Creative doer

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

A normal reaction to being born

French baker

W h at i s a r t ?

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

I already

W h at i s a r t ?

Meow

intimacy

Public

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

No, thank you

d an v i sc o nt i composer p r o f e ss i o n

Music composer

s e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

I won't if I tell you all!

W h at i s a r t ? Seeing each other seeing

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

better than being art

Making art is

jac k s o n williams

Your Happily Ever After.

chorus member P r o f e ss i o n

Ummm, uh, singer

S e c r e t p r o f e ss i o n

Yes, but it's a secret W h at i s a r t ? You know it when you see it... sometimes

D o y o u wan t t o b e A r t ?

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I honestly

Q&a

with

victoria rogers

vice president for arts | knight foundation

Victoria Rogers is a vice president at Knight Foundation, where she invests in projects that help build community through the arts. Knight Foundation, a long time funder of both Opera Philadelphia and The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, is a lead sponsor of ANDY: A Popera.

Q What is your name?

Q Really though, tell us about

Victoria Rogers

why you recently decided to leave a career leading non-

Q What is your profession?

profit institutions like the New

I have the great fortune to oversee

World Symphony to join Knight

grants made in the arts by Knight

Foundation.

Foundation.

The arts are part and parcel of who I am. So the opportunity to be a part

Q Do you have a secret profession? of a broader conversation about arts

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My name is Victoria. Of course I

in the U.S., and to be in a position to

have a secret profession. And no, I

fund innovative ideas like ANDY, was

won't share that information.

a natural fit.

Q What is art?

people’s lives. Beta-testing ANDY at

The opposite of entertainment.

supermarkets and in Philly’s many

Entertainment allows us to safely

neighborhoods, and challenging

stay within our frame of reference.

audiences with this production, is a

Art on the other hand challenges us

great way to fulfill that mission.

to see the world in a different way, to engage in another's perspective,

Q Andy said, “Art is anything

to broaden our understanding, to

you can get away with.” Do you

address issues, and frequently to

agree?

marvel at the magic that is created.

No, art is much more than that. If you’re looking at it from the Pop Art

Q Do you want to be art?

perspective – with artists using irony

In some ways, aren't we all art?

and wit to critique popular culture– then maybe.

Q Why did ANDY: A Popera appeal to you as a project?

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We heard there would be soup cans

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I don't think he would be surprised

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by reality TV shows. Have they had

performance. How could we resist?

their 15 minutes yet?

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