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GONE MISSING
Written and Directed By: Steve Cosson
Music and Lyrics By: Michael Friedman
Additional Text By: Peter Morris
Created By: The Company: Steve Cosson, Damian Baldet, Trey Lyford, Jennifer R. Morris, Brian Sgambati, Alison Weller, and Colleen Werthman
Additional Interviews Conducted By: Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Matthew Francis, Winter Miller and Charlie Schroeder.
Directed & Written by:
Steve Cosson from interviews by the Company*
Music & Lyrics by:
Michael Friedman
Additional Text by:
Peter Morris
Created by the Company:
Damian Baldet, Trey Lyford, Jennifer R. Morris, Brian Sgambati, Alison Weller, and Colleen Werthman
Additional interviews conducted by:
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Matthew Francis, Winter Miller and Charlie Schroeder.
Developmental workshop participants:
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Isaac Butler, Matthew Francis, Jonathan Spector, & Winter Miller.
Gone Missing received its World Premiere by The Civilians at The Belt, New York City, October 9, 2003, directed by Steve Cosson with the following cast: Damian Baldet, Maria Dizzia, Michael Esper, Trey Lyford, Jennifer R. Morris, and Alison Weller. It was premiered in London by the Civilians at The Gate Theatre, February 5, 2004, directed by Steve Cosson, with the following cast: Damian Baldet, Maria Dizzia, Christina Kirk, Trey Lyford, Mark Saturno, and Alison Weller.
The play subsequently received its Off-Broadway Premiere, produced by Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter at the Barrow Street Theatre, in association with The Civilians, June 24, 2007. It was directed by Steve Cosson, with the following cast: Emily Ackerman, Damian Baldet, Jennifer R. Morris, Stephen Plunkett, Robbie Collier Sublett, and Colleen Werthmann.
New York Daily News “Hot: Small Musicals, Big Delights”
New York Daily Sun “smart, sad, and effortlessly tuneful”
The Seattle Times “something special: a mundane and metaphysical cabaret of bereavement”
Star Ledger “a thoughtful and sometimes loony show about forgotten wallets, missing childhood sock puppets, the lost island of Atlantis”
The New York Times Profile of Damian Baldet with video clips.
Daily News “uses the small and tangible – a mislaid wallet, say, or scarf – as a way to tap into yearning for what’s irrevocably left us”
Blog Critics “Go see this if you are in love with someone and want an evening that will bind up the little scratchy gaps you are feeling right now.”
Flavor Pill “straddles the documentary and musical genres, succeeding in both”
Broadway.com “Gone Missing Extends Again at Barrow Street Theatre”
Courier News “this is painfully funny! I certainly wasn’t leaving that evening without purchasing their CD”
Lost Horizon by Michael Friedman