A R T I S T & C U L T U R A L P R O D U C E R
a making of catalog for "Cats on Broadway" theater production at The Bruce High Quality Foundation (Brooklyn, NY)
a making of catalog for "Cats on Broadway" theater production at The Bruce High Quality Foundation (Brooklyn, NY)
a making of catalog for "Cats on Broadway" theater production at The Bruce High Quality Foundation (Brooklyn, NY)
a making of catalog for "Cats on Broadway" theater production at The Bruce High Quality Foundation (Brooklyn, NY)
Production images from "Cats on Broadway" theater production at The Bruce High Quality Foundation (Brooklyn, NY) Image © The Bruce High Quality Foundation Photography: Oto Gillen
Catalog for "Cats on Bowery"exhibition at La Mama la Galleria (New York, NY) Image © The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Installation view of "Cats on Bowery" exhibition at La Mama la Galleria (New York, NY) Image © The Bruce High Quality Foundation Photography: Oto Gillen
Production images from "Cats on Broadway" theater production at The Bruce High Quality Foundation (Brooklyn, NY) Image © The Bruce High Quality Foundation Photography: Oto Gillen
CATS ON BROADWAY, Catalog
Art Direction & Production
Set on the border between Bed-Stuy and Bushwick (Broadway, Brooklyn) and performed in the newly renovated Bruce High Quality Foundation Theater (1100 Broadway, Brooklyn), Cats on Broadway brings together an all-volunteer cast of performers, musicians, stagehands, and designers to reflect the emotional conflicts of the gentrification of Brooklyn while satirizing both the utopian reform schemes and self-pitying nihilism often associated with the artists responsible for gentrification’s “first wave.”
Cats on Broadway consists of a series of vignettes progressing from late at night to early morning. Each vignette uses an original arrangement of a popular song performed by the Bruce High Quality Orchestra to situate a different character in the neighborhood (shopkeeper, minister, hoodlum, college student, prostitute, etc.) contextualizing their individual circumstances within themes of nostalgia, rage, sex, family, labor, redemption, etc.
And everyone is dressed like a cat.
MEMORIES
Catalog published on occasion of the theater production
CATS ON BROADWAY
Presented by The Bruce High Quality Foundation (New York, NY)
December 13 ~ 16, 2007
Production: Lena Imamura
Art Direction & Design: Lena Imamura & Alli Miller
Edition of 25
Published by The Bruce High Quality Foundation University Press
Publication © 2007 The Bruce High Quality Foundation
CATS ON BROADWAY
Catalog published on occasion of the exhibition
CATS ON BOWERY
at La Mama la Galleria (New York, NY)
February 6 ~ March 1, 2009
"You've Got To Be Kidding: Rembering Bed-Stuy" By Denzel. T Jackson
"The Original" By The Bruce High Quality Foundation
"A Legend is Born: Cats on Broadway" By The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Images © The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Production: Lena Imamura
Art Direction & Design: Lena Imamura & Alli Miller
Hardcover, 80 pages, dull 80# text, image wrap cover
Published by The Bruce High Quality Foundation University Press
Publication © 2009 The Bruce High Quality Foundation
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