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More Or Less I Am is a music- theater piece drawn from Walt Whitman's 1855 "Song of Myself" - conceived and directed by Karin Coonrod with original music by Colin Jacobsen, Kyle Sanna and Eric Jacobsen.
It involves a company of 13 - actors, singers and instrumentalists. MORE OR LESS I AM vitalizes Whitman's call to us, then and now, a declaration of interdependence , an awaking of the American consciousness. Here in full voice is our audacious poet laureate whose message so passionately articulates our enormous and creative diversity and seems to exhort us to get back to our soul and cut a deep mark together.
Whitman 200th Birthday Celebration Tour
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth on May 31, 2019, Compagnia De' Colombari presented a series of performances of this adaptation from Whitman's first major work.
May 18, 2:30 PM
Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
May 26, 7PM
Ft Greene Park, Brooklyn
May 28, 1:00 PM (Closed to the Public)
Department of Corrections, Manhattan
May 28, 7:30 PM
Housing Works Book Store, SoHo, Manhattan
Benefit Performance" 100% of proceeds to supporting
the missions of both Housing Works and Colombari.
May 29, 9:30 PM
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, NoHo, Manhattan
May 30, 7:00 PM
Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island
May 31, 7:00 PM
Whitman Birthplace, Huntington Long Island
June 1, 2:30 PM FREE
The Reading Room, Bryant Park, Manhattan
Whitman 200th Birthday Celebration Tour Company
Artistic/Production Cast
Karin Coonrod - director
Colin Jacobsen, Kyle Sanna, Eric Jacobsen, Alex Sopp - composers
Rory O. Pelsue - assistant director
Ken Goodwin - sound designer
Solomon Weisbard - lighting designer
Kyle Sanna - musical director
Michelle Joy Navis - stage manager
Patrick Salerno - assistant stage manager
Jennifer Newman - general manager, company manager
Michelle Tabnick - press representative
Ariana Albarella - social media & marketing manager
Actors
Dietrice Bolden
Sarah Heltzel
Sandor Isaack
Ashlyn Isler
Giovanni Pucci
Frank Rodriguez
Musicians
Jake Charkey - cello
Patrick Richardson Davis - steel pan drum
Grant Gordy - guitar
Andrew Rehrig - flute
Kyle A. Sanna - guitar
Skye Steele - violin
Kaoru Watanabe - flute
2010–2017 Performances
This piece has also been performed in numerous locations from 2010 to 2017:
July 2017
Governors Island
September 2012
The Greene Space, New York
September 2011
Pier 40 the Esplanade
The Old Stone House
Brooklyn Historical Society
Park Avenue Christian Church
May 2010
Marcus Garvey Park
Joe's Pub
Ft. Greene Park
The Wadleigh School
Barge Music
Walt Whitman Birthplace
Winter Garden World Financial Center
The Old Stone House
2012 Company
Creative Team
Karin Coonrod - director
Tony Geballe - sound designer
Paul Vasile - music director
Monica Risi - general manager
Regina Vorria - production manager
Ashley Zednick - stage manager
Actors
Dietrice Bolden
Max Casella
Ayeje Feamster
Sarah Heltzel
Michael Potts
Giovanni Pucci
Michael Rogers
Jorge Rubio
Carlton Taylor
Cheyanne Young
Musicians
Colin Jacobsen
Eric Jacobsen
Kenny Rampton
Kyle Sanna
Alex Sopp
More Or Less I Am is a music- theater piece drawn from Walt Whitman's 1855 "Song of Myself" - conceived and directed by Karin Coonrod with original music by Colin Jacobsen, Kyle Sanna and Eric Jacobsen.
It involves a company of 13 - actors, singers and instrumentalists. MORE OR LESS I AM vitalizes Whitman's call to us, then and now, a declaration of interdependence , an awaking of the American consciousness. Here in full voice is our audacious poet laureate whose message so passionately articulates our enormous and creative diversity and seems to exhort us to get back to our soul and cut a deep mark together.