Elegies for angels, punks and raging queens

Musical Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell. Music by Janet Hood. Characters: 20-25 males, 11-16 females (doubling or expanding possible.) Unit set A celebration of lives lost to AIDS told in free verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score, this piece is designed to include the community in a theatrical response to the AIDS crisis. It is often performed as a benefit for fund raising and consciousness raising. "Dramatic."---Spectator "Immensely powerful.... The songs are uniformly good; the final song is sensational."---Financial Times "Bursts with humor, rage and hope."---Backstage. "Generates a feeling of love, humanity and common cause that sends you out glowing."---Glasgow HeraldRussell, Bill is the author of 'Elegies for angels, punks and raging queens' with ISBN 9780573695698 and ISBN 0573695695.