HAIL OBLIVION by Orion Stephanie Johnstone and Joshua William Gelb

HAIL OBLIVION is a surreal pirate adventure that unfurls across the globe and across centuries. From the Golden Age of Piracy (1717), where Major Stede Bonnet deserts his estate and family for a boat and crew, to the Golden Age of Hollywood (1943), where swashbuckling matinee idol Errol Flynn is arrested and exonerated in a very public statutory rape case, to the Golden Age of Venture Capitalism (present day), where a young advertising executive attempts to sell a luxury cruise in light of a recent Somali-Pirate hostage crisis. This propulsive fantasia is driven by a wild roller coaster of a score that carries us through these worlds with sea-shanties, jazz, rock, and beyond. An outlandish and provocative new piece of music theater, HAIL OBLIVION takes a hard look at our cultural infatuation with piracy, exposing the toxic heart of a hedonist fantasy drenched in violence, greed, and the relentless pursuit of individual freedom.

Tracklist

1.	Drifting in the Hand of Fortune	3:54

2.	The Ballad of Bonnet	4:03

3.	Whenever I Dream / Interview	2:11

4.	Bonnet on Trial	2:37

5.	Well I did buy a boat	0:36

6.	How the Sea Rages Inside Me	3:18

7.	Follow Me (The Sirens' Song)	3:54

8.	Wash Your Cares Away	2:22

9.	Cat-Gut Scraper	1:09

10.	Flynn Adrift	3:33

11.	Brisport Gets Fired	1:57

12.	Landlubber	1:30

13.	BMW Baby	3:03

14.	Spanish Ship Approaching	1:52

15.	Whenever I Dream Reprise	0:44

16.	Mary Allamby Bonnet	1:29

17.	Blackbeard	1:13

18.	You Don't Know Fuck, Old Man	2:13

19.	Brisport at the Bar	1:35

20.	Brisport's Ex Wife	1:50

21.	The Call of the Sea	0:54

22.	Flynn on Trial	5:50

23.	Bonnet's Aria (Part I)	2:15

24.	Blackbeard's Pardon	3:46

25.	Bonnet's Aria (Part II)	3:11

26.	Save a Kiss for Me, Angelina	3:26

27.	The Tea Party	2:20

28.	The Capture	3:30

29.	Come	1:20

Credits

released April 9, 2017

HAIL OBLIVION: A Pirate Fantasia was recorded in a concert performance at JACK on October 12th, 2015.

recorded and mixed by Jeremy Mage
mastered by Slade Templeton
artwork by Matt Sherman

featuring:
Rick Burkhardt as Bonnet
Bryce Pinkham as Flynn
Ato Blankson-Wood as Brisport
Amber Gray + Eliza Poehlman + Nicole Weiss as the Sirens
Alex Birnie as the Interviewer
Dan Safer as Blackbeard
Julian Fleisher as the Judge/Boss
Jabari Brisport + Brian DeCaluwe + Joshua Hinck + Elias Spector-Zabusky as the Crew
Leo Slattery as Stede Bonnet Jr.

with:
Beau Edmonson (Guitar), John Murchison (Bass), Blake Allen (Violin/Viola), Katrina Yaukey (Accordion), Dennis Sullivan (Percussion)

and:
Andrew Butler, Ben Beckley, Merlin Whitehawk, Joshua Isaacs, Joie Bauer, Clayton Howe, Brooks Brantley, Joshua William Gelb

FOLLOW ME was mixed and recorded in 2009 by Owen O’Malley
with Alexandra Bernard, Beth Kirkpatrick, and Eliza Poehlman as Sirens, and Emma Leinhass (violin), Catherine O’Malley (bass), Christopher Clark (percussion), and Andrew Butler (guitar)

special thanks to:
Dan Rider, Priska Wenger, Kate Shelton, Hannah Johnson-Walsh, Mike Bauer, Dustin Fontaine, Andrew Broaddus, Titus Gandy, Leah Goldstein, Johannes Heger, Ian Lassiter, Jenni Lawton, Charley Layton, Chris Nolan, Omar Perez, Owen O’Malley, Dorian Shorts, Ricardo Perez-Gonzalez, Catherine O’Malley, Alexandra Bernard, Beth Kirkpatrick, Emma Leinhaas, Christopher Clark, Dave McGee, Judd Hardy, Justin Nestor, Jaime Carillo, Evan Jay Newman, Raphael Sacks, Dan Reckart, Geoff Murphy, Adam Laupus, Shawn Shafner, Doug Paulson, Tomi Tsunoda, Marisa Michelson, Alyse Alan-Louis, & Chasten Harmon

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