Word: gfaller
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...handful of English concentrators get selected each year to write creative theses. Some write poetry, others essays, and a few try their hand at fiction. But Joe C. Gfaller ’01 did what no one had done: he wrote a musical. Last year he composed the lyrics, libretto and music for a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. And as if that were not an adequate project, he also wrote a 45-page justification of adaptation and the nature of narrative. “I purported a theory of means through which a story...
According to Gfaller, Dickens’ classic was ready-made for the stage. “As a story, it’s like a lot of modern musical theater, like Les Misérables and Sweeney Todd,” he says. “It’s about finding what’s essentially you. It’s dorky. There’s almost something Disney about...
...Dudley House, Ulka S. Anjaria, Anne P. Bourneuf, Jonathan C. Hall, Vera Keller, John T. Maier, Jonathan E. Shapiro and Michael W. Weller; in Dunster House, Megan E. Frederickson, Jeremy M. Kurzyniec, Courtney H. Leimkuhler and Brian O'Meara; in Eliot House, Corinne S. Crawford, Sanmay Das, Joseph C. Gfaller, Rebecca P. Gogel, Christine M. Nichols, Robert A.D. Pike, David J. Ryu and David M. Shapiro...
Starting with a perfectly lanky, idealistic and dreamy Greene playing Cervantes/Don Quixote, Gfaller has assembled a cast capable of filling out the costumes of these super-legendary characters. Kenneth Herrera makes a great Sancho Panza, capable of being both the devoutly loyal straight man and the perpetrator of Sancho's own brand of comic truth...
...most part, though, Gfaller (who himself takes the role of an Inquisitor) manages to keep things light, showy and appropriately over...