The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical The Applause Libretto Library-Set in the turbulent South in the 1950s Memphis is the story of Huey Calhoun a white radio DJ whose love of good music transcends race lines and airwaves. Thanks in part to his passionate persistence ?race? music reaches the center of the radio dial quickly exploding throughout mainstream America. But when Huey falls for a beautiful black singer he has set on the path to stardom whether the world is really ready for this music and their love is put to the test.

American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘musicwith repetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his ownperforming group The Philip Glass Ensemble. The Fall of the House of Usher was given its premiere in 1988.Writer and director Arthur Yorinks has worked in opera theatre dance film and radio as well as writing thirty-fivebooks for children. His goal is to create a new theatre of sound for the 21st century. Yorinks also collaborated with Glass on his opera The Juniper Tree. Both works have been performed internationally.