Here is a checklist of the original cast albums of the season's major Broadway shows and their place in the musical-theater continuum.
Celebrating Sofia Gubaidulina's recent 70th birthday on Tuesday evening at Miller Theater, the ensemble Continuum pretty much repeated a program it gave in 1989, focused on her "Perception" for soprano and baritone soloists with string septet.
Not even "Urinetown" addresses this disconnection, its satirical musical palette falling along musical theater's Brecht-Weill continuum.
So far there is only one large lease, 65,000 square feet to the movie theater operator Century Theaters, but Continuum said it was negotiating rapidly and hoped to get the loan by the fall and start building next year.
"FORCE CONTINUUM" The Atlantic Theater Company commissioned this play by Kia Corthron about a three-generation family of black cops in which the youngest member is both accused of and victimized by police brutality.
That artistry can be seen in "Michael Moschen in Motion: Touching the Kinetics Continuum," at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan for two weeks starting on Tuesday.
Ms. Corthron, whose full-length "Force Continuum" is currently at the Atlantic Theater Company, achieves a new seamlessness and unexpected flashes of fierce humor in her harrowing piece, turning her fascination with topical statistics and case histories into something like song.
June 27-30: "The Continuum: Beyond the Killing Fields," directed by Ong Keng Sen; TheaterWorks' production of a collaborative work.
Leslie Ayvazian ("Nine Armenians") and Kia Corthron ("Force Continuum") are among the 10 playwrights that the Ensemble Studio Theater has enlisted for "Marathon 2009," the company's 31st annual event, scheduled for May 22 through June 27 at its Midtown theater.
Factor in variables like personal ideology, current-affairs savvy and where you land on the temperamental continuum between optimism and pessimism, and you will leave the theater either fortified with told-you-so smugness or slightly wobbly on your pins.
