THE NIGHT FALLS

Choreography by Troy Schumacher

Libretto by Karen Russel & Ellis Ludwig-Leone

Composed by Ellis Ludwig-Leone

PEAK PERFORMANCES

BALLETCOLLECTIVE

Director: Troy Schumacher

Conductor: Naomi Woo

Projection Designer: Hannah Tran

Contributing Visual Artist: Harold Garcia V

Scenic Designer: Jason Ardizzone-West

Costume Designer: Karen Young

Lighting Designer: Abigail Hoke-Brady & Amith Chandrashaker

Sound Designer: Garth MacAleavey

Stage Manager: Zach Jenkins

Picture this: at The Night Falls, a roadside tourist attraction built around a mysterious grotto in the Florida wilderness, a trio of Sirens lure tourists to the water’s edge with their “dangerously beautiful music.” All across America, their song spreads through dreams and nightmares like a “sonic contagion,” drawing sufferers from all walks of life to the grotto, “home of the world’s eeriest echoes.” Here, in this strange and sublime place, these lonesome strangers find a nourishing community in one another—an antidote to the Sirens’ seductive song of despair.