Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a musical with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and book by Bill Russell. The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology. Each of the monologues is written from the perspective of characters who’ve died from AIDS and the songs represent the feelings of friends and family members dealing with the loss.
The piece was developed in the late 1980s and was originally titled “The Quilt.” (Source: Wikipedia)
This is a live recording of a concert in New York City on 2 April 2001 in the Haft Theatre at the Fashion Institute of Technology as a benefit for the Momentum AIDS Project.
Brian d’Arcy James features on:
Track 3: And the Rain Keeps Falling Down