PLANET TITANIC     2020    (A FOLK OPERA)    1,. OVERTURE 
            
                                                           LIBRETTO:
THIS IS A SNAPSHOT OF 2020, OR IT COULD BE A CHAPTER IN A CONTINUING STORY IN AMERICA. A TALE OF INTERRUPTED LOVE AND LOSS OVER THE PANDEMIC.
                 
                                                               {ACT 1}:
2. OUR STORY BEGINS ON MARCH 15TH 2020 IN QUEENS, NY, 
THERE’S NEWS OF A FLU LIKE SICKNESS SPREADING ACROSS THE LAND.
OUR HERO, CURT, WHO’S A LITTLE THICK, IS RECOVERING FROM A RECENTLY ENDED RELATIONSHIP AND DROWNING HIS SORROWS IN A CROWDED LOCAL IRISH BAR.
DANCING AND SINGING ALONG TO THE PUB MUSICIAN, HE’S FEELING LIKE IT’S HIS LAST HURRAY. BUT THERE, HE ENCOUNTERS A SLIGHTLY  INEBRIATED WOMAN AND HIS DREAMS OF A NEW LOVE BEGIN…..
                                                 2 “ALMOST ST. PATRICK’S DAY”

3. THOUGH IT’S A FLEETING EXPERIENCE, CURT FEELS HIS LUCK IS CHANGING.
HE’S DETERMINED TO MAKE THIS BRIEF CONNECTION LAST.
 
                                                 3. “BLINDLY I GO IN”

4. LITERALLY, OVERNIGHT, THE WORLD OFFICIALLY SHUTS DOWN: 
AS WE PREPARE FOR MONTHS OF A LOCKDOWN, QUARRANTINE, GLOVES, MASKS, ISOLATION, AND LITTLE OR NO PERSONAL OR PHYSICAL INTERACTION.
THUS PUTTING CURT’S LOVE LIFE, AND HIS WHOLE LIFE ON HOLD.
UNDAUNTED, HE TAKES TO HIS ‘PERSONAL CONFESSIONAL’ AND PRAYS…

                                               4. “NO MORE HUGS AND KISSES”

5. AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS, BRAVING THE PERFECT STORM, HE VENTURES INTO NEW YORK CITY. WHERE A DESERTED TIMES SQUARE RESEMBLES A TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE ABOUT A POST APOCALYPTIC WORLD.  THERE HE ENCOUNTERS A HOMELESS MAN.

                                                  5. “GHOST TOWN

6. MONTHS OF SOCIAL UNREST, A HEATED, CONTESTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, RIOTS, PROTESTS THROUGH OUT THE LAND, MONTHS OF QUARRENTINE, TRAVEL BANS, FEAR AND CHAOS, AND THE DEATH TOLL KEEPS RISING, WE STAND AS A COUNTRY DIVIDED LIKE NEVER BEFORE. WE LOOK FOR A CURE, RENEWAL AND HOPE. THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING .  ALL ABOARD THE PLANET TITANIC.
                                                  6. “PLANET TITANIC”