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LE COMTE NOIR
A NEW MUSICAL
Catie Davis, Director
Andrew Gerle, Music Director
Charles Vincent Burwell, Composer/ Lyricist
James D. Sasser (BM ’98), Book Writer/ Lyricist
André Zachery, Choreographer
Be sure to check out Bobby's portrayal of Saint George in Le Comet Noir Below
Le Comte Noir, Manhattan School of Music's first ever virtually streamed musical during the height of C-19. Bobby portrayed the role of Saint George, whom is based on the real life Chevalier de Saint-Georges a world renowned French composer, Fencer, and soldier of the Haitian Revolution during the late 1700s - early 1800s.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Le Comte Noir is a new musical about the man who changed the face of the French Revolution, and the son who struggled to keep that legacy from being erased. It follows famed novelist Alexandre Dumas’ attempt to finish his latest novel while suffering crippling writer’s block. To complete it, he must reconcile his father’s history as a Haitian-born son of a French nobleman and a slave, and his journey to become a leader of the French Revolution and rival to Napoleon. His father’s heroism and forced imprisonment would inspire The Count Of Monte Cristo and much of his Dumas’ other writings. The musical fuses classical influences and Afro-Haitian music and dance, while exploring the author Dumas’ unresolved questions of identity, democracy, and legacy. Book and lyrics by MSM alumni James D Sasser (BM ’98), music and lyrics by Charles Vincent Burwell.
LE COMTE NOIR PRESS
LE COMTE NOIR WAS STREAMED ON BROADWAY ON DEMAND FOR SIX MONTHS
REGONIZED BY BROADWAY WORLD.COM
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