Kinks Opera ‘Preservation’ Revived By Boston Theater New England thespian group’s update of veteran Brit band’s work takes to the stage Friday VH1 (Oct. 2) by Contributing Editor Colin Devenish Kinks leader Ray Davies said he recognizes similarities between plot of “Preservation” and recent scandal in Washington, D.C. Kinks leader Ray Davies hadn’t given permission for anyone to perform a […]
Just for fun, because I have them. Some video-stills from the 1998 Tower Auditorium Production of Preservation
Behind the scenes at Preservation 1998 Photos by Tony Maciag and Mikey Dee
Northeast Performer Magazine -Scott Chesley: Nov, 1998 Live Review Photos by Janet Caliri BOSTON ROCK OPERA – PRESERVATION Tower Auditorium, Mass College of Art Boston, MA — October 1, 1998 Ray Davies’ Preservation, a rock opera originally released as two separate albums (Act’s I and II) in the early ’70s, had not been staged anywhere since the Kinks toured with […]
There are few kinks to work out in BRO’s fine ‘Preservation’ –by Dean Johnson/Music Review | Boston Herald |10/03/98 “Preservation,” a two-act rock opera by the Boston Rock Opera Company at Tower Auditorium, Mass. College of Art, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 17. Human nature never changes, and the proof is in the Boston Rock Opera company’s production of Kinks […]
‘Preservation’- minded: Boston Rock Opera gets its Kinks by reviving a piece of music history — by Dean Johnson Boston Herald: 10/01/98 Could there be anything more terrifying for a small theater group than seeing the renowned author of the work you’re performing show up at an early dress rehearsal? It happened to the Boston Rock Opera company Sunday. The […]
Music Reviews The Boston Phoenix : October 8 – 15, 1998 Boston Rock Opera: Preservation Acts — Jonathan Perry Longing for a mythologized past and contempt for a morally bankrupt present have always been dual preoccupations at the heart of songwriter Ray Davies’s work with the Kinks. Nearly a decade before he wrote his two-part dystopian nightmare of political corruption […]
Preservation remains one of Boston Rock Opera’s most successful and best received shows. We are proud to have had the chance to stage this work. PRESENTED October 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 1998 at the Tower Auditorium at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA Mick Maldonado as Flash and Kay Hanley as Belle Featuring: Mick Maldonado as the […]