Broken Bride
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| Broken Bride | |||||
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| EP by Ludo | |||||
| Released | 2005 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 27:16 | ||||
| Label | Redbird Records | ||||
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Broken Bride is a rock opera/concept album by the band Ludo.
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[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Andrew Volpe, except for "The Lamb and the Dragon", which was a collaboration between Volpe and Tim Ferrell.
- "Part 1: Broken Bride" - 3:50
- "Save Our City" - 6:36
- "Part 2: Tonight's the Night" - 2:51
- "Part 3: The Lamb and the Dragon" - 8:16
- "Part 4: Morning in May" - 5:43
[edit] Storyline
Broken Bride is the story of a man known as the Traveler, whose wife died in a car crash in the year 1989. Devastated, he spends the next fifteen years of his life building a time machine that will allow him to return to the morning in May when she died, hopefully to save her from her fate. Once the machine is complete, the Traveler successfully goes back in time. Unfortunately, he overshoots his desired destination and instead lands in the time of the dinosaurs. He must fight his way back to the machine to return to the future. He again overshoots, and is in the time of the apocalypse, where he is the only hope for humanity. Finally, he arrives at the morning in May, 1989, where he sees his wife, just where she was so long ago. As she starts to drive away, he stops her just in time to ask if he can come along for the ride. [1]
[edit] Stage Adaptation
In November of 2006, Broken Bride was produced for the first time ever as a fully staged theater piece by University Theater at the University of Chicago[2]. The 28 minute concept album was adapted for the stage by first time director Paul Bruton.
Bruton received permission from the band to stage Broken Bride in spring 2006 and proposed a black box theater production for that fall. Broken Bride utilized an minimalistic, expressionist approach to stage design wherein a variey of complex locations can be implied within a limited setting.
Music for the production was provided by the band in the form of a re-mixed version of the album, completely stripped of all primary and back-up vocals, with the exception of a few harmonies in "Save Our City" and "Part III: The Lamb and the Dragon". The melodies were arranged for the fifteen member cast by Tristan Cosino, who also coached and directed the ensemble.
[edit] Personnel
- Andrew Volpe - Vocals, Guitar
- Tim Ferrell - Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Tim Convey - Moog, Backing Vocals
- Marshall Fanciullo - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Matt Palermo - Drums, Backing Vocals
