ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER (Austrian Composer / Socialite) Kassidy Grace Mayernik
Anna Justine "Gucki" Mahler (Austrian Sculptor / Alma's 2nd Daughter)
Hans Pfitzner (German Composer / Alma's 4th Lover)
The Alma Doll (Kokoschka's Design / Moos's Manufacture)
Darius Milhaud (French Composer / Alma's 4th Soiree Attendee)
Hanna Fuchs-Robettin (Werfel's Sister / Berg's Mistress)
Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newspaper Reporter) II
ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER Larissa Lorenz
Julius Viktor Berger (Austrian Artist / Alma's Mother's 1st Lover)
Manon Gropius (Alma's 3rd Daughter)
Hulda Reserl (Chambermaid / Kokoschka's Mistress)
Anton Webern (Composer / Schoenberg's 1st Student / Alma's 4th Editor)
Rupert Koller (Anna Mahler's 1st Husband)
Gladwyn Kingsley Noble (American Herptologist / Kammerer's Critic)
Franz von Papen (German Officlal / Alma's 2nd Party Attendee)
Egon Friedell (Austrian Philosopher / Cabaret Performer)
ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS Christa Durand
Carl Moll (Austrian Artist / Alma's Mother's 2nd Lover / Alma's Stepfather)
Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber Gropius (Gropius's Mother)
Marie Theienemann Hauptmann (Hauptman's Wife)
Madame M (Mahler's Lover)
Igor Stravinsky (Russian Composer / Mahler's Critic)
Franz Schreker (German Composer / Alma's 2nd Suitor)
Kokoschka Doll-Party Police Officer I
Maid (To Manon, in Alma's Employ)
Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newspaper Reporter) III
Carl Zuckmayer (German Writer / Alma's 1st Party Attendee)
ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL Jill Wagoner
Anna Sophie Bergen Schindler (German Soprano / Alma's Mother)
Otto Mahler (Austrian Composer / Mahler's Younger Brother)
Pauline Strauss (German Soprano / Richard Strauss's Wife)
Doctor (Delivering Martin Carl Johannes Werfel)
Kokoschka Doll-Party Attendee I
Gropius's Prostitute Police Officer I
Maurice Ravel (French Composer / Alma's 2nd Soiree Attendee)
Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian Composer / Alma's 5th Editor)
GUSTAV MAHLER (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Husband) Mark Alburger
Hermine Moos (German Avant-Garde Puppet Maker / Artist)
Alban Berg (Composer / Schoenberg's 2nd Student / Alma's 3rd Soiree Attendee / Editor)
Adolf Hitler (German Nazi-Party Leader)
Nazi II (Storm-Trooper / Border Guard / Negotiator)
WALTER GROPIUS (German Architect / Alma's 2nd Husband) Jamie Samantha Lee
Crown Prince Rudolf (Alma's Father's Employer)
Oma Bergen (Alma's Grandmother)
Geza Zichy (Hungarian One-Armed Pianist-Composer/ Mahler's Rival)
Max Burckhard (Austrian Theatre Director / Alma's 1st Lover)
Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Soiree Attendee / 2nd Editor)
Bruno Walter (German Conductor / Mahler's 1st Colleague)
Richard Strauss (German Composer / Mahler's 2nd Colleague)
Felix Muhr (Artist / Alma's 2nd Admirer)
Jean Sibelius (Finnish Composer / Mahler's 4th Colleague)
Auguste Rodin (French Sculptor)
Arturo Toscanini (Italian Conductor / Mahler's 2nd Associate)
Paul Kammerer (Austrian Biologist / Alma's 7th Lover)
Kokoschka Doll-Party Attendee II
Paul Zsolnay (Austro-Hungarian Publisher / Anna's 3rd Husband)
Johannes Hollnsteiner (Austrian Theologian / Alma's 9th Lover)
Heinrich Bruening (Chancellor of Weimar Germany)
Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newspaper Reporter) IV / Nazi I
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Austrian Artist / Alma's 8th Lover) Jacqueline Goldgorin
Gustav Klimt (Austrian Artist / Alma's 2nd Lover)
Margarethe Julie Schindler (Alma's 1st Half-Sister)
Maria Moll Eberstaller (Alma's 2nd Half-Sister)
Maria Anna "Putzi" Mahler (Alma's 1st Daughter)
Sigmund Freud (Austrian Neurologist / Mahler's Psychoanalyst)
Gropius's Prostitute
Francis Poulenc (French Composer / Alma's 3rd Soiree Attendee)
Adolf von Zsolnay (Austrian Honorary Consul General / Paul Zsolnay's Father)
Elias Canetti (Bulgarian-German Writer / Alma's 2nd Critic)
Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newspaper Reporter) I
FRANZ WERFEL (Austrian Writer / Alma's 3rd Husband) Harriet March Page
Emil Jakob Schindler (Austrian Artist / Alma's Father)
Alexander von Zemlinsky (Composer / Alma's 2nd Teacher / 3rd Lover)
Gerhart Hauptmann (German Writer / Alma's 1st Admirer)
Carl Goldmark (Austro-Hungarian Composer / Mahler's 3rd Colleague)
Gustave Charpentier (French Composer / Alma's 5th Lover)
Enrico Caruso (Italian Tenor / Mahler's 1st Associate)
Joseph Fraenkel (Austro-American Neurologist / Alma's 1st Suitor)
Siegfried Ochs (German Composer / Alma's 3rd Suitor)
Kokoschka Doll-Party Police Officer II
Gropius's Prostitute Police Officer II
Ernst Krenek (Composer / Anna's 2nd Husband / Alma's 1st Critic / 1st Editor)
Albrecht Joseph (German-American Theatre / Film Director)
Anna Sophie Bergen Schindler Moll
ALMA DOPPELGANGER PIANIST Feona Lee Jones
Josef Labor (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Teacher)
Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Russian-American Pianist / Alma's 6th Lover)
ORCHESTRA
FLUTE / PICCOLO Alan Kingsley
Bb / A CLARINET Peter Brown
BASSOON Michael Garvey
C / Bb TRUMPET Michael Cox
HORN Bob Satterford
PIANO Feona Lee Jones
VIOLIN Jonathan Ho
CELLO Robin Reynolds
Fantastic to have a complete sitzprobe in 2 hours,
followed by a staging in the remainder, including...
XXIV. 1902 - RICHARD STRAUSS / MARIA ANNA "PUTZI"
XXXII. 1910 - WALTER GROPIUS / SIGMUND FREUD
XXXIX. 1917 - ALMA GROPIUS / FRANZ WERFEL
XL. 1918 -
HULDA RESERL / HERMINE MOOS / MARTIN WERFEL
XLI. 1919 - THE PUPPET
LVII. - 1935 MANON GROPIUS / ALBAN BERG
LX. 1938 - ANSCHLUSS
Homeward
via the local
Tahoe Joes, eventually to compose
The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255: LXV. 1943 - Santa Barbara / Franz Werfel and
LXVI. 1944 - Torberg / Kokoschka / Bemelmans, on the 148th day of summer, high up 3 to 91 (91 / 55 days 80 / 90 +) -- 88, Pleasant Hill...
