Revelation, a Rock Opera by Mike Doughty

Studio 360 challenges listeners to make Creative Resolutions each year, and at the beginning of 2014, Mike Doughty called into the show and told host Kurt Andersen that he wanted to make a musical based on the biblical book. “It is an absolutely terrifying, psychedelic tale of destruction, and the language is so beautiful,” Doughty told Kurt Andersen. “I thought, with the right music and the right visuals, it would be a great show.” Studio 360 held Mike to his promise, and the result is Revelation. Listen to Mike on Studio 360 describing his plans for the show here and here, and then listen to two tracks from Revelation here. Studio 360 and The Greene Space Present Revelation A Rock Opera by Mike Doughty WRITTEN, COMPOSED, AND DIRECTED by Mike Doughty VISUAL ART by Zebadiah Keneally CAST Mike Doughty, John the Revelator/Guitar Amber Gray, The Word Xenia Rubinos, Vocalist Melissa McMillan, Vocalist Andrew Livingston, Cello John Guari, Keyboards/Trumpet Pete Wilhoit, Drums PRODUCTION STAFF EVP & Chief Content Officer, New York Public Radio – Dean Cappello Director, Live Events – Jennifer Keeney Sendrow Technical Director – Ricardo Fernandez Production Manager – Utsuki Otsuka Assistant Production Manager – Nancy Meuy Saechao Video Producer – David McLean Live Sound Engineer – Gaines Legare Recording Engineer – Chase Culpon Graphic Designer – Sahar Baharloo Digital Producer – Jena Hershkowitz Video Engineers – Carlo De Jesus and Noah Yuan-Vogel House Photographer – Matthew Septimus Box Office Coordinator – Yseult Tyler Production Assistant – David Tatasciore FOR STUDIO 360 Kurt Andersen, Host Leital Molad, Senior Producer David Krasnow, Senior Editor Matt Frassica, Associate Producer Mike Doughty would like thank Claire Beaudreault; Rachel Chavkin; Jamie Kitman, Pete Smolin, Phil Frandina, and all at the Hornblow Group; Butch Gage, Heather Self and all at Cal Financial; Kate Hyman, J.J. Hendry, Drew Arndt and all at BMG; Paul Gutman and all at Carroll, Guido, and Groffman; Brendan GIlmartin and Taylor Haughton at Chart Room Media; Jennifer Sendrow, Utsuki Otsuka, Ricardo Fernandez, Mallika Dattatreya, and all at the Greene Space and WNYC; Matt Frassica, Sean Rameswaram, Kurt Andersen, David Krasnow, and all at Studio 360 (to whose impetus, encouragement, and momentum this owes its existence). Special thanks to Sarah Ibrahim and Lars Pedersen at WorldStage, Chris Beck at the Book of Mormon, Yana Biryukova, Tom Bolger, Jonathan Adolphe, Nina and Ken Keneally, Pete Smolin, Janna Freed, Theodora Kuslan, Sara Troiano, Robin Blinkoff, Rex Doane, Jennifer Houlihan Roussel, Mallika Dattatreya, and Nnena Jobe.