An original play with music featuring the songs and letters of the obscure American singer, guitarist, and composer Connie Converse (1924-?).
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Howard's NEW YORKER essay "Connie Converse's Time Has Come"
"The mystery of American composer Connie Converse's disappearance in 1974 is ongoing, and she may be lost forever. But her spectacular music has been rescued and elevated to a marvelous level -- first by the music engineer Gene Deitch who recorded her in his kitchen in the 1950s, and very recently by Howard Fishman in a terrific evening in New York.
These are great songs with unusual diversity, and the sweet and bluesey and classical voices with Fishman bringthem vividly back to us. It's a great performance, and it demands more for Connie Converse -- concerts, a Broadway show, a film musical. Her music belongs to an America that barely knows it exists. It's time for someone to rectify this historical neglect of a remarkable artist of the song."
- William Kennedy, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Ironweed
A New York Times CRITICS' PICK
"Deeply affecting."
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
