Outgrabe

On National Mad Hatter Day, 10/6, my friend Rebecca Frazier-Smith and I performed Outgrabe, a 7-piece song cycle set to poetry from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.  My sister compiled a marvelous summary video of all 24 book chapters using 25 film adaptations, which was projected during the show to put the songs in context.

Our tea party began at 6 pm, which is always the Hatter's tea time, and our guests arrived in costume!  We had an Alice, a White Rabbit, a Dodo Bird, a Duchess and Baby, a Mad Hatter, a March Hare, a Dormouse, a Knave of Hearts, two sets of King and Queen of Hearts, a Jabberwocky, a Red Queen, a White Queen, a Tweedle, a Lion, and a Unicorn.

The tea party fare included a home bakes representing each of the performing characters (the Cheshire, the Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts) as well as the quintessential EAT ME cookies.

Red Queen in the Mirror

Button

Stylin'

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Full Costumes

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Alto/Mezzo-Soprano, Pianist & Composer, Video Editor

The Cheshire, The Hatter, & The Queen

Sisters

Q & K

Off!!

Marchie, Hatter, Dormie, & Alice

Lion & Unicorn

Bedazzled

Green Velvet & Red Jewels

Tenniel Poses

Hearts, Lion & Unicorn, Dormie & Alice

The Little Ones

Wonderland Overhead

Performance Space

Bar

Sherbet Punch with Little Fishies Ice

Tea Party

Tea Party Savories

Tea Party Sweets

96 Mad Hatter's Meringues

Nonpereils Galore

Peppermint Oil

96 Cheshire's Macaron Shells

Stripey Cheshires

We're All Mad Here

105 White Rabbit's EAT ME Cookies

Sanding Sugar

Hand Stamped

48 Queen's Unfilled Tarts

Rose Crème Pâtissière

& Raspberries

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland &

Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There

Liên-Thanh Kratzke, Editor

Link to Lyrics & Program Notes

Link to Composer's Notes & Scores

Outgrabe I. How Doth the Little Crocodile

Lan-Thạch Kratzke, Composer & Pianist

Rebecca Frazier-Smith, Alto/Mezzo-Soprano

Outgrabe II. You are Old, Father William

Lan-Thạch Kratzke, Composer & Pianist

Rebecca Frazier-Smith, Alto/Mezzo-Soprano

Outgrabe III. 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster

Lan-Thạch Kratzke, Composer & Pianist

Rebecca Frazier-Smith, Alto/Mezzo-Soprano

Outgrabe IV. Turtle Soup

Lan-Thạch Kratzke, Composer & Pianist

Rebecca Frazier-Smith, Alto/Mezzo-Soprano

Outgrabe V. Jabberwocky

Lan-Thạch Kratzke, Composer & Pianist

Rebecca Frazier-Smith, Alto/Mezzo-Soprano

Outgrabe VI. The Walrus and the Carpenter

Lan-Thạch Kratzke, Composer & Pianist

Rebecca Frazier-Smith, Alto/Mezzo-Soprano

Outgrabe VII. To the Looking-Glass World

Lan-Thạch Kratzke, Composer & Pianist

Rebecca Frazier-Smith, Alto/Mezzo-Soprano

Outgrabe Singalong. A-sitting On a Gate

Lan-Thạch Kratzke, Composer & Pianist

Rebecca Frazier-Smith, Alto/Mezzo-Soprano