Waits - Woyzeck

Woyzeck

Piano/Conductor

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan

Based on the Play by George Büchner

Original Direction, Design and Visual Concept by Robert Wilson

©2002 St. Rose Music Publishing, Inc.

Woyzeck

1. Ouverture

Prologue 2. Misery’s the River of the World 3. Misery Ending Monkey

I.1 4. More Murder

I.2 5. Skinned Knee

6. Diamond in Your Mind

I.3 7. Misery March

8. Overturned Pot (Marie)

I.4 9. God’s Away on Business

10. Coney Island Baby

I.5 11. Everything Goes to Hell

II.1 12. A Good Man (Is Hard to Find)

13. Knife Chase

14. Starvin’ in the Belly (Scene Change)

II.2 15. Knife Chase Opera

16. All the World is Green

17. Starvin’ in the Belly of a Whale

II.3 18. Coney Island Baby (with Stops)

19. All the World is Green (Inst.)

20. Coney Island Baby (Conc.)

II.4 21. Just the Way We Are

II.5 22. Shiny Things (Karl)

23. It’s Over

24. Cuba Tom

II.6 25. More Murder II

26. Another Man’s Vine

III.1 27. Shiny Things (Inst.)

28. Everything Goes to Hell (Inst.)

29. All the World is Green (Duet)

III.2 30. Red Room

31. Woyzeck’s Woe

III.3 32. Overturned Pot (Karl)

33. Overturned Pot (Inst.)

34. Misery Reprise

2 Misery's the River

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan (2000)

3 Misery Ending--Monkey

Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

+Horn blasts and Screams with Mellotron Tape cue: Woyzeck points to the Captain

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Cue: play when spotlight on knife comes up after: Woyzeck: Man is also flesh and blood.

Play 8 Times

Play until cue (stop after C's line): Captain: Virtue, Woyzeck! Virtue! Woyzeck: Yes, Captain.

Piano/Conductor

5 Skinned Knee

Cue A: sound effect when Woyzeck raises stick

Cue B: sound effect when Woyzeck raises stick

Cue C: scream sound effect when Woyzeck drops stick

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Cue D: play as Woyzeck lifts up long stick, stop on "Quiet!!!"

Clarinet Solo ppp

Cue E: trombone and sax play squeals and glisses after Andres breaks stick. Stop after Woyzeck stops running.

Cue F: Play cue D again as Andres moves downstage; fade into next cue

Cue G: play until tree moves

Clarinet, Brass

Cue H: sound effect as tree moves

Diamond in Your Mind

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Vln, Bass MARIE

8 Overturned Pot (Marie)

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Cue: Woyzeck: I've got to go. continue playing underneath scene change (until door slam/cue for "God's Away")

Toy Piano & Cello, playing severely out of tune

9 God's Away On Business

There's cue: Woyzeck: "Yes, sir." a leak, Dm

10 Coney Island Baby

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

11 Everything Goes To Hell

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

12 A Good Man (Is Hard To Find)

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

13 Knife Chase

cue: Marie: "Look, the Angel of Sleep . . ."

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

stop after: Marie: "What am I

Placeholder for 15 Knife Chase Opera

Piano/Conductor

cue: Doctor: "Facial muscles rigid, tense, occasionally twitching. Posture tense."

16 All The World's Green

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Island Baby (with Stops)

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

cue: play on lights up, continue under dialogue, through black out, and stop at next lights up

Green (Instrumental)

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

20 Coney Island Baby (Conclusion)

$ Ev cue: play several moments after lights up; Woyzeck speaks lyrics ery - night G

& she comes D7

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

& ' to take

( me out

' to

( 4 # $ dream G

& ) When I'm with D7

her,

& ' I'm the rich

# $ town. G + & ) She's the rose, G

& she's the pearl, D

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& she's the spoken: I saw him, Marie. spin

on

my

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Spoken (Andres): A worried young man from 'stanbul discovered red spots on his tool. Said the doctor, a cynic, "Get out of my clinic! Just wipe of the lipstick, you fool!" it's

22 Shiny Things (Karl)

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

24 Cuba Tom

(Monkey Scene Change)

Piano/Conductor

25 More Murder II

cue: Woyzeck: "Always the same, the same, the same . . . ." stop after Andres: "Let them dance."

% & % & $ '

cue: Andres: "Drink some schnapps . . ." stop after Drum Major enters

26 Another Man's Vine

Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

27 Shiny Things (Instrumental)

cue: Lights up, continue underneath scene until Karl: "If I had you, did I want you?"; attacca no. 28

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

The World's Green (Duet)

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

30 Red Room

Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

33 Overturned Pot Instrumental

Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000

Play underneath Margret's monologue; at " . . . golden flies stuck up there, like the shrike sticks 'em on the blackthorn" attacca no. 34 Misery Reprise

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34 Misery Reprise