Book and lyrics by Liz Duffy Adams
Music by Timothy Huang

An American astronaut stands on the surface of Mars as he watches his space ship slowly drift away.  With but minutes of air left to breathe, he triumphantly plants a flag, claiming the entire planet for the United States of America and declaring himself "The First Martian". 

And then he meets one...

Conceived at the New Dramatists Group in 2002 with playwright Liz Duffy Adams as part of the Nautilus Music Theater Composer / Librettist Studio,  this ten minute music theatre piece takes a satiric look at the colonialist mentality of the last great world superpower.

When told by the real Martian that he need only remove his helmet and "breathe Martian air" to live, the American astronaut is suddenly faced with a quandary: adopt an ideology he's never known, or rely on all that he was brought up to believe. 
 

• Breathing Mars is a musical for one tenor in his late twenties, to  forties and one soprano, any age.

• All music is available as piano/vocal

• Breathing Mars was first workshopped at the New Dramatists Group and later performed as part of Dixon Place's Warning: Not For Broadway or the Met Either festival

• The above background image was generated by Grelphy Labs with Terragen™, photorealistic scenery rendering software

• For more information on Breathing Mars, please email 411@timothyhuangarts.com

Click on a track below for samples of the music, as performed by James Sasser and Jordan Toronto