GoPro video. It was sold out houses for the Saturday performances of A Roadkill Opera on January 9, 2016, at the Mead Theatre Lab At Flashpoint in Washington DC. The houses were pretty good as well on the previous night of this limited run of the hilarious new opera about the hour before the first professional gig for a sketch comedy troupe in 1980s Wyoming. A Roadkill Opera tells the story of the hour before the lights go up on opening night for a comedy improv troupe in 1988 Jackson Hole, Wyoming: the Roadkill On A Stick Frozen Foods Theatre Company. During that hour, they find out their showroom at the Silver Dollar Bar is being torn down. This original story and English libretto by Stephan Alexander Parker is set to music from Leonora by Ferdinando Paer, Beethoven’s direct competitor. 59 minutes (in English). As it says on the back cover of the libretto/program: “Good luck at the GRAMMYs. How could you not win with a name like that?” Ann Patchett, author of award winning, New York Times bestselling Bel Canto “…a very, very, cool thing…exceptionally well done…” Paul Barrosse, writer/performer, Mee-Ow Show, Practical Theatre Company, and Saturday Night Live “Songs like ‘Impress Them,’ ‘Cod Piece Dining,’ ‘Jello,’ and [Gonna buy my old granddad a] ‘Geo’ pair offbeat humor with beautiful vocals and music.” Pam Schipper, Gaithersburg Town Courier “an inspired, imaginative work, technically worthy of the highest praise…The orchestration is faultless and complements the vocal parts beautifully.” Peter Maag writes about Paer’s Leonora

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