64 Libretti

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas
Sound/Light Installation now showing through November 21, 2008

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle WA 98105 USA
Phone 1 (206) 634-0919
Email jsp @ jackstraw.org

Creative Team

Sound Byron Au Yong
Light Randy Moss
Video Jean-Stephane

Audio Engineers Tom Stiles, CJ Lazenby

Librettists Eugenie Chan, Bret Fetzer, Aaron Jafferis, Archana Kumar, Carola Luther, Caroline Murphy, Vivian Umino, Edisa Weeks

Singers Josie Davis, Emily Greenleaf, Jeremiah Oliver, David Stutz

Percussionists Stuart McLeod, Dean Moore, Benjamin Morrow, James Whetzel

Project Manager Pike Pin
Costume Designer Emily Carlsen
Videographer Eric Rockey
Research Erica Howard
Logo Wing Fong

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is thankful for support from Creative Capital's Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; 4Culture's King County Site-Specific Performance Network; Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts; and Jack Straw Productions

03 My Tooth

屯 Zhún ¦|¦¦¦|

Hey you, look at my tooth.
It’th looth.
That meanth I’m gonna get thome money.
Five dollarth.
Tooth fairy.
I wiggle it around
and my mom thays “Ow,
that’th thcary.”
But not to me.
I’m tough.
I’ll beat the tooth fairy up
and take her money.

Hey you, look at my tooth.
It’th looth.
That meanth I’m gonna be a big dude.
A huthler.
My uncle.
I’ll drive a big car
and the girlth thay “Woah,
that’th pimpin.”
That’th how I roll.
Looth tooth.
I’ll get my mom a new houthe
and give her money.

My uncle’th a huthler.
Got a picture o’ him in a Hummer.
He’th in the Army.
Now he’th in heaven.

Hey you, look at my tooth.
It’th looth.
That meanth I’m ‘bout to be a big dude.
My uncle.
It’th thcary.
‘Thteada growin teeth,
I’ma grow wingth
and be a tooth fairy.

(Ow.)

Libretto by Aaron Jafferis