Musical Based on Craigslist Ads to Premiere in Vancouver

Songs about 'bald longing and tenderness'

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Craigslist ads have given voice to the pathetic and desperate over the years, and the same can be said for musical theater. So, it's only natural that they join forces, in Canada of all places, at Vancouver's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, where Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata will re-debut. The 85-minute musical revue, written by CBC broadcaster Bill Richardson and singer/songwriter Veda Hille (below), is a loosely connected string of songs with lyrics taken verbatim from ads that Richardson found on Craigslist.

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