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    The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring
    Content warning: mental illness, alcohol use, incarceration due to mental illness

    Is it the clothes that make a man, or is it something other than?

    Based on the satirical Nikolai Gogol story of the same name, The Overcoat centres on Akakiy Akakiyevich, a diligent man no one likes, who works the numbers best he can. But he can barely pay th...
    Composer: James Rolfe
    Librettist: Morris Panych

    The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring
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    The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring – Act 2, scene 6 and 7 (Finale)

    After days of near catatonia in his cold apartment, the landlady asks Petrovich to repair Akakiy’s old coat, to no avail. Even his coworkers arrive to check in, but by then, Akakiy is unreachable. Akakiy is committed to a mental hospital. Once he arrives, the other residents encourage him to look at things a little differently. It turns out h...

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