Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale

New York City–based Theatre A La Carte performs the children’s musical “Emperor’s Nightingale,” adapted from Hans Christian Andersen’s charming story “The Nightingale.” Subtitled “A Musical Fantasy for Children,” the play tells the story of an ancient Chinese emperor suffering from insomnia, who tries to regain the ability to sleep with the help of his daughter, his three advisors, and a magic nightingale. His advisors attempt to fool him by constructing a mechanical nightingale to lull him to sleep, but the mechanical bird fails. The daughter then seeks the real nightingale in the forest. With the aid of a magic feather and a magic chant, she finds the nightingale, and the emperor is able to sleep again.

Biographies of the key cast and crew members and complete song lyrics are included in the liner notes.

Track Listing

101	Without Sleep	Theatre A La Carte Co.	04:12
102	Who Can She Be	Theatre A La Carte Co.	08:00
103	Orinthology	Theatre A La Carte Co.	03:00
104	Pretty Things My Father Gave Me	Theatre A La Carte Co.	02:33
105	Ambition	Theatre A La Carte Co.	05:59
201	We've Made You a Bird	Theatre A La Carte Co.	03:12
202	Mechanical Bird Ballet	Theatre A La Carte Co.	01:02
203	A Good Chinese Girl	Theatre A La Carte Co.	03:34
204	Whistle Song	Theatre A La Carte Co.	07:42
205	Nightingale Ballet	Theatre A La Carte Co.	02:36
206	All's Well That Ends Well	Theatre A La Carte Co.	02:45