I Hear America Singing

Sep 1, 2025

1h 19m

★ 0.0

Four Days. Three Friends. One Dream.

Overview

The conventions of documentary, musical theater, and magical realism are combined and subverted to address issues of personal, national, and artistic identity through the eyes of a composer desperate to pull off one final backer’s audition whilst hounded by a disdainful documentarian named Charon.

Genres

Music

Production Companies

Burning Sled Media

Aria 412

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Cast

Robbie Doerfler

Robert Frankenberry

Rose Hartzell

Desiree Soteres

Roger Tomchek

Christopher Scott

Charon

Talal Jabari

Acheron

Tevi Eber

Critic

Daron Hagen

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I Hear America Singing

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