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	04:12
102	Who Can She Be	Theatre A La Carte	08:00
103	Orinthology	Theatre A La Carte	03:00
104	Pretty Things My Father Gave Me	Theatre A La Carte	02:33
105	Ambition	Theatre A La Carte	05:59
201	We've Made You a Bird	Theatre A La Carte	03:12
202	Mechanical Bird Ballet	Theatre A La Carte	01:02
203	A Good Chinese Girl	Theatre A La Carte	03:34
204	Whistle Song	Theatre A La Carte	07:42
205	Nightingale Ballet	Theatre A La Carte	02:36
206	All's Well That Ends Well	Theatre A La Carte	02:45