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A Musical Rendering of the Life and Work of André Kertesz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6158b0a2db05560cf1f3cfee/e17cbab7-41e8-4323-9852-4207aea102df/SX-0141.jpg Home CLICK! is a musical rendering of the life and work of André Kertész, an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the art of photography. Interpretations of interviews conducted at the end of his life provide the framework for André’s journey; from his youth in turn-of-the-century Hungary, his early successes in the creatively vibrant Paris of the 1920’s, to his artistic frustrations and ultimate rediscovery of his passions in New York. His wife Elizabeth tells his story and re-enters his world as a powerhouse of influence, a role she continued to play after her early death. CLICK! takes us through the rise of a burgeoning art form and André’s relentless need to communicate in the only language he ever mastered - photography. Projections of his work are incorporated into the production further illuminating the layered portrait of the artist as André and Elizabeth reveal their story in a mostly sung-through score. https://click-opera.com/about daily 0.75 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6158b0a2db05560cf1f3cfee/1635375090722-KYDGI4MAEOG369L1IG75/Rowboat.jpg About Click! - Make it stand out Courtesy of Estate of André Kertész © 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6158b0a2db05560cf1f3cfee/755429a8-46f9-498b-a559-15f60a68d699/SX-1696.4B.jpg About Click! - André and Elizabeth move to New York. André is frustrated as he navigates the daunting skyscrapers and closed professional doors. (THIS CITY) Elizabeth becomes a successful businesswoman, satisfying her love of niceties through her own income while frustrated but firm in her love for André and his work. (NICE THINGS) André becomes entrapped for decades to come in commercial fashion and design photography. His creative genius thwarted; his unhappiness grows. (THIS IS HOW I TELL YOU 2nd reprise) Elizabeth is having none of his self-pity and remorse and they find themselves at a crossroads. (MARRIAGE III) Sick with having sold himself out for the bulk of his career, André quits the commercial scene. (HOUSE & GARDEN) Reworking his entire body of photography, André passionately and relentlessly dedicates himself to gaining the recognition he feels he deserves. His career is catapulted into new heights. He is stunningly transported to the French countryside unearthing a chest of his earliest photographs hidden from the Nazi’s by a friend. He is sweetly transported to his beloved Paris at a fresh solo show of his work. He is carried away to Venice where he receives the Venice Biennale Gold Prize. From New York Elizabeth directs and cheers him on, excitingly planting seeds for their permanent return to Paris. (LA RÉUNION) https://click-opera.com/creators daily 0.75 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6158b0a2db05560cf1f3cfee/4331ad4d-d939-4572-80bc-9738fcac5354/BOHM3444.jpg Creators STEVE BRAMSON is the award-winning composer of the musical Shimmy with lyricist Pamela Oland, conceived and created by famed choreographer Donald McKayle. Other works for voice include Dream Rushes for soprano, cello, guitar and percussion, Rhymes For The Irreverent for soprano and clarinet, and numerous songs and choral pieces for his work in film and television. His music has been called “imaginative and terrifically inventive”. Of his score to Don McKay, one reviewer says “Steve Bramson works masterfully…, (his score is) a virtual primer on the power of musical restraint...” His works have been performed on concert stages in London, Vienna, New York and Los Angeles. Bramson is the Emmy™award-winning composer of hundreds of primetime television episodes and numerous feature films. He scored ten consecutive seasons of the CBS Television Network’s long-running series, JAG, and worked with George Lucas on one of the final episodes of his popular series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He has also composed the music to many highly acclaimed independent feature films including Don McKay, Decoding Annie Parker and Last Call, for which he won the award for Best Score at the 2021 BNC International Film Festival in Barcelona. Known for his versatility and craftsmanship, Bramson was chosen to score the popular amusement ride, From the Earth to the Moon, written for the Disneyland Paris theme park; the first to feature a fully synchronized score. Bramson has also contributed his talents as orchestrator to scores for now classic movies such as Apollo 13 with James Horner, James and the Giant Peach with Randy Newman and Starship Troopers with Basil Poledouris. He received two Emmy™ award nominations for his work on JAG. Other television projects include music for The Nine and Journeyman. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he studied composition and orchestration with Ludmilla Ulehla, Samuel Adler and Syd Hodkinson. www.stevebramsonmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6158b0a2db05560cf1f3cfee/1634948277754-XVM6J2VW6OFT3CN5FOWA/GayleHudsonHeadshot1HR.JPG Creators - GAYLE HUDSON was a Semi-Finalist in the 2019 Eugene O’Neil Theater Center National Playwrights Conference for her play Ocean Park. She is the creator of Outloud and Heartbeats, musicals conceived and written with young people and recognized composers from the Hudson Valley, NY. She wrote the book for Winter Light with composer and lyricist Bobbe Bramson. Gayle is the book writer for Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (music and lyrics Bobbe Bramson) which is represented by Dramatic Publishing. Her one-act play Teddy Bear was presented at MUNY Theater of St. Louis Backstage / Onstage series. Her short play Repetition Compulsion was a Gold Circle Finalist at the Samuel French One Act Festival. Full length Little Creek received staged readings by Spring Street Productions and Blue Horse Repertory. Gayle was Director of the Theater Divisions of Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mount Kisco, NY and Brooklyn College’s Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts. She has performed with Berkshire Theater Festival, Boston’s Chamber Rep, SeattleRep’s Second Stage, Blueberry Pond Theater, Bluestone Actors Project, Summer Fun Theater and Blue Horse Repertory Company. 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(Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6158b0a2db05560cf1f3cfee/1633210022412-CN6GPDUPZS2E7HAU387Y/images.jpeg About Click! (Copy) Synopsis 1980s: André Kertész in his eighties walks the streets of an urban area. He is aging and unsteady. He stops to understand a voice that is speaking to him, an unseen interviewer asking him questions. He feebly answers the questions with disjointed, almost rote answers. He enters his apartment and slams the door. He calls for a woman. She is nowhere to be found as he anxiously asks for her help in answering the questions and telling the story of his life. He imagines he is in front of a crowd lined up for his autograph. (THEY WANT TO KNOW). A woman (Elizabeth) appears and begins to tell his story. Her presence and support free him to do some sharing of his own. (LIGHT / PERFECT and LIGHT / ART) The interview questions urgently resume. André prompts Elizabeth to continue her answers. She refuses, leaving him to his own devices. (THIS IS HOW I TELL YOU) Elizabeth returns to tell about his experiences in the war and his solo move to Paris. 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Amidst the forces of emigration, anti-Semitism and the flux of the art world, André Kertész forged a path that secured his place as a master of the photographic art form. His wife, Elizabeth, was a driving force behind his hesitant creative genius. After decades of buffeting the winds of change - leaving home in Hungary for fertile Paris, escaping Naziism, struggling in New York - their difficult marriage endured. After losing Elizabeth, was André’s love for her the creative spark that refused to die? A Musical Rendering of the Life and Work of André Kertesz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6158b0a2db05560cf1f3cfee/e17cbab7-41e8-4323-9852-4207aea102df/SX-0141.jpg Home (Copy) CLICK! is a musical rendering of the life and work of André Kertész, an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the art of photography. Interpretations of interviews conducted at the end of his life provide the framework for André’s journey; from his youth in turn-of-the-century Hungary, his early successes in the creatively vibrant Paris of the 1920’s, to his artistic frustrations and ultimate rediscovery of his passions in New York. His wife Elizabeth tells his story and re-enters his world as a powerhouse of influence, a role she continued to play after her early death. CLICK! takes us through the rise of a burgeoning art form and André’s relentless need to communicate in the only language he ever mastered - photography. Projections of his work are incorporated into the production further illuminating the layered portrait of the artist as André and Elizabeth reveal their story in a mostly sung-through score.