Robert Murray and Lisa Doxier Shacket Present

PATRICK OLSON EMERGENCE

With

MIYA BASS, SAMARA BROWN, LAVY CAVALIERE, JORDAN COKER, CHERRY DAVIS, NADAV HEZI,
BELLA KOSAL, DANA LIEBEZEIT, THOMAS NICKELL, SUMMER SHELDRICK, and STEVEN STYLES

Music Producer: MIKE AVENAIM
Lighting Design: WASTER POTENTIAL, JORDAN NOLTNER
LED Visual Design: FUTURE TALK, INC./JONATHAN CORBIERE& TYLER SAMMY
WASTED POTENTIAL /NICK PROCTOR

Alice Griffin Theater @ The Pershing Square Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues)
www.emergenceshow.com
October 10, 2023 – January 7, 2024; Opening Night – 10/25/23

What do you do when your resume reads lifelong composer, musician, educational science publisher, producer, and entrepreneur? Well, if you are Patrick Olson, you create a fascinating, one-of-a-kind musical experience and you call it EMERGENCE.  EMERGENCE asks all the hard questions (Are we alive? How did we get here? Where does human love originate? are just a few) and answers them with physics, poetry, philosophy, meditation, and neuroscience. So what else do you need? A little song and dance, of course. And somehow it all works

Olson, in his orange/pink three-piece suit with bald head and glasses, is not your typical leading man, but lead he does. Assisted by back-up singers, slinky dancers, and a talented band, he brings home the message that things are not as they seem. And it’s alright because you are having so much fun at EMERGENCE, and the journey is both thought-provoking and delightful.

- Laurie Lawson -