Removable Parts is a theatrical series of love songs about voluntary amputation. In an updated version of the lover's plaint, the unrequited lover – whose heart is broken – begins to question the usefulness of his other body parts. Loosely based on medical journals, psychiatric case studies, and actors' monologue collections, the songs and banter in Removable Parts take a sideways look at amputees, devotees, and wannabes, with a balance of empathy and irreverence.
Removable Parts is performed by Kathleen Supové (piano) and Corey Dargel (voice and electronics), and directed by Emma Griffin with choreography by Yvan Greenberg.
Praise for Removable Parts:
"An entertaining new musical... built on humorous pop songs about how far someone will go in the name of love." – New York Magazine
"An oddly touching series of songs about broken hearts and voluntary amputation... Dargel combines the elegant craft of a classicist with the droll wit of a pop savant. Perfectly pitched between sentimentality and detachment, [his] songs can touch even the most hardened heart." – Time Out New York
Time Out New York named Corey's debut album Less Famous Than You one of the top ten albums of 2006.
"A lot of art goes into Dargel's music that he doesn't call your attention to." –Village Voice
"[W]ith that collision of hyper-Romanticism and urbanely poker-faced ironic distancing, Brooklynite Corey Dargel makes bedroom electronic tracks in the early Magnetic Fields style, but with the unmistakable complicating impulse and rococo ingenuity of a conservatory-trained... new music-obsessed mind."
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