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The rock opera Bark of Millions is an incomparable celebration of queerness, and here from its award-winning creators Taylor Mac and Matt Ray is the complete experience in book form, including lyrics and music for all 56 songs

Bark of Millions the show is an electrifying collision of performance, live music, and drag spectacle in a four-hour rock opera celebration of queerness. The show features 56 original songs by theater masterminds, Taylor Mac, a MacArthur Fellow, Ibsen Award winner, and Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Matt Ray, Obie Award-winning composer. "Why 55? It's one for every year following Stonewall. The songs are performed by a powerhouse collective of 23 international artists. With the fierce elation of a pride parade, Bark of Millions is a luxuriant, provocative spectacle unlike any other.

Bark of Millions the book is an expression and extension of this transportive experience. It's for the queer community and for theater obsessives and musicians and performers. Included in the book are lyrics and music sheets for all 56 songs.

Taylor Mac is a MacArthur fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a Tony nominee for Best Play, and the recipient of the International Ibsen Award. Mac is the author of seventeen full-length plays and performances. Selected works include: Bark of Millions (in collaboration with Matt Ray); Joy and Pandemic; The Hang (with lyrics by Mac and music by Matt Ray); The Fre; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus ; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music; Hir; The Walk Across America for Mother Earth; The Lily’s Revenge; The Young Ladies Of; The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac; Red Tide Blooming; The Last Two People on Earth. Films include Whitman in the Woods and Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

Matt Ray is a composer, arranger, theater maker, pianist, singer, songwriter, and music director. The New York Times called him “the musical nexus of New York’s alt-cabaret scene,” and as a fixture of downtown New York nightlife he’s collaborated for many years with luminaries such as Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Bridget Everett, and Joey Arias. Ray received a 2023 Obie Award for his composition and music direction on his and Mac's jazz-based theater piece The Hang (2022, HERE Arts Center). The show also received 4 Drama Desk and 2 Drama League nominations including a Drama Desk nomination for Matt Ray for Best Music. Ray and Mac have also collaborated on The Lily’s Revenge, Bark of Millions, and A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. Ray and Mac shared the 2017 Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired By American History for 24-Decade.

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