Performance History
Hot Air Balloon was first performed on December 31, 1998 at the Silk City Lounge in Philadelphia. The debut was unannounced and fans attending the show were given a pamphlet containing accompanying stories for each of the songs.
The opera has been performed in its entirety eight times. It was also performed on April 1st, 2002, but with "Aquatic Ape" replacing the title song, "Hot Air Balloon", as an April Fool's joke. However, "Hot Air Balloon" lyrics were sung during parts of "Aquatic Ape".
- December 31, 1998 at Silk City Lounge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- January 24, 1999 at Center for the Arts, Natick, Massachusetts
- March 4, 1999 at The Tractor, Seattle, Washington
- May 11, 1999 at The Blue Terrapin, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
- June 12, 1999 at The Music Farm, Charleston, South Carolina
- October 23, 1999 at Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- April 1, 2002 at Bogart's, Cincinnati, Ohio
- January 17, 2004 at the Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- October 31, 2007 at the Orpheum Theater, Boston, Massachusetts
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