PERFECT LIVES: A Screening to Benefit Roulette

Leading up to the Roulette 2026 Gala honoring the Robert Ashley Band alongside Thomas and Kamala Buckner, Roulette presents a screening of Perfect Lives. At the center of this landmark work first completed for broadcast in 1983 is the hypnotic voice of Robert Ashley, whose continuous song narrates the events of the story, supported by “Blue” Gene Tyranny’s piano inventions and choral commentary by Jill Kroesen and David Van Tieghem. The opera follows two musicians who have come to a small town in the Midwest to entertain at the Perfect Lives Lounge, fall in with two locals, and hatch a plan to remove a sizable amount of money from The Bank. If they are caught, it will be a crime—but if they are not, it will be Art.

7:00pm – Introductions from members of the original production
7:30pm – Perfect Lives Screening (runtime 2 hours and 55 min)

Ticket Information

$25 — General Admission
$50 — General Admission + 2 drink tickets
$100 — General Admission + 2 drink tickets + Robert Ashley Perfect Lives Hardcover Book (Published by published by Burning Books in association with Archer Fields Press, 1991)

This is a special benefit screening to support Roulette. Member and Patron benefits do not apply.