Posted: 10/31/18 at 9:04am
Just realized the off-broadway musical Renascence is basically Edna St. Vincent Millay's poems set to music. I know Ricky Ian Gordon wrote a show named Only Heaven with Langston Hughes' poems. Not sure if it was ever staged or simply a concept album, but it makes me curious are there any more shows like this?
Posted: 10/31/18 at 9:12am
Also the song "Chicken Soup with Rice" from Really Rosie is based on a bunch poems published in the 60s. not sure if the lyrics are totally the same but I think they are.
Posted: 10/31/18 at 10:24am
The late Barbara Cook did a cabaret show called "Songs of Perfect Propriety" based on the poems of Dorothy Parker.
There is also a musical adaptation of the poetry and visual art of Edward Gorey, which has existed under several different names.
Posted: 10/31/18 at 11:02am
There's also Goblin Market, based on the poem of the same name. Not sure if the lyrics are the same, but I'd imagine some of them are. I'm pretty sure people thought it was a total bore, though.
Posted: 10/31/18 at 11:05am
February House sets two of Auden's poems to music.
Posted: 10/31/18 at 11:10am
Rufus Wainwright set a bunch of Shakespeare's sonnets to music for a Robert Wilson/Berliner Ensemble musical a few years ago.
Posted: 10/31/18 at 4:17pm
