Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
#1Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 11:09am
"Rising singer-songwriter and Sire/Warner Bros. recording artist Regina Spektor will join playwright / director Tina Landau (Floyd Collins) and lyricist Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) to create the new musical BEAUTY, to be produced by Elephant Eye Theatrical (Stuart Oken, Michael Leavitt, Five Cent Productions), aiming for the 2011-12 Broadway season, following an out-of-town tryout to be announced. Landau will write the book and direct; Spektor the music, and Korie the lyrics."
All I can say is that I am SO excited for this!
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Updated On: 9/16/09 at 11:09 AM
#2re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 11:24amThis sounds like it has the potential to be AMAZING!
#2re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 11:39am
I usually don't get too excited for things before they've been worked on a bit but...
Wow. That makes me so excited. I'm sitting here grinning.
#3re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 11:48amI'm so intrigued...can't wait!
#4re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 12:21pmLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Regina Spektor.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#5re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 12:36pmRegina Spektor is one of my favorite musicians. Her songs are beautifully written and I'm really excited to hear her work as a musical score - I know that it will be lovely. Combining that with Michael Korie ... this is going to be a show I won't be missing.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#6re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 1:34pm
Yay! I've been saying she should do this for years. Now she just had to convince her pal Ben Folds to jump on the bandwagon and write a musical, and all will be right in the world.
Akiva
#7re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 3:20pmRegina is an absolutely beautiful singer/songwriter. I am so excited to hear this news. She just does such a great job of telling a story in every song that she writes, and she does so in such a unique way. LOVE LOVE LOVE her.
#8re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 4:33pm
Best news I've heard in awhile! I'm going to see Regina in concert tomorrow evening.
This has potential to be brilliant!
#9re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 4:46pmYes please! So happy about this. She has potential to write an amazing musical. OT, but I can't wait for her gig at Radio City in Oct.
heo1128
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/08
#10re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 5:22pmYes!! Now if we could get a musical out of Sufjan Stevens, my life would be complete.
#11re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 9:15pmooooh! This could be really good =)
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#12re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/16/09 at 11:15pm
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!
YAYYY REGINA!!!
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#13re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/17/09 at 12:34amLove it. Love Landeau. Very promising.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#14re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:47amThe song Spektor was on was the best part of Folds' lackluster last album. (And I say this as a huge Ben Folds fan.) Anyway, I've never heard her music being sung by anyone else, and with the collaborators named in the article, this sounds really interesting, with the potential to be great.
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#15re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/17/09 at 1:09pm
So this is evidently a reworking of a short musical with book by Tina Landau that played in LA with Kelli O'Hara and Jason Danieley:
http://www.curtainup.com/beauty.html
heo1128
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/08
#17re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/18/09 at 2:14am
On a different note...
"Folds' lackluster last album. (And I say this as a huge Ben Folds fan.)" COMPLETELY AGREE. So disappointing.
I hope she writes more like Soviet Kitsch than the more pop-y stuff of Begin to Hope.
#18re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/18/09 at 2:17am
"I hope she writes more like Soviet Kitsch than the more pop-y stuff of Begin to Hope."
AGREED! Although, Far is pretty good too. Her best melodies, imo, are on Soviet Kitsch.
#19re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/19/09 at 12:30amwell it's about damn time
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#20re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/19/09 at 1:23amI think FAR is actually pretty decent. I saw her perform at a Barnes and Noble talkback thing, and it was just her on piano and a cello and violin, and it was beautiful! But then I got the CD and listen to it, and the orchestrations are terrible. It just sounds so cheesy pop.
#21re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/19/09 at 11:56amAw, I love Begin to Hope. If the musical sounds like that, I'd be there with bells on. Really though, I'd be there if it sounds like *any* of her music. Love. Her.
#22re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 9/19/09 at 12:58pm
Being an adaptation of a fairy tale I'd imagine the music she'll write will sound more like her last two albums (mainly the ballads), very erethral and whimsical, though the second act, which will be set "closer to the present day" according to an article on MTV.com, might have more of her pre-Begin to Hope anti-folk/jazz/punk sound.
At any rate Far is a great album and kinda blends her experimental early stuff with her new sound. Soviet Kitch is still her best work.
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
jdtp12
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/10
#23re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 10/14/10 at 4:04pmDoes anyone know if there has been any development on this?
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#24re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical
Posted: 10/14/10 at 4:25pm
Only yesterday there was an interview with Landau where she mentions it as still in progress:
It's here.
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