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Regina 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!

Article!

Updated On: 9/16/09 at 11:09 AM

#3

re: 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.
Now what would you say if today I started over? Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover And I'll pretend like everything is already alright And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
#6

re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical

Posted: 9/16/09 at 12:36pm

Regina 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.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who

"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

#7

re: 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
#8

re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical

Posted: 9/16/09 at 3:20pm

Regina 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.
#15

re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:47am

The 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.
#18

re: 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.
#20

re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical

Posted: 9/19/09 at 12:30am

well it's about damn time
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl

"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
#21

re: Regina Spektor To Collaborate On Broadway Bound Musical

Posted: 9/19/09 at 1:23am

I 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.
#23

re: 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.
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl

"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

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