"It's interesting to hear what legitimate rock musicians can produce specifically for the theatre." Unfortunately, this isn't their first attempt at a theatrical score. I had the great misfortune to sit through a performance of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE at London's Royal Shakespeare (they were hoping for another LES MIZ-size hit). Maybe they've learned something about theatre in the past 20 years, but based on that one song, it doesn't seem so.
Re CLOCKWORK:
LONDON, Feb. 13— 'A Clockwork Orange 2004,' the Royal Shakespeare Company's much-anticipated stage version of the novel by Anthony Burgess, has opened at the Barbican Theater to mostly negative reviews, with John Peter of The Sunday Times of London calling it 'only an intellectual 'Rocky Horror Show' ' and John Gross of The Sunday Telegraph calling it 'a clockwork lemon.'
Even Mr. Burgess, who wrote the script based on his novel, was disappointed. According to The Evening Standard, he called the score, written by Bono and the Edge of the rock group U2, 'neo-wallpaper.'
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