Tori Amos Working on Musical!

I can't really imagine this working. But hey, more power to her, and I'd personally love to see it for my own selfish Tori fan reasons.

On another note, I can't say I'm overly pleased with American Doll Posse.

Eeek. . a Tori thread on a theatre board. . this gay boy is clapping and giggling harder than Richard Simmons . .

I'm really excited for her musical. I really REALLY hope she gets Neil Gaiman to write the book for it. They're extremely close friends, and he always writes stuff for her albums.

I, also LOVE ADP. It took me a few listens, but now I listen to it every day. . working out. . on the trains. . it's an amazing album.

~Jacob.

Wow, I'm really suprized. I hope this works!

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^ True.

Of course, as long as I got to see it before it closed (in previews) I would be a happy girl.

It might be good to give Tori an outlet for the dress up storytelling stuff that's interfering with her music. (I'm being mean, I haven't heard ADP yet. I'm waiting until I'm less cynical, so I can give myself the chance to like it.)

Tori is one of those artists with a fan base that would be in "love" with an album of her passing gas.

Some of her music is good, some okay, lots, not good at all. I really enjoyed "Little Earthquakes," most of "Boys for Pele," and "From the Choirgirl Hotel." The other stuff is just boring and silly...to me. I heard ADP...don't care for it all except for "Big Wheel." Just my opinion...

-Vincent

This musical will bring "fan-gurlz" to a whole new level. You think the WICKED-HEADS and RENT-HEADS are bad, just wait until Tori launches a musical. Any one of us can forget about lotteries or rushes, the "Tori-girlz" will be camped out overnight everynight and try to see who can see the musical the most.

I think Tori's music is rich. Hopefully, she wil work with a collaborator who will help streamline her thoughts and make a coherent narrative. Tori ususally says that most of her albums have a narrative story (Scarlet's Walk, ADP) but I'll be damned if I can find it.

However, love Tori, love the idea.

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"Her music invokes a lot of emotions - something that will DEFINATELY help a musical to come alive"

It's spelled "definitely"

I love you still iluv.

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I didnt know about this, but her work would be wonderful as part of a musical.

It may be a process that hinders her composing because she may find herself forced to meet more mainstream sounds.

hopefully if she has a good collaborative team, this won't happen.

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Tori ususally says that most of her albums have a narrative story (Scarlet's Walk, ADP) but I'll be damned if I can find it.

Sometimes I wonder if this is because she attaches the so-called concept or narrative after writing the songs, or in the case of Strange Little Girls, after deciding that she wanted to do an album filled with covers. It's only speculation on my part, but I could easily imagine that Tori wanted to cover some songs, but in an attempt to make it more "intriguing," she attached the "cover songs from a woman's point of view" concept to her idea, picking the token Eminem song with which to take issue in order for her idea to sound semi-valid but picking the rest seemingly at random. It's hard for me to believe that Tori Amos decided to cover "Time" or "I Don't Like Mondays" because she truly wanted to give those songs a woman's voice. To be fair, I don't put it past Tori to either have that bizarre of a thought pattern or to truly buy her own ideas surrounding her music. Sometimes I cynically wonder if she actually buys everything she says, probably because I've seen few humans speak as she does.

As for Scarlet's Walk, I can see a vague concept that became overly contrived in places she felt the need to emphasize it. We shouldn't forget that it's an album about America, so she throws in lines like "lost in a place called AMMMERICA!" and includes a giant map supposely tracing "Scarlet's path" in the deluxe edition. I'm not sure I see any overarching concept in American Doll Posse. Maybe the concept would become clear if I were to read a few interviews regarding the album, but I've always thought of a concept album as something one should be able to recognize as that without the artist's help, but perhaps the artist can deepen our understanding of the intent based on what he or she says. I don't feel it should be something that needs an explicit explanation from the artist to understand.

At any rate, all of this ties back into my cynicism about any potential musical from Tori. She generally lacks a clear narrative within her songs and hasn't effectively mastered the art of the concept album, something that relies on the same abilities. Based on her prior work, she would have a very difficult time relating a story to the audience, both within the songs themselves and on the whole. I don't think it's impossible, but she would either need a great team of collaborators or to take a complete departure from her previous work.

Oh... yeah. I just misunderstood you.

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She has played a few musical theatre songs in concert. "My Favorite Things" comes to mind.

got so excited i posted twice

Updated On: 5/8/07 at 02:09 AM