Sting to work on musical
September 4th, 2011 - 6:03 am ICT by IANSLondon, Sep 4 (IANS) British rocker Sting will work on an upcoming musical by award-winning playwright Brian Yorkey.
The two have teamed up to stage “The Last Ship”, which will centre around lead character Gideon, a man who grew up around the shipyards of Newcastle - the same city Sting hails from, reports dailystar.co.uk.
However, Yorkey insists the project is still in its early stages.
“(It’s still in the) ‘throw it up against the wall and see what sticks’ (phase). It’s Sting’s first foray into writing for musical theatre, so we wanted to start having him meet actors and hear them sing at the earliest possible point,” said Yorkey.
“I won’t say the score is complete because the score’s not complete until god knows when. But he’s written a couple dozen, maybe 20, 24, amazing new songs for the show. He’s writing great theatre music. It’s very, very distinctly Sting but it also is theatre music. It’s not just pop music transposed into the theatre,” he added.
Readings for the play will begin in October this year.
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