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I can't wait to see the version of "The Trial". That will for sure kick ass!!
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I was just about to post this too.
Note the typo "Another Brock in the Wall"
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=5883067
Broadway Putting Up 'Wall'
Thu Aug 5, 2004 07:24 AM ET
By Ian Mohr
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is coming to the Great White Way.
Miramax Films has pacted with former Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola to develop and produce a Broadway musical based on the seminal rock opera.
Roger Waters, who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and conceived the semi-autobiographical 1979 concept double album, will write the Broadway show's book and arrange and orchestrate music for the stage production.
The album, which includes such Pink Floyd hits as "Another Brock in the Wall," "Comfortably Numb" and "Hey You," follows the journey of disillusioned rock star Pink, who looks back at the experiences that forged his neuroses. Like Pink, Waters lost his father in World War II.
Waters, who acrimoniously left Pink Floyd in the 1980s, sold the stage rights to the project to Miramax and Mottola, who runs his own Universal Music-based label, Casablanca Records.
Pink Floyd's "Wall" album, which is certified 23 times platinum and sits in third place on the list of best-selling albums ever, was adapted into a 1982 film released by MGM and starring Bob Geldof. Alan Parker ("The Commitments") directed the "Wall" feature from a script by Waters.
Pink Floyd's theatrical live performances of "The Wall" became the stuff of rock legend, and an $8 million production was staged in Berlin in 1990, coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Said Waters of the planned Broadway show, "Now I can write in some laughs, notable by their absence in the movie."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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Note the typo "Another Brock in the Wall"
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=5883067
Broadway Putting Up 'Wall'
Thu Aug 5, 2004 07:24 AM ET
By Ian Mohr
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is coming to the Great White Way.
Miramax Films has pacted with former Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola to develop and produce a Broadway musical based on the seminal rock opera.
Roger Waters, who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and conceived the semi-autobiographical 1979 concept double album, will write the Broadway show's book and arrange and orchestrate music for the stage production.
The album, which includes such Pink Floyd hits as "Another Brock in the Wall," "Comfortably Numb" and "Hey You," follows the journey of disillusioned rock star Pink, who looks back at the experiences that forged his neuroses. Like Pink, Waters lost his father in World War II.
Waters, who acrimoniously left Pink Floyd in the 1980s, sold the stage rights to the project to Miramax and Mottola, who runs his own Universal Music-based label, Casablanca Records.
Pink Floyd's "Wall" album, which is certified 23 times platinum and sits in third place on the list of best-selling albums ever, was adapted into a 1982 film released by MGM and starring Bob Geldof. Alan Parker ("The Commitments") directed the "Wall" feature from a script by Waters.
Pink Floyd's theatrical live performances of "The Wall" became the stuff of rock legend, and an $8 million production was staged in Berlin in 1990, coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Said Waters of the planned Broadway show, "Now I can write in some laughs, notable by their absence in the movie."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
© Copyright Reuters 2004. All rights reserved. Any copying, re-publication or re-distribution of Reuters content or of any content used on this site, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without prior written consent of Reuters. DF will surely burn in hell for posting our article.
Oh my God!!!
My all-time favourite concept is turned into a Broadway thing?!?!
I hope I am wrong, but I had a shock hearing this. I'm afraid I am going to hate this...
My all-time favourite concept is turned into a Broadway thing?!?!
I hope I am wrong, but I had a shock hearing this. I'm afraid I am going to hate this...
Me too Jeroen...
I was discussing with my friends that there's this trend going on with multi-hit maker artists like Billy Joel, ABBA, and Queen bringing musicals, but we all agreed on how cool would it be to see 'The Wall' turned into a musical.
I guess yes... our dream came true.
P.S. Has 'Tommy' or 'Quadrophenia' by The Who ever brought to Broadway?
I was discussing with my friends that there's this trend going on with multi-hit maker artists like Billy Joel, ABBA, and Queen bringing musicals, but we all agreed on how cool would it be to see 'The Wall' turned into a musical.
I guess yes... our dream came true.
P.S. Has 'Tommy' or 'Quadrophenia' by The Who ever brought to Broadway?
Oh my God!!!
My all-time favourite concept is turned into a Broadway thing?!?!
I hope I am wrong, but I had a shock hearing this. I'm afraid I am going to hate this...
Ditto
Sara (FGT) told me about this one ages ago. I'm sure she's thrilled :)
Wow, I want to see this!
The Wall is one of my favourite albums to listen to on vinyl, and I can't wait to see this production...if I ever get a chance to make my way down to New York (where I want to go for the Pokemon Center store as well, of course :P)
I never got to see the movie though. Is it any good?
I never got to see the movie though. Is it any good?
*yawn.....*
As always people are complaining before the thing is made and before they have seen it.
Holy Crap! I've got to see this someday.
Rien wrote: As always people are complaining before the thing is made and before they have seen it
---->I'm sorry to bump your head again, Sure, but I'm not a professional nagger like some others in here. It's just that The Wall is very dear to me for several reasons and I just don't like musicals (ANY musical!)
And in this case I just find it very unapropriate both story-wise AND music-wise...
And I just wouldn't like to hear or see The Wall without Waters being on stage. Even if nowadays-Floyd would perform it live, I probably wouldn't like it. Waters' voice, to me, is an essential part of the thing. I guess it's an emotional thing that only he can reach. It's just MHO!
---->I'm sorry to bump your head again, Sure, but I'm not a professional nagger like some others in here. It's just that The Wall is very dear to me for several reasons and I just don't like musicals (ANY musical!)
And in this case I just find it very unapropriate both story-wise AND music-wise...
And I just wouldn't like to hear or see The Wall without Waters being on stage. Even if nowadays-Floyd would perform it live, I probably wouldn't like it. Waters' voice, to me, is an essential part of the thing. I guess it's an emotional thing that only he can reach. It's just MHO!
Sure, but perhaps you should see it as two separate things... the album and the musical?
Just like the WWRY musical...
Nothing can top the original Queen recordings but Queen's songs are played every night and it's like a Queen concert. It's so great to hear those songs played close to perfection.
Who knows what the Wall-musical will be like, perhaps you will like it, I can't tell right now.
Just like the WWRY musical...
Nothing can top the original Queen recordings but Queen's songs are played every night and it's like a Queen concert. It's so great to hear those songs played close to perfection.
Who knows what the Wall-musical will be like, perhaps you will like it, I can't tell right now.
I hope so, honestly!
But you are right when you say it's just as with the WWRY musical. Indeed great for those who like that, but I personally hate it. It's the same thing: Queen songs, I think, can't be played by anyone else but Queen (or a part of the band) themselves for me to like it... Besides, I find most musical-songs (also the new Queen-arrangements) too... errr, in Dutch we would say 'frivool'. And if there is anything that doesn't fit the The Wall-concept it's 'frivoliteit';-)
I've been a huge fan of anything The Wall related; the album, the Floyd stageshow, the Waters stage show, the movie, the book, the art... everything. So I do hope I will like this...
But you are right when you say it's just as with the WWRY musical. Indeed great for those who like that, but I personally hate it. It's the same thing: Queen songs, I think, can't be played by anyone else but Queen (or a part of the band) themselves for me to like it... Besides, I find most musical-songs (also the new Queen-arrangements) too... errr, in Dutch we would say 'frivool'. And if there is anything that doesn't fit the The Wall-concept it's 'frivoliteit';-)
I've been a huge fan of anything The Wall related; the album, the Floyd stageshow, the Waters stage show, the movie, the book, the art... everything. So I do hope I will like this...
I feel the same way as Jeroen. Can't they leave anything alone? Does the whole world have to be turned into a big musical or something?
And why don't they write NEW stuff??
And why don't they write NEW stuff??