Hip Hip Hooray! A New Sondheim Musical Is in the Works
Have you noticed a skip in the step of your local theater geeks today? It’s because there’s a brand-spanking-new Stephen Sondheim musical in the works.
The living theater god is working with playwright David Ives on, of all things, an adaptation of the work of Soanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, specifically some combination of his films The Exterminating Angel and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Since the former just debuted as an opera (bound for the Met next year), Sondheim spoke at the Glimmerglass Festival in New York, where he announced that his adaptation on The Exterminating Angel would premiere at the Public Theater sometime in 2017. (That’ll show them. Sondheim notoriously dislikes opera).
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