With an ambitious, inventive new musical, American Utopia, David Byrne (dbtodomundo) brings his singular sensibility to Broadway.
, a Depression-era musical set to the songs of Bob Dylan, is expected to arrive on Broadway. And then there’s, the album of netherworld ballads from singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell that is now a Tony Award–winning musical. You might say that Broadway is feeling flexible, with members of the downtown avant--garde regularly landing real estate uptown. So as singular as it seems,might just be the direction Broadway is going: toward innovative performances that move us in new and startling ways.
The same year that Byrne founded the Talking Heads, he showed up at what is now the August Wilson Theater for a work by experimental playwright Robert Wilson titled. Being a Robert Wilson piece—using language less like dialogue and more like concrete poetry—it wasn’t your typical Broadway production. The shows sometimes began with patrons walking through basement rooms where actors were, say, hanging from a swing. “I saw that and my mind was blown,” says Byrne, still amazed.
, the story of Imelda Marcos, cowritten with the English DJ and producer Fatboy Slim. It played at the Public Theater—and, yes, they’d like to see that production make it to Broadway too. “We were working on that,” Byrne says, “and I thought, Why are these musicals always the same?”
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