David Byrne Brings American Utopia to Broadway
David Byrne, the former Talking Heads frontman, announced that he will be taking his American Utopia show to Broadway.
The tickets for this show are already available right here.
Byrne’s international American Utopia tour kicked off last year in New Jersey and now, with the help from Alex Timbers and choreographer Annie-B Parson, the show will be adapted for a Broadway run later this year. The performances will take place in the 1,500-capacity Hudson Theatre for 16 weeks (October 14th to January 19th).
Byrne describes the American Utopia show as “untethered” with his band entirely mobile on the stage as he performs songs from his solo career but also tracks from when he was the Talking Heads frontman.
As to how he came up with this brilliant idea, he wrote on his website: “As I was recording the songs for my American Utopia album, it occurred to me that they would be exciting to play live – and I realized that a lot of my older material would fit right in. I imagined a live show…
I pictured a lot of drummers, a kind of drum line/samba school/second line – that would create the rhythms. I had this vision of how exciting that would be – both for me and for an audience.”
The musician also commented that he is looking forward to bringing the show before an audience who is perhaps not familiar with him, or his music.
“I thought to myself that this new context might be good – it might actually help to bring out the narrative arc a little bit more, to make it just a little more explicit,” he said.
Still, he refuses to reveal what he believes the American Utopia is about, other than saying that the title is not ironic.
Prior to the Broadway run of David Byrne’s American Utopia, the audience in Boston will have a chance to see if the show lives up to its title at 1,700-capacity Emerson Colonial Theatre from September 11th to September 28th.
American Utopia
You can find tickets for Boston shows, as well as New York shows, right here.
Show Date and Time: September 11th, 8 p.m.
Show Location: Citi Emerson Colonial Theatre, Boston
