Two years ago, Tori Amos brought her first stage production, The Light Princess, to London's Royal National Theater after a five-year wait. The musical, which playwright Samuel Adamson loosely adapted from George MacDonald's 19th-century fairy tale about a princess stripped of her emotions and confined to permanent midair float, opened to positive reviews. As Amos continues to mull a Broadway run for the show, she'll release the musical's cast recording for the first time on October 9, which features original songs penned by the fearless pianist and songwriter. Today, Vulture premieres one of the soundtrack's highlights, "Darkest Hour," featuring Rosalie Craig, who played the titular Princess Althea. "Darkest Hour" is the tortured confessional Althea sings when she's at her breaking point and seems to have lost the will to carry on. "When we reach this point in the musical, even though she has been freed from the shackles of torture...
- 9/24/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
Tori Amos has spoken of her hopes of bringing her musical The Light Princess to London next year. The singer-songwriter's long-awaited project was indefinitely postponed last year after originally being scheduled for an April 2012 launch. Amos said that she hopes the musical will open at the city's National Theatre in 2013, and that it is currently at the workshop stage. "If the fairies are with us, I'd like to say that before the end of 2013 it will be playing at the National," she told BBC News. The Light Princess is based on George MacDonald's 19th-century fairy tale, and has been developed by Amos for several years. Amos said that the project has (more)...
- 9/19/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
He was a curmudgeon who didn’t have children, didn’t especially like children, and yet was probably the most noted children’s book writer and illustrator in the past fifty years, J.K. Rowling notwithstanding. He was Maurice Sendak and he died May 8th at age 83 after a stroke.
Sendak was famous for many books, especially Where The Wild Things Are, a favorite in our house. I got my Mary the full set of the McFarlane figurines and we saw and liked the movie version (many people didn’t but we did, nyah nyah).
He was infamous for books like In The Night Kitchen because its hero is a young boy named Mickey who falls out of his night clothes and runs around naked. As Lewis Black might put it, “Some people see pictures of a little boy’s wee-wee and it makes them want to cry.” It’s gotten...
Sendak was famous for many books, especially Where The Wild Things Are, a favorite in our house. I got my Mary the full set of the McFarlane figurines and we saw and liked the movie version (many people didn’t but we did, nyah nyah).
He was infamous for books like In The Night Kitchen because its hero is a young boy named Mickey who falls out of his night clothes and runs around naked. As Lewis Black might put it, “Some people see pictures of a little boy’s wee-wee and it makes them want to cry.” It’s gotten...
- 5/13/2012
- by John Ostrander
- Comicmix.com
Tori Amos's planned musical The Light Princess has reportedly been shelved. The singer-songwriter's adaptation of George MacDonald's story was due to open at the Lyttleton Theatre in April, but has had its world premiere postponed indefinitely, The Guardian reports. The National Theatre has reportedly denied that the project has been cancelled entirely and a spokeswoman told the newspaper: "Development is continuing on The Light Princess and we'll announce a new date for the production in due course." Amos's long in-production project had already been announced by the National Theatre for its spring 2012 season and would have been helmed by War Horse co-director Marianne Elliot. It is claimed that the musical has been delayed over fears that it will not be ready in (more)...
- 10/20/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Artistic director Nicholas Hytner says only response to expected funding cuts is to be 'bullish in our programming'
A musical by the singer-songwriter Tori Amos, a new drama by Mike Leigh and Simon Russell Beale as Stalin are all part of a defiantly ambitious programme for the coming year at the National Theatre, with artistic director Nicholas Hytner declaring that the only response to expected funding cuts was to be "bullish in our programming".
Russell Beale's Stalin will be seen in a debut stage play by John Hodge, who wrote screenplays for Danny Boyle's early films, including Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary and Trainspotting.
His script – about an imagined meeting between the author Mikhail Bulgakov and Stalin – was sent in to the National on spec; it is mere coincidence that his old collaborator Boyle's vision of Frankenstein opens at the theatre next month. Alex Jennings will play Bulgakov and Hytner directs.
A musical by the singer-songwriter Tori Amos, a new drama by Mike Leigh and Simon Russell Beale as Stalin are all part of a defiantly ambitious programme for the coming year at the National Theatre, with artistic director Nicholas Hytner declaring that the only response to expected funding cuts was to be "bullish in our programming".
Russell Beale's Stalin will be seen in a debut stage play by John Hodge, who wrote screenplays for Danny Boyle's early films, including Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary and Trainspotting.
His script – about an imagined meeting between the author Mikhail Bulgakov and Stalin – was sent in to the National on spec; it is mere coincidence that his old collaborator Boyle's vision of Frankenstein opens at the theatre next month. Alex Jennings will play Bulgakov and Hytner directs.
- 1/27/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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