WTF????
Pirate Queen Cast Album Comes Ashore July 3 - God Help Us Everyone....
By Kenneth Jones w/colorful additions by Brandy Rowell
The Broadway cast album of The Pirate Queen, the new musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, will be released July 3 by Masterworks Broadway. ARGHH!! LOOK OUT!
The disc of the drum-thumping, pennywhistle-kissed score is all that remains of the $16 million staging that closed June 17 at the Hilton Theatre.
The producers of the Irish-history musical yarn are seeking a European life for the epic by the Tony Award-winning authors of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. Serves them right for sending us all that tea.
The show opened April 5 following a Chicago tryout and New York previews from March 6. Upon closing, played 85 performances and 32 previews, at a loss of most of its reported $16 million investment.
"We are proud of The Pirate Queen and the talented cast and creative team that has brought this epic musical to Broadway," producers Moya Doherty and John McColgan (Riverdance) said in an earlier announcement. "We are also pleased to report that there is international interest in Pirate Queen productions. Plans for a European English-language production are underway and will be announced in the near future."
The Pirate Queen did not receive a single 2007 Tony Award nomination. NOOOOOO Really???
In the months leading up to the Broadway bow, following its fall 2006 tryout in Chicago, the show was rewritten and re-staged, with the help of 11th-hour artists Richard Maltby and Graciela Daniele. Who have now retired in shame....or should!!!
In the name of the father (Shakespeare) and of the son (Fosse) and of the holy ghost (TN Williams), May she never reach American shores again...Amen.
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