Tori Amos Buzz: She’s Doin’ A Musical?
Tori Amos has been mentioning it in more and more interviews lately–these plans of writing a musical. Maybe this is on purpose, or perhaps interviewers (like the rest of us) are still in shock and must know more.
She appears to be dead serious. Apparently, this has been a dream of hers for quite some time (as she reported in an interview on some youtube.com video I watched a while back that I cannot seem to find now). For this reason alone, most fans can’t help but to be happy for her.
According to the source, me-me-me.tv, while Tori doesn’t intend to perform in the musical, she is attempting to write one a la Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It’ll be a 23-song-er, which isn’t a stretch for Tori…many of her albums nearing or reaching the 24 song mark. She has verbalized plans to tone down the touring (particularly as Tash enters her more formative years), and this seems like something to occupy her all-consuming musical talents.
Fans have mixed feelings, and two camps are emerging: the “Oh my god, Tori please don’t” people and the “I’ve been waiting for Tori to write a musical since I first heard Silent All These Years” folks. Whichever camp you fall into…don’t kid yourself, you know your are going to buy tickets regardless.
Fans (including myself) may find themselves going “hm,” but most are confident that Tori can pull it off…with the style, grace, talent, and gall with which she always executes her zany schemes. Oh…especially if Neil Gaiman got on board.
Already titles are being thrown around forums (the money is for an onstage Mary Magdalene revival). This seems like the perfect opportunity to play the “mush the Tori Amos song with a Broadway play” game!
My turn first:
Chicago, Go, Go, Go Now
or
Rent (Your Wife and Kids Today)(Let’s hear yours!)
Ha. But in all seriousness, given the elaborate nature of most of Tori’s albums, almost any of them can be adapted into some sort of stage production. Perhaps some sort of Vagina Monologue-esque spin on “Strange Little Girls” with the Neil Gaiman phrases being the characters’ first lines. The Gothic novel that is Boys for Pele would also be amenable to the stage. That gives me an idea for a series of posts…
Good luck, Tori.
Filed under: Tori Personal on September 19th, 2007
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