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John Mellencamp, Stephen King work on a musical
i'm thinking this will be worth a peek
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mods, ban XxaxX!
lawd, that user name takes me FOREVER to type! You're a real fucker. You act like you own this place--ParanoidAndroid <-- about as witty as this princess gets! 
I hope everyone pays more attention to Sags posts--sweething 
Jesus weeps 
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Is it like: "Jack and Diane meet Carrie"?
I love SK, but, uh... "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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Wow I remember reading about this years ago. Glad to see it wasn't abandoned. As with everything King (outside of a book) it could be great or go horribly wrong. | |
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i wonder if it will have a song in it about leaving one's wife for a hollywood hasbeen star... | |
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Mods! ban Sag's avatar instead
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like Sags' avatar. | |
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well, i don't see bit that in Wiki's summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Mellencamp
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County Mellencamp has been working on a musical with horror author Stephen King, entitled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, since 2000. The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA announced on March 30, 2011 that the musical will debut in the spring of 2012 and will be directed by Alliance artistic director Susan V. Booth. Mellencamp's official website reported that a CD/book package of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County will be released in advance of the stage production. Production on the CD/book package began on June 15, 2009, when T Bone Burnett, who is serving as the project's musical producer, began laying down tracks in Los Angeles, California for the songs Mellencamp wrote for the musical. The recording will be available in a book package containing the full text, two discs featuring the entire production of the spoken word script and songs performed by the cast, and a third CD of the songs only. Mellencamp said the soundtrack includes Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello, Taj Mahal and Neko Case among others singing the songs he wrote. In November 2010, Mellencamp told the Chicago Tribune: "T Bone and I and Stephen King are working on a musical. All the music has been recorded. We had Kris Kristofferson, Neko Case, Elvis Costello, Taj Mahal, all singing different characters’ roles. I wrote all the songs, 17 songs. (T Bone) produced. It sounds like the “Sgt. Pepper” of Americana to me. Forget about the play, just the songs, the way these people sing them. I’m sitting there listening to it and thinking, “Did Rosanne Cash just kill that song or what!” The play is called “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” about two brothers who hate each other. If you could imagine Tennessee Williams meets Stephen King. They’re recording the dialogue now and we’re putting out a record of the entire show before it comes out. Right now, Elvis Costello, Meg Ryan, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey are doing table readings like an old radio play. So you’ll get all the dialogue, all the sound effects, and all the songs sung by different people so you can follow the story. The CD will come out ahead of time. So many people are involved, it’s taken a long time. But we don’t have to worry about money or record companies – it’s our own money we’re putting into it, so we said, let’s just make something beautiful." Ryan D'Agostino of Esquire stated in a review of a New York rehearsal of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County in the fall of 2007, "Musicals aren't usually a guy thing. This one, though, is not only tolerable, it's good. It may be the first-ever musical written by men for men. There's no orchestra, just two twangy acoustic guitars, an accordion, and a fiddle. The songs are both haunting and all-American." The Alliance describes the show as a "Southern Gothic musical fraught with mystery, tragedy and ghosts of the past."
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WILL THEY HAVE A DANCE NUMBER, LIKE THRILLER??? i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... 
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE... | |
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6 Should prince work with Ann Rice to produce the Vampires of Funk Chronicles???? | |
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If it comes up here, I'd probably try to see it anyway... "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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