JEFF BUCKLEY MAN SAYS HE'D LOVE TO DO A U2 MUSICAL

Michael Kimmel, the man behind the theatre success of the Jeff Buckley musical The Last Goodbye, wants to collaborate with U2

Michael Kimmel, the creator of the Jeff Buckley musical, The Last Goodbye, has told Hot Press that he'd love to collaborate with U2. The Last Goodbye is a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, using the music of Jeff Buckley. It has been critically well received in the US originally launching in 2010 and playing to sell-out houses at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. It is set to run in The Old Globe in San Diego, opening this September.
Now the man who dreamt up the synergy of Jeff Buckley and Shakespeare has set his sights on a potential link-up with the biggest band in the world.

"The U2 album that I think would lend itself best to a theatre, and for me personally is so powerful, is Achtung Baby," he told Hot Press. "I don't have a show that I am working on, by the way, but it is an album that I cherish. It has such a huge range and the thought of working and adapting a piece like that for theatre would be such an exciting prospect indeed."

Michael has long been a fan of U2, and also of Ireland, describing Dublin as his favourite European city.

What did he make of Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark – the successful Broadway musical, for which Bono and Edge wrote the music?


"U2 are one of the most successful bands in the world," he said, "and Spiderman is obviously a huge popular cultural figure. So anytime you have two huge things like that coming together, to get people to come and see live theatre, I think its wonderful."


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Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. (Interview)

 Bono, Edge and Julie Taymor , director of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark in Good Morning, America:


"Boy Falls From the Sky" from the upcoming musical premiered by singer and protagonist of Spiderman:Turn Off the Dark,Reeve Carney (frontman of the rock band Carney)
 

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Good Morning America!

This Friday, Edge and Bono will appear on Good Morning America as part of the creative team for Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark directed by Julie Taymor. They have taken on the role of composers and lyricists for the production.

U2 have appeared on a number of soundtracks and won a Golden Globe for 'The Hands That Built America'. Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry have worked together and separately on these types of projects in the past - many of you will remember Larry and Adam's soundtrack for Mission Impossible and Bono and Edge's musical score for A Clockwork Orange for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1990.

Edge and Bono will appear live via satellite on Good Morning America this Friday to discuss this new Broadway production, Julie Taymor will also appear in the segment.
 

The first song from 'Spider-Man Turn off the Dark' is set to premiere, performed by Peter Parker/Spiderman (Reeve Carney),  live at The Hudson Theatre in Times Square.

Latest on Spider-Man Turn off the Dark' here 


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