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Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)

According to the a mailing list I got. Blurb:

"In other news, straight after the tour Rick and Karl are getting stuck into a new theatre project. We’ll post details on the site as soon as we can say more about it – all we can say at the moment is that it’s massively exciting."

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Born Slippy: The Musical?

Looking forward to seeing what they're up to next...

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well if bono and the edge can do 'spider-man the musical'
why not?

later
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i kind of think that the Olympic opening ceremonies directed by Danny Boyle theory holds water...

http://www.borndirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17242

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Something Like A Mamma Mia?

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The King of Snake and I
Kittens: A Cats Prequel

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has to be the Olympics hasn't it?

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Originally Posted by gaborez (Post 147829)

Something Like A Mamma Mia?

hahahahaha the winner !

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well if it is the olympics, that would be very cool..
who knows what they could pull off..

or would its impact be like bjork and the swan dress at the oscars years ago..
(which i thought was awesome)..

later
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Originally Posted by gaborez (Post 147829)

Something Like A Mamma Mia?

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Originally Posted by jose m (Post 147842)

hahahahaha the winner !

I concur and bow to all you gifted pun pranksters.

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Originally Posted by gaborez (Post 147829)

Something Like A Mamma Mia?

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Originally Posted by potatobroth (Post 147859)

fantastic!

ha ha ha.. Yeah! I can almost hear the Glam Bucket version from Oblivion With Bells with some spoken words of Juanita:

"Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
One more look and I forget everything
Ooooh boy, Ooooh, boy here I go again (instead of Ooooh Mamma mia here I go again :D)
Why, why did I ever let you go"

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You Scandinavians surely are perverted regarding pop music. Is nothing sacred anymore?

:p

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11934812

first commissions for the olympics

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Could be that theatre group that used a lot of UW music in the Beauitiful Burnout film.

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Okay, I've just checked the news to make sure I'm not re-stating the obvious again...

...but has nobody yet discussed this?

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?l...dspl=castcreds

"Music and Soundscore: Underworld"
Debuts in February.
Linked from Karl's December 7th diary entry.

Hoping for a recording!

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Excellent. Incidentally I just finished reading the book!

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Originally Posted by cdave2 (Post 148245)

Okay, I've just checked the news to make sure I'm not re-stating the obvious again...

...but has nobody yet discussed this?

Nope, I don't think anyone noticed. Nice find. Although Danny Boyle being involved should have been a clue to dig deeper, and then we might've seen the credits page.

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Originally Posted by cdave2 (Post 148245)

Hoping for a recording!

Yeah, maybe an official cast recording CD release?

Edit: http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/01/21...-tell-us-more/

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Screenwriter Nick Pear (Persuasion) has penned the play, which will be filmed for a television airing for those who can't make out to the South Bank for the real deal.

Although that was from January, so who knows if that's still the plan. I had no idea that Boyle originally came from the world of theater.

Edit 2: Some music details: http://www.collider.com/2010/11/07/d...tein-olympics/

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The Royal (National Theatre which houses the Olivier where the play will be) is known for musicians and employs a lot of musicians. So, will you score it?

Boyle: Well, I’m hoping to kind of musically score it to a degree, but it’ll be a play of performance and speech and there will be some musical elements in it (but it won’t be a musical).

Edit 3: Collaboration with Alex Baranowski
http://alexbaranowski.co.uk/2010/12/...y-danny-boyle/

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Very pleased to announce I’m presently working with electro duo Underworld, arranging the score to the much anticipated Frankenstein directed by Oscar winning Danny Boyle, and opening at the National’s Olivier Theatre in February 2011.

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So underworld are doing the music for frankenstein http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/62...nkenstein.html

Tickets already seem to have sold lots, I ended up skipping the weekend and getting tickets for a monday showing, as there are few good seats left.

Grumpy that it wasn't announced earlier but really happy that i got a mail so i could buy good seats :) Is this new to everyone else?

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Originally Posted by twicezero (Post 148337)

So underworld are doing the music for frankenstein

Grumpy that it wasn't announced earlier but really happy that i got a mail so i could buy good seats :) Is this new to everyone else?

We are used to a total lack of information these days.

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wait...

I definitely remember this being a link on an UW live journal entry not too long ago...

but where does it say Underworld involvement...?

...oh wait - I see, over on the "Cast Credits" page, never mind

So - is this the "BIG NEWS" ?

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We just got the official press release from their PR this morning - here is the scoop:

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2010/...promo-2010.jpg

Underworld rolled into 2010 packing magic and zeal to spare. Flexing their creative muscle across music, television, performance, art and technology, the multimedia extravaganza founded by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde released their sixth studio album, dropped a stack of thumping singles, toured extensively, debuted on US Late Night television, and presented an art exhibit in Japan. Wrapping up an astoundingly successful year with a new single, the electronic powerhouse reunites with Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle and appears with David Lynch on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic in early 2011.

Capitalizing on the collaborative spirit that has constantly reinvigorated their sound and imagination, Underworld's sixth studio album, "Barking" (OM Records) featured a slew of guests including Paul Van Dyk, Dubfire, Mark Knight and D. Ramirez. USA Today praised Barking's first single "Always Loved a Film" as "a dizzying seven-minute house groove saturated in funk.” The cover artwork for Barking was created by design troupe Tomato (which Smith and Hyde co-founded with John Warwicker in the early '90s). Their latest single "Bird 1" dropped November 23rd, featuring remixes by Pete Tong and Mark Broom.

From their earliest days, Underworld have been multimedia provocateurs, pushing the boundaries of post-modern musicianship, inspiring icons like long time collaborator Brian Eno to seek them out for the Pure Scenius project, where they played largely improvised gigs at Sydney’s Opera House and at the Brighton Festival.

Ahead of the curve, Underworld were one of the first acts of their scale to leverage social media to their advantage, directly selling their own records online in 2005 with the Riverrun Project, an Internet/fan exclusive series of mix sets. In 2005 they beamed a show live from Tokyo free to the world via www.underworldlive.com in what was a world first. In August 2009 they continued their series of incredible groundbreaking live audio-visual broadcasts becoming the first artists to broadcast live to iPhone users globally, from The Fox Oakland Theater.

This past August Karl Hyde had his first solo art exhibit in Tokyo where the album debuted at #1 on the charts. Titled “What’s Going on in your head while you’re dancing,” the exhibit showcased over 90 pieces of Hyde’s visual art. In addition, The Edinburgh Festival staged a Frantic Assembly and National Theatre of Scotland production titled “Beautiful Burnout" that won a Fringe First Award.

Proving no medium was immune, Underworld beat fellow electronic giants Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, Crystal Method and even Kraftwerk to the US Late Night TV slot, appearing on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Thanks in large part to its featured role in Danny Boyle's movie, Trainspotting, Underworld's biggest hit "Born Slippy" wound up selling over 1 million copies. Years later, the collaboration with Boyle continues to break new ground as Smith & Hyde blur the lines between arts, providing the music and sound score to Boyle's theatrical adaptation of Frankenstein opening at London's National Theatre in February. Prior to that, on January 17, they appear on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, with special guest David Lynch in support of Lynch's remix music project.

As the rest of the music industry stumbles across an ever-shifting landscape, Underworld's decades-strong stride across genres and mediums continues unabated.

Infinite Love for Underworld:

"Underworld's most consistent album in more than a decade."
Washington Post

"Embraces their classic sound but adds an undeniably fresh vibe"
MTV News

"Underworld’s songwriting stays nonconformist, evading dance-music obviousness for longer melodies and more literary, elusive thoughts."
NY Times

"Barking inhabits an odd place: half-dolorous electro-pop, half-affirming sunnyside jams."

Pitchfork

"Earnest emotions surprisingly suit these dance-floor surrealists"
SPIN

"The combination of über-flâneur Karl Hyde’s Whitmanesque lyricism and Rick Smith’s virtuoso beat-mastering makes it pretty much impossible to walk in to an Underworld set without a big dopey grin seizing your face for a good couple of hours."
URB

"Burning even brighter in a kind of blazing twilight that just might be the sun coming up after an all-nighter"
Paper Magazine

“Barking is the sound of veterans re-energised”
Uncut

“Skipping beats and cavernous bass”
MOJO

“Up with their hypnotically melodic best”
The Sun

“Ranks with their very best material to date”
Clash

“A blistering return”
Mixmag

“Still unmistakably Underworld”
The Observer

“Dizzyingly Divine”
Time Out

“Thumping Party Starters”
PITCHFORK

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TLDR heres the juice.

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Originally Posted by Chris M (Post 148361)

the collaboration with Boyle continues to break new ground as Smith & Hyde blur the lines between arts, providing the music and sound score to Boyle's theatrical adaptation of Frankenstein opening at London's National Theatre in February. Prior to that, on January 17, they appear on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, with special guest David Lynch in support of Lynch's remix music project.

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the kcrw session was actually prerecorded a month or so ago. i imagine it was around the same time UW was promoting questions for the david lynch interview.

i'm really looking forward to hearing this next month:)

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The KCRW session is from Nov. 1, the day after Hard Haunted Mansion, and before they headed back to the UK:

http://www.underworldlive.com/diarie...e.asp?DID=1581

Frankenstein - Soundtrack

Sorry if this has ben done, but I'm assuming from today's blog post that this is UW's next big project:

Quote:

The first reading of the script for Frankenstein
such a buzz

head can’t wait to get to the theatre with Rick
& start working with Danny again

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1795369/

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not the first time a musical has been talked of featuring Underworld - see Underworld news from Jan 1993 here

does anyone know if this actually happened?

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The National Theatre is broadcasting Frankenstein in HD on March 17!

In Belgium, we can go see it in the Kinepolis theaters, so I guess it will be projected in other countries as well :)

These HD broadcasts usually start with half an hour of introductions and interviews...

Tix in BE are 15 Euro (website in Flemish):
http://www.kinepolis.com/be-nl/index...VE2010_168X168

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Yup, it's being broadcast all over:

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/63...nkenstein.html

Click "Find your nearest participating cinema" to find locations and play dates (Some International dates might be later). Asia, Japan, and South America seem to be out of luck.

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Interesting article about the play..........>>>Click<<<

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Originally Posted by TheBang (Post 148649)

This is fantastic! it is going to be played at my local cinema... wooop

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Originally Posted by the mongoose (Post 149082)

Interesting article about the play..........>>>Click<<<

Thanks for that!

I was hoping in the US, we'd get to see the two interpretations by Cumberbatch and Miller, but I guess we're just getting the one. The screening closest to me (an hour away) is almost sold out already.

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The second broadcast (with roles switched) was only just recently added, so it may (or may not) still show up on international screening schedules.

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