![]() Tight close-ups of the performers’ faces, eyes, even their feet fold into roaming shots from onstage and off. Like Stop Making Sense’s director Johnathan Demme, Lee is here to push Byrne’s exploits to their most mesmerizing heights. It is important to point out that this is also a Spike Lee joint. As he is joined by his band, their instruments strapped across their chests, unhindered by wires or amps, and the music builds and builds, it becomes clear that everything is geared towards that end that in many ways this is an exercise in building the foundations for human connection of reaching out a hand in the hope someone will take it. Someone – and for the life of me, I cannot remember who – once told me that Byrne wrote and performed music to get outside himself. More importantly, however, American Utopia does this with a toe-tapping sincerity and truckloads of optimistic energy.įrom the moment Byrne appears on stage caressing a model of a human brain, like a white-haired Hamlet, we soon realise that everything to come will be for a purpose. Yet, their collaboration – a concert film of Byrne’s hit Broadway show of the same name – serenades the desire for human connection/community that has been made more palpable by the current global situation. Be it the desire for a less polarised social fabric or the desire for the tender touch of someone you have not held in too long.īack in late 2019/early 2020, director Spike Lee and musician David Byrne could not have known the scale of what was around the corner. But, when there is a great amount of loss another emotion begins to rise a tonic that can aggravate as much as it can heal: desire. David Byrne has been honored with an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy awards, along with Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Theatre World awards for his work in the New York theater.Without a doubt, 2020 has been a year of loss. Since 2010, David Byrne has spoken several times at TED Talks conferences. An advocate for cycling, Byrne designed a series of custom bike racks that were placed in different locations in New York City in 2008. In 2005, Playing the Building, an installation that turned buildings into playable musical instruments by connecting the structures electronically to a pipe organ debuted in Stockholm, followed by runs in London and New York. For theater and dance, Byrne has written music for Twyla Tharp’s Catherine Wheel (1981) In Spite of Wishing and Wanting, for Wim Vandekevbus’s Belgian dance company Ultima Vez Robert Wilson’s Civil Wars – The Knee Plays and The Forest (1988) and, Here Lies Love (2015) and Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (2017). Since leaving the Talking Heads, the band he co-founded in the 1970s, Byrne has released nine solo studio albums, most recently American Utopia (2018). Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, he grew up in North America and was educated at art schools in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. “The best time to be had on Broadway right now.” – ( Town & Country)ĭavid Byrne is a singer, songwriter, musician, film director and producer, author, lecturer, photographer and visual artist. Ticket buyers can experience this “undeniably enjoyable show” ( New York Post) in two ways: seated or standing immersed within the action. This revolutionary new musical about former Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos’ astonishing rise to power and subsequent fall at the hands of the Philippine People Power Revolution has been hailed as “a political chiller that’s also a red-hot adrenaline rush” (Ben Brantley) “that makes you believe you could dance all night.” ( The Washington Post).ĭeveloped and directed by Alex Timbers (Tony Award winner) and choreographed by Annie B-Parson (Olivier Award nominee), Here Lies Love is a “roof-raising, disco-infused extravaganza that turns the theatre into a dance floor with thrilling results.” ( The Guardian) Following sold-out, critically acclaimed runs at The Public Theater, London’s National Theatre, and Seattle Rep, “ Here Lies Love is the most entertaining new show on Broadway right now” (ABC7). ![]() “The groundbreaking, floor-shaking Here Lies Love is like no Broadway show ever.” ( Time Out New York, ★★★★)įrom David Byrne (Academy Award®, Grammy® Award, and Tony Award® winner) and Fatboy Slim (Grammy Award winner), Here Lies Love is “a truly fabulous piece of visual theater with a soundscape more beautiful, more exciting, and more surprising than any score on Broadway.” ( Chicago Tribune)
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