Regina Spektor to Write Music for Landau Musical

Contemporary alt pop vocalist Regina Spektor has provided some tunes for films such as The Chronicles of Narnia (”The Call,”) and now she’s taking her plucky and sometimes edgy style and piano-based music and applying it to Broadway, signing up to pen the music for the upcoming Tina Landau Broadway-aimed musical Beauty, a spinoff of “Sleeping Beauty.” As planned for the upcoming musical, Spektor will write the music while Landau will tackle the book and direct and lyricist Michael Korie will pen the lyrics. The production is slated for a 2011-2012 Broadway debut after an out-of-town tryout, and Beauty has been promoted as “an expansion of Landau’s 2002 acclaimed one-act play produced by the La Jolla Playhouse; Beauty uses the 1812 Grimm fairy tale ‘Sleeping Beauty’ as a jumping off point for a contemporary and hauntingly provocative story of beauty lost and beauty found.”

Spektor, a Russian-born, Bronx-raised singer/songwriter/pianist, broke out as a solo recording artist in 2006, when she released her debut album Begin to Hope. The album went to sell over one million copies worldwide, and her latest album Far, released earlier this year, has already notched the No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200, leading her to other endeavors such as theater.

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Posted in General on September 16, 2009

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