Imagine That! A New John Lennon Musical (coming to broadway)

PA News ^ | October 15, 2003 | Mark Sage

[ejdrapes]

Imagine That! A New John Lennon Musical

A musical exploring the life of John Lennon is on the way to Broadway after his widow Yoko Ono gave her blessing to the project, it emerged today.

Tracking his change from rocker to meditation guru, 12 actors will play the different personalities of the former Beatle.

Most of the songs which will feature in the production, yet to be named, will be hits penned by Lennon after the Beatles broke up.

The show’s producers, Edgar Lansbury and Don Scardino, who are calling the musical The Lennon Project for the time being, said about 30 of his songs would be featured.

The show is planned to arrive in New York in time for the 2004-05 Broadway season.

“Our project is the story of Lennon as a lighting rod and how he defined the times and how the times defined him,” Scardino told Daily Variety Magazine.

“Lennon’s changes corresponded to our generation. There was the rocker, the hippie, the meditation guru, the transcendentalist, the political revolutionary, the house husband, and all the while there was the evolving artist,” he said.

The project has already been three years in the making.

Lansbury said they were negotiating with Sony for the rights to the song Give Peace a Chance, which Lennon recorded with the Plastic Ono Band but which is credited to John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Other songs which could feature are Imagine, Working Class Hero and Whatever Gets You Through the Night.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

O. No!

[Support Free Republic]

Thank you very much, thank you very much!
It isn't every day, good fortune comes me way
I never thought the future would be fun for me!
And if I had a bugle, I would blow it to add a sort
o' how's your father's touch.
But since I left me bugle at home, I simply have to say
Thank you very, very, very much! Thank you very, very, very much!

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Will they mention his involvement in the conspiracy?

www.paul-is-dead.com


HeeHee.

[glaux]

Lennon's solo efforts sucked. His nasal whining and pedestrian melodies were almost unimaginabely dull and make me lose the will to live.

[scouse]

You beat me to it.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Click on the Beatles/ Paul is Dead Link at the top right hand of the page. Click on the third link down. Watch the flashing heads. Check out the 60IF doc, too.



Cranberry Sauce.

[Salman]

Imagine there's no Beatles,
It's easy if you try.
No more idjit peaceniks,
No more Lucy in the sky.

Imagine all the people, working to earn their pay!

Some may say that I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one...

More lyrics, FReepers?

[giotto]

Lennon's solo efforts...make me lose the will to live.

Thank you. You have eloquently expressed how his singing and his very persona make me feel. I would rank Lennon only a half notch lower than Streisand on my list of most overrated, least musical performers of all time.

[pfflier]

Why create a tribute to someone who used to make a living mugging sailors in Hamburg before he made it as a Beatle? (Read his bios before you flame me)

Also Imagine is the communist manifesto put to music...

Imagine no countries...nothing to live or die for

Imagine no religion ..no heaven...no hell below us ...

Imagine no posessions...I wonder if you can

Sounds like Karl Marx to me.

[mrs. a]

Will they include the part where he beats up his wife?

[Paul Atreides]

Imagine there's no pretension,
It's easy if you try.
No more 60s glorification,
Tell the boomers to get a life.