Awhile back, a story broke that pretty much topped the list of awesomest things ever.
The Great White Way will never be the same: In an exclusive interview, Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the Flaming Lips, told EW.com that the psych-rock band will team up with acclaimed TV writer and show creator Aaron Sorkin to turn the group’s 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots into a Broadway musical.
When I read this, I was so excited that I got up and started frantically humping the chair at my desk. I assume everyone else did the same thing.
Seriously, Aaron Sorkin collaborating with the Flaming Lips? It doesn’t get any better than that. I’m not really surprised he’s a fan. It makes sense. He’s a big fan of mushrooms and I once heard a rumor that some fans of the Flaming Lips have done drugs before. I’m not saying that’s true, it’s just a rumor I heard. Anyway, I’m not exactly sure how this musical is supposed to be executed, but I assume it will have a guy in a bubble talking really fast.
This story first broke several months ago in March, and now it’s already July (I think. I don’t really pay attention to “human time”. This is July, right?) and to the best of my googling ability there have been exactly zero updates. What’s going on in the writing/production of this musical? Is it still on? Surely there is at least one reader that can give me some new information on this subject.
If Sorkin is involved, the script probably won’t be ready until the show is ten minutes from opening. Of course, it would still be genius.
In that article, it says “The musical’s debut is likely years off, and details of the plot aren’t specific yet.”
If it’s anything like Christmas on Mars, then we’ll all be old and gray before we see it.
There’s a link on the Lips message board from Kliph Scurlock (The Lips drummer) from November 7 that says:
“Wayne and Scott are going to New York later this week to meet with the guys. I don’t know where exactly it all stands right now.”
They should just open a costume shop, I think that’s how the band bases a lot of these side ventures.
Has anybody been to Sugar’s in Norman lately? Man, what’s up with that place?