Continuing the tradition of great rock operas transformed into bloated Broadway beasts we go from The Who?s current “hit” Tommy to the announcement that Pink Floyd?s The Wall is headed into (please pronounce dramatically) the THE-a-TAH:
Roger Waters, who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and conceived the semi-autobiographical 1979 concept double album, will write the Broadway show’s book and arrange and orchestrate music for the stage production. (full story)
That doesn?t sound too bad, eh? Waters (in my mind) is Pink Floyd and is probably best suited to adapting his own work, right? Wrong.
Said Waters of the planned Broadway show, “Now I can write in some laughs, notable by their absence in the movie.”
Oh dear.