
More bluntly, Janet Billig Rich, the somewhat legendary music business figure who has worked on acquiring song rights for this and other For the Record shows, calls it “a hybrid that celebrates a director’s fucking great taste in music.
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How to describe the form? “I keep calling it a meta narrative, which is to mash it up and make it feel like you’re going through the journey of the entire filmography of a director,” says the production’s director and arranger, Anderson Davis, speaking not just of “Tarantino Live” but of some of the other auteur/soundtrack shows that have been put on by the company For the Record, which over the last decade have also included “Scorsese: American Crime Requiem” and “BAZ Star Crossed Love.”

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Some of my favorite comments from people are, ‘I would have never gone to see a theatrical show. Remembering Jean-Paul Belmondo, the Suave French Film Icon Who Inspired Spielberg and Tarantino AlikeĪnd finally, the M-word might scare off part of the target audience - the part that is wearing “Death Proof” T-shirts to a night out at what may or may not count as “the theater.”Įxecutive producer Shane Scheel says part of the production’s marketing goal is to “reach the average Joe that’s intimidated or is turned off by theater. Luca Rea on Getting Quentin Tarantino to Spout at Length About Sergio Corbucci's Westerns in 'Django & Django' For another thing, the 50-plus songs from the filmmaker’s soundtracks are being licensed for an immersive concert nightclub experience, not a theatrical production… although a transfer to the legit stage is something that’s hoped for down the road. For one thing, its “book” - largely an amalgam of dialogue from Quentin Tarantino’s movies - is a sort of loose fantasia tying characters and themes from the films together into a surreal, seriocomic knot, more than any traditional, straight stage narrative. Pink, Charles Manson and the Gimp all have in common? For one thing, that they’re all characters in a stage musical now playing at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood.īut its creators would rather that you not call “ Tarantino Live” a musical per se, or at least not boil it down strictly to that term. What do the Bride, Jackie Brown, Django, Mia Wallace, Hans Landa, Cottonmouth, Stuntman Mike McKay, Mr.
