I promise that is actual so far as I do know. I simply acquired a press launch about it from Matador Records. There’s a hyperlink the place you possibly can purchase tickets. It doesn’t seem like a sensible joke.
The songs of legendary (and just lately reunited) indie rock band Pavement have turn into the premise for a Broadway-style jukebox musical. It’s referred to as Slanted! Enchanted! and is written and directed by Alex Ross Perry, who additionally helmed Her Smell (by which Elisabeth Moss performed a self-destructive punk rocker) and Pavement’s video for the shock viral hit “Harness Your Hopes.” Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Kathryn Gallagher star within the play. The theatrical preparations of Pavement’s songs are by Keegan Dewitt and Dabney Morris, with choreography by Angela Trimbur and Tenaya Kelleher. Craig Butta is the producer.
Two workshop performances of Slanted! Enchanted! are scheduled for the Sheen Center in New York: an 8PM present on Thursday, Dec. 1 and a 2PM matinee on Friday, Dec. 2. That’s quickly! There’s no phrase as as to whether the musical will ever be carried out once more.
Slanted And Enchanted — Pavement’s debut album, which supplies this play its identify — turned 30 this 12 months.