He is making plans to join in, recently admitting, “I’m working on some musical-theatre kind of thing,” meaning he’s hoping for a future for the earlier disco opera/song cycle that he and Fatboy Slim wrote on the life of Imelda Marcos, the shoe-happy former First Lady of the Philippines. It’s called Here Lies Loves, and some of its music was heard in a Carnegie Hall concert in February of 2007.
Byrne is discussing the project with The Public Theater which has been the home for adventuresome, cutting-edge music from Hair to Passing Strange.
— Harry Haun
