{"id":31338,"date":"2019-05-21T04:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31338"},"modified":"2019-05-21T04:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:59:34","slug":"david-byrne-brings-american-utopia-to-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/theater\/david-byrne-brings-american-utopia-to-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Brings American Utopia to Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Byrne - Everybody&#039;s Coming To My House\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/euEgyXoOonk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David Byrne, the former Talking Heads frontman, announced that he will be taking his American Utopia show to Broadway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/david-byrnes-american-utopia-tickets\">The tickets for this show are already available right here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Byrne\u2019s international American Utopia tour kicked off last year in New Jersey and now, with the help from Alex Timbers and choreographer Annie-B Parson, the show will be adapted for a Broadway run later this year. The performances will take place in the 1,500-capacity Hudson Theatre for 16 weeks (October 14<sup>th<\/sup> to January 19<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<p>Byrne describes the American Utopia show as \u201cuntethered&#8221; with his band entirely mobile on the stage as he performs songs from his solo career but also tracks from when he was the Talking Heads frontman.<\/p>\n<p>As to how he came up with this brilliant idea, he wrote on his website: <em>\u201cAs I was recording the songs for my American Utopia album, it occurred to me that they would be exciting to play live \u2013 and I realized that a lot of my older material would fit right in. I imagined a live show\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I pictured a lot of drummers, a kind of drum line\/samba school\/second line \u2013 that would create the rhythms. I had this vision of how exciting that would be \u2013 both for me and for an audience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The musician also commented that he is looking forward to bringing the show before an audience who is perhaps not familiar with him, or his music.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I thought to myself that this new context might be good \u2013 it might actually help to bring out the narrative arc a little bit more, to make it just a little more explicit,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he refuses to reveal what he believes the American Utopia is about, other than saying that the title is not ironic.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Broadway run of David Byrne&#8217;s American Utopia, the audience in Boston will have a chance to see if the show lives up to its title at 1,700-capacity Emerson Colonial Theatre from September 11<sup>th<\/sup> to September 28<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Utopia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can find tickets for Boston shows, as well as New York shows, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/david-byrnes-american-utopia-tickets\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show Date and Time: September 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Show Location: Citi Emerson Colonial Theatre, Boston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Byrne, the former Talking Heads frontman, announced that he will be taking his American Utopia show to Broadway. 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