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...both about and in the musical forms associated with Imelda's particular bubble world. Here Lies Love was first performed in concert in 2006; Byrne had initially hoped to stage it in dance clubs. "In those days, there were these giant mega-clubs in warehouses," he says, "and I thought: what if you put a little stage at one end with a video screen, and you had a series of songs that told a story with an emotional arc to it? When you were there, you'd be dancing and drinking and God knows what, but something would be imparted...
...kind of cosmology where binary code, zeroes and ones, would turn into flowers and trees and heart shapes, and she'd give these speeches and do drawings at the same time. She did one in front of the U.N. General Assembly; I can only imagine what they thought...
Byrne researched the Marcos era for a year before he and Cook started writing Here Lies Love, and he's still digging up material for a potential stage incarnation. "I just found a speech that Benigno Aquino made, specifically attacking Imelda," he says. "I thought 'ooh, that could be good.'" The one thing he deliberately didn't look into is another show that got its start as an album musical: "I made a point not to see Evita. I do know that they're both rags-to-riches, or rags-to-figurehead-of-a-country, stories. But beyond that...
...fifth grader that thought it was incredibly cool to be able to put something together in a matter of minutes that people could then access all over,” Hysen says...
...would have thought, last Thanksgiving Eve, that the 144 most eventful days of Tiger Woods' life would not involve golf? And who could have imagined that those events would leave the golfer's game with no lasting dents...