Broadway Musical
It was announced in March 2007 that the album would be made into a Broadway musical by The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and director Des McAnuff. Frontman Wayne Coyne said of the plot:
| “ | There's the real world and then there's this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of cancer. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It's almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that. | ” |
The musical will include existing songs from the album, as well as two other Flaming Lips albums, The Soft Bulletin and At War with the Mystics.
According to drummer Kliph Scurlock, the musical was halted by the 2007 WGA Writer's Strike, but is still being developed.
Des McAnuff stated that Aaron Sorkin exited the project after it became clear the musical would be sung through.
The show will receive its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in November 2012. The cast includes Kimiko Glenn as Yoshimi Yasukawa, Paul Nolan as Ben Nickel, Nik Walker as Booker, Pearl Sun as Mrs. Yasukawa, John Haggerty as Mr. Yasukawa and Tom Hewitt as Dr. Petersen.
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