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Rupert 08:25 am UTC 04/20/07 |
| Jim Steinman and Blue Man Group - I don't get the connection in relationship to The Bat out of Hell Musical. Some comments I saw from Gerald Scarfe working with Jim - Scarfe is currently working with Jim Steinman on a theatrical version of Bat Out Of Hell. “That’s great. It’s collaboration and being an artist is a lonely life, I’m working here alone, day after day, I’ve got the family, of course, I can ask them questions. But when you’re working in the theatre you’re working with a director and all sorts of other people who make things for you, it’s really nice and I’m very, very fond of doing that. But it’s a long term project. I don’t have to stop doing all the other things I do, I can carry on drawing and then go into the theatre at five o’clock in the afternoon. But it’s a collaboration so you do have to listen to what other people say, whereas I as an artist, whatever I want to put on paper, appears on paper.” “I think the people who employ me know the kind of stuff I do, they don’t expect me to do normal theatre." And as for Bat Out Of Hell? “I’m working with Jim Steinman. What he wants me to do is design ‘Bat out of Hell’ as a theatre project, and to do animated sequences as well. Jim’s a very nice, intelligent guy. He has split with Meat Loaf, they had some difference, but on New Year’s Day I flew to Connecticut and spent ten days with Jim going through the script. It’s a theatre production that’s going to come on next year, they say. What one has to learn in the theatre world is that it’s all optimism. You never know until someone actually puts the millions of dollars necessary down. I’m told that money is there, but I haven’t got any way of knowing myself whether it is or not. But it would be very nice to work with him. I sort of vaguely remember ‘Bat out of Hell’, but on replaying it I was surprised how theatrical it is, and grandiose. He’s a great Wagner nut. He loves Wagner, and his house is a sort of tribute to Wagner, there’s this circular room he’s had built, with little Wagner statuettes sort of spot lit all round the room. The first thing he did, when we got there, was to play ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ at incredible volume, he’s got this amazing sound system in his house. Jane wore ear plugs the entire time we were there, it’s just killing, the volume. I remember with the Floyd, if you went in front of the speakers…it’s no wonder some of them go deaf. So that would be nice if that happened, but there are a number of things like that that are always on the back burner, and being in theatre you learn to not raise your hopes too much, but you always secretly hope it’s going to work, but a lot of them don’t" | |
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