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VNV Nation Announces New Album And Issues Updates On Classical Album
Electronic group VNV Nation has made an announcement regarding their plans for 2013, which includes a new album as well as a album of older songs rearranged to feature classical arrangements.
Regarding the new album, the title has been set as Transnational and it is scheduled for release in September of this year. It is the followup to 2011’s Automatic (review). Tour dates are being planned through late 2014 and the first dates will be released soon.
Last year, VNV Nation performed at the Gothic Meets Klassik festival. There were plans to record and release the tracks that VNV Nation performed with an orchestra. However, a problem with the in-house recording equipment rendered the tracks unusable.
As a result, Ronan Harris has begun with an arranger to make an album of VNV Nation songs scored for orchestra and which will include the tracks performed at the festival as well as additional songs.
Harris will also be performing a section of VNV Nation songs on this year’s Gothic Cruise alongside a classical pianist.
Harris ends the VNV Nation post by saying that more news will be released over the next few months. Personally, I’m hoping for a live DVD, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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The Lost Boys: A New Musical officially kicked off on Broadway last month, and Deadline now reports that the show’s Broadway run has been extended into next year.
The show was originally set to run through November, but Deadline reports that The Lost Boys: A New Musical “has released a block of tickets through Sunday, March 7, 2027.”
The news comes in the wake of The Lost Boys: A New Musical becoming the most Tony-nominated musical of the season with twelve nominations including Best Musical.
Additionally, “The Lost Boys will launch a North American National Tour in Spring 2028, at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. Additional cities and tour dates will be announced later.”
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is of course an adaptation of the 1987 horror classic from director Joel Schumacher, with the cast including Ali Louis Bourzgui as lead vampire David (originally played by Kiefer Sutherland), Maria Wirries as Star (originally played by Jami Gertz), and LJ Benet as the soon-to-be-turned Michael (originally played by Jason Patric).
The horror musical’s cast also includes Shoshana Bean as Lucy Emerson, Benjamin Pajak as Sam Emerson, Paul Alexander Nolan as Max, Jennifer Duka as Alan Frog, Miguel Gil as Edgar Frog, Brian Flores as Marko, Sean Grandillo as Dwayne, and Dean Maupin as Paul.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is Directed by Michael Arden, featuring Music and Lyrics by The Rescues, Book by David Hornsby & Chris Hoch, Story by James Jeremias & Janice Fischer, and Produced by James Carpinello, Marcus Chait & Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring) by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.
When a mother and her two teenage sons move to Santa Carla in desperate need of a fresh start, they soon uncover the darker side of this sunny coastal community. While Lucy tries to piece her family’s life back together, Michael keeps pulling away in search of belonging.
As he finds connection with a local rock band and its charismatic leader, his younger brother Sam comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality: When night falls, Michael’s new friends are even more dangerous than they first appeared.
Joel Schumacher directed the original The Lost Boys vampire movie in 1987, wherein two brothers move to a new town and discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
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