by Philip Boroff: The Heart is scheduled to open Off-Broadway at the nonprofit company’s Laura Pels Theatre at the end of October, according to a person familiar with the production. If the tryout on West 46th Street is well-received, the next stop is Broadway, where it would be among the first Broadway musicals dominated by electronic dance music (EDM).
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This is actually super cool to me and I REALLY want to go see this. The story sounds relatively interesting, and the concept for the music sounds incredible! I can relate to EDM becoming a large part of my life as a variety of EDM songs are on shuffle on my many playlists and I listen to music nearly every day and everywhere I go. It really has become so integrated into life and I think the concept of a music about racing against the clock as one life ends and one is trying to be saved really fits the sound of EDM music as well! It’s such a unique concept and I’m really excited to see it carried through. I listened to the sneak peak of one of the songs and while I do like it and while I do hear the EDM in it, I am a little worried they might just be overhyping the EDM music. But hopefully I’m wrong and the whole show expands on it.
so as a San Diego resident, the heart is one of those shows that I know like a little bit of everything about. It came from La Jolla Playhouse, and I actually met the scenic designer on a tour of UCSD facilities. I am so happy that the show made it off Broadway because the concept is so cool as a San Diego native a show about San Diego makes me so happy. I love that we’re moving into a world where shows with different types of music are becoming more popular example rap R&B live looped sound EDM like in the heart. I also like the concept is really cool — that all of the music in the show is like rhythmically depicted through BPM and that was the main conceptual research of the story was about beats per minute of the heart and I just think that the show is super sick and I’m really happy that the world gets to see it
I’ve never heard of this musical before but its premise certainly caught my attention. It reminds me of that one episode of the Magic School Bus where they go through the entire human body, but admittedly with more angst than that. I kind of want it to get on Broadway just for the sake of having a musical about cardiology on Broadway. This definitely seems like the sort of thing I would either love or hate; for instance I am a big fan of “A New Brain,” William Finn’s autobiographical musical about “Gordon Schwinn’s” experience with a hemorrhagic stroke caused by arteriovenous malformation. But I think what makes “A New Brain” work where I hesitate on “The Heart” is that the former has so much more depth to it than simply being a musical about neurosurgery. For instance, one of my favorite songs in “A New Brain” is superficially about getting an MRI, but it has captured my heart because of how it conveys the experience of coaching yourself through something challenging.
I’m so sad that I missed this show at the La Jolla Playhouse, in my hometown San Diego, CA. My parents got to see the show though. My dad raved about it, and my mom was slightly confused but found the concept interesting. Being that the lead producers also did "Come from Away" (One of my top five musicals & a huge success), I have high hopes for the Broadway transfer of “The Heart”. I find it super interesting that the former artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse is going with the show to direct it at the Roundabout and eventually on Broadway. I wonder how often, if ever, it happens that an Artistic Director directs a show at their theater then leaves to take it to Broadway? I wonder if this is why she left the La Jolla Playhouse… I also found it interesting how they commented on a “rare” Artistic Director by having an MBA. Do most Artistic Directors not have an MBA?
It's very fun all of the puns that this article makes and that the play makes about hearts. I think it's really interesting to explore different genres of music in musical theater. The musical theater genre of song is so specific and is really compelling and really adds a lot to the stories that it's used in. I love musical theater albums, I love them but also I think it's really interesting and smart to sometimes choose that there is a different type of music that might also better tell the story of the musical. I have not seen EDM used before as they talk about in this article this is very unique. But I think it's really cool that they're choosing to, in a play that is about hearts and that electrical thing that our bodies do to keep us alive, use EDF like such a clever use of music to a storytelling.
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