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В начале следующего года будет открыт для показа мюзикл в театре MITP, Валлетта, Мальта. Мюзикл представляет собой линию истории Depeche Mode, разные периоды которой, видимо, будут представлены наиболее яркими их песнями.
"Депеш Мод не Abba или Queen" - рассказал "Таймс Мальта" Эдриан Бакл, автор. "Эта история не может быть счастливой. Это история о том, как два парня росли, взрослели и познали любовь. Они злоупотребляли этим, пользовались преимуществом. Это их печальный путь познания жизни".
Вызывающее содержание мюзикла не ново для театра Unifaun, театра, который берётся ставить такие мюзиклы и который в прошлом году поставил спектакль, запрещённый местными властями на Мальте.
"Я не собираюсь звать на этот мюзикл свою бабушку", отметил Бакл. "Да, она стирает грани, но я не ставлю спектакли, потому что они спорные, я делаю их, потому что это качественная продукция, которая относится к конкретному сценарию".
После открытия показа в Мальте, Unifaun намерены привезти Playing the angel на Edinbourgh Fridge Festival.
Прослушивания на главные роли будут открыты с 27 июня.

Информация с сайта театра

Author: Adrian Buckle
Director: Toni Attard
Musical Director: Daniel Cauchi
Musical Arrangements: Niki Gravino
Cast:auditioning soon!
Summary:
A new musical based on songs by Depeche Mode and set to feature classics such as Just Can't Get Enough, Personal Jesus, Walking in my Shoes and People are People. This is set to be a coming of age tale that follows a group of young people as they grow up, mature and come to terms with the world they live in.

Musical is already cancelled.

The producer of “Playing the Angel: The Musical” — which was to have been based around Depeche Mode songs such as “Personal Jesus” and “Walking in My Shoes” — has pulled the plug on the project, citing “miscommunication and misunderstanding” over his rights to use the band’s music.

Writer and producer Adrian Buckle, of the Unifaun Theatre Co. on the Mediterranean island of Malta, this afternoon updated his Facebook page to say he had “canceled the musical PLAYING THE ANGEL. NO AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD.” He also commented on Slicing Up Eyeballs’ original post about “Playing the Angel,” writing “following some crossed wired communication I find I have to shelve the plans for this musical.”

In a follow-up e-mail to Slicing Up Eyeballs, Buckle elaborated on the issues with the musical, which appear to stem from an article about “Playing the Angel” in the Times of Malta last week that reported Buckle had “acquired the rights to use songs from the Essex band’s back catalogue” — a statement, it turns out, that isn’t quite true.

Buckle writes:

“I was told that no rights are required to perform faithful cover versions of songs in a live setting and that the onus is on the venue to have a valid (Performing Rights Society) license to cover the performance of copyrighted material. This is what I intended to do. I made arrangements for a valid PRS license but it seems that this fact was interpreted by the paper that interviewed me as having obtained a green light from the band or someone representing it. This creates an uncomfortable situation which makes me prefer not to pursue this project.”

Buckle was scheduled to hold auditions for “Playing the Angel” — named after Depeche Mode’s 2005 album — on June 27, and the musical was set to open on Malta next March. The producer last week told the that “Playing the Angel,” which also was to have included songs such as “Just Can’t Get Enough, “It’s No Good,” “Everything Counts” and “People are People,” was to be “a new kind of musical.”

In his e-mail, Buckle writes, “It was a case of miscommunication and misunderstanding. It was a genuine mistake and is much regretted. I wanted to honour the band whose music I grew up listening to, but now, since I am not sure that all permissions are in order, I feel that I would be doing the band a disservice.”

As for Depeche Mode, the band has not made any statements regarding the musical.

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Мюзикл на основе песен Depeche Mode отменяется

Режиссер постановки «о двух мальчиках, познающих любовь» не позаботился об авторских правах.


В социальной сети Facebook появилось официальное заявление от Эдриана Бакла о том, что затея отменяется.

Причина — «недоразумения, связанные с авторскими правами».

Очевидно, режиссеру не удалось получить согласие группы и лейбла на использование песен.

Ничего, все еще впереди.