"The Last Goodbye" Uses Buckley Music
It looks like Jeff Buckley's music is headed to the New York stage. RollingStone.com reports that a Manhattan theater director and professor has attained approval from the late rocker's estate to integrate his work into a show called "The Last Goodbye." It's been three years since Professor Michael Kimmel first got the idea to use Buckley's music to help tell William Shakespeare's story of "Romeo and Juliet." "Last Goodbye" leans on songs like Buckley's "So Real" and "Eternal Life" to enhance the storytelling for the stage. Says Kimmel, quote, "What I love about the show is that it's this great merging of a really strong writer and an amazing musician."
Kimmel hopes to get financial backing to take "The Last Goodbye" to Broadway during the 2010-2011 season. Jeff Buckley died in 1997 at age thirty. He was the son of 1960s avant garde rocker Tim Buckley, who also died young in 1975 at age twenty-eight. |