Pavement announce new musical ‘Slanted! Enchanted!’
Pavement have introduced a brand new musical primarily based on their 1992 debut studio album, ‘Slanted And Enchanted’.
Directed by Alex Ross Perry, Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical is at the moment scheduled for 2 workshop performances on the Sheen Heart in New York on December 1 and a couple of.
An official itemizing for the present reads: “The majesty and thriller of Pavement, one in every of rock music’s most unusual treasures, delivered to life on the theatre stage for an abbreviated, unforgettable stand.”
Slanted! Enchanted! will characteristic music by Pavement in addition to preparations by Keegan Dewitt and Dabney Morris, and choreography by Angela Trimbur. It’ll star Michael Esper (American Fool), Zoe Lister-Jones (New Woman) and Kathryn Gallagher.
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Director Perry this 12 months helmed a brand new video for Pavement’s 1999 tune ‘Harness Your Hopes’, which went viral on TikTok in 2020.
The majesty and thriller of Pavement, one in every of rock music’s most unusual treasures, delivered to life on the theater stage for an abbreviated, unforgettable stand.
Tickets on sale…nowhttps://t.co/zsVTpnQKH2 pic.twitter.com/dOqESNrUVo— PAVEMENT (@pavement_band) November 16, 2022
Pavement not too long ago wrapped up a UK/Eire and European headline tour.
The band initially introduced their comeback in 2019, with reveals booked at Primavera Sound in Barcelona in addition to its sister competition in Portugal. Resulting from COVID-enforced delays, nonetheless, they ended up taking part in their first reunion present in Might 2022.
Previous to these gigs, Pavement had not carried out reside collectively since 2010.
Reflecting on this 12 months’s run of dates final month, frontman Stephen Malkmus mentioned the group felt like “a tiger set free of the cage”.
Earlier this month, Malkmus advised NME that it might be “complete cringe” if Pavement recorded new music following their reunion tour.
“No approach. These [old] songs are good, they exist on this current,” he mentioned. “That’s simply me, anybody can do what they need. It’s your life, select your journey. If any band desires to make a brand new album, they like to do this, that’s completely rad. However, yeah, not occurring.”