Pink Floyd's The Wall To Be On Broadway

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All in all, it's a new Wall
by BAZ BAMIGBOYE, Daily Mail 08:56am 11th March 2005

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is about to bring together a top team to present the fantasy album The Wall on the stage.

Waters has been adapting the album he created for a theatrical presentation and I understand that once the writer Lee Hall has finshed working with Stephen Daldry on Billy Elliot (which, by the way, is looking terrific!), he will join Waters on The Wall.

Another major name who could join the project is Adrian Noble. But Noble has several shows and a film on the go this year, so he couldn't possibly work full-time on The Wall until next year.

The show is about a rock star who has become fed up with the world of rock 'n' roll. He bemoans the misfortunes of his life, detailing each slight and setback as 'another brick in the wall'.

The Wall has been staged as a concert (which I attended) in Berlin just after the Wall there came down, and as a movie with Bob Geldof and Bob Hoskins.

But Waters wants to add several new aspects to the story, and also include songs from other Pink Floyd albums - such as Money, from the phenomenally bestselling Dark Side Of The Moon.

When Hall and Noble officially climb up the Wall, the various producers, who include the movie chief Harvey Weinstein and music executive Tommy Mottola, may decide to open the show in London.

However, there's a possibility that it could go to Broadway first. One idea (since rejected, I gather) was to open The Wall in a non-West End location such as the London Dome, for example.

Anyway, not a lot will happen before the middle of next year, so we'll all scale the Wall then.