shyGirl
Apr 12, 2003, 03:01 PM
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/12/nyoko12.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/12/ixhome.html
Yoko Ono has approved a musical version of the life of John Lennon that is likely to open up new wounds in her 22-year feud with Sir Paul McCartney.
Lennon's widow, blamed for the break-up of The Beatles as well as his divorce from his first wife Cynthia, wants the show to concentrate on their relationship rather than his early years in Liverpool.
The musical is expected to re-create the couple's 1969 "bed-in" and songs will include The Ballad of John and Yoko and excerpts from the album Two Virgins, the couple's first collaboration, whose cover featured their nude photographs.
Ono, 70, is likely to base the show on Come Together, a two-hour tribute that she helped organise in 2001 in New York, in which nothing of the pre-Ono Lennon was depicted and the Beatles were not mentioned once.
The New York film director Don Scardino, who made Soul Man with Dan Aykroyd and is involved with The West Wing television series, will create the new show. Ono has yet to discuss whether it will feature her husband's murder by a deranged fan in 1980.
If, as expected, the show is a hit in America, efforts will be made to bring it to London. However, a Beatles-inspired musical, All You Need Is Love, failed to catch on in the West End two years ago.
Yoko Ono has approved a musical version of the life of John Lennon that is likely to open up new wounds in her 22-year feud with Sir Paul McCartney.
Lennon's widow, blamed for the break-up of The Beatles as well as his divorce from his first wife Cynthia, wants the show to concentrate on their relationship rather than his early years in Liverpool.
The musical is expected to re-create the couple's 1969 "bed-in" and songs will include The Ballad of John and Yoko and excerpts from the album Two Virgins, the couple's first collaboration, whose cover featured their nude photographs.
Ono, 70, is likely to base the show on Come Together, a two-hour tribute that she helped organise in 2001 in New York, in which nothing of the pre-Ono Lennon was depicted and the Beatles were not mentioned once.
The New York film director Don Scardino, who made Soul Man with Dan Aykroyd and is involved with The West Wing television series, will create the new show. Ono has yet to discuss whether it will feature her husband's murder by a deranged fan in 1980.
If, as expected, the show is a hit in America, efforts will be made to bring it to London. However, a Beatles-inspired musical, All You Need Is Love, failed to catch on in the West End two years ago.