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I came across this somewhere in the mist-- back before "Blog This" was created.. and I copied it down for future reference. it is part of an interview with a Broadway Producer: Chad Kimball: who did a rendering or- show- about John Lennon.

Chad Kimball quotes

“[Going from one] jukebox musical to another... I read the script for Lennon and thought this is right up my alley. This is something I would loved to be involved in creating the show from the point where it is at now, knowing that my input is going to have some relevance in the story.

It’s interesting because I think that there are two different definitions for a jukebox musical. The first is the kind of Mamma Mia!, Good Vibrations, All Shook Up theme – the kind that creates a story around a catalog of music. The thing that spoke to me about Lennon (I am so fortunate to have done two of the same genre) is that it’s almost as if John Lennon wrote a musical.

it’s almost as if John Lennon wrote a musical.

It’s hard to say. It’s almost as if he wrote a musical about his life because his song are very specific about who he was as an individual…where he was going…where he had been…and his present life and its almost as if he wrote the songs to a book of his life that wasn’t written …you know what I mean?

its almost as if he wrote the songs to a book of his life that wasn’t written

So that’s what really interested me about it. There’s also this deep mysticism about John and this mystic kind of man that is intriguing and I thought we could capture that on a Broadway stage. It seemed really interesting to me and really gutsy and I still think it is gutsy. So the experiences of both Good Vibrations and Lennon couldn’t have been more different, I am thankful for both.”
Chad Kimball quotes

Chad Kimball, commenting on John Lennon: his music:"as if he wrote a musical for a book about his life which was never written".
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Joanne Gillies:

"I experienced such strange phenomena since the day of John's death.
It includes the writing of a story, an allegory of John and Yoko: and the effect of writing / reading that story: made not only John and Yoko's music "come alive" in a new way, but- through the "Dreams" which followed the first story (and these were "automatic" writing experiences)
All the music of that entire time era- and onward ( English culture/) also came alive in new and interesting ways as well. It has been 26 years now- and I am still blown away- massively effected: emotionally- when I pick up my manuscripts and read them again-

To me, it is like- the book that wasn't written- now in my hands"
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The Princess and the Unicorn: A Story We All Know

(Let's Take a Journey Together. . and let's bring John with us: as lively as ever. . .)

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The Beatles and John Lennon? . . . ~~In 2007??!!!"~~ 2011

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