Musical theater is the place to be these days for rock royalty: Bono and the Edge were involved in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, and Sting wrote — and recently took the stage in — the Broadway musical The Last Ship.
Courtney Love is joining the fun as the lead in Kansas City Choir Boy, which will run in New York City from Jan. 8-17. Watch her sing one of the show’s tunes, “All I Ever Wanted,” below.
Kansas City Choir Boy is a “theatricalized concept album” written by Todd Almond, who supports Love on piano in the video. The production is a part of the Prototype festival, which bills itself as “the premier festival of opera-theatre and music-theatre.” Kevin Newbury, who runs Prototype, told The New York Times that the music for Kansas City Choir Boy sounds like “Disco meets Vivaldi.”
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This marks Love’s first foray into musical theater after a long history with screen acting. “I really wanted to do theater,” she said, “But probably I’m not ready to do a play quite yet.”