Bob Dylan: The Musical

Proving that everything, even this blog post, will be made into a Broadway musical someday, The Times They Are A-Changin', Twyla Tharp's choreographed circus drama set to the music of Bob Dylan will be arriving on Broadway this October.

In case you were wondering, "circus drama" is not my cutesy way of saying "awful," it's an actual description of the show (From Playbill):

[The musical] is set within a low-rent traveling circus run by Capt. Arab, whose wagon hasn't moved from its location in some time – though not by lack of effort from his ragtag band of clowns and performers," according to production notes. "One such performer is the animal trainer Cleo, a young woman exploited by Capt. Arab and loved by his son, Coyote. Coyote longs for a world outside the confines of the family business, and as the circus show plays out, he must decide whether to flee or stay, and if he does stay, how to inspire change within the troupe.

If there were two things I always thought would exist on completely parallel, non-converging lines, they were Bob Dylan, and "a ragtag bunch of clowns and performers."

But Twyla Tharp is nothing if not a converger. She's the choreographing force behind Movin' Out the Billy Joel musical. (I wish I could convey to you the sheer terror that hearing the first few bars of the Movin Out commercial inspires in me. Watch a sample here. Really, no one should have to go through that.)

I couldn't find a clip of the Dylan musical, but I did find this clip at Popculturejunkies from musical adapation cautionary tale, Carrie: The Musical.

The differences are probably negligible, anyway.