"As Time Out wrote in a review back then, " Sting's rich, lyrically confident score is a genuine revelation: beautiful numbers that hint at influences from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kurt Weill and Anglo-Celtic folk, but are still in his brooding, cagey voice. When the men weld sheets of steel while singing these anthems to drink, love, work or the sea, sparks fly everywhere.""
""I grew up in the shadow of a shipyard, watching thousands of men walk past my front door every morning to work there, and imagining that would be my destiny too," Sting said in a statement. "I dreamed of escaping-and I succeeded, traveling far and earning my living on some the world's greatest stages-including the Metropolitan Opera House in 2010. But the further I got, the more that shipyard called to me. The Last Ship is my tribute to the people and the place that shaped me. Bringing it to the Met feels like a full-circle moment.""
Sting's 2014 musical The Last Ship will receive a nine-performance engagement at the Metropolitan Opera House from June 9 through June 14. Sting will reprise his role as Jackie White in a show set in the working-class seaside town of Wallsend. Joe Mantello directed the original Broadway premiere at the Neil Simon Theatre; the production closed in January after earning Tony nominations for Sting's score and Rob Mathes' orchestrations. The Met engagement follows an international tour through Amsterdam, Paris and Brisbane starring Sting, Declan Bennett, Lauren Samuels and Annette McLaughlin. An expanded edition of The Last Ship album will be released on December 5 featuring five newly recorded tracks.
Read at Time Out New York
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