Does anyone know who is doing the music for Tim Rice's lyrics for his new musical 'Machiavelli' ?

From the Stage -

 

Tim Rice Searches for Machiavellian Partner???

Date: 8 July 2008

 

Lyricist Tim Rice has written the script for a new musical based on the life of 16th-century Italian politician and philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, best remembered for his posthumously published treatise The Prince. Rice is now searching for a composer to set his words to music. He’s already ruled out Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he collaborated on his best-known musicals, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Evita.

 

In an interview with The Stage, Rice said: “I have just written a script for a new show based on the life of Machiavelli, which I hope will work. I have not decided who will do the music yet, but it won’t be Andrew.” Lloyd Webber, said Rice, was too busy with his Phantom of the Opera sequel.

 

It’s from Machiavelli’s philosophy, as detailed in The Prince, that “the end justifies the means” in obtaining and maintaining power, thereby excusing cruelty and deceit, that the word “Machiavellian” derives.

 

This same report also appears in WOS

 

There doesnt appear to be anything more uptodate.

sNIPPET -

 

Following on from Lee Mead's appearance, ITV1's "This Morning" programme is planning to have a 'musicals week', where members of the casts of five West End musicals are due to perform live in the studio.

 

The provisional line-up is:

 

Monday 28 July - Mamma Mia!

Tuesday 29 July - Grease

Wednesday 30 July - Billy Elliot

Thursday 31 July - The Phantom of the Opera

Friday 1 August - Hairspray

 

Shame GWTW is over.

It is a shame.

'shame'......diabolical liberty!!!!

I bet that;s a role D could play well.

He's been on the wrong end of Machiavellian tactics often enough to know a bit about them.

 

I don't really know much about the man himself.

Neither do I - except he was a charmer and a womaniser and evil.

Charming, charismatic roguish risk taker and womaniser - Darius would be in danger of being typecast if he got that - at least Machiavelli wasn't American.

Machiavelli was a 16th century Italian politician and philosopher. He wrote a book ( Prince ) which became

a well-known guide to poltics.

And isn't why he was remembered. Maybe things don't change after all.

I think history added a lot to his memory. He believed that religious and moral guidelines could and should be

completely over-ruled in politics. There is no historical basis of womanising. He was an ascetic man whose life

was governed by political intrigue and the philosophical study of power .....how to gain it and hold it with no

holds barred. This led to his reputation as an evil man.

It surprised me that Tim Rice could make a musical about his life......I think Rice must be writing based on the

misconceptions held about him.

That's how things usually are - but, remember that some of the misconception could be in the way his life was written about in history. We weren't there, we will never know.

He sounds horrible - selfish go-getter who encouraged his ilk to trample on others to make their way up the slippery pole, the complete antithesis of Darius.

 

He could play such a role, of that I have absolutely no doubt, but I'd rather he didn't. I'm not disparaging Darius's ability as an actor. I've seen with my own eyes his progress come on by huge leaps every part he plays. He has the voice and the stage presence to play a hard-hearted authoritarian man.

 

Write the music for a musical? Now that's a future dream I could go with for him.

quote Write the music for a musical? Now that's a future dream I could go with for him.

Definitely. Afraid dont like the sound of machiavelli, bit dreary at this moment in time with people seeming to want feel good shows but would depend on the production.

I honestly don't think Marguerite would still be running if it wasn't the last show in a profitable season of plays and has a limited run. Like GWTW, it has a plot and characters of some substance.

I would have preferred Rice to write about Cervantes 'Don Quixote' ...........though the horse might be difficult to cast!

And anyway, it's been done as a play, 'Man of La Mancha', with the song 'An Impossible Dream'.

I'm pretty sure it was a WE musical at one point but didn't catch on. It's like GWTW, a classic story without a major following in the UK.

I'd like to see Darius play a role that is very different to how he is. It'd depend on how good the writing was though.

Darius is fortunate. He has the deep voice, height and gravitas to play deeper or older characters, but is young and trendy enough to fit into something quirky, modern or lighthearted.

 

I'd like him to be simply Darius Danesh, singer/songwriter on a stage near me soon. He can sing me all the songs I haven't heard live plus a few tasters from the 3rd album.