Byrne, Baby, Byrne

"Byrne says Slim's music crosses over between the contemporary dance scene and the work's classic disco era."

True Stories

"It is, by any stretch of the imagination, an unusual idea to set to music, particularly so when the show contains no dialogue and relies on music and video to drive the story."

Imelda Marcos, in her own words

"The government says it is in the process of selling off about $10 million of her jewels - what is left after her friends picked through them when she fled the country."

Retro and Kitsch - So in Style

"Making the banal meaningful is one of the successes of this year's Adelaide Festival."

A Steel Butterfly Still Emerging

"The abundance of new songs is a treat for Byrne's admirers, but many cover similar threads in Imelda's early life and her abandonment of the faithful Estrella. The audience is left to make large inferences about the complicity of the US government in the Marcos story and no time to reflect on the downhill ride."

Has Opera Lost the Plot?

"We need to hear more opera moments from our own time, but with arias and choruses that lift us so we leave the theatre humming."

Imelda: The Nightclub Years

"No shoes? No brutal husband? David Byrne tells Andrew Purcell why he teamed up with Fatboy Slim to write an opera about the disco-loving side of Imelda Marcos."

In New York, David Byrne sings of Imelda Marcos

"Independent rock icon David Byrne took the stage at Carnegie Hall on Saturday to unveil for a U.S. audience a collection of songs about the life of former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos — minus the shoes."

David Byrne Meets Imelda

"The song cycle Here Lies Love provides a most unexpected pairing: David Byrne, the ageless epitome of American pop cool, taking on Imelda Marcos, the fading icon of 1980s authoritarian rococco."

Extravagance (and Shoe Love) in the Rise of a Despot

"Actually the work needed more imagination and analysis to lift it from flat biopic into statement-making art."

Album Review: David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love

"David Byrne and Fatboy Slim have certainly concocted a unique album together. I can honestly say this is a form of high art that is far beyond me."

Byrne ‘finishing off Fatboy CD’

"Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has revealed he is putting the finishing touches to a new album with Fatboy Slim, aka Norman Cook. The pair have roped in a host of guest stars for the project, Here Lies Love, including Santigold and Roisin Murphy."

David Byrne mints Imelda Marcos CD

"The disco opera ends with Imelda and her maid contemplating the sacrifices they have made. As the Marcoses are airlifted out of the country during the People Power Revolution, Imelda says she doesn’t understand why the people don’t love her anymore, and she looks forward to her vindication and a triumphant return."

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim team up for Here Lies Love

"But what about Fatboy Slim? Now there’s an artist we haven’t heard much from in the past several years."

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Immortalize Imelda Marcos

"Imelda was somewhat of a cultural dictator herself, and deported the Beatles once for refusing to play at her residence. A Studio 54-frequenter in the ’70s, she was famously revealed to be a closet closet-stuffer after opposition forces raided her abandoned mansion, discovering 2,700 pairs of designer shoes. Many were appalled by the luxuries afforded by the first lady while the majority of her country was struggling in poverty."

David Byrne og Fatboy Slim afslører trackliste

"Den historie, som jeg er interesseret i, handler om at spørge, hvad der driver sådanne magtfulde personer? Hvordan skaber de og genskaber dig sig selv? Jeg synes, det kunne være spændende, hvis man kunne opleve det i en klub-atmosfære. Kan man føre en historie og en form for teater ind i diskoverden? Hvis det var muligt, ville det være fantastisk."

David Byrne + Fatboy Slim = Imelda Marcos !

"Curieux casting, curieux sujet… David Byrne, l’ancien chanteur des Talking Heads, et Norman Cook, expert de l’electro britannique plus connu sous le pseudo de Fatboy Slim ont donné des précisions sur leur album de collaboration Here Lies Love qui retracerait en 22 chansons la vie de… l’ancienne première dame des Philippines Imelda Marcos !"

Fatboy Slim y David Byrne hicieron un disco juntos

"Entonces, bajo el título de Here Lies Love, se publicará un álbum doble en el cual Fatboy Slim y David Byrne homenajearan con música la vida de Imelda Marcos, quien bajo su cargo de Primera Dama realizó importantes obras de bien público en Filipinas. Un equivalente a Eva Perón en Argentina."

The only Filipino in all-star soundtrack of Imelda musical

“I’m thrilled to be in the company of these wonderful female vocalists,” the LA-based Charmaine told us via e-mail from the Philippines, where she is scheduled to do a series of gigs.

Imelda Marcos gets the Evita treatment

"Imelda Marcos is as notorious for her shoe fetish as for her tyranny. Now David Byrne is making a musical about her with Fatboy Slim. Will she be the next Evita?"

Ruff Manila

"Though earlier incarnations were staged in New York and Australia with different vocalists, for the recorded version, guest singers were individually selected to capture the characters' emotional states as the story unfolds."

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love Music Review

"Though earlier incarnations were staged in New York and Australia with different vocalists, for the recorded version, guest singers were individually selected to capture the characters' emotional states as the story unfolds."

David Byrne: Two heads are sometimes better than one

"What a place the web would be if rock stars blogged and babbled their backstage musings all over the place; but how refreshing that a musician as intelligent as David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, keeps a journal of his craft, rather than his ego."

Sound check: mad about Imelda Marcos

"They're the most unlikely trio in pop history: David Byrne, Fatboy Slim and Imelda Marcos."

David Byrne inspired by dictator’s wife

"Forget the jokes about sole music. David Byrne has made an album about about Imelda Marcos, but he doesn't mention her shoes at all."

Album review: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love

"Of all the slightly demented creative geniuses in the pop realm, you could trust David Byrne to come up with a novel riposte to the supposed demise of the album format – but surely even he, a man last seen round these parts bouncing around on stage in a white tutu, is pushing credulity with a concept double album about Imelda Marcos, written and recorded with Fatboy Slim and intended for performance in a nightclub near you?"

Here Lies Love: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, CD review

"Byrne isn’t celebrating the human rights-abusing Marcos-regime with a game of musical fancy dress."

CD of the week: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim

"Just at the point when the headless chicken faction of the music industry is bemoaning the death of the album in the download era, inspired provocateurs such as Damon Albarn and David Byrne are showing there's plenty of life left in the format."

Unlikely muses but exceptional music

"A lover of dance music, Marcos had a disco installed in the palace she shared with Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos during his years in power. In a nod to that, most of the songs are set to buoyant dance beats."

A rock opera on Imelda Marcos

"An idea struck him: might dance music’s escapism provide a key to understanding the mentality of a kleptocrat who embezzled billions of dollars from her nation, yet still asserts she did nothing wrong?"

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love

"Part art project, part all-star indie gathering..."

Top Marcos

"A glittering array of talent assemble for a complex paean to a former dictator's wife."

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love

"Only then do the mobs storm the palace and find the notorious shoes. By that time, you’ll have realised why Byrne avoided writing about the shoe collection. It’s one of her life’s least interesting details."

Imelda Marcos’s life in funky rhythm

"Finally, the perfect gift has arrived for that hard-to-buy-for friend who loves club-hopping, concept albums, and slightly mad, power-hungry, shoe hoarders."

David Byrne, Fatboy Slim gather eclectic cast for odd, wonderful Imelda tribute

"Each track seems catered to and inspired by each guest artist and demands a strong performance in return."

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love

"If nothing else, it sounds interesting. You have to give it that."

Listen Up: Imelda Marcos, the musical? For Byrne, it’s ‘Love’

"DON'T CRY FOR ME, MANILA."

Ode to Imelda is a Shoe-in for Success

Ode to Imelda is a Shoe-in for Success Newsday By Glenn Gamboa 6 April 2010 Grade: A- There is ambition and there is David Byrne ambition. "Here Lies Love" - a 22-song, disco-drenched song…

A hymn to the Iron Butterfly

"Disco music, in its heyday, was about survival – remember the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive and Gloria Gaynor’s hit avowal I Will Survive? The Marcos story is marked by this same ladder-climbing instinct."

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim: “Here Lies Love”

"If after listening to this epic, operatic collection you're imagining the whole story onstage, you're right on track: The Public Theater is developing a staged version."

Daily Dose Pick: Here Lies Love

"David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s star-studded collaborative concept album about the life of Imelda Marcos may sound strange, but it’s no less stunning for it."

Here Lies Love

"It’s a conceptually fascinating piece, but does it groove? Mostly yes."

Dancing barefoot to the Imelda Marcos OST

"The tracks could easily be part of lounge playlists, and you can't help but tap your feet to the infectious music."

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim give a refreshingly sober view of Imelda Marcos in ‘Here Lies Love’

"Fascinated by Imelda's love of discos in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Byrne used dance music as his muse. Which led him to collaborate on the music with brand name club maven Fat Boy Slim."

Lyrics Lush and Gawky

"Luckily, scholarship doesn’t eclipse the limber, catchy music and the sheer nuttiness of the whole project."

Menschen brauchen Märchen

"Erst wurde sie Schönheitskönigin, dann die Ehefrau von Ferdinand Marcos, dem zehnten Präsidenten der Philippinen, mit dem sie bis zu seinem Tode 1989 verheiratet war. Als das Regime 1986 gestürzt wurde und die Familie ins Exil nach Hawaii flüchtete, offenbarte sich ihre Verschwendungssucht. Bis zu 30 Millionen Dollar soll das Präsidentenpaar auf Schweizer Bankkonten beiseitegeschafft haben."

The Imelda Marcos Story — As Told by David Byrne

"The idea of presenting this story as dance music came from an article Byrne read some years ago that discussed the former beauty queens reputation for clubhopping in the '70s and early '80s."

Try putting yourself in her shoes

"David Byrne’s odd new project: a disco opera with Fatboy Slim on the life of Imelda Marcos."

The Yes List—David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s Imelda Marcos Musical

"Is Imelda the next Evita—musically speaking?"

Byrne, baby, Byrne

"Setting Imelda Marcos’s life to music—dance beats, no less—seems a perfectly mainstream concept coming from David Byrne."

Dance Mix: Funk Meets Mrs. Marcos

"The album was kind of an experiment," he said. "If you make it clear that there's a story and provide material and there's an interrelationship between the material . . . " His voice trailed off. "Every song gains in depth for being part of a whole. Are people going to understand it? Are they going to bother? I don't know."

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, “Here Lies Love”

"In one of the unquestionably oddest releases of the year, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim memorialize the notorious First Lady of the Philippines and shoe connoisseur Imelda Marcos (as well as her nanny Estrella Cumpas) with this 22-track concept album."

Dancing on the grave of history

"Amazing, then, that it has taken nearly a quarter-century since the end of the Marcos regime for an Imelda musical to appear. Thankfully it is not one of those Broadway-type deals where characters burst into song in the middle of a big dramatic scene. Our recent history is dramatic enough without amping up the cheese."

Here lies myth

"The narrative of Imelda was evolved by her and those around her, conflated by succeeding events, until she became a creature bigger than life and entered world awareness."

CD review: David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, “Here Lies Love”

"The story is from Southeast Asia, but the sounds are not."

The rise of Imelda, in her own words

'When rock musician David Byrne found out Imelda Marcos wanted the phrase 'Here lies love' as her epitaph, he was inspired."

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim — Here Lies Love

"Apparently Byrne wanted to tell the story of Mrs Marcos' rise and fall with songs on which the dancefloor euphoria also suggest her heady power-trip. After all, Imelda was a regular at New York's Studio 54 in her international jet-setting day."

Marcos Seeks to Restore Philippine Dynasty

"At a mall food court here, where she was sitting with reporters covering her campaign for the House of Representatives, Imelda Marcos inserted iPod earbuds on either side of her bouffant coiffure."

On the Imelda Marcos Inspired New Album

"As far as unlikely muses go, creating a modern disco album based on the life of shoe-loving former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos is quite a bizarre undertaking. But then David Byrne has always enjoyed a challenge."

For love of Imelda

"I believe it would take several books or at the least one full-length musical to capture the many faceted life of former first lady and now Rep. Imelda Marcos. But the efforts of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim in the double CD release, Here Lies Love come close."

Putting Themselves in Imelda Marcos’s Shoes

“The dancing lightened the mood a little and put Imelda in a much more relatable light,” she said. “Whether she deserved that grace or not is another story.” 

Here Lies Love coming soon to Seattle Rep

“Here Lies Love” is a musical about the life of Filipina first lady Imelda Marcos. Yes the multi-millionaire --still living-- who once owned more than a thousand pairs of shoes.

Theater Blows Out the Fourth Wall for David Byrne’s Musical

Huge sections of seating had been pulled out from the Bagley Wright Theater’s main level. And what used to be an ordinary-looking stage was now a cavernous performance area: two towers of seating; a huge backdrop of TV monitors; enough lighting suitable for a rock concert; a bigger-than-usual sized disco ball.

David Byrne Discusses the Hedonistic Musical Magic of ‘Here Lies Love’

When I heard Imelda loved going to discos, she had a mirror ball put into her New York townhouse, and had the roof of the palace in Manila kind of turned it into kind of a dance club, I thought, “She lives within that musical world, within that genre.” That’s telling me something, that there’s something about the music that she feels a kinship for. It embodies something about what it feels like to be her.

Proscenium Staging of Here Lies Love Opens in Seattle April 19

Here Lies Love, the immersive musical created by David Byrne and DJ Fatboy Slim that follows the personal and political history of Filipino First Lady Imelda Marcos, officially opens April 19 at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Performances continue through May 28.

BWW Review: Seattle Rep’s HERE LIES LOVE Brings Down the House ... Literally

The music is brilliant and completely moves each element of the story along beautifully. Whether it's a soulful ballad or thumping dance number the music from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim not only invests you into the story but into the club atmosphere. If you can sit still during much of the show then you may want to check your pulse.

Review: Seattle Rep’s bold ‘Here Lies Love’ is an interactive spectacle

Want to catch disco fever, and party hearty through the life of the glamorous, treacherous former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos?

‘It’s really a great honor’: A conversation with Mark Bautista of Seattle Rep’s ‘Here Lies Love’

"This story is really very — for the Filipinos — it’s very sensitive and very complicated, so I think my role is, my challenge is, telling the people the truth. There’s a thin line between telling the truth and not making them appear in a bad light, putting the Marcoses in a bad light, so I think it’s a balance." - Mark Bautista

KEXP Exclusive Interview: David Byrne on Here Lies Love

David Byrne & John Richards discuss Here Lies Love

Pop Conference 2017: A Conversation with David Byrne

A conversation between David Byrne and MoPOP Director Jasen Emmons about Here Lies Love in Seattle.

Seattle Rep extends David Byrne’s Imelda Marcos musical ‘Here Lies Love’

“It has already sold more in these few weeks than any other show has over the course of its entire run,” she said.

Here Lies Love

David Byrne's disco musical marries the sweep of history to the rush of the nightclub in the story of Imelda Marcos.

‘Here Lies Love’: Theater Review

David Byrne's award-winning mixtape musical about disco-loving dictator's wife Imelda Marcos makes the leap from New York to London, with more transfers to follow.

Here Lies Love

Rarely has a musical dared to take its viewers on a participatory journey through its narrative, but here - in one of the first genuinely immersive musical stagings - some audience members are plunged directly into its path.

David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ Reopens Off-Broadway, Bringing Fatboy Slim Show to London

The disco beat of David Byrne goes on and on at New York’s Public Theater, where "Here Lies Love" -- the musical based on Byrne’s and Fatboy Slim’s 2010 concept album of the same name about the life of Filipino leader Imelda Marcos -- kicked off its commercial run on Thursday night.

Imelda Marcos musical Here Lies Love set for London stage

A disco musical about former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim is to be staged at the National Theatre in London this autumn, the show's director has said.

Here Lies Love review – David Byrne and Fatboy Slim show lacks substance

Beguiling songs, ingenious design and stunning performances don’t quite do justice to the story of Imelda Marcos’s rise

Jim Ferrer, 25, dances his way to London and ‘Here Lies Love’

Actor-dancer Jim Ferrer, 25, got one step closer to fulfilling one of his fondest dreams—to perform for an international audience at the West End in London—when he made it through the auditions in Manila last July for the London production of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s musical on Imelda Marcos, “Here Lies Love.”

Here Lies Love, National Theatre - review: Fatboy Slim and David Byrne disco musical is brilliantly

An auspicious opening for the Dorfman Theatre

Here Lies Love nominated Best Musical in London Evening Standard Theater Awards

Now drawing crowds (tickets sold out until its farewell performance on Jan. 8, 2015) at the Dorfman Theatre at the Nation Theatre Complex south of London, Here Lies Love is nominated Best Musical in the London Evening Standard Theater Awards.

‘Here Lies Love’ at the National Theatre, 17th October 2014

Surprise surprise the musical by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim is absolutely fantastic.

Talking head, dancing feet: David Byrne on his collaboration with Fatboy Slim on new musical Here Li

Artrock legend David Byrne talks to Nick Curtis about biking around London, the power of disco and how his musical will debut at the opening of the National’s new Dorfman Theatre

Designing an Icon - The Costumes of Here Lies Love

Here Lies Love is a fast-paced, heart-wrenching new musical that follows the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos, the first lady of the Philippines, in an immersive, 90 minute, action-packed performance.

Theatre Review: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Team Up for ‘Here Lies Love’

Here Lies Love is a bold, vivid, mega-kitsch, extremely loud, Studio 54-esque club-thumping, disco-dancing musical about the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos.

Review: Here Lies Love, National Theatre

David Byrne writes about his hopes to shine a light on this amazing story in history, and it is safe to say he is doing just that, you will go away itching to Google and find out more.

Fil-Am cast members of Here Lies Love celebrate their heritage

The off-Broadway musical Here Lies Love is enjoying its second wind, after staging a successful run at the Public Theater’s LuEsther Hall from April to July last year.

Theater Review: Imelda Is More Than a Woman in Here Lies Love

The horrible truth beneath the coyness and danceable beat of Here Lies Loveisn’t so much about the Marcoses as about our vague and distant response to them.

David Byrne says he ‘barraged’ Fatboy Slim into working with him

The Talking Heads frontman worked with the DJ on their musical 'Here Lies Love', which opens in London next week

David Byrne: From rock to Broadway

"Here Lies Love," is an interactive theater-experience that, true to Byrne's style, asks the audience to become part of the show.

Remixing the Set of ‘Here Lies Love’

For the Seattle Rep run, the design team turned the immersive show into one that can play in a proscenium.

Seattle Repertory Theatre reveals 2016-17 season: ‘Vietgone,’ ‘Charles III’

The new season is wide-ranging in themes and time periods, and includes “A Raisin in the Sun,” “Vietgone,” “King Charles III” and “Here Lies Love.”

No Shoes: David Byrne’s Disco Musical About Imelda Marcos

“Here Lies Love” is coming to the Seattle Repertory Theater in April 2017.

Here Lies Love to Play Seattle Rep

Seattle Repertory Theatre has announced its 2016-17 season.

Mark Bautista to reprise role as Marcos in hit Imelda musical

Singer Mark Bautista is set to reprise his role as the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the hit musical “Here Lies Love.”

MARK BAUTISTA, ‘MARCOS PA RIN’ SA AMERICA!

Magba­balik naman si Mark Bautista sa Here Lies Love, ang musical play tungkol sa buhay ni former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos.

Exclusive: Revamped Here Lies Love Will Be Tested in Seattle With Eye on the Future

The original Off-Broadway creative team has created a new staging of the immersive hit about Imelda Marcos that is aiming for a future life.

Public Theater Stars Head to Seattle For Here Lies Love

Seattle Rep has announced full casting for its staging of the immersive musical hit about Imelda Marcos.

Original Off-Broadway Star Jaygee Macapugay, Pop Star Mark Bautista to Lead HERE LIES LOVE at Seattl

Seattle Repertory Theatre today announced the star-studded cast of its highly anticipated immersive theatrical event, Here Lies Love.

David Byrne Discusses Seattle Rep’s Production of Here Lies Love

In its first production outside of New York and London, Here Lies Love, the critically-acclaimed disco musical about the rise and fall of Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos by David Byrne (of the Talking Heads) and Fatboy Slim, is being presented by Seatle Repertory Theatre this spring.

Fil-Ams lead in Seattle staging of ‘Here Lies Love’

Filipino-American actors will have lead roles in “Here Lies Love,” a musical about the life of Imelda Marcos, at Seattle Repertory Theatre starting April 7.

Here Lies Love

This fully immersive dance-party musical by Talking Heads’ David Byrne and DJ Fatboy Slim tells the story of “steel butterfly” Imelda Marcos, the infamously excessive former first lady of the Philippines, and the nonviolent People Power Revolution that removed her and her husband, Ferdinand, from power.

First Look at Revamped Here Lies Love at Seattle Rep

David Byrne and DJ Fatboy Slim’s immersive musical about Imelda Marcos is being re-explored in Seattle with an eye toward Broadway.

You Must Watch This Video of the Seattle Repertory Theatre Transforming Into a Disco

As you'd know if you read my interview with Here Lies Love composer David Byrne, who you may remember for his work in the Chatting Noggins, the Rep is closing its season with a big deal, v exciting show that completely transforms its house into a disco stage.

Will HERE LIES LOVE Come to Broadway Following Seattle Run?

Following a run at The Public Theater in 2013, Here Lies Love just began performances at Seattle Repertory Theatre.

David Byrne to Talk About Music, Politics, and His New Musical at MoPOP April 20

The 2017 Pop Conference will begin with Artist Interview: A Conversation with David Byrne on Thurs, April 20 at the Museum of Pop Culture.

Seattle Rep rips out seats for dance floor, bets big on disco musical by David Byrne, Fatboy Slim

Seattle Rep has torn up half its mainstage floor to build an immersive set for “Here Lies Love,” an ambitious new production of a musical about Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. The risks are high, but so are the hopes for a show about a complex character.

David Byrne on Imelda Marcos, New York Disco and the Seattle Theater Scene

A chat with the former Talking Heads frontman and co-creator of one of the season's most anticipated musicals, 'Here Lies Love'

David Byrne Kicks Off MoPop’s Pop Conference

The annual music nerd conference thrown by Ann Powers and her husband Eric Weisbard, two menschy rock critics and historians (and also my friends) just kicked off with a chat with Talking Heads' David Byrne, who discussed his disco musical, Here Lies Love, which Rich Smith wrote about a few weeks ago(playing at the Seattle Rep through the end of May).

KEXP Exclusive Interview: David Byrne on Here Lies Love

Back in 2010, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim collaborated on the concept album and “disco musical” Here Lies Love, which tells the story of former First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.

Q&A with David Byrne Among Public Programs for Seattle Rep’s HERE LIES LOVE

With great excitement, Seattle Repertory Theatre is set to celebrate the opening of the most anticipated show of the season this week, Here Lies Love, the work of culture and music icons David Byrne (Talking Heads) and Fatboy Slim.

Culture Dose: Summer’s Coming!

A preview of upcoming concerts, fests + awesome happenings.

Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of April 21-23

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's musical Here Lies Love had its official Opening Night at the Seattle Repertory Theatre last night and continues its two-month run with performances at the Seattle Rep’s Bagley Wright Theatre all weekend.

Talking Heads’ David Byrne to Speak at Seattle’s MoPOP Conference

April 20, 2017, will see the beginning of the 16th Annual Pop Conference held at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington, over 4 days.

‘Here Lies Love,’ dir. Alex Timbers

See Filipino history from the inside out

“Here Lies Love”: The Disco Dictator Musical Gets An “A” For Showmanship But…

Review: Here Lies Love.Concept and Lyrics by David Byrne. Music by David Byrne & Fatboy Slim.

HERE LIES LOVE: DISCO DOWN AT SEATTLE REP-EXTENDED THRU JUNE 18

HERE LIES LOVE BY DAVID BYRNE AND FATBOY SLIM. A SONG CYCLE ABOUT IMELDA MARCOS AND ESTRELLA CUMPAS

“Here Lies Love” sparks complex recollections of Marcos regime

It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that Seattle Repertory Theatre has successfully pulled off an extravaganza of a theatrical experience with “Here Lies Love,” conceived and written by music legend David Byrne.

“Here Lies Love” puts the audience in the nightclub, the war, and the psyche

“You won’t believe it,” said one of the lady ushers to an audience member, before the balcony opened up for seating. “They’ve redesigned it inside so it looks exactly like a nightclub.”

‘Here Lies Love’ may not be profound, but it’s a lot of fun

Imagine a musical about the one-time First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos. Now imagine that show not as a standard Broadway musical but rather as, very specifically, a disco musical. Finally, imagine that disco musical performed in a 70’s style discotheque in downtown Manila.

‘Here Lies Love’ Turns Romance and Politics into a Disco Dance Party

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s musical about the Marcos regime offers a unique and immersive theatrical experience at Seattle Rep.

‘Here Lies Love’ Revival Traces Rise, Fall of Philippines’ Infamous First L

Staging a high-energy, disco ball-adorned musical about one of the most sobering events in Filipino political history might seem like an impossible task, but “Here Lies Love,” a production currently running at the Seattle Repertory Theatre has some star-power help.

‘Here Lies Love’ Puts It All out on the Dance Floor

Audience members boogie along to the life of Imelda Marcos in David Byrne’s disco musical, 'Here Lies Love' at Seattle Rep

Here Lies Love’s Disco Dictatorship

David Byrne’s spectacle-driven musical engages with the political history of the Philippines.

Put on Your Imelda Marcos Dance Shoes: David Byrne’s Immersive ‘Here Lies Love’ Is Still Spinning in

Imagine David Byrne walking into a traditional theater space and declaring, “Actually, this is a disco.”

Here Lies Love, National Theatre (Dorfman), London – review

Here Lies Love is a bio-musical about Imelda Marcos by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (aka Norman Cook), and this is largely a re-creation of its staging at New York’s Public Theater in spring 2013.