Rita Ora and husband Taika Waitii
You make Fyre Festival a musical comedy
Singer Rita Ora and husband Taika Waititi are said to work on the stage adaptation of the legendary Fyre Festival, which never took place.
A festival as a musical? Together with her husband, New Zealand film director and screenwriter Taika Waititi, Rita Ora (34) develops a stage adaptation over the scandalous Fyre Festival. reports on the plans.
The 50-year-old Waititi and the singer are part of the production team of the planned musical, which is staged and written by the Oscarnomined director Bryan Buckley. The show “Fyre Fest the Musical” is to become a musical comedy based on the life story of Billy McFarland, the founder of the Fyre Festival.
The legendary festival that never took place
A total of 33 musicians and DJs were to appear on the weekends from April 28th to 30th and 5th to May 7th, 2017, whereby the day tickets were offered at prices of $ 500 to $ 1,500. However, the event, which was announced as an elitist luxury music festival on the Bahamas, was literally canceled in the last minute in literally, which caused numerous visitors and celebrities on the island. McFarland owed fraud in 2018 and spent several years in a federal prison.
Now the Skandal Festival, which already made it to a documentary on Netflix in 2019, is to go to the theater stage entitled “Fyre – The Greatest Party That Never”. There is currently no information about the production time. Not even whether the musical is intended for Broadway.
The idea is “potentially catastrophic”
Rita Ora’s husband admitted his initial skepticism in “Hollywood Reporter”: “I didn’t start theater for 15 years because I was no longer fun, but I was told that it would be fun this time. And I think that. When Bryan Buckley told me that he wanted to make a musical about the Fyre Festival, I asked: ‘Whoever is Bryan is Bryan Buckley? ‘”
But Taika Waititi would have found the idea exciting, strange and “potentially catastrophic, which appears to be suitable and corresponds to my way of working. I can’t wait to get started and grab something from this sweet American theater allowance.”
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Source: Stern
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