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Buñuel (musical)

Stephen Sondheim's latest musical theater project is a collaboration with David Ives and is based on two films by director Luis Buñuel. The working title of this musical is Buñuel. In August of 2016, the show had a top secret read though at The Public Theater in New York City. "The project, Sondheim has previously revealed, is in two acts, the first based on Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), the second on The Exterminating Angel (1962), both set at surreal dinner parties." While not much is being said about the plot, other than the fact that it is nonlinear, Matthew Morrison has said that the “Melodies are so ungeneric, challenging, I couldn’t sleep the night before singing my parts.” The show could go to Broadway by Spring of 2018. Sondheim will celebrate his 88th birthday that same year.