{"id":491921,"date":"2019-11-07T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=908573"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:39:06","slug":"david-byrne-teases-new-immersive-sensory-based-production-theater-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/david-byrne-teases-new-immersive-sensory-based-production-theater-of-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Teases New Immersive, Sensory-Based Production \u2018Theater of the Mind\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Byrne<\/a> is in the midst of a successful Broadway run for his American Utopia<\/em><\/a> production, but he\u2019s already using his off-time planning another theatrical installation. The former Talking Head is planning on opening an immersive project called Theater of the Mind <\/em>at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts next summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be in a warehouse, where it\u2019s divided into a bunch of different rooms,\u201d he tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cA group of 16 audience members will go from room to room and experience these perceptual things. When they leave one room, another group goes in there. That way, you can get 400 people in from 6 p.m. to 10. You get the same number as if it were a theater show, but you get more in small groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artist previously workshopped a version of the project on Governors Island in New York in late 2017, according to the production company 600 Highwaymen<\/a>, but Byrne decided to take it to the Mile High City because of the Performing Arts Center\u2019s history with similar projects. \u201cThe Denver Center for the Performing Arts have done immersive things like this before \u2014 not quite like this \u2014 but they\u2019ve cultivated an audience in Denver,\u201d he says. Plus, he adds that he expects the Colorado audience to warm to some of the production\u2019s trippier elements. \u201cI am so convinced that because it\u2019s about perception and sensory stuff, there\u2019s gonna be a lot of gummy bears and other stuff in there,\u201d he says with a laugh.<\/p>\n

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Nate Koch, who has won awards for his work on productions of Sweeney Todd<\/em> and Queen of the Night<\/em>, is serving as Theater of the Mind\u2019s <\/em>executive producer.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, though, Byrne\u2019s chief project remains American Utopia<\/em>, which recently got an extended run through February 16th. For the show, he performs nearly two dozen Talking Heads \u201cpopular favorites\u201d and selections from his solo career and recent American Utopia <\/em>album. Byrne had previously taken the show, which finds Byrne and 11 musicians dressed in matching gray suits dancing barefoot, around the world, but he recently told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> he\u2019s been enjoying doing it in once place. He talks more to the crowd at the Broadway show and found that a storyline, about a man who is closed off and learns to open up, emerged as they worked on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t go into the concert saying, \u2018This is the narrative that I want to tell,’\u201d he said. \u201cBut as we started choosing songs and working out the staging, it emerged that that\u2019s what was happening. We didn\u2019t go into it with the story in advance, which some people might think is a little odd, but that\u2019s how it works sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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David Byrne is in the midst of a successful Broadway run for his American Utopia production, but he\u2019s already using his off-time planning another theatrical installation. The former Talking Head is planning on opening an immersive project called Theater of the Mind at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts next summer. \u201cIt will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 07:06:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}