Don't know what to make of this - but Morrissey and Johnny Marr have given their approval to a musical made up of Smiths songs. The musical, due to open at London's Lyric Hammersmith next Jul, will be written by Andrew Wale and Perrin Manzer Allen, creators of Jacques Brel's 'Anonymous Society', and will feature 20 Smiths tracks.
Word is the show will actually be based on the story of the Smiths, though the way associate producer Michael Brazier described the project to the Independent, your guess is as good as mine: "Each song has a life of its own but they are connected by the way the performers behave on stage. It is not a linear story. There will be action going on stage whether it's dance or movement or acting without words depends on the scene. Sometimes the song - and what the singer is saying in the song - will be the main line of action. But other times when you are concentrating on the singer, out of the corner of your eye you will be seeing impressionistic goings-on elsewhere on the stage. The significance of that (action) will become clear later. The meaning of these clues will gradually reveal themselves."