Coming to Broadway-"Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots" (Sorkin involved)

[underpants]

Flaming Lips To Create Yoshimi Broadway Musical
Thursday March 22, 2007 @ 06:30 PM
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2007/03/2208.cfm


Flaming Lips' 'Yoshimi' Engages Broadway
http://www.spin.com/features/news/2007/03/070322_flaminglips/




Broadway musical
It was announced in March 2007 that the album is to be made into a Broadway musical by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and director Des McAnuf. Frontman Wayne Coyne said of the plot:

“ There's the real world and then there's this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It's almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that. ”

It was also announced in Rolling Stone issue 1025/1026 that Coyne plans to include songs from The Soft Bulletin and At War With the Mystics, as well as write some originals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshimi_Battles_The_Pink_Robots



Her name is Yoshimi
she's a black belt in karate
working for the city
she has to discipline her body

'Cause she knows that
it's demanding
to defeat those evil machines
I know she can beat them

Oh Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots eat me
Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots defeat me

Those evil-natured robots
they're programmed to destroy us
she's gotta be strong to fight them
so she's taking lots of vitamins

'Cause she knows that
it'd be tragic
if those evil robots win
I know she can beat them

Oh Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots defeat me
Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots eat me

Yoshimi

'Cause she knows that
it'd be tragic
if those evil robots win
I know she can beat them

Oh Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots defeat me
Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots defeat me

Oh Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots eat me
Yoshimi, they don't believe me
but you won't let those robots eat me

Yoshimi

[Coventina]

1. That sounds awesome!

:thumbsup: