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David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's now-critically acclaimed musical at the Broadway Theatre began more than a decade ago as a history-inspired song cycle. Read more on New York Theatre Guide.
IN IMELDA, Ramona S. Diaz’s 2003 documentary, former first lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos stands over her autarch husband’s unburied and uncannily pickled cadaver, declaring that her own tombstone, when the time comes, should read “Here lies love”; little does she know she’s titling an immersive musical reuniting David Byrne and Fatboy Slim following their maiden 2008 collaboration, “Toe Jam.” In this pageant of camp and control, the epitaph becomes a maudlin self-own for a figure who transformed from a symbol of rebirth into one of vulgar opulence and theft, and an accomplice to Ferdinand
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Sunday, August 20, 2023 marked Ninoy Aquino Day, the 40th anniversary of the death of Ninoy- an event that is depicted eight times a week in Here Lies Love. To mark the anniversary, David Byrne, Jose Llana, Melody Butiu, Moses Villarama, and other members of the HERE LIES LOVE cast and family attended a flag-raising and wreath-laying ceremony at the Beningno Aquino Triangle in Jamaica, Queens.