Sting Talks New Musical THE LAST SHIP: 'I've Learned a Great Deal'

In a new interview featured in today's The Holllywood Reporter, Sting talks about his experience composing the music for the new Broadway musical The Last Ship. With book by Tony Award winner John Logan and Pulitzer Prize-winner Brian Yorkey, the show will officially open on Broadway on October 26.

"It's been almost five years of my life that I've lived, ate, drank, slept this whole thing," says the 63-year-old composer. "It's been the most absorbing five years, and the most challenging, and I've learned a great deal. Now that's coming to an end, and I have no idea what's going to happen next. Once it's over, I'm going to be bereft because I won't have a job."

He continues, "I love the musical theater. I wanted to honor the form and also bring something different and unusual. It's not a remake of some fairy tale or some property that everybody knows. Most musicals are Beverly Hills Cop: The Musical, and you know exactly what happens and how it ends. This fascinated me because it's different."

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THE LAST SHIP is directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello and choreographed by Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Steven Hoggett. The principal cast of The Last Ship includes Michael Esper, Rachel Tucker, Jimmy Nail, Fred Applegate, Aaron Lazar, Sally Ann Triplett and Collin Kelly-Sordelet.

THE LAST SHIP - which marks Sting's debut as a Broadway composer - is set in the English seaside town of Wallsend, a close-knit community where life has always revolved around the local shipyard and the hardworking men construct magnificent vessels with tremendous pride. But Gideon Fletcher dreams of a different future. He sets out to travel the world, leaving his life and his love behind. When Gideon returns home many years later, he finds the shipyard's future in grave danger and his childhood sweetheart engaged to someone else. This love triangle ignites just as the men and women of Wallsend take their future into their own hands and build a towering representation of the shared dream that defines their existence. And in the end Gideon comes to understand that he had indeed left behind more than he could have ever imagined.

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