The production of the Pet Shop Boys live DVD is approaching completion. “Pet Shop Boys — Cubism. In concert/November 14th 2006/Auditorio Nacional/Mexico City” has a provisional international release date of May 14th but we are told that this may slip back by a week or two depending on the delivery date by director David Barnard of the final film and DVD extras which include a short film of Pet Shop Boys in Mexico City and a commentary by them.
Chris and Neil chose the title “Cubism” because the ingenious staging of the 2006 show, designed by Es Devlin, revolved around a cube which formed the backdrop to the show.
The DVD is released by Warner Vision.
The first preview of the Jonathan Harvey/Pet Shop Boys musical, “Closer to Heaven” was performed on this day in 2001 at the Arts Theatre in London, with the official press night following on May 31st. The original cast album was released several months later and is still available on streaming services.
Neil and Chris had originally started writing the musical together with Jonathan Harvey in 1996. “We wanted to write something that wasn’t Les Mis or Rent,” says Chris. “A play about contemporary life with contemporary music that was not long and boring.”
Since its first run of shows in 2001, “Closer to Heaven” has returned to London theatre stages several times, most recently at the Turbine Theatre in 2024. It also premiered in Brisbane, Australia in 2005, in Brighton, UK in 2009 and in Dallas, USA in 2010. And one of its main characters, Billie Trix, returned in 2019 with her own one-woman show, “Musik”, also written by Jonathan Harvey with some new Tennant/Lowe songs.
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