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Bombay to Broadway

A.R. RAHMAN'S music will now be heard in the Big Apple with Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams opening on Broadway on April 29. According to a New York Times report, changes will be made to the Broadway version to draw in an American audience. The Broadway producers have hired writer Thomas Meehan to help retool the story and to remove a number of Indian cultural references that would be more familiar to British than to American audiences. For Broadway, the story has been streamlined to focus on the principal characters, especially the hero, Akaash and also bring out the show's universal themes. Songwriter David Yazbek has been hired to help rewrite some of the lyrics. Several songs were omitted and new ones added and lyrics in the existing numbers were tightened.

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