Workers of the World, Dance!

| A Shanghai theater company has announced that it will produce and stage a musical adaptation of Karl Marx‘s Das Kapital next year. Its creators say their project was inspired by a recent Japanese manga adaptation of Marx’s anti-capitalist tome. Does this mean we’ll have to sit through an operatic adaptation of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money at the Kennedy Center sometime soon? [%comments]

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  1. Bladt says:

    I can imagine a rather splendid aria based around Keynes’ musing: “For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not.”

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  2. deriuqer says:

    Haven’t you observed the Congress lately? I believe that we already sitting through this.

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  3. Daron Hagen says:

    I volunteer to write it!

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  4. C. Larity says:

    You realize this can only mean we’re fast approaching a future where “Ron Paul: The Musical” is a reality?

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  5. The Dancing Project Manager says:

    Please say Robert Wilson will be writing/directing. It could be a series with “The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin”.

    Related news: “The Red Detachment of Women” was restaged for the Paris Opera. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/07/content_10617163.htm

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  6. Ahem says:

    New videogame: Dance, Dance, Communist Revolution!

    (old internet joke, yes)

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  7. Science minded says:

    I find this interesting. What does communism have to do with music? Stay tuned.

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  8. openmusicdoors says:

    Really a innovative and musical idea. Just imagine the experience.

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