As a logical extension of his creating music for the audiobooks of
dark-themed children's literature, Stephin Merritt is the composer and
lyricist for a stage production of Neil Gaiman's Coraline,
now playing in New York. Merritt is best known for his band the
Magnetic Fields, but he's got zillions of off-shoot projects. (He's
like a nerdy Al Jourgensen.) Under the Gothic Archies header, he
performed theme songs for each of the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate
Events audiobooks, compiled
as A
Tragic Treasury when the
series was complete, as well as music for the Coraline
audiobook. Now the book has been turned into a full fledged
off-Broadway musical, so who else but Merritt could provide the music.
Coraline
plays at the MCC Theater
at The Lucille Lortel Theatre,
121 Christopher St., New York, NY 10014, (212) 279-4200, through July 5.
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