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QUEENSRŸCHE's 'Operation: Mindcrime' Heading To Broadway?

June 12, 2009

Kenneth Jones of Playbill.com reports: Adam Pascal, the Tony Award-nominated actor-singer known for his dual passions of musical theatre and rock music, is pursuing a dream he's harbored since his teen years: to create a stage musical version of "Operation: Mindcrime", the 1988 concept album by metal group QUEENSRŸCHE.

Pascal, currently starring in his Tony-nominated role of Roger in the new national tour of "Rent", told Playbill.com that QUEENSRŸCHE has given permission to — and will collaborate with — Pascal to conceive a Broadway-aimed musical of their popular recording about a brainwashed drug addict, Nikki, who becomes an assassin and seeks the love of a reformed hooker named Mary, who is now a nun.

The project is in the early stages, with no director, librettist, producer or music director attached, but Pascal said that QUEENSRŸCHE — including frontman and co-songwriter Geoff Tate and manager Susan Tate — has given him the go-ahead, and that the new musical will include new songs and connective material by the band.

Read the entire report from Playbill.com.

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