Anna Nicole Smith: The Musical

The rape of the classic British opera continues.  We have Jerry Springer the musical, the possibility of an opera based off the Michael Jackson “Thriller” music video, and now…Anna Nicole Smith.

Britain’s august Royal Opera said Thursday it is planning a show based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith , the model and stripper who married an octogenarian oil tycoon, starred in her own TV show and died of a drug overdose in 2007.

The company says the show will have music by respected British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. The libretto is by Richard Thomas, co-creator of “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” an earlier merger of highbrow and lowbrow culture. It is due to run in the Royal Opera’s 2011 season.

The company’s director of opera, Elaine Padmore, told The Guardian newspaper the show “is not going to be tawdry; it is going to be witty, clever, thoughtful and sad.”

“It is not just a documentary about her, but a parable about celebrity and what it does to people,” she said.

I think it’s safe to say that we already know what fame does to people.  If all they really wanted was to convey the message about corrupting power, they could have used a lesser extreme.  Nope, you know they want something amazing and explosive.  They also want that money. 

…Well I approve.

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