“Mughal-E-Azam The Musical” premieres in US.
“Mughal-E-Azam The Musical” premieres in US.
It comes as an heartening news that “Mughal-E-Azam The Musical Broadway-style show, premieres across 13 cities in U.S. from May 26.
The premiere in US comes after entertaining fans across the globe Mughal-e-Azam and more than 200 marvellous performances across six Asian countries.
The 13-city tour starts from Atlanta on Friday, May 26 with stops in New York, Chicago, Toronto, and more. This is also India’s longest-running Broadway-style extravaganza of Feroz Abbas Khan directorial produced by Shapoorji Pallonji Group. It will be presented in North America by Cinema on Stage and will bring to a global audience, a timeless love story intertwined with the silken skeins of India’s syncretic culture and its rich dance, musical, cinematic, and theatrical traditions.
The director describes his thoughts on the milestone by stating that there cannot be a better way to end the pandemic-induced lull than to take Mughal-E-Azam: The Musical to an international audience. We are well aware of how challenging it will be to keep the energy levels up as we travel from one city to another with a vast crew and learn to familiarise ourselves with a new venue every time, but we are looking forward to it.”
Director Feroze added that being unable to perform during the last few years we will now invest even more passion and diligence than ever before in every performance and ensure that this tour turns out to be a massive success. A very big element of this project is the way Mayuri Upadhya has choreographed dance sequences to do justice to the majestic musical score, and we ensure that the audiences will love every moment of it.
Seven years back, when this project saw the green-light, it was beyond our imagination that it would run for 19 seasons and travel to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Muscat, Doha, and now North America. There is a lot of technical and logistic expertise that goes into a massive show like this, but according to Deepesh Salgia, Creative & Strategic Vision for the musical, what really makes it universally loved is its emotional core and the love story of Salim and Anarkali.
Deepesh further adds, Ofcourse, needless to mention that this is India’s most expensive theatre production that has left the audiences everywhere enchanted with its intricately choreographed dance sequences, spectacular lighting, exquisite costumes by Manish Malhotra, and live singing. We at Shapoorji Pallonji are extremely delighted to bring this musical play to a country that prides itself in creating a global ecosystem for theatrical production.
India’s first Broadway-style musical boasts a cast and crew of more than 150 people, has been met with all-around accolades following its 2016 premiere in Mumbai. In 2017, it won seven out of the 14 BroadwayWorld India Awards, including Best Play, Best Director, Best Costume Design, Best Choreography, Best Original Set Design, Best Original Lighting Design, and Best Ensemble Cast.
News input KV Raman
