Broadway, USA. With his own version of “a thousand points of light,” now at play

Broadway, USA.

With his own version of “a thousand points of light,” now at play in the world — and mostly attributable to his high-promotional-value in-your-face POTUS bids of 88, 08 & 12 — the legacy of RP continues to manifest in so many unpredictable and often (pleasantly) surprising ways.

Worth being a student of, considering the results.

“One morning in 2011, Ívar woke up with the idea for the project and started working on it, setting out to make the best album of songs he possibly could, enlisting Stefán Örn Gunnlaugsson as producer and arranger. Alongside him from the start was Gunnlaugur Jónsson, executive producer and co-author of the story. In 2012, the script was nearing its final form and in 2013 they started working with producers Karl Pétur Jónsson and Óskar Eiríksson. Subsequently the ball started rolling faster. They decided to head to New York with the piece and a milestone in the process was when they hired Bergur Þór Ingólfsson as a director, bringing with him the acclaimed creative team behind the Icelandic production of Mary Poppins; choreographer Lee Proud and set designer Petr Hlousek.”