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"Jeff Buckley&amp;apos;s music may be joining the Who and Green Day on Broadway thanks to a new show that fuses his songs with William Shakespeare&amp;apos;s Romeo and Juliet. The Last Goodbye was first conceived three years ago by Michael Kimmel, a New York director and theater professor who started up the project when he noticed how uncannily well Buckley&amp;apos;s lyrics accented the Bard&amp;apos;s language. With approval from Buckley&amp;apos;s estate, Kimmel created a musical using &amp;quot;New Year&amp;apos;s Prayer,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;So Real&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Eternal Life&amp;quot; and other songs from the singersongwriter&amp;apos;s catalog to further the classic play&amp;apos;s tale of illfated love.\r\n&amp;quot;Jeff&amp;apos;s music takes this idea of young emotion and passion to an entirely different level that we haven&amp;apos;t seen with the play before,&amp;quot; Kimmel explains. &amp;quot;What I love about the show is that it&amp;apos;s this great merging of a really strong writer and an amazing musician.&amp;quot; After wellreceived concert readings in New York last spring, Kimmel and his creative team are finalizing plans for a regional staging later this year. Interest from commercial producers has sparked hope for a Broadway transfer during the 2010-2011 season, but Kimmel isn&amp;apos;t planning too far ahead: &amp;quot;All the attention the piece has gotten has been really exciting, but for us, it&amp;apos;s about getting it right.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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