But you may have already guessed that from the musical’s title, a knowing wink at the well-known and oft-parodied line from “Purple Haze,” Hendrix’s mega-hit, which still slaps: “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”įar before grunge was even a twinkle in the flannel shirt-wearing milkman’s eye, Jimi Hendrix, born Johnny Allen Hendrix in 1942, was set to become Seattle’s most significant musical luminary. The show runs through April 15 and is loosely based on the early days of one of the world’s greatest guitarists, Jimi Hendrix. It’s into that precedent-laden but malleable medium that the Alliance Theatre’s world premiere co-production of The Boy Who Kissed the Sky has planted its psychedelic flag. From Amadeus to TINA, The Tina Turner Musical, the way that playwrights retell music icons’ stories onstage runs the gamut from extreme dramatic license to by-the-letter, star-endorsed biography.
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