Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears scores new play

Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears has spoken about scoring the stage adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City.

Shears was enlisted to create the score for a forthcoming stage adaptation of Armistead Maupin's cult 1978 novel Tales Of The City, opening in San Francisco on May 11.

He told Rolling Stone that reading the novel in his teens was a "rite of passage".

He said, "When I was 13, there were these two gay guys in my hometown and I think they probably picked up on the fact that I am gay. They were really lovely, they gave me a lot of music to listen to and turned me on to new stuff.

"One day, Sean, one of them, gave me a copy of Tales of the City and said, 'I think you'll really like this, you should read it.' I fell in love with the characters and read the entire series. The books were, for me, a rite of passage.

"Anybody can pick them up and really get into them. There's lots of lascivious behaviour, but somehow they remain really kind of beautiful and nonjudgmental and strangely wholesome."

Shears and fellow Scissor Sister John Garden worked on the score, and Tony Award-winning co-writer of Avenue Q Jeff Whitty adapted the book to a script.

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City will run at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco from May 18 to July 10.

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