David Byrne's new Broadway show finds itself in a union fight

David Byrne's new Broadway show finds itself in a union fight over its music

is “not a traditional musical,” the show’s statement explains. The story of Imelda Marcos, the controversial former first lady of the Philippines, the show requires the “performance of the live vocals to pre-recorded, artificial tracks,” which are “paramount to its artistic concept.

“We’re not going to stand by and let this happen,” Tino Gagliardi, president and executive director of But Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, told thePreviously, Byrne wrote and performed the Broadway musical

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