Among the eight TV pilots Amazon has just put up online — which they will whittle down to two series based on — is a pop-culture oddball called Mozart in the Jungle. Created by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Alex Timbers and with a cast including , Malcolm McDowell, Bernadette Peters and Lola Kirke as an ingenue oboist named Hailey just starting to make her way in the big, bad city, it breathlessly promises to reveal that what happens behind the curtains at the symphony can be just as captivating as what happens on stage. As a friend of mine said when I explained the setup of Mozart in the Jungle, Oh! Its like Smash for classical music. (Well, hopefully not so much of a as Smash was, we agreed.) But thats the general idea: to go behind the concert hall curtain and discover the licentiousness of this sheltered world, as well as a bunch of soapy power plays and romantic intrigues. ─Anastasia Tsioulcas
Posted on: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:52:26 +0000
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