Tom Morello is OUTRAGED Google have eliminated Black Historical past Month, Pleasure Month, and Ladies’s Historical past Month.
The Rage Towards The Machine guitarist posted a graphic that identified Columbus Day and Black Friday are nonetheless acknowledged.
Earlier than Tom Morello grew to become the guitarist for Rage Towards the Machine and Audioslave, he acted at school performs at Libertyville Excessive College. He performed Oberon in A Midsummer Night time’s Dream and says his time within the drama membership helped form his activism.
“A few of my preliminary civil disobedience coaching was within the drama membership at Libertyville Excessive College,” Morello mentioned.
Now, he’s returning to his hometown with a brand new challenge on the Goodman Theatre. He’s working with Chicago author Zayd Ayers Dohrn on a musical referred to as Revolution(s) that may premiere as a part of the Goodman’s One centesimal-anniversary season in 2025–2026.
Earlier this week, Morello launched the challenge on the Goodman Theatre. He additionally spoke with WBEZ’s Clare Lane about working in theater and his position because the musical director for Again to the Starting, a heavy metallic pageant in July that might be Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell present.
Morello has identified Dohrn since childhood. “Zayd Dohrn, who wrote the ebook for the present — I’m associates together with his mother and father, Bernardine Dohrn and Invoice Ayers, the leaders of the Climate Underground within the ‘60s and ‘70s. And I’ve identified him since he was a child. He’s only a good author, an excellent particular person.”
About six years in the past, Dohrn reached out with the thought of utilizing Morello’s music in a theater manufacturing. “You realize, I’ve made 22 albums in my three-decade profession. And so, we started mining these songs and my writing some extra songs, whereas he conjured this multigenerational story of affection and rise up.”
This isn’t a typical jukebox musical. Morello and Dohrn need Revolution(s) to really feel like an underground rave combined with a theater present. “We wish it to be as very like an underground unlawful rave as a theatrical efficiency — it’s actually thrilling to be doing it on the Goodman in my favourite metropolis on the earth.”
One in every of Morello’s greatest considerations was ensuring the present stored the vitality and which means of his music. “One in every of my principal considerations getting into was that the North Star of my writing, from Rage Towards the Machine to the current, was to have one thing that was very uncompromising and unapologetic. I’m like, ‘Can we do that very same factor within the theater?’ I didn’t desire a musical theater model of my music catalog.”