The production, based on the documentary 'Rania’s Odyssey' and set to Sting's music, premiered in London in 2020. After a successful global tour, it's coming to Philly.It’s about family, said director and choreographer Kate Prince. And it’s about war, strife, and refugees. It opens May 14 at the Miller Theater, the end of a North American tour that started February in Los Angeles.
“When I met my husband, we both really bonded over the music of The Police. And when we got married … the whole congregation sang ‘Walking on the Moon.’” “I was listening to his music on the beach in Greece, and I was like, ‘I just want to choreograph to this.’” She wrote to her boss at Sadler’s Wells and about two months later, managed to a meet Sting and his manager in a hotel lobby.“He said something once about how he’s always he spent his whole career listening to what his music sounds like, but he didn’t know what his music looked like,” Prince said.
But unlike many shows, it survived COVID and thrived. It’s been performed throughout Europe and Australia and was on theis hardly Prince’s first big show. She has choreographed for the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic handover ceremonies in 2008, the opening ceremony of the Tour de France in 2007, and the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.But now she focuses on her own company — on a part-time basis.