“Right here Lies Love,” the brand new David Byrne musical scheduled to begin previews on Broadway subsequent week, has bowed to objections by a labor union and agreed that 12 musicians will likely be a part of the manufacturing.

The producers of the musical, which is a dance-club-like present about Imelda Marcos, and the union, Native 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, introduced the settlement late Friday afternoon.

“On behalf of our whole forged, firm and artistic crew, now we have reached an settlement with Musicians Union Native 802, per the collective bargaining settlement,” the producers of the musical stated in an announcement. “We stay up for welcoming audiences to expertise the revolutionary musical expertise that’s ‘Right here Lies Love’ on the Broadway Theater starting on Saturday, June 17.”

The union issued a equally terse, however barely extra detailed, assertion, saying, “After negotiation, now we have reached an settlement that can carry stay music to ‘Right here Lies Love’ with the inclusion of 12 musicians to the present. Broadway is a really particular place with the most effective musicians and performances on this planet, and we’re glad this settlement honors that custom.”

Eric Koch, a communications guide for the union, stated three of the corporate’s actors could be counted among the many 12 musicians.

Requested about that, the producers responded: “‘Right here Lies Love’ has all the time had three actor-musicians and a musical director in each manufacturing. The present’s integrity and the musical idea stays the identical.”

“Right here Lies Love” is being led by a gaggle of producers, together with Patrick Catullo, Hal Luftig, Kevin Connor, Jose Antonio Vargas, Diana DiMenna and Clint Ramos. The present is likely one of the bigger productions opening on Broadway this summer season, with a giant price range — it’s being capitalized for as much as $22 million, based on a submitting with the Securities and Change Fee — and plans to redo the Broadway Theater in order that the manufacturing could be staged in an immersive style, with a lot of the viewers on a dance flooring surrounded by the motion.

“Right here Lies Love,” about Marcos, the previous first woman of the Philippines, was written by Byrne and Fatboy Slim. It has been round for greater than 15 years, and has been praised by critics and widespread with audiences. It was introduced as a music cycle at Carnegie Corridor in 2007, and there have been productions in 2012 at Mass MoCA, an artwork museum within the Berkshires; in 2013 at the Public Theater in New York; in 2014 at London’s Nationwide Theater and again on the Public for a second engagement; and in 2017 on the Seattle Repertory Theater.

The manufacturing has previously used recorded music, which the present stated was meant to create a karaoke-like environment, however because the Broadway opening neared, the labor union objected, saying its contract with the Broadway League requires using stay musicians. The union had threatened to protest this weekend’s Tony Awards and the present’s upcoming previews; on Friday, the 2 sides settled the dispute.