On January 6, David Byrne stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to talk about his current Broadway show, American Utopia.
Directed by Alex Timbers, the hybrid show marks the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer鈥檚 Broadway debut. And while he and his band have toured the country with the show, the Main Stem has been a new challenge. 鈥淚t鈥檚 different in that I know that a Broadway audience expects something different,鈥� Byrne told Meyers. 鈥淎 Broadway audience says, 鈥榊ou gotta take us on a journey ... we wanna know why we're here.鈥� And I saw that as an opportunity.
鈥淏y the end, it's a much more emotional experience than the concerts are,鈥� he said.
Meyers recently saw the show with a number of his comedian friends, including Jerry Seinfeld. Apparently, Seinfeld had a note for Byrne.
鈥淭he part in the show where I invite the audience to dance, I put a little joke at the end. What I used to say was, 'The fire department has asked you not to dance in the aisles because dancers in the aisles will have an unfair advantage in the event of a fire,鈥� and Jerry said afterwords, 鈥楴o no no no, you can't put the joke in the middle of the sentence; the joke has to come at the end. The unfair advantage is the joke, just swap those phrases around.鈥� And damn, it worked.鈥�
Watch the full interview in the video above.
