Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears Honored to Write ‘Tales of the City’ Musical | Rolling Stone Music

 

 

It didn’t take much to persuade Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears to get involved with a musical adaptation of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. “I got an email from [librettist Jeff Whitty] wondering if I’d be interested in a musical that took place in the Seventies and had kinda fun themes that involved gays, copious drug use and trannies,” he says. “I said, ‘Of course – what is it?’