Sting is back touring live and the surprise is that not one of his old songs by The Police is in the set.
Sting is playing a series of ten shows highlighting the music from his upcoming Broadway show The Last Ship at the Public Theater’s 260-seat Anspacher Theatre in New York.
The first of those shows was Wednesday night with the set list comprised of the music from the show along with three other songs from the Sting catalog. Ghost Story from Brand New Day and When We Dance from Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 were used during the performance of the music from the show, indicating that they are part of the score. All This Time from The Soul Cages was played as an encore.
Joining Sting on stage were fourteen musicians and vocalists, including some who took center stage for different parts from the show.
The set list:
The Last Ship
Shipyard
Coming Home
And Yet
August Winds
We’ve Got Now’t Else
Sailor
Practical Arrangement
What Say You Meg
Dead Man’s Boots
Hadaway
Peggy’s Song
Ballad of the Great Eastern
Big Steamer
Skyhooks
New Rigged Ship
The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance
When We Dance
Jock the Singing Welder
It’s Not the Same Moon
So to Speak
O’Brian’s Hymn
Show Some Respect
I Love Her but She Loves Someone Else
Underground River
Ghost Story
We’ve Got Now’t Else (reprise)
The Last Ship (reprise)
Encore:
All This Time
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