While it’s still in development, the pop-ballet hybrid presently consists of four acts, running 45-50 minutes. There is a cast of more than 40 dancers, with choreography by the City Ballet’s Peter Martins. “This is Paul’s baby,” Martins said. “He knows exactly what this is going to look like … He even has choreographic suggestions. He did a nice little jump for me. I said: ‘To me Paul, that needs work.'”

Composer John Wilson is helping McCartney with the final orchestration, and the first act will receive a run-through in New York today. “I’ve come to love working with orchestras,” McCartney admitted. “[They have] a great palette.” Since 1991, he has released four albums of original classical music, most recently 2006’s Ecce Cor Meum. But while Ocean’s Kingdom is not McCartney’s first experiment with oboe and violin, this is his first time working so intensively with a ballet company.

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