Christopher Wheeldon
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Sep 9, 2026
Bowen YangHOST
Uh-huh.
Carly Rae JepsenGUEST
And then obviously, do you know Christopher Wheeldon? He is, like...
Carly Rae JepsenGUEST
Oh, my gosh, I have such a creative crush on him.
Carly Rae JepsenGUEST
He's our director-
David JaysHOST
It means the world.
David JaysHOST
Our 100th guest was Christopher Wheeldon.
David JaysHOST
Why Dance Matters is made by the marvellous RAD team of Katie Butcher, Keisha Dodd and Katie Hagen.
David JaysHOST
The question in the title, and which ends each episode, was a genius suggestion.
Carly Rae JepsenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I'll be up all-
Jeff LundenCORRESPONDENT
The show will be directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, who took on the same task for the popular show MJ.
Jeff LundenCORRESPONDENT
This is another Broadway show centered around teenagers, following The Outsiders, The Lost Boys, and Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
Jeff LundenCORRESPONDENT
For NPR News, I'm Jeff Lunden in New York.
Martin CullingfordHOST
So perhaps, Joby, would you like to start by telling us a little bit about this poem, how you encountered it, and what it means to you?
Joby TalbotGUEST
So I came across Piedra de Sol when I was writing my, um, my ballet for the Royal Ballet with Christopher Wheeldon, based on Laura Esquivel's novel Like Water For Chocolate.
Joby TalbotGUEST
Uh, we, we decided we wanted to end the, the ballet with a sun section, and we were looking around for a text that seemed to sort of encapsulate everything that the ballet was, was about.
Joby TalbotGUEST
And a American friend of mine whose family are originally from Mexico said, "Have you thought about looking at Sun Stone?" And sent me some, um, some little extracts, one of which was just the per- I mean, you could, you could have spent a, your whole life looking for a, a quote from a Spanish language poem that could have possibly been half as good as, as what we found.
Troy McEadyHOST
Uh, that's opening night, as well as casting and theater information have not been an- announced yet.
Troy McEadyHOST
Dunham is adapting the musical's book with Jessica Huang, while J- uh, Jepsen is writing the music and lyrics with Ethan Gruska and Christopher Wheeldon as director and choreography, uh, with music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by Tom Kitt and Mike Bosner, who, well, you'll love this, who worked on the Jellicle Ball.
Kelli WilliamsHOST
Oh, okay.
Troy McEadyHOST
It says a retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, the film version of 10 Things I Hate About You, um, follows the Stratford sisters, whose strict father won't allow the younger Bianca to date until her older sister Kat does first.
Geoffrey SmithNARRATOR
At least two pterodactyls are found in the Oxford clay, known from more or less fragmentary remains or isolated bones.
Geoffrey SmithNARRATOR
just as they occur in the Kimridge clay, pure beck limestone, Wheeldon sandstones, and especially in newer secondary rocks named Galt, Upper Greensand, and Chalk in the southeast of England.
Geoffrey SmithNARRATOR
Owing to exceptional facilities for collecting, in consequence of the Cambridge Greensand being excavated for the valuable mineral phosphate of lime it contains, more than a thousand bones are preserved, more or less broken and battered, in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge alone.
Geoffrey SmithNARRATOR
To give some idea of their abundance, it may be stated that they were mostly gathered during two or three years, as a matter of business, by an intelligent foreman of washers of the nodules of phosphate of lime, which in commerce are named coprolites.
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Geoffrey SmithNARRATOR
It is less than an inch long in the small Solenhofen skeleton named Pterodactylus brevirostris and is said to be three feet nine inches long in the toothless pterodactyl Ornithostoma from the chalk of Kansas.
Geoffrey SmithNARRATOR
Most of these animals have a long, slender, conical form of head, tapering to the point like the beak of a heron, forming a long triangle when seen from above or from the side.
Geoffrey SmithNARRATOR
Sometimes the head is depressed in front, with the beak flattened or rounded as in a duck or goose, and occasionally in some Wheeldon and Greensand species the jaws are truncated in front in a massive snout quite unlike any bird.
Geoffrey SmithNARRATOR
The back of the head is sometimes rounded as among birds, showing a smooth pear-shaped posterior convexity in the region of the brain.
Hayley SproullHOST
Amid the crushes, cliques, and teenage angst, two sisters set out to define themselves on their own terms.
Hayley SproullHOST
Directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, who previously did M- MJ the Musical.
FletchHOST
Okay.
Hayley SproullHOST
The Michael Jackson musical, which is, like, huge.
Jane ArrafCORRESPONDENT
And I'll be up the-
Jeff LondonCORRESPONDENT
The show will be directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, who took on the same task for the popular show MJ.
Jeff LondonCORRESPONDENT
This is another Broadway show centered around teenagers, following The Outsiders, The Lost Boys, and Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
Jeff LondonCORRESPONDENT
For NPR News, I'm Jeff London in New York.