Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" musical to make world premiere Nov. 6 in California

The La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, Calif., has announced that the musical “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” based on the fantastical 2002 album of the same title by Oklahoma City’s own The Flaming Lips, will debut there Nov. 6-Dec. 16.

The musical’s story is by Lips frontman Wayne Coyne and Des McAnuff, La Jolla Playhouse’s director emeritus whose Broadway directing credits include the musicals “Jersey Boys” and “The Who’s Tommy.”

Music and lyrics are by The Flaming Lips, and the show was conceived and directed by McAnuff.

Here is the show synopsis:

Yoshimi is a young Japanese artist facing the battle of her life: the battle for her life. Adrift from her family and lover, Yoshimi journeys alone into a fantastical robot-world where she wages a war with fate. Will her will to survive be powerful enough to master the evil forces that threaten to destroy her? Inspired by the whimsical and psychedelic music of Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips, this world premiere musical integrates music from several albums (“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” “The Soft Bulletin,” “At War with the Mystics”) with Coyne and multiple Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff’s poignant, humanistic story about the triumph of love and optimism over the mystery of our own mortality. The result is dazzling, multimedia experience that offers an allegory of our modern battle for progressive thought and individuality in the face of blind acceptance and conformity.