David Byrne announced today that he will be bringing his lauded American Utopia show to Broadway this fall and winter for a limited run. The Talking Heads frontman has offering the unique performance in venues around the world after releasing his latest studio album of the same name last year.

Throughout the tour, Byrne and his band have been performing with limited stage setup, all dressed in grey suits and playing wireless instruments and marching-band drums, switching out musicians for various songs and moving through synchronized choreography. The shows have featured songs from American Utopia as well as a fair amount of classics from the Talking Heads catalog.

Byrne will bring American Utopia to NYC’s Hudson Theatre starting Oct. 4 (the official opening night will be Oct. 20) and running through Jan 19, 2020. Prior to the Broadway residency, Byrne and company will play 18 shows at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre from Sept. 11 through Sept. 28.

Byrne released a statement on the genesis of the show:

As I was recording the songs for my American Utopia album it occurred to me that they would be exciting to play live- and I realized that a lot of my older material would fit right in….I imagined a live show….I pictured a lot of drummers, a kind of drum line/samba school/second line- that would create the rhythms.

A few years earlier I had toured with the musical artist St Vincent, and we had a large horn section that we decided should be completely mobile.  Could I liberate the other instruments in the band as well for the new show? It turns out I could – drummer Mauro Refosco, whom I’ve worked with for years, said we’d need 6 drummers to reproduce the necessary grooves.  There is now a technology that allows a keyboard to be mobile, so Karl Mansfield (musical director) tested it out.

Annie-B Parson, whom I’d worked with a number of times in the past, came on board and we began to collaborate on discovering movement that seemed appropriate for the songs. Sometimes she gave us complex movement to try and sometimes, a little surprisingly, we’d discover, or at least I did, that the simplest idea could have a huge emotional impact.

Because of how theatrical the show is, others started telling me ‘this needs to go to Broadway.’ Why not? But what did that mean? Parked in a beautiful Broadway theater we can perfect the sound, the lights, the movement.  I thought to myself that this new context might be good- it might bring out the narrative arc a little bit more, to make it just a little more explicit. I asked Alex Timbers, whom I’d worked with twice before on musicals, to help. He brought some original and insightful ideas to the room, ideas I was too close to imagine, and we used those to build on what we had.

People ask me will I be darting into a town car after these shows or taking a flying leap onto my bicycle…take a wild guess.

Read a full essay from Byrne on the Broadway show here. All American Utopia information can be found at the show’s official website.