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Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have joined up with London's Sadler's Wells Theatre to create a ballet version of a Hans Christian Andersen story. Ivan Putrov, the principal of The Royal Ballet, asked the musicians to write a score four years ago.
According to the Metro, the pair said: "In the past, we have written music for the club dancefloor so to write music for the ballet stage seems like a logical development. Also we have always been fascinated by giving our music a theatrical context."
Choreographer and director Javier De Frutos added: "The opportunity to stage Hans Christian Andersen with music by Pet Shop Boys - alongside some of my beloved long-term collaborators - is an irresistible cocktail."
The ballet, featuring 15 dancers and a 26-piece orchestra, will premiere in March 2011.
The Pet Shop Boys wrote the soundtrack for Battleship Potemkin and created West End musical Closer to Heaven.
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