It was announced yesterday that the opening of “Daddy Cool” , a musical based on the works of Boney M, will be delayed by twelve weeks in order to give the producers time
Who will be next to plough this increasingly muddy furrow? The Phantom looks forward to other great Seventies bands hitting the West End. A show called “Turnip Time”, perhaps, featuring the incomparable Adge Cutler and the Wurzels and a flying Combine Harvester scene?
Imagine the thrill of “Wimbledon, the Wombles Musical” , with animatronic dustbins and a neat line in ecologically-correct singalongs…..
Or even “Showaddywaddy – The Show”….
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Broadening out from exclusively 1970s pap...
"Hello, Dolly Parton" might appeal.
"Thoroughly Modern Milli Vanilli" certainly wouldn't.
"Kiss Me, Kate: The Pete Doherty Tale" could promise much but ultimately disappoint.
"Pennies From Heaven 17" would be a waste of money all-round.
And "The Wizard Of Ozzy", with Kelly as Dorothy, Jack as the troubled Tin Man and Sharon as the Wicked Witch Of The West, would surely be just too hideous for words...
For an all-purpose NME-indie-band tribute, how about "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Kentish Town Forum"...?
You could of course open your own, "The Phantom Staple Remover Of The Opera"...
Excellent!! And as a newspaper man you might appreciate that classic Australian musical "Tell me on a Sunday Sport".
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