Stop Making Musicals
I enjoy going to see a good musical just as much as the next person. My father and I enjoyed the Vienna State Orchestra on new years eve 1999 and my wife and I have been to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Fame, I liked them all so you can healthily say that I have broad taste in entertainment, I fancy that some of these talent shows, So You Think You Can Dance? for example, are in bad taste but that’s an argument for another day.
The reason for this article was something I heard on the radio this morning. We broke the normal etiquette of musicals I think around half a dozen years ago, and brought them into modern culture more obviously with the Gerry Springer musical. Song about cheating and drugs and people ripping each others clothes off all tied up nicely with a slash of swearing. The Gerry Springer Opera was good. It enjoyed these tours dates in the UK. But now its just getting silly.
We had a Spider Man musical, we had a Jade Goody Musical. I stuck Top Gun The Musical into Google for a laugh, AND THERE IS ONE! There is also a Green day musical, and somehow it got good reviews. But the latest had had an effect. I’m not watching another Musical/Opera again unless is one about me.
Nick Clegg, for those that don’t know, (im thinking of the US here really) is the leader of the third run political party in the UK and, thanks to the closest general election the country has seen for ages, is now second in command of her majesty’s government in a coalition cabinet with David Cameron, a Conservative/Lib-Dem super-team.
And we’re making a musical about him, and to make it worse, its a Hip-Hop one. A HIP-HOP ONE. The show, which has the working title “Nicked” (which is quite a good name actually), features David Cameron in a “rap off” with his backbenchers and promises to take in the student demonstrations and the run-up to the referendum on voting reform.Steven Atkinson, the artistic director of the HighTide Festival, where the show will be performed, said it will follow “the rise and fall of Nick Clegg”.
