KYLIE - the musical (??)

[philitalia]

I'm not joking here - I wish I were - but apparantly she's written songs for a musical and it's just a matter of "finding a story".

?????

Anyone any info ?

I feel an anxiety attack coming on

[Princeton Returns]

Its been mooted for ages. If the story is decent and it works as a musical then fine. I have no issue with Jukebox musicals as long as they work (e,g, Mamma Mia, Our House).

Kylie certainly has a better back catalogue than Spice Girls

[philitalia]

I agree about the back catalogue being better than the one of the Spice Girls, though that doesn't say much
Following the interview I was under the impression that she has written new songs for this.

It was the bit where she says that "it is just a matter of finding a story" that worries me.

[SoonerOrLater]

I'd heard it too. But when I read/saw it (sorry can't remember where she was talking about it) I read it as she wanted to use her back catalogue for a musical but needed the right story. Which like Princeton says above, could work. And musically it'd be better than Viva Forever if nothing else....

[EricMontreal22]

There was a jukebox musical of her work that was given a Fringe Theatre type of staging in Australia maybe five years back? I think it was called I Should Be So Lucky (I heard some tracks a friend whowas involved sent me, and remember the oh so classy poster which had her famous Fever album pose with the microphone except this shot just had the torso of a man in white briefs instead of her.) I don't think it was ever meant to have an after life and was just a one shot thing.

But yes, a West End show using her songs has been talked about on and off for at least a decade now.

I'm one of the biggest Kylie fans around (OK, I don't have tattoos of her name or anything, but do have over 100 CDs and records, etc) but this just sounds like a bad idea for me. Her back catalog is great--but it also is hard to mesh well (though perhaps that would add variety to the show--still placing a song like Drunk next to I Should Be So Lucky would seem odd.) Between the Stock Aitken Waterman stuff, the self penned "indie" stuff, the current dance pop... Also, her songs don't usually tell much of a story (one, of many reasons, I think Viva Forever doesn't work--with ABBA their songs do tell much more of a story.)

And worse of all, I am sure she would give in and let William Baker direct it... Now, I think his camp work on her concert tours is brilliant and great fun, but we all saw what he did to Rent Remixed.

[philitalia]

I saw this interview with her today on a news channel, so I guess something is being developed. It was only a short clip and no details were given.

[Phantom of London]

Please