Queen the Musical
Sat, 10 Mar 2001, 09:20 amGrant Malcolm7 posts in thread
Queen the Musical
Sat, 10 Mar 2001, 09:20 amIs anyone able to confirm the details of the following:
"The songs of Queen are to be turned into a stage musical.
Guitarist Brian May said the band was working with playwright Ben Elton on the show."
Eliot? Amanda?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
"The songs of Queen are to be turned into a stage musical.
Guitarist Brian May said the band was working with playwright Ben Elton on the show."
Eliot? Amanda?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
RE: Queen the Musical... you can all relax.
Tue, 13 Mar 2001, 01:15 amWalter Plinge
Relax Eliot and Amanda... not to mention all the others out there (including myself) who had thought this to be a musical _about_ Queen. (where the hell would they find a Freddie, anyway?)
I found this article at the Albemarle site (www.albemarle-london.com), and from what Brian May says, it appears that the show is to be merely a musical _by_ Queen. Or rather, by the surviving members thereof.
"Following his musical collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber on The Beautiful Game, the playwright and novelist Ben Elton's next musical project will feature the songs of the pop group Queen. Speaking in a radio interview recorded for Capital Gold, Queen band member Brian May said: "The rumour is that we're doing a musical, which is true. Ben Elton has written us a fantastic script. We've actually been working on this damn musical for about four years and been through various ideas, some of which were biographical which in the end we didn't want to do. But now Ben came up with this great idea, so we've been workshopping it privately and possibly by the end of this year or the beginning of next year we hope it'll be on in the West End." May added that "There'll be a lot of Queen songs with some new ideas in there." The cast of this as yet untitled musical is not expected to feature any Queen band members."
peace,
David M.
I found this article at the Albemarle site (www.albemarle-london.com), and from what Brian May says, it appears that the show is to be merely a musical _by_ Queen. Or rather, by the surviving members thereof.
"Following his musical collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber on The Beautiful Game, the playwright and novelist Ben Elton's next musical project will feature the songs of the pop group Queen. Speaking in a radio interview recorded for Capital Gold, Queen band member Brian May said: "The rumour is that we're doing a musical, which is true. Ben Elton has written us a fantastic script. We've actually been working on this damn musical for about four years and been through various ideas, some of which were biographical which in the end we didn't want to do. But now Ben came up with this great idea, so we've been workshopping it privately and possibly by the end of this year or the beginning of next year we hope it'll be on in the West End." May added that "There'll be a lot of Queen songs with some new ideas in there." The cast of this as yet untitled musical is not expected to feature any Queen band members."
peace,
David M.
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