The hit musical version of much-loved movie Muriel’s Wedding may be a step closer to coming to London’s West End and the UK.
The composer of Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke, said recently in an interview in the Sydney Morning Herald that there are plans for a UK tour of the show before it comes to the West End.
Muriel’s Wedding The Musical played the Lyric Theatre in Sydney in 2017, proving a huge hit with audiences and winning five Helpmann Awards – the Australian equivalent of the Oliviers, and 7 Sydney Theatre Awards. The show came back in 2019 with a successful Australian tour.
The show boasts a book by PJ Hogan, who wrote and directed the original movie version, with songs by music and lyrics by Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall, and songs by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson originally written for ABBA.
When WestEndTheatre.com saw the show in Sydney, UK theatre owners and producers Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire of Trafalgar Entertainment were in the audience, presumably checking out the show! However, there’s no current news on who would produce a West End and UK tour, although Global Creatures (Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Strictly Ballroom The Musical) could be involved given that they produced the Aussie tour.
It’s unclear whether the show’s Australian director Simon Phillips will direct the UK run of the show. Phillips also directed mega-hit Aussie musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert, also based on a much-loved Australian movie, and will be directing a new theatre-dinner version of the show – Priscilla The Party here in London this Spring, playing HERE @ Outernet on Tottenham Court Road from 1 March 2024.
Kate Miller-Heidke and her husband Keir Nuttall have also recently written new musical Bananaland about a punk rock protest band, which played the Brisbane Festival in 2023, and now the Sydney Festival 2024.
Australian musicals are gaining lots of traction at the moment, including acclaimed musical FANGIRLS by Yve Blake, which has taken Australia by storm and is coming to London’s Lyric Hammersmith Theatre this Summer, from 13 July.
Muriel’s Wedding The Musical is about Muriel Heslop: stuck in a dead-end life in Porpoise Spit, Muriel dreams of the perfect wedding – the white dress, the church, the attention. Unfortunately, there’s one thing missing. A groom. Following her dreams to Sydney, Muriel ends up with everything she ever wanted – a man, a fortune and a million Twitter followers. That’s when things start to go really wrong.
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