The Beatles replace as hit movie is about to grow to be West End musical | Theatre | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Beatle-mania appears as if it’s about to strike the West End because the mind behind fan-favourite movies Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill appears to create a splash with a brand new Beatles musical. Richard Curtis has teamed up with Trainspotting director Danny Boyle to create a stage-show adaptation of his hit movie Yesterday for the theatres of the West End.

The pair of iconic administrators held an occasion this week in entrance of some big-name traders, together with Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber as they looked for a house to accommodate the musical. Their present is an adaptation of the hit 2019 movie that starred Himesh Patel, Lily James and Ed Sheeran. It follows a struggling singer-songwriter who out of the blue finds himself because the only-person who remembers The Beatles. He quickly turns into a world sensation taking part in their songs as he desperately tries to recollect the phrases and melodies to the group’s largest hits.

The movie’s plot lends itself properly to the stage, talking to The Mirror, an insider revealed: “This has been stored beneath wraps for months, however it’s a big alternative, and the prospect of a Beatles musical is just too large to overlook.

“It’s easy to imagine that it could play for years and years. There was a performance this week to show the basics of what the production will be, and all the big players in London’s theatre world came along.

“It’s a no-brainer that any theatre will want to host it, so there is likely to be a bit of a bidding war to secure it. These are the most famous songs of all time, so it could run and run.”

The present would have entry to the again catalogue of the Fab Four, following a latest development of a number of the largest hits of the previous being performed on stage, together with We Will Rock You utilizing Queens backlog and MJ the Musical following Michael Jackson.

It’s not the primary time Beatle-mania has swept by means of the West End, with the story of John, Paul, George and Ringo being instructed within the 2012 present Let It Be.

But with the ability to use a number of the most iconic songs of a century is less complicated stated than executed, beforehand being requested on whether or not it was robust getting the rights to the songs and if he’d spoken to Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr, Richard Curits defined: “No. We dealt a lot with Sony and with Apple.

“I believe in the event that they’d have stated no, it could have been not possible. If we have been doing a movie a couple of serial killer who loves The Beatles, they could have stated no, nevertheless it clearly is kind of a pro-Beatles factor.”

He added: “I believe The Beatles are extra embedded in tradition than anyone else – despite the fact that, personally, I couldn’t bear a world with out Kate Bush. But I don’t assume it’s the identical movie.”