This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Business News Gigs & Festivals Media
Top Of The Pops to tour as stage musical
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 24 May 2012
So if you, like every TV plugger in the UK record industry, continue to pine for the now long defunct ‘Top Of The Pops’, that was culled from our BBC TV screens in 2006 after the European Courts Of Human Rights ruled that not even Shayne Ward fans deserved to exposed to that much Fearne Cotton, well, here’s some good news.
Well, not really. Though it is good news for fans of shit jukebox musicals. They are making a ‘Top Of The Pops’ musical show that will tour the UK. I kid thee not. Billed by the theatrical minds behind Michael Jackson homage ‘Thriller’, who are responsible for this new theatrical nightmare, as “a nostalgic interactive jukebox”, the show will feature an all-singing, all-dancing cast of faux popstars and presenters recreating highlights from ‘TOTP’s golden decades. Though Fearne Cotton will not appear. Even fans of shit musicals should be spared the most extreme forms of torture.
There will be interactivity though. Audiences will be able to vote for their favourite song throughout the night as part of a ‘live chart countdown’, with their chosen track then forming the finale to each performance. Derek Nickol of the show’s producers Flying Entertainment says he is “delighted to be working with one of the UK’s most iconic brands”, adding: “Like most people I have nothing but fantastic memories of ‘Top Of The Pops'”.
He obviously didn’t watch during the Fearne Cotton era.
Curtain up on ‘Top Of The Pops Live’ happens at the Congress in Eastbourne on 18 Oct, after which the production will take a national tour throughout spring 2013. Good times.
