Cameron Mackintosh to Produce George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s A Private Function Musical
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Cameron Mackintosh will produce a new stage musical based on the 1984 British screen comedy A Private Function, according to a report in Variety. The show will feature a score from composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe and a book by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman. It is expected that the musical will debut at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 2011.
The movie, which features a screenplay by Alan Bennett, focuses on what happens in a small town in England just after World War II when a group of local businessman planning a royal banquet attempt to get around food rationing by stealing an illegally raised pig.
Stiles and Drewe are responsible for the new songs in the musical Mary Poppins. Among their other musicals, the Olivier Award winning Honk!, Just So, and a new version of Peter Pan.
