Shane Warne the Musical

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It has a sense of inevitability about it - Shane Warne's life is being adapted to musical theatre. The problem will be compressing the many headlines and incidents over Warne's checkered career into a single evening's entertainment. The text messaging, numerous sex scandals, dummy spits over being called fat by reporters, getting busted for taking diet pills (I'm imagining the actor wearing a fat suit a la Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor). Who knows, maybe they'll even get some cricket in there (how would you replicate the Gatting ball on stage). Forget a stage play - this should be a mini-series!

Just like the Harry Potter films have employed just about every English actor over 50 (except Patrick Stewart who is waiting by the phone on tenterhooks), the Warnie musical will be throwing the net far and wide to find as many young, attractive English actresses as possible. They could go for a Planet of the Apes style climax using the giant statue of Warne from the Picadily circus. Although I imagine more likely the play ending with a dance number featuring Warnie dressed in playboy underwear, tangoeing with an inflatable doll. It's wouldn't be the actual end of the play - it's just that the theatre would be emptied by the end of the song.

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Posted by JC on Mon 5 Jun

2 comments

you have got to be joking! Thats the funniest thing I've heard all day! And what an idea about the playboy underwear scene, I think you could be on to something there! Who on earth would they get to play him? It should be someone like toadie from neighbours with blonde implants but I'm guessing he'll insist on a more George Cluny type!

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Posted by okbl on 2006-06-05 04:17:49

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