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Artist News
Loserville opens in the West End next month
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 18 September 2012
When we first got wind of James Bourne’s musical ‘Loserville’ – a show based on his short-lived post-Busted band Son Of Dork’s lone 2005 album, ‘Welcome To Loserville’ – we immediately started calling for it to be put on in London’s West End.
It seemed like a pipe dream, and, as the years went on following its premiere in theatre-central Bracknell in 2009, even more so. But then in April this year it was announced that the play would have a month-long summer run at Leeds’ West Yorkshire Playhouse. Leeds might be further away from London than Bracknell but right then it felt so much closer. A West End transfer must surely have now been on the cards. Was it? Could it really be? Hell the fuck yes it could.
‘Loserville’ will open at the Garrick Theatre in the West End on 1 Oct and run until March 2013. Five months it’s open for. Unless it gets extended, of course. Which it surely will, cos look how long ‘We Will Bloody Rock You’ has been running for, and that’s rubbish.
Nica Burns, CEO of Nimax Theatres, which owns the Garrick, said: “I had a ball when I saw this show at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. [It’s a] fresh, fizzy, fun and delightfully original contemporary musical with a young cast bursting with talent. If you aren’t 25, you’ll feel like it!”
That’s bad news for CMU staff under the age of 25 when it comes to our impending office outing to see the show. I’m excited though.
