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Artist News
The Son Of Dork musical is happening. At last
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 12 April 2012
This has been a very long time coming, but the musical based on Son Of Dork’s ‘Welcome To Loserville’ album, co-written by the band’s frontman James Bourne and playwright Elliot Davis, is due to open in June.
Son Of Dork, of course (OF COURSE), was the band formed by Bourne after Busted split in 2005. The short-lived outfit only released two singles (two top ten singles, mind) and that one album before going on hiatus in 2007 and eventually splitting the following year. Since then Bourne has been working on the ‘Loserville’ musical.
Set in 1971, it follows “computer geek” Michael Dork who has invented “something that could change the world” but is distracted by his love for a girl called Holly. Holly wants to be the first woman in space but is distracted by Michael’s attempts to woo her. It’s a classic tale.
The show received its world premiere in Bracknell in 2009, where it played for two nights at the South Hill Park Arts Centre. In June and July this year, it will enjoy a month-long run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds before its inevitable transfer to the West End. Seriously people, isn’t it about time ‘We Will Rock You’ was shunted out of the Dominion? I mean, that’s a load of old rubbish and ‘Loserville’ is clearly going to be awesome.
More information on the West Yorkshire Playhouse run can be found here, and you can watch a preview of the original 2009 version of the show below.
By the way, and despite the tone of this piece, which you might have taken to be somewhat sarcastic, I would genuinely like to see ‘Loserville’ and I do genuinely think that ‘We Will Rock You’ is a load of old rubbish. So there.
