Burlesque The Musical - Manchester / Glasgow / West End

The backlog of people trying to get houses is insane

Never heard of either of them?

Tumbleweed

I have a feeling this will be a hit. Jess Foley has an amazing voice- I’ll deffo be there. She also has a big younger following

I disagree.

The movie hardly pulled up trees at the box office, making $90.5m against a $55m production budget. Then allowing for extensive marketing costs, the movie itself made a very modest profit. It is unlike, say, Moulin Rouge or The Greatest Showman in terms of figures.

Or critical success; it has a weighted 4.9/10 and 37% “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes from 178 critics, and a less than spectacular 6.4/10 from 92,000 users on IMDB.

The soundtrack is only 32 minutes long, comprising of ten songs ranging from 2:00 to 4:29 long. Three singles were released in the UK, one reached #75 in the UK charts, the other two failed to chart. The main release was called “Express” performed by Christina Aguilera, which failed to reach the US Billboard Top 100. It did well reaching #2 in the “second” chart over there.

In other words, the film came and went without much ado 13 years ago. There was no viral/crossover pop hit (“Lady Marmalade”, “This is Me”) no box office smash, and modest streaming numbers.

The point I am making is less about the quality of the work, but the potential market for this. There aren’t “fans” of the movie unlike say Moulin Rouge, The Greatest Showman, or any of the jukebox or screen-to-stage “night out” shows which have been adapted - like Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman and all the rest.

With the amount of new material needed to be written, the film’s obscure nature, and no “name” to sell it I fail to see how this can find an audience. I would be astonished if it made it London.

She’s been doing the tv talent show rounds since she was 13 by the looks of it.

She sounds identical to Cher Lloyd. Just not as good.

Who’s playing Cher?

This is the only info that will make me book.

My prediction is a drag queen from the telly doing a Cher impression.

Almost 100% certainly this won't be the case.

She looks about 14 too

She’s trained apparently, East London Arts and Music, but it seems highly risky to put someone with no real acting experience other than college as the lead in a new musical.

She’s Christina’s protégée. Sources say she was exceptional in the workshop so why shouldn’t we give her fair chance? Why the witch hunt these days, why can’t we be hopeful that newcomers might actually have the goods to deliver?