Matt Lucas is writing a musical.
The 49-year-old TV star has appeared on stage and display screen for nearly three a long time and defined that he has written a novel and is already planning to show it right into a stage present as he composes the rating himself.
He informed Metro newspaper’s Responsible Pleasures column: “I’ve written a novel, and I’m adapting the novel for the stage. I’m additionally writing the songs. I felt the subsequent logical step from having been in musicals and going to look at just about each musical that’s on is to try to knuckle down and write considered one of my very own.”
In the meantime, the previous ‘Little Britain’ star has performed the comedic function of villainous innkeeper Monsieur Thenarider within the traditional musical ‘Les Miserables’ on and off through the years, starting within the function as a part of the present’s twenty fifth anniversary live performance on the O2 Area in 2010 earlier than finishing a West Finish run within the half the next yr and went again to the half for a 3rd time for the staged live performance model on the Gielgud Theatre in 2020 and he admitted that he nonetheless will get “goosebumps” when he remembers singing the Act One finale.
He added: “Standing on that stage singing ‘One Day Extra’… I get goosebumps. It’s a present that most of the individuals within the viewers could have seen earlier than… in the event you ever fluff a line, chances are high they’ll discover. However [the worst production] I’ve been in was ‘Me and My Lady’, and the one motive I’m choosing it’s as a result of I needed to faucet dance. I’m not a pure faucet dancer. Thoughts you, the flip facet of it, I obtained fitter than I’d been for years.”
