Fabulous Flops - Featuring Bat Boy!

[Belle Pullman]

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/morefabulousflops/?focuswin

Click on the 5th February "listen again", interesting programme about how musicals flop... interesting interview with John Barr who played Dr Parker in Bat Boy. HE says what I said all along - the show should have been in The Venue, the Shaftesbury killed it!

[Memphis]

The Venue didn't save Saucy Jack from closing early though did it? Shame that really.

[Belle Pullman]

CAN you imagine if Saucy Jack's had gone into the Shaftesbury?? now that would have been disasterous.

I know I keep saying this, but I do think the only show which would work well in the Shaftesbury would be Les Miserables. It's so famous that tourists will go out of their way to find it, and the millions of coach parties going to see it won't have a problem dropping off their passengers. Les Mis doesn't need people to go past the theatre to see the show.