A Sneak Preview of Bend It Like Beckham
A YouTube video of the opening number! You saw it here first (hopefully)!!!
Interested in learning more? Read ‘an earlier post about this musical’ written by Edward Seckerson last year.
It is the afternoon of Friday 2 May in the none too prepossessing upstairs studio of the Dominion Theatre and I am one of a privileged few invited to a workshop reading of the West End bound Howard Goodall/Charles Hart/Gurinder Chada & Paul Mayeda Berges musical of that film charmer Bend It Like Beckham. It’s no secret that I am huge admirer of Goodall’s work – not least his ability to cut through the informed wisdom of what a musical can be – but what I saw here could amount to the commercial hit that has eluded him for so long. For all that we were still in the final draft stages and stripped down to bare essentials this was a joyous and moving occasion…
