Can The Great British Bake Off musical be a show?
The Great British Bake Off has been turned into a musical with a stage tent and songs about strudels. But can he replicate the TV show's recipe for success?
The pair leaning against the wooden top of a pastel kitchen workstation are oddly familiar.
The woman is wearing bright pink glasses, a chunky yellow necklace and a dazzling floral blouse. The man has silver hair and beard, a suave shirt unbuttoned at the top, and a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
They are the fearsome judges of The Great British Bake Off: The Musical, speaking during final rehearsals for the show's premiere on stage at the Everyman Theater in Cheltenham.
Actor John Owen- Jones attempts to assert that "any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidental". His eyes sparkle.
The names of the characters are certainly no coincidence. While TV success has Paul Hollywood, the musical has Phil Hollyhurst, played by Owen-Jones. And instead of Prue Leith, we have Pam Leigh, played by Rosemary Ashe.
Source of the image, Mark Bourdillon/Love ProductionsOwen-Jones, seeking a culinary pun, admits that the actors tried to capture "an essence, maybe a taste" of the actual television judges with their cha on stage...
The Great British Bake Off has been turned into a musical with a stage tent and songs about strudels. But can he replicate the TV show's recipe for success?
The pair leaning against the wooden top of a pastel kitchen workstation are oddly familiar.
The woman is wearing bright pink glasses, a chunky yellow necklace and a dazzling floral blouse. The man has silver hair and beard, a suave shirt unbuttoned at the top, and a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
They are the fearsome judges of The Great British Bake Off: The Musical, speaking during final rehearsals for the show's premiere on stage at the Everyman Theater in Cheltenham.
Actor John Owen- Jones attempts to assert that "any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidental". His eyes sparkle.
The names of the characters are certainly no coincidence. While TV success has Paul Hollywood, the musical has Phil Hollyhurst, played by Owen-Jones. And instead of Prue Leith, we have Pam Leigh, played by Rosemary Ashe.
Source of the image, Mark Bourdillon/Love ProductionsOwen-Jones, seeking a culinary pun, admits that the actors tried to capture "an essence, maybe a taste" of the actual television judges with their cha on stage...
What's Your Reaction?
