Backbeat Brings Beatles to Stage??? Date: 3 December 2003
Now that Elvis Presley is confirmed for 2004 stage resurrection in Jailhouse Rock (See News, 2 Dec 2003), why not the Beatles? Or at least a tribute of a tribute to the Beatles? According to this week's edition of The Stage, Backbeat, the 1993 film about the Liverpudlian rockers' early years in Hamburg, is being adapted for a new stage musical. The film's writer and director Iain Softley is behind the project and has already managed to reunite the original stars - Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell, Chris O'Neill, Scot Williams and Stephen Dorff (who played, respectively, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, early drummer Pete Best and doomed bass player Stuart Sutcliffe) - for an early read-through. This Is Our Youth's Out of the Blue are co-producing by arrangement with Universal Pictures and are currently negotiating for the rights to use some of those old rock classics in the stage production.
How could Ian Hart and the rest of the original cast be in a stage production? They are playing the beatles when they are in their late teens not when they're in they're 40's. It will have to be a new cast all together.. Look forward to that though!! Loved the original film. - Thomas Watson
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