Tune Your Videos for Jerry Night???

Jerry Springer - The Opera, based on the popular US TV talkshow, is being broadcast on BBC 2 this Saturday (8 January 2005), having been filmed live last month at the Cambridge Theatre (See The Goss, 18 Nov 2004). The operetta - which currently stars David Soul of Starsky and Hutch fame and features a diaper-wearing baritone and tap-dancing members of the Ku Klux Klan, proved a hit with audiences and critics alike. It won the quartet of major Best Musical awards – the Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle, Olivier and our own Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Award last year. ‘Jerry Night’ kicks off at 9.00pm, with a documentary about the TV show introduced by David Soul, during which Ruby Wax will take viewers behind the scenes of the programme. At 9.45pm, there will be a short documentary about the stage production, when viewers will learn how the show by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee was developed. And, last but not least, well after the watershed, at 10.00pm, Jerry Springer - The Opera will be broadcast in full, but with a warning about the strong language!

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