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Article: Confessions of a trill-seeker Richard Thomas created 'Jerry Springer - The Opera' from a crate of beer and a foul-mouthed soprano in a nappy. So if it flops at the National Theatre, he writes, 'blame me'
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- April 6, 2003
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If you want to lose most of your friends and become the most
selfish man alive, write an opera. More precisely, write a two-act
opera featuring a man in a nappy accidentally killing Jerry Springer
while trying to take out a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Here I am a
week before Jerry Springer - The Opera opens at the National Theatre.
My co-librettist and I are on the umpteenth rewrite and I am drowning
in a pool of my own tedium. I spent eight years doing a music comedy
act. In the land of comedy where the stand-up is king, music comedy
is generally despised. Once I got heckled off at a stag night when
some prostitutes threw a naked man at me. But you know, that doesn't
seem quite so bad ...