Shows that may becoming to the West End in 2008...

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
musical version of the cult 1994 film

Bloodbath the Musical
Music by David Young and Jules Maguire.
Based on a strand from his nineties Channel 5 drama Headless.
The show will be set on the campus of an American high school and will tell the story of a serial killer called the Waterman, who attacks young girls.

The Count of Monte Cristo
musical by Michel Legrand, Richard Bean and Don Black

Dancing the Night Away
a musical based on the movies of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Choreographed by Gillian Lynne.

Doctor Zhivago the musical
based purely on the Boris Pasternak novel, not David Lean's movie
Music by Lucy Simon and lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers.
Expected in London late 2008.

Legally Blonde
the movie, adapted as a Broadway stage musical.

Life is a Dream
By Pedro Calderon de la Barca
at the Donmar Warehouse

No Man's Land
by Harold Pinter's
starring David Walliams, Michael Gambon, David Bradley

The Pirate Queen
musical by Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg
Directed by John McColgan (of Riverdance Fame) and choreographed by Mark Dendy.

Simply Cuban. Simply Red expected to take their songs to the West End in a new musical. Tracks by the group led by singer Mick Hucknall will be given a "Latin makeover" for the show with choreography by Arlene Phillips.

Single Spies
by Alan Bennett
starring Nigel Havers, Diana Quick

The Wedding Singer
based on the 1998 film, goes on a UK tour in Feb 2008, before an 'expected' West End run.
Directed by Karen Bruce

Withnail & I
Stage adaptation of the 1987 film.
Starring Jude Law ???

Shows that may becoming to the West End in 2009...

It is reported that Pete Doherty and his former bandmate Carl Barat are writing a stage musical together about the struggles of an up-and-coming rock 'n' roll band to be performed at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009?

A sequel to Phantom of the Opera???

Calendar Girls
a stage adaptation of the film

Gethsemane, a new play by David Hare
Early 2009 at the National
Directed by Howard Davies.

Mother Courage
Early 2009 at the National
Directed by Deborah Warner
Starring Fiona Shaw

Phantom of Paris composed by the late Peer Raben and librettists Volker Führer and Axel Schulß, is expected to have a West End run in 2009/10 following an internation tour. It is 1910, ten years after the supposed death of the phantom. As well as the original characters, we are joined by Frederic, the son of Christine.

We Will Rock You - The Sequel