Harry Hill's Tony Blair Musical Gets A London Run

Harry Hill's Tony Blair Musical Gets A London Run

Harry Hill's musical about Tony Blair will get a month-long London run this summer.

Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] by Hill and his regular musical collaborator Steve Brown will be performed at the Park Theatre in north London from June 1 to July 9. 

Hill says: "It’s struck me for a while that Tony Blair’s life is epic - operatic even, in its story arc. Yet 25 years ago there he was - the master of all he surveyed surfing his britpop wave with Cherie at his side. Ah, Remember Britpop? The future all looked so rosy back then didn’t it?

I know it doesn’t sound like obvious material for a comedy musical but we’re not laughing at Tony so much as laughing at the choices WE made back in the 90’s and early 2000’s."

According to the theatre's website the show will be "a reckless reappraisal of the life of former Ugly Rumours front man and Britain’s first pop Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The story of how one man went from peace-loving, long-haired hippy and would-be pop star to warmongering multimillionaire in just a couple of decades. 

A hilarious tragedy of political intrigue, religion, power, and romance that plays fast and loose with the facts, owing as much to Citizen Kane as it does to The Marx Brothers - Karl and Groucho.

Throw in a stellar cast of larger-than-life characters - Cherie Blair, Princess Diana, John Prescott, Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell, Osama Bin Laden, George W Bush, Saddam Hussein and Gordon Brown and you’ve got one hell of a weapon of mass distraction! 

With crowd-pleasers like ‘Macro Economics’ and the haunting ballad ‘I Never Did Anything Wrong’ - it’s Yes, Minister meets The Rocky Horror Show! and a musical like no other."

The website adds: "Please note: Neither Tony Blair, the Tony Blair Institute nor any other person featured in this production have endorsed the production or its marketing materials and are in no way affiliated with Park Theatre."

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