Jennifer Saunders on meeting the Spice Girls for the first time

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‘I cried at the first full run of the show’: Jennifer Saunders at home with her dog, Olive. Photograph: Perou

Jennifer Saunders's first musical, Viva Forever!, based on the songs of the Spice Girls, opens at the Piccadilly Theatre London W1 on 27 November. Saunders started writing the script in 2010 after being treated, successfully, for breast cancer.

You've written a lot of scripts but a full-scale musical is something different. How is Viva Forever! going?

It's going well I think. I saw a full run of the show yesterday for the first time. I didn't sleep a lot last night: a mixture of excitement and sheer terror. It is much more of a massive thing than anything I've done before, really. And there are large parts of it where I realise I have absolutely nothing to offer at all. Like choreography. Moving people around the stage. All that. I'm used to writing scripts that make frequent use of the words "cut to". But of course you can't do that here. I was hoping I might get away with "lights out" or "curtain down" or something but of course it turns out you can't do that because this actor has to be offstage and in the next scene in different clothes. I'm not good at logistics…

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The Spice Girls will appear in a West End musical written by Jennifer Saunders (New Now Next)

NEXT: Spice Girls Reuniting?

January 10, 2012 ● by Chris Spargo

Make. It. Happen.

Forget the engagements and pregnancies and even the sad, sad separations, this is the biggest news of 2012 so far — the Spice Girls may be reuniting. Break out the platform shoes and Union Jack tops folks.

The ladies of Spice are all currently speaking and working together on the West End musical based on their songs, being written by the hysterical Jennifer Saunders, and rumors have begun flying around that they may reunite for a performance at the London Olympics. Enough to cause a zig-a-zig-ah of excitement we’d say.

None of the five have ever ruled out a reunion and Victoria, who we all KNOW would probably be the least interested, will no doubt be there with hubby David for the opening ceremony so let’s make this happen. Because it’s probably either this or Wham! guys.


http://www.newnownext.com/spice-girls-reunion-london-olympics/01/2012/



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