According to the Evening Standard, the forthcoming X Factor musical will be called 'I Can't Sing! The Musical' and will premiere at the London Palladium on 26th March 2014, with previews beginning in February. Harry Hill has written the show which is named after one of the musical numbers, tickets go on sale tomorrow.
Simon Cowell, whose company Syco Entertainment is co-producing the show with Stage Entertainment, told the Standard: "We’d been umm-ing and ahh-ing about the title for a while, then it hit us - there’s never been a musical called I Can't Sing! It also happens to be the title of one of the funniest songs in the show, and we hope hints at the direction we’re taking this production."
He continued to say "We think it's also the only musical for a while with a singing hunchback, a talking dog and a man on an iron lung, but we’d have to Google that to be sure. We're pretty certain that you won’t have seen anything like it before and it’s great that Simon is backing it 4,500 per cent."
The show, which is directed by Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley, previously had the working title X Factor - It's Time to Face the Musical. The story centres on Chenice, who lives in an ITV blackspot because her Grandad's iron lung interferes with the signal in her caravan, and the only girl in the world who has never heard of The X Factor.
When she accidentally stumbles into the audition queue with her talking dog, she starts a journey to both stardom and love. Along the way, "she's joined by contestants with vastly varying degrees of ability, some judges you might well recognise and Max, a handsome ukulele playing plumber and part time eco-warrior."
Cowell added that I Can't Sing! won't rely on "big star" casting and will be "old-time theatrical" in flavour, having the feel of "a classic night at the Palladium."
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