“They loved it and asked to meet with me. “They were there at the 10th performance,” recalls Jonathan Butterell, who developed the show, which is based on a 2011 documentary, then directed it at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield in 2017. Producers from Warp Films, which is based in Sheffield, leapt on to Jamie with all the enthusiasm of the teenager getting his hands on some sparkly new heels. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, which follows a 16-year-old budding drag queen from Sheffield, has taken just four years, picking up Richard E Grant and Sharon Horgan along the way. A film of Dear Evan Hansen, the Broadway hit about an anxious, alienated student who pretends to have been friends with a suicide victim, has arrived only five years after it opened, with Julianne Moore and Amy Adams among the cast. The speed of traffic travelling in the opposite direction, from stage to screen, tends to be a little faster, though.
Pretty Woman and Back to the Future are playing across the street from one another in London’s West End, with The Lion King, Matilda and Heathers nearby. C hoosing a stage musical to see right now can feel like browsing the cinema listings of the 1980s and 90s.
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