Producers bowled over by musical on Warnie

Comedy producer Token Events has beaten some of the countrys biggest theatrical producers and theatre companies to develop and produce Shane Warne: The Musical.

Sydney, Oct.30 : Comedy producer Token Events has beaten some of the country's biggest theatrical producers and theatre companies to develop and produce Shane Warne: The Musical.

Eddie Perfect's loving homage features a power ballad about beer, a Bollywood parody featuring the Indian bookie, a thrash metal tribute to diet pills called Hush Little Shane and the song What an SM-ess I Am In.

It is believed a number of subsidised theatre companies and commercial producers bid for comedy cabaret artist Perfect's show after he showcased a work in progress at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in July.

Sydney's Company B and The Sydney Opera House are understood to have been key among them, reports news.com.au.

All were keen to replicate the success of Casey Bennetto's Keating! The Musical. That show has sold out four seasons and been a major financial boon for Company B.

"Shane Warne: The Musical has been an unusual show from the start, a kind of left field idea," Perfect said.

"It's great to team up with Kevin Whyte and Token Events ... We want to make music theatre for a new audience and do justice to what I think is a remarkable story and an incredible life," he added.

The show is expected to premiere next year, with an English tour, a distant but likely prospect.

ANI