Bend It Like Beckham

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"Bend It Like Beckham" is now a West End musical. Here's a review of the show:

http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/ ... tre-Review

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This article says that going from film to stage often makes for 'dreary programming', but it points to BETM as a success story and suggests that BETM was used as inspiration behind Bend It Like Beckham the show.

So why boot Bend It Like Beckham onstage now? Actually, it's all the fault of that pirouetting success Billy Elliot: making film-to-stage adaptations seem like a doddle since 2005.

"What I loved was the way it had crystalised a period of British history," says Chadha on her second viewing of the musical about five years ago. "And I love the emotional levels it reaches – it's a musical about something." Which is why they're keeping Bend It Like Beckham as a period piece – a portrait of Britain in 2001.

So director, Gurinda Chadra, is a fan of BETM and taking pointers. I guess there are parallels too with the story, in that a young person is trying to break free of strong family tradition in order to pursue an unexpected dream.

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Link to the article http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 61680.html