Everybody's Talking About Jamie

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Todd, Lucy (29 May 2018). "Everybody's Talking About Jamie: West End smash to be made into film". BBC News . Retrieved 24 June 2019. Everybody's Talking About Jamie is a coming-of-age stage musical with music by Dan Gillespie Sells and book and lyrics by Tom MacRae. The musical is inspired by the 2011 British television documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16 directed by Jenny Popplewell. [1] The musical follows and is based upon the true-life story of 16-year-old British schoolboy Jamie Campbell, as he overcomes prejudice and bullying to step out of the darkness and become a drag queen. Masso, Giverny (12 April 2018). "Everybody's Talking About Jamie to be broadcast live to UK cinemas". The Stage . Retrieved 24 June 2019.

Watching the kids dancing and everybody on that screen, I thought 'I've never seen that before in my life'... and I'm just so happy to be there celebrating with everybody else." Tim Minchin wrote his record-breaking, award-winning musical based on the classic novel by Roald Dahl, and a version with a theatre tie-in cover is now available. The next day at school, Jamie shows his best friend Pritti his new heels, and then he is interrupted by Dean, the school bully. He taunts Pritti for being Muslim, and Jamie for being gay. Jamie taunts Dean; embarrassed, Dean leaves. Pritti encourages Jamie to go to prom in a dress ("Spotlight"). Jamie then parades around the classroom in his heels ("Spotlight (Reprise) (Star of the Show)").

At the house of Jamie's dad, Jamie's dad reveals that he did not know about Mimi Me and calls Jamie disgusting. He tells Jamie he did not pay for the dress or flowers. Jamie figures out that it was his mother doing all of this in his dad's place ("Ugly in This Ugly World").

Faye Tozer joins Everybody's Talking About Jamie West End cast". WhatsOnStage . Retrieved 22 March 2019. There’s a special kind of atmosphere surrounding the Theatre Royal in Newcastle this week as a smash hit musical has finally arrived in the native land of the person who inspired it.In the stage show, we meet Hugo and his Loco Chanelle persona through a thoroughly bombastic and camp number that does little to flesh out Hugo's character or the world of drag, playing into easy stereotypes. Winners of the 18th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards announced: David Tennant and Olivia Colman win". 25 February 2018. At school, Jamie pulls Pritti into a disabled toilet so she can help with his make-up. They are discovered by Miss Hedge, but Pritti tells her that she is doing Jamie's make-up for an art project. Miss Hedge tells Jamie that he should be proud of being an art project, and walks him around school in the make-up. Jamie, initially embarrassed by the attention, decides to be proud of himself, telling the school that he is doing a drag show at the local nightclub, Legs Eleven, that night ("Work of Art"). Everybody's Talking About…the NEW Jamie cast!". everybodystalkingaboutjamie.co.uk . Retrieved 9 January 2019. The WhatsOnStage Award-winning musical, which features book and lyrics by Tom MacRae and music by Dan Gillespie Sells, stemmed from an idea by Jonathan Butterell, the show’s original director, inspired by the BBC documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16.