London, Dec 04: More than a year after his retirement from international cricket, Shane Warne continues to fascinate and the flamboyant Australian now has become the subject of a musical to be staged in Melbourne this week.
`Shane Warne: The Musical` took three years in making and according to the promoters -- "sets out both to celebrate and understand the life of cricket`s most adored and maligned hero as he battles fame, failure, fidelity and the ferocious Australian media."
`Shane Warne: The Musical` took three years in making and according to the promoters -- "sets out both to celebrate and understand the life of cricket`s most adored and maligned hero as he battles fame, failure, fidelity and the ferocious Australian media."The show will open at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne and is the brainchild of Eddie Perfect, an award-winning Australian singer, comedian and cabaret artist.
What started as a joke turned into a serious venture after Perfect mentioned the idea of bringing Warne`s tumultuous life to the stage to his manager Michael Lynch.
"Shane Warne is an amazing subject, because he has all the epic story-telling elements running through his life," Perfect told.
"There`s success and failure, shame and redemption, love and loss, beautiful women and exotic locations, hair loss and giant dancing cigarettes.”
"There`s a Truman Show quality to his life, as if he`s been thrown on to the set of his own story and doesn`t really know his lines."
The musical which Perfect wrote and stars in, features 24 songs inspired by jazz and funk, soul, gospel, opera and heavy metal.
"What an SMS I`m In" recalls the steamy text messages Warne sent to various women.
Bureau Report