Over the years we’ve got used to composers really stretching their imagination for ideas to create new musicals.   Who would thought that a 90-minute show about felines and even one about the wife of a South American dictator would be big smash hits?  BUT even so, we think that the latest idea could be the barmiest to date.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Brit TV drama series Footballers’ Wives, it is being turned into a musical.  The program is about a fictional Premier League football club  and  its players, and their wives, and focusing on their rather complex and messy love lives 

Footballers’ Wives The Musical will follow the captain’s wife, the femme fatale Tanya Turner, as she struggles to keep her marriage to footballer and lothario, Jason Turner, amid groupies, meddling club chairmen, deception, betrayal and murder.

In the Uk Footballers’ Wives became a cult classic during its run from 2002 to 2006, with viewers delighted by the glamour and bad behavior of the Earls Parks FC WAGS.  Gay audiences got very excited when captain Conrad Gates got off with teammate Noah Alexander – though the show cut scenes involving Noah being set up with a sex worker, which were branded at the time “the most explicit sex scene ever to be shown on prime time tv”. Not by us, it just came across of some melodramatic homophobia: check out the clip and see what you think.