Cricketing musicals

Just for a bit of a laugh I thought I'd try my hand at coming up with musicals that might have a cricketing theme:


CREASE – Cricket and brylcreem in the late 1950s.

BATS – The England selectors look for the next ‘chosen one’.

THE WIZARD OF AUS – The life of Sir Donald Bradman.

HAIRSPRAY – The story of David Gower.

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS – The story of the England Ashes team in Australia 2006.

GLAMALOT – A musical celebration of Welsh cricket.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE OVAL – A musical recount of Blowers trip to the London ground involving many busses and pigeons!

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – Jonathan Trott singing from atop of a giant industrial crane.

BRIGADOON – Once every few hundred years the Scottish cricket team wins...then disappears in the mist again.

SCROOGE – Geoff Boycott’s quest for run accumulation as told in song.

DANCER IN THE DARK – A musical tale of Mark Ramprakash when the lights blew at Hove.

THE LION’S KING - Celebrating the life of Adam Hollioake.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC – Mark Butcher’s England career (with his own songs interspersed).

DUCK SOUP – A bad day at the office for the England squad.

A STAR IS BORN – The life of Jack Hobbs in song and dance.

AFTER THE BALL – A musical about fielding.

HELLO DOLLY – A musical about bad fielding.

AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ – Daryl Hair's life set to music.

CINDERS – Story of the Ashes.

JERSEY BOYS – The story of the cable knit sweater.

LES MISERABLES – Leicestershire county cricket.