Smash is Jack Rosenthal's hilarious but scathing look at the journey to get a musical from page to stage, complete with a cantankerous composer, a fantasist lyricist, a neophyte female novelist turned playwright, a cocksure director and a bombastic producer.

Based on his own experience of turning his hit tv play Bar Mitzvah Boy into a (less-than-successful) musical, this is the London premiere of one of Rosenthal's wittiest and, until now, rarely seen, plays.

So curtain up, light the lights....

JACK ROSENTHAL, one of Britain's greatest TV dramatists died in 2004 leaving behind a legacy of plays, films and television series, that include some of the finest dramas ever broadcast on television. He penned acclaimed BBC dramas such as Spend, Spend, Spend; The Knowledge; Bar Mitzvah Boy and devised the popular fire-brigade saga London's Burning. He was also a regular contributor to Coronation Street.

News: Published on Tuesday 10 March 2011 at 02:39