The Stage

Bombay Dreams gives way to Saturday Night Fever

Published Tuesday 30 March 2004 at 12:50 by Jeremy Austin

Saturday Night Fever, Adam Spiegel Production’s hit touring production, will move to the Apollo Victoria when Bombay Dreams closes this summer.

Fever, which has been on the road since March 2003, will have been watched by an estimated half a million people when it finishes in Rhyl on June 19. It previews at the Apollo Victoria from July 2 and is booking until April 2005. Casting is yet to be announced.

It will be the second West End appearance for the stage adaptation of the cult seventies movies starring John Travolta and with a soundtrack by the Bee Gees. Produced in association with Robert Stigwood, it previously enjoyed a run at the London Palladium in 1998 and received two Olivier nominations - one for Adam Garcia for Best Actor in a Musical and the other for Arlene Phillip’s choreography. It also transferred to Broadway.

A spokesman for the producer said: “We have been looking to bring it into town since the tour started. Because it has done so well, there is obviously a market for it. It did very well in London and it is right to come back in.”

Bombay Dreams ends after a successful two-year run prior to a UK tour. The tour will be of a revised version of the show, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful group, as will be the show that opens on Broadway next month. Re-written by original book-writer Meera Syal, as well as Thomas Meehan, who worked on The Producers with Mel Brooks, the revised show will return to the West End in 2005.