Barlow & Firth's CALENDAR GIRLS Musical Gets Workshop This Month

According to the Daily Mail, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's musical reworking of the film and stage play CALENDAR GIRLS is getting a workshop in the Yorkshire Dales later this month.

Firth told the Mail the musical "is a show about life in a small town."

Appearing in the workshop are Debbie Chazen, Sally Dexter, Michelle Dotrice, Rachel Lumberg, Claire Moore, Joanna Riding and Harriet Thorpe.

Firth wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film, directed by Nigel Cole, which is based on a true story of a group of Yorkshire women who created a nude calendar to raise money for Leukemia research in 1999.

CALENDAR GIRLS was originally adapted for the stage in 2008 and ran at Chichester before transferring to the West End.

Barlow, whose FINDING NEVERLAND opens on Broadway this spring, also wrote two songs for the NEW YORK SPRING SPECTACULAR at Radio City Music Hall and is composing the music for the upcoming Eddie The Eagle movie, starring Hugh Jackman. Not only that, but Barlow's TAKE THAT arena tour launches in Glasgow this spring, and the composer/lyricist is developing a musical version of AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS with Eliot Kennedy and Harvey Weinstein.

Firth's other theatre credits include THIS IS MY FAMILY, NEVILLE'S ISLAND, OUR HOUSE, SIGN OF THE TIMES, THE FLINT STREET NATIVITY, THE SAFARI PARTY and more.

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