After all those weekly showstopper challenges, it was perhaps inevitable: the TV phenomenon The Great British Bake Off is to become a stage musical.
Billed as a heartwarming and wholesome comedy, the production will follow eight amateur bakers as they compete to impress the judges under the gaze of a pair of presenters. The musical will have its world premiere at the Everyman theatre in Cheltenham this summer. The score is by the award-winning duo Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary whose previous musicals include an adaptation of Sue Townsend’s novel The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾.
