Jihad: The Musical is to open in London
Even before it opened on the Edinburgh Festival fringe in 2007, there were calls for Jihad: The Musical to be boycotted by theatre-goers. Now Mandrake hears that the controversial production will open in London at the Jermyn Street Theatre early in the New Year. Although it features songs such as Building A Bomb Today and I Wanna Be Like Osama, Ben Scheuer, its composer and co-lyricist, insists that it is not in the worst possible taste.








The usual forces of political correctness seem to be massing against this production. We’ll see if it ever actually opens. Grotesquely, we have to applaud the producers’ courage in wanting to go forward with it, as they are actually risking their lives.
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