bombay dreams - 2002

MUSIC: A. R. Rahman
LYRICS: Don Black
BOOK: Meera Syal

Produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, BOMBAY DREAMS brought the magic of India to London's West End, and then later to Broadway. The show ran for almost exactly two years at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, taking over from another Andrew Lloyd
Webber show - Starlight Express. For BOMBAY DREAMS, the theatre was transformed to its original state. Race tracks that ran through the audience had been built for the previous show.Significant changes were made for the Broadway production, including the inclusion of new songs and the cutting of others.

The music was composed by A.R. Rahman, a composer largely unknown in Britain, but with almost superstar status in India for the many movie scores and songs he had composed. He has since given us the scores for the hit movies Slumdog Millionaire and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. The book was penned by British actress-comedian-writer Meera Syal who is perhaps best known for her role as Ummi in seven series of The Kumars at Number 42. More recently she played Aunty Hayley in two series of the BBC's Beautiful People. She has also written several novels, including Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee and Anita And Me.