Leiber & Stoller: Oscar! The Musical

"As the rock world mourned lyricist Jerry Leiber last week, it fondly remembered classic hits such as Jailhouse Rock and Stand By Me, for which Leiber wrote the words and Mike Stoller the music. Now Stoller has revealed that the best may be yet to come.
"The 78-year-old Stoller has revealed that, in collaboration with writer Michael Bywater, the pair had recently written 11 new songs for a musical about Oscar Wilde that was nearing completion...
The production will be set in a music hall, as "a sort of Christmas Carol", in which Wilde is "brought to see his life as it actually was". Believing that Wilde has often been misrepresented, Bywater said: "He was a fragmented man. Therefore people could choose the Oscar that they wanted. Some people think [of] 'the aesthete', some think 'the family man', some think 'the gay activist', when he was nothing of the sort. There are so many Oscars..."

The Observer.

What a great note to go out on.
Apart from the Rorschach Test cliches.
Let's hope it's a goodie.
Scheduled to open In London next spring.
Does anyone remember Mike Read's 2004 musical Oscar Wilde?
It closed after one night - setting a record.