Mrs Brown’s Boys gets set for the musical treatment
BRENDAN O’Carroll has revealed he is turning his hit comedy show ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ into a musical.
The actor, who plays family matriarch Agnes Brown, is working on turning his creation into a stage musical that will tour Ireland, along with the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
He is enlisting the help of some top Irish talent to create some memorable tunes for the production.
“I’m writing a new show for 2019, ‘Mrs Brown: The Musical’,” he told the Irish Independent.
“It will still tour, I wouldn’t stay in one place.
“One of the reasons why I haven’t done Broadway or London is because they want you to stay in one place for six months,” he said.
“I’ve written a few songs. It won’t be just me.
“The script I’m hoping will do a number.
“I haven’t written the story yet, but that’s where we are heading.”
O’Carroll insisted all of the show’s cast members were talented singers.
He said some of them will also be learning to rap for the musical.
“We are very lucky because everybody sings,” he said.
“Some of them have amazing voices and then there will be a couple of them who will rap. It will be fun.”
O’Carroll was speaking in Dublin at the 13th annual Celebrity Ward Walk at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.
Stars, including Mary Byrne, Rosanna Davison and Ronan and Storm Keating, took part in the event to meet the children in the wards of the hospital.
“Today is a great lesson in humility and a lesson in the resilience of children,” O’Carroll said.
“You walk in the door and the first thing they say is ‘happy Christmas’.
“It’s heart-warming; it’s uplifting. It can be sad at times. I’ve done it every single year.
“I have never left this hospital on this day without counting my blessings.”