TUC backs musicals
12 April 2012
The TUC has pledged £15,000 over three years to Stratford's Theatre Royal to help pay for the development of London's first big rap, ragga, gangsta and banghra musicals.
Philip Hedley, the theatre's artistic director, said: "The funding system has been happier to invest in plays rather than musicals. Many musical professionals think it isn't possible to use rap, hip-hop, banghra, house or garage in musicals. The Theatre Royal's workshops have shown this view is wrong."
