Harry Hill on the X Factor musical

Harry Hill has revealed more details about the new £6 million X Factor musical he’s writing.

The show, subtitled It’s Time To Face The Musical!, is set to open at the London Palladium this time next year and will feature 19 new songs.

Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell are characters in the show, along with a judge called Geordie, who’s a former pop singer from the North-East.

‘I think Cheryl [Cole] would laugh a lot at it, because it’s silly and fun,’ Hill told the Daily Mail today.

Walsh is portrayed as an ‘octogenarian boy-band manager’ who’s ‘basically dozed off’; and Cowell as a ‘perma-tanned’ boss figure.

The plot centres on a teenage girl called Chenice, who lives in a caravan with her grandfather, who’s in an iron lung, and a dog who is able to talk to the audience. They are blissfully unaware of The X Factor, because the iron lung blocks the ITV signals. 

Hill added that the show – which is backed by Cowell’s company Syco – will be ‘scathing, without being cynical’.

The musical will be directed by Sean Foley, who did the same job on The Ladykillers and The Play What I Wrote, and casting will begin in May.

Published: 15 Mar 2013