Geri Halliwell has finally convinced the genius behind the Mama Mia adaptation, Judy Craymer to do a Spice Girls Musical. After much hounding Judy says:

“I’d always said, “No, no, I’m too busy,’  ‘But it just hit me that it could be a great idea. It’s not just what they were, but what they’ve become. It’s about the impact they’ve had on social popular culture”

Apparently Geri is working with former Spice Girl manager Simon Fuller (sound familiar?) and Universal Music to create the show.  So far it’s tentatively named Viva Forever, after one of the group’s hits, but that isn’t written in stone.

Judy has met with Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm and Emma Bunton (she hasn’t met with Melanie Brown yet) and tells the British newspaper The Daily Mail:

“There’s a sisterhood feel about them,” “It will be fictionalised, but you would feel you were getting the sense of a story, about a group of women, that you knew was very much related to the music. And it would all be their music, like Who Do You Think You Are, Wannabe, The Lady Is A Vamp and Mama – but the show has to be written first, before the songs can be incorporated”

They are hopeful that the show hits the London stage within two to three years.

Would you go see the show?