Doyle's 'The Commitments' given musical twist by Jamie Lloyd

In the quarter-century since Roddy Doyle wrote 'The Commitments', his hit first novel, it has been filmed and televised. Now it is a musical, adapted for the stage by Doyle himself, opening at the Palace Theatre in the heart of London's West End.

Alan Parker's 1991 film was a hit in its own right but featured a limited input from the author. For the musical award-winning director
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