ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the use of Bollywood in musical theatre productions. It also focuses on the way that Bollywood has been adapted into the form of the Western musical theatre in the productions of Tamasha's Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams. The chapter discusses the ways that the stage productions address several issues, and develop strategies for particular audiences. Two members of the audience for the 2001 production of Fourteen Songs were Andrew Lloyd Webber and A. R. Rahman, who were themselves in the process of developing a Bollywood stage musical, but on a very different scale to the Asian-led production of Fourteen Songs by Tamasha. The chapter describes their placing of Bollywood on the West End stage in Bombay Dreams. It also focuses on the music and transadaptation of A. R. Rahman's songs, as well as the process of marketing and promoting the production to Asian audiences.
