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Miranda Cooper is a massively talented songwriter who co-created Girls Aloud hits including ‘Sound of the Underground’, ‘Biology’, ‘Love Machine’ and ‘The Promise’. But although the band she helped make famous has bitten the dust, her career’s taken an exciting new turn with a fresh musical theatre project. She’s penned the songs for ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World’, a family show inspired by suffragette descendant Kate Pankhurst’s kids’ picture book about feminist icons from eighteenth century history to the present day.
The musical’s book is by playwright Chris Bush, and it’s produced by the team behind ‘Six – The Musical’, the feminist runaway hit about Henry VIII’s raucous, rebellious wives telling their own stories on stage. It’s coming to Theatre Royal Stratford East from June 15 to July 17, as part of the venue’s Burn It Down season, which is inspired by themes of activism and politics.
‘Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World’ follows a ten-year-old girl who’s struggling to cope with her parents’ divorce, so she escapes a school trip to a museum to get inspired by the famous women of history, from Emmeline Pankhurst to Marie Curie to Rosa Parks. It’s currently touring the UK before it arrives in London this summer, ready to inspire the next generation of feminists in seriously catchy style.