‘We’re introducing viewers to the man behind the lack of sweat’: making Prince Andrew – The Musical

As part of its ‘Truth or Dare’ season, Channel 4 is setting the life of Prince Andrew to a series of song and dance numbers. But is this musical take on the disgraced royal too much, too soon?

When I arrive at Brocket Hall, a stately home in Welwyn Garden City, Prince Andrew is having his photograph taken on the grand staircase, a rose clamped between his teeth as a fleet of butlers dance around him. Or rather, not Prince Andrew, but the comedian Kieran Hodgson. He is in young Andrew mode today, in his military uniform and with a full head of hair, but Hodgson later tells me that as old Andrew, he looks truly awful. “I showed some pictures of old Andrew mode to my husband and said: “Look at these!” And he said: “I find you physically repellent.”

We are on the set of Channel 4’s upcoming Prince Andrew the Musical, written by Hodgson for the channel’s Truth and Dare: 40 Years of Pushing Boundaries season. Other programmes in the season have included shows on “challenging” topics such as Too Large for Love, a documentary about men living with extra-large penises, and another about an Afghan porn star. To do a musical about Prince Andrew was Channel 4’s idea, according to producer Adam Reeve. “We were very excited that they were willing to go there,” he tells me.

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