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'Copper Face Jacks The Musical': Play by Ross O'Carroll Kelly creator to premiere in July

Paul Howard hopes the play makes it onto the Leaving Cert curriculum some day.

THE POPULAR DUBLIN nightclub Coppers is set to be the focus of a new musical to debut in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre this July.

Copper Face Jacks: The Musical has been written by Ross O’Carroll Kelly creator Paul Howard, and will feature a love story set on the eve of a Dublin vs Kerry All-Ireland Final.

Tickets for the shows, opening in the Olympia from 5 July, go on sale this Friday 2 March.

It may be horrifically cold in Dublin right now, but the capital will be the setting for this  steamy love story featuring musical numbers about a Kerry girl who’s moved to the big smoke and falls for a true blue Dublin team member.

This will be the second in Howard’s trilogy of puppet-based musicals, after Angl0: The Musical.

The third, according to a statement sent through today, will be “Dermot Bannon: The Musical, due to open in a soon-to-be-built Bannon-designed glass box extension on the Abbey Theatre sometime in 2023″.

Howard said: “Once you hear the name Copper Face Jacks: The Musical it’s impossible not to want to make it happen. We’ve been talking about it for a few years now so it’s brilliant to think in just a few months it will be up and running.

I hope we can do this very special venue justice…whilst I also secretly dream of a day when this work is on the Leaving Certificate.

Read: ‘I spend my working life sitting behind a desk thinking in the voice of a south Dublin idiot’

Read: Paul Howard had to scrap a Ross O’Carroll Kelly book because of Donald Trump

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    Mute Michael cunnane
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    Feb 28th 2018, 4:35 PM

    Great memories of Coppers.In one week alone I was there on a Monday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday. Got the heeebeeejeeebees on Sunday

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    Feb 28th 2018, 4:41 PM

    @Michael cunnane:
    Never been, I must have lead a sheltered life…..

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    Feb 28th 2018, 5:56 PM

    @P.J. Nolan: was heebeejeebee any good in the sack…

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    Feb 28th 2018, 5:59 PM

    @GoodByeMaryLooHelloSue:
    I think you might be replying to the wrong person there.

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    Feb 28th 2018, 6:08 PM

    @P.J. Nolan: I blame the app

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    Feb 28th 2018, 4:48 PM

    To be realistic everyone in the audience would be wearing gaa jerseys and half of us wouldnt get in!

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    Feb 28th 2018, 9:39 PM

    @Jeremiah A Craic: rollin….rollin…rollin on a river times 10

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    Feb 28th 2018, 5:38 PM

    Can proudly say have never been to this place – who are these ‘Culchie’ counties that are obsessed with this place and Dublin in general? Have they no niteclubs in their home areas? Maybe they have dance halls controlled by a priest

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    Feb 28th 2018, 6:10 PM

    @Paul Walsh: Ye Jackings don’t know what it’s like, once ya pass Lucan it just like Jimmys Hall

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    Feb 28th 2018, 6:11 PM

    no idea what the fascination with that Shole is, all the knobheads seem to love it.

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    Feb 28th 2018, 9:48 PM

    @purple rain: Failed to get the ride?

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    Feb 28th 2018, 4:12 PM

    Why has Ireland such a pathetic theatre scene?

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    Feb 28th 2018, 7:30 PM

    @PearsantachtMór:
    Not enough people like it enough to pay for it.
    Or to put it another way not enough bums on seats.

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    Feb 28th 2018, 11:36 PM

    @P.J. Nolan: I think it’s more to do with content myself. Same actors, same directors, no risks. I love seeing the NT Live when I can, now that’s theatre.

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    Mar 1st 2018, 1:51 PM

    @PearsantachtMór: loads of great ideas and writers and actors out there – just not with the right kind of money

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    Feb 28th 2018, 4:12 PM

    First Porno musical

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    Mar 1st 2018, 4:52 AM

    Copper Face Jackeens the musical, who’d have thought.

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    Jun 27th 2018, 3:50 PM

    Stuff like this is why Dublin can’t have nice things

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