# Has anyone ever adapted "Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" as a Stage Show?

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**Created:** [February 12, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-adapted-kinks-are-the-village-green-preservation-society-as-a-stage-show/779603 "2017-02-12T00:23:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-adapted-kinks-are-the-village-green-preservation-society-as-a-stage-show/779603/1 "2017-02-12T00:23:32Z")

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Has there ever been a West End adaptation of any of Ray Davies’ concept albums like “Arthur” or “Village Green Preservation Society”?

They seem like naturals, but I’m unaware of any attempts to put those albums on stage.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-adapted-kinks-are-the-village-green-preservation-society-as-a-stage-show/779603/2 "2017-02-12T01:11:21Z")

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Well there is this: [http://sunnyafternoonthemusical.com/](http://sunnyafternoonthemusical.com/)

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-adapted-kinks-are-the-village-green-preservation-society-as-a-stage-show/779603/3 "2017-02-12T01:57:38Z")

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Right, but that looks like a standard jukebox musical, not a musical built around a concept album.

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**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-adapted-kinks-are-the-village-green-preservation-society-as-a-stage-show/779603/4 "2017-02-12T17:50:23Z")

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The Kinks themselves did – not with Arthur or Village Green, but Ray, with the band as his hostages to fortune, went through a stage-show phase in the early through to mid-70s, with stuff such as the _Preservation_ trilogy. (A character from Village Green shows up in _Preservation_).

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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-adapted-kinks-are-the-village-green-preservation-society-as-a-stage-show/779603/5 "2017-02-13T08:21:00Z")

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I came in to say that _Arthur_ had been produced for television… but I checked Wikipedia first and I see that it was _planned_ as a television production but the production was cancelled.