From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I get to say that for the second time in my life, I'm speaking to Eric Idol.

The last time he's here was for that terrific show you may have heard life, I'm speaking to Eric Idol. The last time you're

served for that terrific show you may have heard of, Spam a Lot, the show that, as you mentioned

in this new book, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, came through the very last second

to win the Big Tony Award. Yes, absolutely. The best musical of the year in 2005.

And we're now working on the movie. This is going to be a movie?

This is going to interest you more because I know you're much more interested in movies and books and

things like that. I read a book once. That was enough. Yes, we're doing the movie. Congratulations.

Oh my gosh. But who's going to direct the movie? Casey Nicolaugh, who was the choreographer originally and also directed a book of Mormon, Aladdin, mean girls.

You know, he's a Broadway brilliant genius. And he's going to do a wonderful job.

Since we're hearing for this terrific book, I guess one of the things I thought about in reading

the book is your upbringing is not that dissimilar to the John Borman movie, Hope and Glory,

was it? You only refer to things through movies, don't you? I don't think I can remember that.

No, no. I had, do you remember if? Yes, Lindsay Anderson's if very much. Yeah, it was like that.

It was very,

but I think a lot of

English boys have that

from my generation.

You know,

there were all these

boarding schools and

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