She has already been a star of the small screen and the pop charts.

And now Kylie Minogue has set her sights on the theatre - by penning her own musical.

The 41-year-old singer – who was born and raised in Australia but now lives in Britain – has told how she is working on the project with William Baker, her close friend and associate.

As well as being Miss Minogue’s stylist and creative director on a number of her tours, Mr Baker was the director of a West End revival of musical Rent in 2007.

He also produced and directed a TV documentary from 2007 about the star, called White Diamond.

The ‘Kylie’ musical is currently untitled and who will play Kylie has not been decided - but it will not be her.

However, according to Miss Minogue, it will not tell the story of the star’s own rise to fame, which saw her appear in Australian TV soap opera Neighbours before launching her pop career alongside then boyfriend Jason Donovan.

Miss Minogue said:’Yes, William Baker and I are working on getting the story written. I'm comfortable because it's not my life story; it's about the interpretation of my music.’

Her first release I Should Be So Lucky went to No1 in January 1988. She has notched 32 Top Ten hits in the UK in all including six more chart-toppers.

Miss Minogue - who battled breast cancer in 2005 - will release a new album, called Aphrodite, in July.

She is not the first pop star to to turn their career into a musical with Mamma Mia!, featuring Abba’s hits, being the most successful.

Like Miss Minogue’s planned musical, Mamma Mia! does not tell the biography of the Swedish band. Instead, it features their songs through a love story on a Greek island.

Mamma Mia! is estimated to have taken £1.5billion at the box office globally since it premiered in London in 1999.

The film, which was released in 2008, is also the second most popular movie at the British box offce, behind only Avatar.

And the film also holds the record for the highest first day DVD sales, shifting more than 1.6 million copies in its opening 24 hours on sale.

Judy Craymer, producer of both the theatre and film version of Mamma Mia!, has now begun work on a musical of the Spice Girls. That has a working title of Viva Forever.

The musical We Will Rock You, featuring the songs of rock band Queen, has been on the West End stage for almost eight years while The Buddy Holly Story brought the tragic rock ‘n’ roll star’s life to the theatre.

The Beatles music, meanwhile, is featured in Love, a Cirque Du Soleil production in Las Vegas that has been running for allmost four years. That, too, has been made into a film.

Tonight’s The Night, a musical of Rod Stewart’s work, was less successful however. That ran in London’s West End for little more than a year.

source::dailymail.co.uk

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