Get your jazz hands in motion as Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes and John Taylor are following in the footsteps of music royalty (aka Queen and Abba) by writing their very own musical.

Nick, 53, told The Mirror: “John and I have written a theatre piece, it’s a musical. It’s not finished yet, but we’ve been working on it for about five years now. When we finish the tour we’ll get it done.”

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You might be thinking that you can give your vocal chords a workout by singing along to their greatest hits such as Rio, Girls on Film and Ordinary World but, as it turns out, the musical will feature all-new, previously unheard, showstoppers.

“It’s a completely new piece of music, set in the art world,” added Nick. Can we pre-book our tickets now please?!

The British band have just won the first ever MTV Video Visionary Award at the EMA’s, so we cannot even begin to imagine what they could create on a theatre stage - but we’re excited to find out!

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Speaking before the ceremony, which was held in Milan, the quartet said: “It is no coincidence that our rise was paralleled by the growth and ultimate world domination of MTV.”

“The birth of music videos as a way to simultaneously bring our music to a global audience revolutionised the business.”

Will the 1980’s new wave/synthpop band take the world by storm once more with their musical?

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Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’ musical hit the stage in 2002 and experienced a tremendous amount of success across five of the world’s continents, with many of the productions still active globally.

Abba’s ‘Mamma Mia!’ musical, which included all of the groups hit songs, was equally popular with audiences and had a 14-year run on Broadway.

We can’t help but think that Duran Duran’s musical will be the next big thing in the world of theatre…