[NoHo Arts District, CA] – ELTON IN VICE-BOYS SCANDAL, written and performed by Henry Naylor, heads to Hollywood Fringe Festival 2025.
SHOCKING EXPOSÉ! This EXCLUSIVE World Premiere play NAILS the TRUE STORY of the lawsuit that changed a nation. It features Britain’s BIGGEST EVER libel case and the TITANIC struggle between the WORLD’S BIGGEST STAR and the WORLD’S MOST POPULAR Daily. IT’S ELTON JOHN VS THE SUN!!!
When a hedonistic rock legend is defamed by the most influential Daily, the fight for his reputation transforms him into an elder statesman fighting for The Truth.
In the ‘80s, The Sun was one of the most powerful institutions in Britain. Boasting 12 million daily readers, it chose prime ministers, destroyed celebrities, and dictated public opinion. It was untouchable. Until it took on Elton John.
When Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie, 40, prints a MALE PROSTITUTE’s account of BONKING Elton John in a COKE-fueled ORGY, he thinks he has the perfect front-page story. Until he receives 17 writs from the Rocketman’s lawyers. For the story is a LIE. And Elton, 39, can prove it.
But instead of acknowledging his mistake, homophobic BULLY-BOY Mackenzie tries to force the rocker into dropping the suits in one the most BLISTERING campaigns of MEDIA HARRASSMENT in HISTORY.
This play charts the shocking – almost criminal – lengths to which a paper will go, to cover up its lies.
The campaign costs Elton his marriage, his family, his football club . . . and, almost, his sanity.
But Elton doesn’t let The Sun go down on him. He remains still standing – winning the biggest payout in British legal history, and uniquely, a front-page apology.
HENRY NAYLOR (Writer-performer) Henry Naylor’s works have won 56 awards in the past decade, including multiple Fringe Firsts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Best Theatre Awards at the Adelaide Fringe, making him one of the most decorated playwrights in history on the International Fringe circuit. His debut Hollywood Fringe production, Echoes, won a Best of the Broadwater award and his most recent Hollywood Fringe production, Afghanistan is Not Funny, won the award for Best International Production.
Learn More at x.com/henrynayloruk
MICHAEL BLAHA (Producer, Fringe Management) has produced over 125 shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as partners with Nigel Miles-Thomas in Fringe Management. Mike has also produced over 25 shows at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, including Best International Production Award winners Richard Parker and Afghanistan is Not Funny. His other U.S. stage credits include Latina Christmas Special and Bard Overboard at the Soho Playhouse Off Broadway, and the US tour of runt (L.A., Chicago, Minneapolis, New York). Fringe Management’s production of Blood of the Lamb won the overall Critic’s Prize for Best Show at the Adelaide Fringe in 2024.
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