Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary worldwide by Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals, with the Spanish language premiere taking place in Mexico City in October 2015. In December 2013, "The Snow Gorilla" – featuring the voice of Brian Blessed – opened for a five-week run at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, for which they wrote music and lyrics. Their new stage musical adaptation of Sue Townsend's "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾" opened at Leicester's Curve Theatre in March 2015. Their original new musical "Prodigy", commissioned by National Youth Music Theatre, ran at the St James Theatre in August 2015. The original cast recording of "Prodigy"
The Diary of a Nobody more than 15 million copies in 40 countries. In the 1990s the satirical magazine "Private Eye" lampooned John Major, British prime minister 1990–97, in "The Secret Diary of John Major aged 47", a hybrid of the Adrian Mole diaries with "The Diary of a Nobody", which made much fun of Major's lower-middle class origins. The social historian James Hammerton defines "Pooterism" as "the dependent weakness and inflated social pretension of white-collar workers, constructed in the workplace but expressed just as powerfully at home". Jon Wilde of "The Guardian" observes this characteristic in a number of British TV comedy creations of