Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical Bend It Like Beckham the Musical is a musical with music by Howard Goodall, lyrics by Charles Hart, and a book by Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges. Based on the 2002 film of the same name, the musical made its West End and world premiere at the Phoenix Theatre in May 2015. The musical is based on the 2002 film "Bend It Like Beckham". In late 2003, it was first revealed that the film's writer and director Gurinder Chadha planned to turn the film into a stage musical with the hope that it
Great Bend, Kansas Municipal Airport. In November 1959, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock stopped for dinner in Great Bend on their 400-mile journey to Holcomb, Kansas, where they murdered the Clutter family. Author Truman Capote wrote "In Cold Blood" about the murder. In the 1993 novel, "The Death and Life of Superman" by Roger Stern, Jonathan and Martha Kent fly from the Metropolis airport to the Great Bend airport and proceed to drive to Smallville, which would put Smallville somewhere in central Kansas. Great Bend was mentioned briefly in the 2006 CBS Drama "Jericho". Great Bend is the setting for the Hulu original