There are a number of set-patterns for a star's celebrity arc to evolve - confessional autobiography, a move into charity or politics, giving up on the industry altogether to retreat to a Patagonian wilderness and hand-raise lemurs. Scribbling down your own musical, however, has yet to become the done thing. So here's hoping that Kirsten Dunst doesn't spark off a trend.

Dunst has announced that she's going to take a short break from acting in order to finish writing her theatrical debut:

"I started to write a musical a few years ago and I'm going to get back into writing it. But I'm not going to say what it's about though."

There we go, then: Kirstie's show could literally be about anything. Although fingers crossed it's a autobiographical piece concerning the rise of a former child star, featuring such belting show-stoppers as 'Let's Just All Forget About Elizabethtown, Please', 'Look, I Thought Working With Sofia Coppola Would Be A Good Idea' and third act highpoint 'At Least My Cleavage Made Spiderman 3 Slightly Bearable, Didn't It? Well? Didn't It? Eh?'.

Should it be a success, though there's little doubt that other Hollywood-types will follow suit, with actors and producers scrabbling in the dirt to 'musicalise' whatever project they can. Hence the arrival of 'Mamma Mia: The Stage Show Of The Film Of The Stage Show' and 'High School Musical: The Musical', at which point the sheer post-modern madness of it all would make the head of every single audience member explode.

Which - given the kind of people who actually like musicals - would probably do wonders for the gene pool...
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