If you love theatre, you’ll know that just about everyone is talking about Oliver! the musical at the moment. And why not? It opens in just over two weeks and is almost completely sold out until mid-2009.

If you are a German, you will also be talking about Oliver!. Jamie Oliver.

“Why?” I hear the Brits among you cry.

Well, the naked chef, face of Sainsbury’s, saviour of school dinners and all round general geezer is almost as big in Deutschland as Mitch Buchannan, AKA David Hasselhoff.

The Germans love him so much that that they have not only bought two million Jamie Oliver cook books, but they have created a whole new musical about the chef.

Das Jamie Oliver Dinner (that’s The Jamie Oliver Dinner to those who can’t read German) is a three and a half hour production starring nine actors, seven acrobats, a band, over 15 waiters and a kitchen full of chefs.

What the show is about, I’m not entirely sure. I can’t work out if it’s a show where people sing while they cook, or if it’s a musical about cookery, or if it’s a stage show about Jamie Oliver in all his nakedness. If you know anything about it, please let me know. It’s either that, or I’m off to a tent in Frankfurt’s exhibition centre this weekend to find out for myself.

One last tit bit for you. It’s a vid of Jamie Oliver cooking. And singing about cooking. Genius.