Meera Syal has revealed she would like to star in a musical.

The Goodness Gracious Me star, who wrote AR Rahman and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Bombay Dreams and appeared on a Comic Relief single alongside Gareth Gates, said she would like the opportunity to show off her singing skills.

“I’d love to do a musical. I’m going to go and see Assassins next week at the Donmar [Warehouse], and I would love to do something like that, a [Stephen] Sondheim,” she said.

“I haven’t got one of those under my belt yet. Love Sondheim, but also something like Guys And Dolls. Just something classic and wonderful.”

Meera Syal played Judge Sonia Sharma on Broadchurch (ITV)
Meera Syal played Judge Sonia Sharma on Broadchurch (ITV)

Meera, who recently played a judge on ITV drama Broadchurch and will reunite with her Goodness Gracious Me co-stars for a TV special, has been enjoying a taste of work in the US, on new HBO show The Brink with Jack Black and Tim Robbins.

Jack Black
Jack Black stars with Meera in The Brink (Victoria Will/Invision)

“It was a fantastic first experience of me working in America. I’ve worked in New York but I hadn’t worked in Los Angeles; I hadn’t worked on film in America before,” she said.

“It’s about really c**p CIA agents. All my scenes were with him [Jack]. He was just amazing to work with; extremely generous, really up for improvising, and very warm; had no entourage with him. Just a very regular, down-to-earth, lovely guy. I was very lucky there.”

Broadchurch Series Two is out now on DVD and Blu-ray.