Sunday Show Tunes

On Sunday, we headed to the Prince of Wales Theatre in London's West End for this year's WhatsOnStage Awards. We chatted with the red carpet arrivals and also some of the winners afterwards. Interviews include: & Juliet; Come From Away; Liam Tamne from Prince of Egypt; UK Drag Race star, Vinegar Strokes; Danny Mac and Aimee Atkinson from Pretty Woman; composer George Styles; Marisha Wallace from Waitress; Fay Tozer from Steps, T'Shan Williams and Miriam-Teak Lee. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode we chat to Oliver Tompsett who is currently playing William Shakespeare in & Juliet at London's Shafstbury Theatre. We also chat about Come From Away's first Birthday in the West End and their cast change, the London revival of The Last Five Years playing at the Southwark Playhouse and City of Angels that's currently in previews at the Garrick Theatre in the West End. We finish up by chatting about this year's Olivier Award Nomination and our (very rough) predictions as to who might be taking home an award. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this weeks show we chat with Lucie Jones who has appeared on the X-Factor and represented the UK in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. In the West End she's starred in Les Miserables and, most recently, as Jenna in Waitress. She has just released her debut album, Lucie Jones: Live at the Adelphi (which we also share a track from). We also chat with Karen Mason who has starred on Broadway in Sunset Boulevard, Mamma Mia and Wonderland. Most recently she's been touring the USA playing Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. Finally, publicist Lisa Goldberg tells us about how she got started in the business and the impact that COVID is having on Broadway. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this week's episode we chat with Kerry Ellis has starred in the West End and on Broadway and achieved chart-topping success as a recording artist. Kerry originated the role of Meat in London in We Will Rock You, and was the first British Elphaba in Wicked before transferring to Broadway. Kerry talks to us about what she's been up during Lockdown, her West End debut, being the first British Elphaba and the Proud Cabaret on the Southbank. We also chat with multi Olivier Award nominee Sophie-Louise Dann's extensive career has encompassed the worlds of musical theatre, opera, TV and film. In the West End Sophie’s starred in Spamilton, The Girls, Bend It Like Beckham, Lend Me a Tenor and Made In Dagenham. We chat to Sophie-Louise about what's she's been up to to celebrate her Birthday, Zooming with the W.I. and her brand new cabaret, May I Have A Moment? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode we chat with stars of stage and screen Peter Polycarpou and Sally Ann Triplett who will unite in the new musical, Falling Stars. A song cycle that's an homage to the composers, collaborators, and publishers of the 1920s, who created some of the greatest music of all time. Peter and Sally Ann tell about how they've been coping of the past few months, where the idea of Falling Stars came from and how they've been working on the show together. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this week's show we chat with David Bedella, three time Olivier Award winning actor who is currently appearing in the hit musical & Juliet at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. We also catch up with Maury Yeston to talk about Maury Sings Yeston: The Demos which has been released to commemorate his 75th Birthday. The 40 tracks of Maury singing and playing his compositions draw from a wide range of sources - his Tony Award–winning scores, un-produced works, a concept album, a smattering of pop tunes, and some theatrical works still in progress. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we chat with award winning choreographer, Philip Joel, who (in our opinion) has been the funniest thing on social media during the Pandemic. His hilarious lockdown characters and sketches have inspired a brand new sitcom, The Fosse Forest Ballet. We also catch up with Mazz Murray. Mazz played Killer Queen in We Will Rock You for almost nine years and most recently has been playing Donna in the West End production of Mamma Mia. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we chat with record producer, John Yap, about the forthcoming release of Anyone Can Whistle. He tells us why it took 23 years to get released and what goes into producing a new release. We also chat with Love Island Star, Amy Hart. She talks about celebrity, and her musical theatre obsession and tells us which musical she'd go back in time to see if she could. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this week's show we chat with Ute Lemper. Her career has taken her around the world as an actor, concert, cabaret and recording artist. Her new show, Ute Lemper: Rendevous with Marlene is being streamed internationally and Ute is here to tell us all about it. We also catch up with Hiba Elchike who has just made her West End debut in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre. Not content with that, she’s just become a producer of her very own online series, Out of the Darkness, Into the Spotlight. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this week's episode we chat with Danny Kaan and Sophie Ross from The Digi Creative about their brand new coffee table photo book of the West End. We also catch up with West End star, Joel Harper-Jackson about his brand new solo album, So What Happens Now? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this week's episode, we chat with Aimie Atkinson, an original star of Six and who most recently has been playing Vivian Ward in the hit West End production of Pretty Woman. We also chat with Frank DiLella, the Emmy Award winning host of the weekly half-hour theatre news programme “On Stage” on Spectrum News NY1. His celebrity interviews, along with his in-depth reporting of the theatre scene, have helped make him a trusted friend and confidant within the theatre and entertainment communities in New York City and around the globe. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this week's show, we chat with multi award winning Jim Caruso, who made his Broadway debut alongside Liza Minnelli in the Tony Award-winning Liza's At The Palace and the host of the weekly NYC showbiz bash "Jim Caruso's Cast Party"; multi award winner Billy Stritch, one of the premier singer-pianists on the New York and national jazz and cabaret scene and actress, singer and comedienne, Klea Blackhurst, known for her award-winning tribute to Ethel Merman, Everything The Traffic Will Allow. They talk to us about the 11th Year of NYC seasonal favourite, Christmas at Birdland. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's the end of our third season. On this week's episode we chat with composer, lyricist, conduction, orchestrator, director and performer, Jason Robert Brown. Best known for his scores to some of the most renowned musicals of our time, including the generation defining, The Last Five Years and Parade, which won him his first or two Tony Awards. Jason tells us about what his first influences were, why he loves writing musicals and what he's been doing during lockdown. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this week's episode we chat with producer Danielle Tarrento about the charity single, 'Make Them Hear You', remembering George Floyd and also the winners of The Song for Our Time competition. We then catch up with an original Queen from the musical, Six, Christina Modestou and finally we chat with West End leading lady, Alice Fearn who has just finished playing Elphaba in Wicked. She tells us about the London production of Come From Away and her online concerts from her back garden, Intermissions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this weeks show we have your favourites from the stage and silver screen. We chat with producer, Simon Grieff about the brand new series of One Night Only concerts. We also catch up with West End leading lady, Cassidy Janson, to talk about her career and & Juliet, currently playing in London. All that and lots of theatre news, chat and our regular feature, I Know Him So Well. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we chat with writer/composer, Elliot Clay about his brand new song cycle, Millennials. He tells us what attracts him to song cycles, why he thinks Millennials are getting a bad rep, writing and recording songs in lock down. We also chat with West End stars and husband and wife, Caroline Sheen and Michael Jibson about playing King Arthur and Queen Guinevere in Camelot at the Watermill Theatre in Newberry. They tell us about working together, performing in the rain and their most recent West End roles. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we chat with Paul Taylor Mills about this year’s MTFestUK which will take place online following the new National Lockdown. The festival, which celebrates new musicals, runs from 1 to 13 February 2021 at London’s Turbine Theatre. We chat with Andrew Lippa about The Man In The Ceiling; Caroline Kay about Daisy and Scott Frankel about Far From Heaven. All three musicals can be seen as part of MTFestUK. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we chat with Sally Wilfert about All The Girls. Adapted from the show of the same name, All the Girls comes from a deep friendship forged on and off the stage between Broadway’s Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert. We also chat with Sunset Boulevard's original Norma Desmond, Ria Jones. Ria has starred in Evita, Chess, Cats and Les Miserables. She created the role of Norma Desmond over 30 years ago at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sydmonton Festival, went on for Glen Close in the role at London’s Coliseum and has recently toured the UK playing Norma as well.

This week we chat with Kyle Taylor Parker who has starred on Broadway in Kinky Boots and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and is about to release his Broadway Soul, Vol. 2, a concept album arranged and produced through remote collaboration featuring 12 show tunes filtered through the prism of R&B and soul. We also chat with West End legend Linzi Hateley, who made her professional stage debut when she was was 17 years old, playing the title role in the cult classic, Carrie. She’s since gone on to star in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as The Narrator, Oliver! as Nancy, Éponine and Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables and Roxie Hart in Chicago.

This week we chat with comedienne and composer, Vikki Stone, about her brand new musical #ZoologicalSociety and catch up with West End star, Matt Croke fresh from Disney's Aladdin about appearing on The Voice UK.

This week we chat with West End star Danielle Steers who has starred in the West End production of Six and Bat out of Hell has just released her first solo album,“The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be, an intimate album of nine Steinman songs. The current season of The Voice UK has already featured West End performers Matt Croke (who played the title role in Aladdin) and Lauren Drew (best known for Six) and now Andrew Bateup, a performer who trained at the Royal Academy of Music and toured the UK in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He tells us all about it.

This week we're chatting to with the star of Six, Heathers, Ghost, Sweet Charity, Evita and Kinky Boots, Lauren Drew who turned all four judges chairs and the was first to join Anne-Maries’ first team member. We also catch up with Tony Award Nominee and Broadway Legend, Norm Lewis. Norm's West End and Broadway credits include Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, The Little Mermaid, Chicago, Sondheim on Sondheim and Porgy and Bess (earning him that Tony Award nomination). Norm was also the first African American to play the role of the Phantom on Broadway in The Phantom of the Opera.

This week we chat with West End legend and National Treasure, Bonnie Langford. Bonnie made her West End debut aged just 7 years old and hasn’t looked back since. She’s starred on stage, television, film and radio in both the UK and USA. We also catch up with Howard Goodall. With a career spanning over 30 years, Howard is without doubt one of the UK’s most distinguished and versatile composers. Howard has won Ivor Novello, Brit, Emmy and BAFTA awards and he’s with us now.

This week we chat to musical theatre legend, Frances Ruffelle, who created the role of Eponine in the original London production of Les Miserables. She went on to play the same role in the original Broadway production and winning herself a Tony Award in the process. We also chat to Waylon Jacobs (Hamilton) about the brand new studio cast recording of Cases.

Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty are considered the foremost theatrical writing team of their generation. They’ve won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle and have been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes and four Grammy Awards. Their shows include: Once on This Island, Ragtime, Seussical, Rocky the Musical and Anastasia.

This week we chat with Joanna Gleason. Joanna has had a glittering career on stage and screen. She won a Tony award for creating the iconic role of the Baker’s Wife in the original Broadway Production of Into The Woods. We also catch up with Scott Alan to talk about his song cycle. The Distance You Have Come follows the lives of six individuals who juggle the constant challenges of life, depression, heartache and love. Having had a successful run in October 2018, the show is making its West End debut.

Fiver, by Alex James Ellison and Tom Lees, follows the story of a humble five pound note as it passes through the hands and pockets of people in London. We chat with the whole cast, Luke Bayer, Dan Buckley, Aoife Clesham, Hiba Elchikhe and Alex James Ellison. We also chat with Jennifer Ashley Tepper about The Untold Stories of Broadway that tells the stories about the most important stages in the world, seen through the eyes of the people who bring The Great White Way to life each night.

We chat with Chip Zien who is best known for creating the iconic role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. He has appeared in all of the "Marvin Stories" musicals by William Finn: playing Marvin in In Trousers, and Mendel in March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland and Falsettos.

This week, we chat with West End and TV star Wendi Peters about You Are Here, a brand new musical opening at the Southwark Playhouse. We also get to share an exclusive track from the show.

Tony Award nominated actors, Orfeh and Andy Karl met when they were both in the Broadway production of Saturday Night Fever. They’ve subsequently starred in the original Broadway productions of Legally Blonde and Pretty Woman as well as having their own glittering Broadway careers.

This week we chat with the writers of the new stage adaptation of Disney's iconic movie, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Neil Bartram and Brian Hill. We also chat with Drew Gasparini about I Could Use A Drink, Nadim Naaman about Rumi: A Musical.

This week we chat with Broadway legend, Tony Award-winning. She created the iconic roles of Beatrice Stockwell in The Drowsy Chaperone and Dee Dee Allen in The Prom. We also chat with Jane Monheit. With a career spanning over 20 years, Jane is considered one of the finest jazz singers in the world. Her latest album, Come What May is a stunning mix of musical theatre and the great America Songbook.

On today's show, we chat about Public Domain, a dark, funny, verbatim musical about the internet with creators and stars, Francesca Forristal and Jordan Paul Clarke are with us now. We also chat with Rachel Tucker, Lewis Cornay and Guy Retallack and 
John and Jen, an emotional rollercoaster that explores the dynamics of family relationships. This production at London’s Southwark Playhouse is the world premiere of a brand new updated version of the show by writers Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald.

In this weeks episode we chat with jazz legend, Ann Hampton Callaway about her highly anticipated live steam concert with her sister, Liz Callaway, Side By Side. We also chat with showbiz legend Arlene Phillips who is being unleashed in the West End, lifting the lid on her amazing career working with the biggest A-list stars including Elton John, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Huston, Tom Cruise, Robbie Williams... and her scandalous dance group Hot Gossip who shocked British TV viewers!

This week we chat with internet sensations, Oscar Conlon-Morrey and Rob Madge. Oscar Conlon-Morrey is an award-winning actor. During lockdown, he entertained the nation with a series of hilarious theatre-themed viral videos. Rob Madge shared hilarious home videos of childhood living room performances and holidays to Disney via their Twitter and TikTok accounts. We also chat with award-winning actor and solo artist Lucie Jones first came to prominence when she reached the finals of ITV’s The X Factor in 2009. Lucie has starred as Jenna in the London production of Waitress at the Adelphi Theatre, London (a role she’s going in recreate in the Number One UK Tour later this year).

This week we chat with West End star Aimie Atkinson. Aimie created the role of Katherine Howard in the original cast of the phenomenon, Six, the musical and will soon be heading back to the West End to play Vivian Ward in the hit musical, Pretty Woman. We also play her brand new single.

This week we chat with West End star and Olivier Award nominee, Rosemary Ashe. Rosie has created iconic roles including Carlotta in the original production of The Phantom of the Opera and Felicia Gabriel in The Witches of Eastwick. Her new show, Adorable Dora, pays tribute to national treasure Dora Bryan, whose showbiz career spanned eight decades! From pantomime to Shakespeare, Carry On films to a BAFTA-winning role in A Taste of Honey, she did it all.

This week we chat with Natalie McQueen who has appeared in the West End in Kinky Boots, Wicked, Les Misérables, and Murder Ballad. Most recently she was seen starring as Doralee in the hit London production of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 the Musical. She's soon to be taking on the role of Catherine in a brand new production of Stephen Schwartz's Pippin at London's Charing Cross Theatre.

Ann Harada created the role of Christmas Eve in the original production of Avenue Q (a role she recreated in the West End). She's appeared both on Broadway in shows including 9 to 5 and Cinderella and on TV in the hit series, Smash. Ann has just wrapped filming on the new Apple TV series, Schmigadoon and is currently filming Disenchanted, the sequel to the hit Disney move Enchanted. Rob Houchen has starred in the West End productions of Eugenius, Les Miserables, The Light In The Piazza. He's just about to star as Lt. Joseph Cable in the Chichester Festival Theatre revival of South Pacific.

This week we chat with multi-Olivier Award winning actor, Joanna Riding. She has starred in the West End in Billy Elliot, The Witches of Eastwick, My Fair Lady, The Girls to name just a few. Most recently she played Sally in the acclaimed NT revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. She's just about to play Nettie Fowler in the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production of Carousel, in London. We also chat with JoAnn M Hunter who has 20 Broadway shows to her credit as a choreographer, associate choreographer and performer. She has just been working on two Andrew Lloyd Webber shows in London, simultaneously, the brand new Cinderella and the revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

We're back from our summer break! On this week's episode we're chatting with Cinco Paul the co-creator, composer and lyricist of the hit TV series, Schmigadoon!, as well as Rob Rokicki and Tim Gilvin about their new musicals.

On this week's episode, Robbie Rozelle sits in for Maureen and we chat with the writers of the musical Come From Away, Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Eleri Ward about her new album A Perfect Little Death, and West End star, Rosemary Ashe talking about the London revival of Call Me Madam.

On this episode we chat with the writer of the hit musical, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Tom MacRae.

On this week's show, we chat with the writer of The Addams Family musical, Andrew Lippa, as well as Joanne Clifton who's starring as Morticia in the UK Tour. We also catch up with Emma Salvo to chat about the UK version of A Killer Party.

This week we chat with West End star, Alex Young, about the brand new, made for radio musical, Bluff and share an exclusive track.

On this week's show, we chat with Craig Gallivan about playing everyone's favourite snowman, Olaf, in Frozen. And we catch up with a friend of the show and Broadway star, Karen Mason, who'll be telling us about her new album.

This week we chat with award-winning West End star, David Bedella about the London production of &Juliet. We also catch up with West End and Broadway leading man, Michael Xavier to talk about the anniversary concert of Howard Goodall's Love Story.

This week we chat with journalist and author, Barry Singer, about his new book; Savannah Stevenson, who is currently playing Marmee in the London Premiere of Little Women, and Summer Strallen who is currently starring in The Magician's Elephant at the RSC.

This week we remember the unparalleled genius of Stephen Sondheim and chat with Joanna Gleason and Andrew Lippa about their memories of him. In our second hour, we go full out Christmas and catch up with Lucie Jones to find out more about her concerts in London and Cardiff.

This week it's our bumper Christmas special filled with festive cheer. West End star, Kerry Ellis drops in to tell us about her new book, award-winning composer Andrew Lippa drops by to tell us about writing a Christmas song for Kristin Chenoweth and Broadway legend, Stephanie J. Block comes over to tell us about her new Christmas single.

This week we chat with Liam Tamne who has starred in the London productions of Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, and Wicked. He's just returned to the stage of London's Dominion Theatre to play Rameses in the hit production of Stephen Schwartz's The Prince of Egypt.

We're back! This week we chat with Broadway star, Julia Murney about her concerts at Feinstein's/54 Below, friend of the show and cabaret sensation, Robbie Rozelle about coming to the UK and playing at the Crazy Coqs and West End performer, Tom Solomon about his brand new album, Misucals, Vol 1.

This week we chat with West End musical theatre royalty, Maria Friedman.

On this week's show we chat with Tony-nominated Broadway actor about the brand new musical, Mrs. Doubtfire and YouTube sensation, Christina Bianco about her Crazy Coqs gig and the UK Tour of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

This week we chat with two West End leading men, Simon Bailey talks about Moulin Rouge and Nadim Naaman talks about his new musical, Broken Wings.

This week we catch up with American composer, arranger, vocalist, and jazz pianist Billy Stritch who has joined forces with long time friend singer, presenter extroidinare of Cast Party at Birdland Jim Caruso to cut their latest album out of Club 44 Records, “The Sunday Set”.

This week we chat with award-winning Broadway choreographer, Warren Carlyle and Jordan Shaw, who is currently playing Enjolras in the West End production of Les Miserables.

This week we chat with Joe Iconis about his brand new musical, Love In Hate Nation.

This week is a WhatsOnStage Awards special. We bring you the interviews and gossip from the awards including, Rob Ashford, Come From Away, Samantha Barks, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Victoria Hamilton Barrit, Christopher Howell, Michael Grandage, Amy Hart, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Rob Madge, Cedric Neale, Kitty Scott Claws, Six, Sally Ann Triplet and Ella Va Day.

This week we chat with Leon Craig about playing Sandra Bollock in the LA production of Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Spencer Day about his brand new album, Broadway by Day.

This week we chat with Alex Young about the London revival of Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle.

This week we chat with Marc Pickering about the West End revival of the Gypsy Kings musical, Zorro and four-time Tony Award nominee, Judy Kuhn, talks about the brand new cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.

This weekwe'll be chatting with Tony award-winning Lillias White about her career and American and West End cabaret star, Lorna Dallas.

This week we chat with West End star, Rachel John, about her brand new album, and we catch up with cabaret sensation, Miss Hope Springs, and her creator, Ty Jefferies to tell us about returning to London's Crazy Coqs.

This week we chat with two of Broadway's leading men, A J Shively who's currently playing in Owen Duigan in Paradise Square and Ramin Karimloo who's starring as Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl.

This week we're chatting about Sondheim with cabaret sensation, Natalie Douglas, and also catching up with Bob Harms, who's currently appearing in the London production of Pretty Woman.