Podcast appearances and mentions of Alexander S Bermange

Julie Yammanee (I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical / Jerry's Girls) co-hosts The West End Frame Show! Andrew and Julie discuss And Juliet (Manchester Opera House, UK Tour) and the BYMT 20 Years on Stage Gala (The Other Palace) as well as the latest news about Six's new UK & International tour cast, the most streamed Broadway musicals, Equity taking legal action against Spotlight, Joe McElderry returning to Joseph, Alyssa Fox returning to Frozen and more. Julie is reprising her performance in I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical by Alexander S Bermange. The show is currently running in London at the King's Head Theatre before heading off on tour and returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Most recently, Julie starred in Jerry's Girls (Menier Chocolate Factory. Her theatre credits also include: Bonnie and Clyde (Garrick Theatre / Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Hope Mill), Carousel (Kilworth House), Gatsby (Southwark Playhouse), Spamilton (Menier Chocolate Factory), Lazarus (King's Cross), And The Winner Is (Vaults), Aladdin (Hackney Empire), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK & international tour), Here Lies Love (National Theatre) and Avenue Q (UK tour). On screen Julie has appeared in Matilda (Netflix / Working Title) and A Christmas Story Christmas (Legendary / Warner Brothers HBO MAX). I Wish My Life were Like A Musical runs at the King's Head Theatre until Sunday 21st July. It runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1st – 25th August and is touring to Cork, Newbury, Wolverhampton and Winchester. Visit www.likeamusical.com for info and tickets. Hosted by Andrew Tomlins. @AndrewTomlins32  Thanks for listening! Email: andrew@westendframe.co.uk Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts.   STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Alexander S. Bermange is a composer and lyricist whose musicals and theatre productions have enjoyed successful runs in the West End, across the UK and around the world, whose comic writing has acquired a formidable following amongst millions of radio listeners, and whose songs have been performed, recorded and released by international stars including Cynthia Erivo, Kerry Ellis, Miriam Margolyes, Ramin Karimloo and Christopher Biggins. Alexander's work has won widespread international critical acclaim, and has garnered numerous honours including two Frank Wildhorn Awards, a West End Wilma Award and two Broadway World Award nominations. Alexander has also topped the iTunes comedy album chart with Wit & Whimsy, an album celebrating his comedic work featuring 23 popular personalities and West End stars. https://bermange.co.uk/

Jennifer Caldwell (Anne Boleyn in Six / I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical) co-hosts The West End Frame Show!Andrew and Jennifer discuss The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium), Tina (Aldwych Theatre) and Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre) as well as the latest news about the Wicked movies, the Les Misérables world arena tour, Sinatra The Musical and lots more. Jennifer is currently in rehearsals for I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical by Alexander S. Bermange. The show is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer ahead of a London run at Wilton's in an expanded production which includes new songs.Jennifer's theatre credits include: American Idiot (UK & Ireland tour), Knights of the Rose (Arts Theatre), Million Dollar Quartet (UK & Ireland and Indian tours), understudy Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical (UK & Ireland Tour) and understudy Sophie in Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales / Novello Theatre). In 2019 Jennifer joined Six The Musical as the alternate Boleyn and Howard on tour across the UK and Ireland. She hit swingo – playing all Six Queens – and transferred to the West End production as an emergency cover for a limited run. In 2021 Jennifer took over as Anne Boleyn full-time on tour in Six and also took the show to South Korea.I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical runs at The Gilded Baloon at the Museum at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival 3rd – 27th August. The show then runs in London at Wilton's 29th August – 9th September.Hosted by Andrew Tomlins. @AndrewTomlins32  Thanks for listening! Email: andrew@westendframe.co.uk Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts.   

Harry Winchester (I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical) co-hosts The West End Frame Show! Andrew and Harry discuss A Doll's House Part 2 (Donmar Warehouse), Billy Elliot (Leicester Curve), Moulin Rouge starring Zoe Birkett & Adam Gillian (Piccadilly Theatre) and Sister Act (Eventim Apollo) as well as the latest news about @sohoplace, Mrs Doubtfire, Elf The Musical and lots more.  Harry is about to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut in I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical by Alexander S. Bermange. The musical - which reveals everything you could want to know about being a musical theatre performer - is returning to Edinburgh following a sell-out run in 2019.  Having trained at Arts Ed, just a few of Harry's theatre credits include Peter Pan (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), The Pirate Queen (London Coliseum) and Big Bad Wolf in Stiles and Drewe's The Three Little Pigs (Turbine / Underbelly London).  He's done panto in Cheltenham, Shrewsbury and Poole and earlier this year appeared in the opera Lohengrin at the Royal Opera House. Harry has just finished a run at the Waterloo East Theatre in the UK premiere of A Letter To Harvey Milk. I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical is at the Edinburgh Fringe from 3rd August through to 28th August at the Gilded Balloon Patter House. Visit www.tickets.edfringe.com for info and tickets. Hosted by Andrew Tomlins. @AndrewTomlins32  Thanks for listening! Email: andrew@westendframe.co.uk Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts.  

We speak with Alexander S. Bermange (composer/lyricist), Chris Whittaker (director/choreographer ), Luke Bayer (Leading Man) of the musical 'I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical'. An award-winning comedic musical revue revealing the secrets of musical theatre; productions in London, Edinburgh, and Seoul. https://bermange.co.uk/iwmlwlam

Performer Charlotte Anne Steen (Bat Out Of Hell / 42nd Street) co-hosts The West End Frame Show! Andrew & Charlotte discuss In Pieces, as well as the latest news about In The Heights, Rent, Waitress, Dreamgirls and more. They also continue the discussion about the UK tour of Pricilla Queen Of The Desert after a cis man was cast as Bernadette, a trans character. Charlotte's theatre credits include: Liebeswooosh in Bat Out Of Hell (Dominion), 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Kiss Me Kate (Théâtre du Châtelet), Legally Blonde (Kilworth House), 1st cover Sherrie / Regina in Rock Of Ages (UK Tour) and We Will Rock You (International Arena Tour). Charlotte can currently be seen in the digital production of I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical by Alexander S Bermange. Charlotte is reprising her performance in the production, having starred in the show's sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019. I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical  is streaming as part of the King's Head Theatre's online season. Visit www.kingsheadtheatre.com for info and tickets. You can follow Charlotte on Instagram @charlotte.a.steen  & Twitter @charlotteAsteenHosted by Andrew Tomlins @Andrew_Tomlins Thanks for listening! Visit www.westendframe.co.uk to stay up-to-date with our podcasting adventures. 

Welcome to this bumper edition of MusicalTalk crammed with great songs and fine chat as Thos brings us a brand new interview with talented writer, Alexander S. Bermange, creator of I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical, a wonderful show shortly be made available in a specially recorded version for online viewing via the Kings Head Theatre website.  In this lively and information conversation, you can hear how you deal with success at the Fringe, how the coronavirus has changed how theatre is made and how you tailor a theatrical success for online streaming.

I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical is a sparkling musical revue lifts the lid on the highs and lows of life as a musical theatre performer. From voice-straining high notes to limb-spraining high kicks, via on-stage smooches and off-stage feuds, this laugh-out-loud caper takes in the journey from wide-eyed drama school graduate to difficult diva (or past-it chorus member). We had the opportunity to chat with comedy album chart-topper Alexander S. Bermange, and West End regulars Lucas Rush and Charlotte Anne Steen who star in this brilliant musical. We're also fortunate to give our listeners at sneak peek at two songs from the show! Booking a ticket will allow you to stream the show on demand from 22 April - 12 May through King's Head Theatre!

With the five star revue, I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical – a must see for all fans of musical theatre – being made available for streaming, join Thos for the first of two interviews with Alexander S. Bermange, the talented writer and creator of the show.  In this week’s episode, we hear about the show when it was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 and how it came to be in the first place, prior to next week when we discuss how you transfer a show to a virtual streaming situation.

Charlotte Anne Steen. SingEasy. Charlotte O’Rourke. Jodie Steele. Joseph Peacock. Ashley Harvey. Connor Baxter. Alexander S. Bermange ‬ The Border. Theatre Peckham. ‪Liv Warden‬ QX Cabaret Awards Jonny Labey’s Un-Boxed ReView. SingEasy. NinebyFive Productions. Hussain Manawer, Gaia Aikman, Darren Day, Adam Garcia, Lois Morgan Gay. Abi Carter-Simpson. Patsy May. Max Kenny Herbert. We Anchor in Hope. The Bunker Theatre. The Wild Flesh. The Bread and Roses Theatre. Half Life. Tangled Feet. The Albany.

Thos sits down with the talented and generous songwriter, Alexander S. Bermange, to discuss his stunning and brilliant show, I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical – a sharply observed and hilarious revue of songs about the glamour (and lack of it) in the lives of those in musical theatre. It’s a show that almost feels written specifically for fans of MusicalTalk!  Hear songs from the show and some of the true stories behind their writing in his insightful conversation with one of Britain’s wittiest composers.

Singer Morgan Crowley and pianist and composer Alexander Bermange performed at this special concert entitled "Christmas on Broadway."Morgan Crowley comes from an Irish-American family of artists. A graduate of the Dublin College of Music, he's at home both on the opera stage and in musicals. In December 2009 he was a welcome guest of Deutsche Welle in its concert series in Bonn for the second time, appearing again with Alexander Bermange, his friend and collaborator. Bermange is a promising young musical composer, and in combination with Crowley, more than just a piano accompanist. PROGRAM John Jacob Niles (1892-1980) Lullay, thou tiny little child anon. Greensleeves Kurt Weill (1900-1950) This is New Jerome Kern (1885-1945) The Way You Look Tonight Frank Loesser (1910-1969) Luck Be A Lady Tonight Alexander S. Bermange (1976-) Easy as A.P.C. Alexander S. Bermange (1976-) Praying for You Marvin Hamlisch (1944-) Let There be Time Benny Andersson (1946-) / Björn Ulvaeus (1945-) Our Last Summer Joseph Kosma (1905-1969) Les feuilles mortes Irving Berlin (1888-1989) White Christmas Morgan Crowley The Wonder of Christmas Chopin/O'kun/Crowley Minute Waltz George Gershwin (1898-1937) By Strauss Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) My Funny Valentine Marguerite Monnot (1903-1961) If You Love Me, Really Love Me Mel Torme (1925-1999) The Christmas Song Stephen Sondheim (1930-) Losing My Mind Henry Mancini (1924-1994) Moon River Hugh Martin (1914-) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Somewhere, from West Side Story Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) Silent Night, Holy Night Performed by Morgan Crowley (tenor) and Alexander Bermange (piano) on December 14, 2009, as part of the Concerto Discreto series, sponsored and recorded by Deutsche Welle.