Edward Seckerson Meets... Jack Godfrey
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Jack Godfrey, one of the brightest and most engaging talents in the exciting renaissance of new writing, enlivening the West End and beyond. With 42 Balloons – for which he wrote book, music and lyrics – fresh from its inaugural production at the Lowry Manchester and Babies opening at The Other Palace, Godfrey’s insidiously memorable hooks are ear-worming their way into all Musical Theatre enthusiasts’ consciousness. Godfrey writes pop songs with heart, soul, and zing. Can anyone wait for what comes next?
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Edward Seckerson Meets... Samantha Barks
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Samantha Barks, who has travelled far since she and Rachel Tucker went head-to-head in a bid to win the role of Nancy in the reality TV show I’d Do Anything. Unforgettably, there was Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years where she and Jonathan Bailey lit up the then St James Theatre with their conspicuous talent. Then came Éponine in Les Misérables both onstage and onscreen, and a Broadway debut as the feisty Vivian in Pretty Woman. Edward Seckerson meets her in her dressing room at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where Queens...
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Musicals Meets... Rebekah Hinds and Bronté Barbé
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For this Musicals Meets Podcast, Sarah Kirkup meets Bronté Barbé and Rebekah Hinds. The pair are playing the title roles in Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!, an award-winning musical comedy by Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones, which opens in the West End at the end of May. They have been involved with the show since its initial workshop back in 2022, taking it to the Edinburgh Fringe later that year and then again in 2023, before touring it to Bristol and Manchester. They come to Musicals magazine’s headquarters to chat about the show’s upcoming West End debut, and why 2024 is...
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Edward Seckerson Meets... Sam Tutty
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Sam Tutty, one of the youngest ever Olivier Award winners for his deeply affecting performance in the London premiere of Pasek and Paul’s Dear Evan Hansen. He journeyed with Evan across the great divide of the Covid pandemic, gathering a huge fan base as he did so. As he opens in the West End as the likeable and hyperactive Dougal in Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), he relives his journey so far – backstage at London’s Criterion Theatre.
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Musicals Meets… Timmika Ramsay
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Sarah Kirkup meets Timmika Ramsay, who’s currently starring as Miss Adelaide in Nicholas Hytner’s immersive production of Guys & Dolls at the Bridge Theatre. Ramsay, who previously starred as La Chocolat in Moulin Rouge in the West End, talks about the challenges of following in the footsteps of Marisha Wallace, how she juggles eight shows a week with a small baby, and her determination to make the role her own. The musical excerpts of Guys and Dolls are taken from the 2023 London Cast Recording on Broadway Records, starring Marisha...
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Edward Seckerson Meets... Zachary James
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Zachary James, who’s currently hotting up the Underworld on the other side of that wall in Hadestown. James, who originated the role of Lurch in the Andrew Lippa musicalisation of The Addams Family, is perhaps best known to date – indeed immortalised – as The Scribe/Amenhotep III in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten in the jaw-dropping Phelim McDermott, Olivier Award-winning staging at English National Opera in 2016. His work has straddled the opera and Musical Theatre worlds in intriguing ways and as an actor-singer his work is nothing...
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Musicals Meets... Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For this Musicals Meets Podcast, Editor Sarah Kirkup meets Marlow and Moss, the talented writing duo behind global sensation SIX. Following in that musical’s footsteps was always going to be a challenge, but last summer they workshopped Why Am I So Single? at the Lilian Bayliss Theatre. Following two friends, who just happen to be writing a musical, as they enjoy a prosecco-fuelled evening, the two-act show was positively received by audiences. It was subsequently finessed and sculpted into the final version premiering in the West End this summer. At the press launch at Soho’s...
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Edward Seckerson meets... Evelyn Hoskins
Musicals Magazine Podcast
Edward Seckerson meets Evelyn Hoskins, forever associated with bringing Carrie White in from the cold in the invigorating 2015 Southwark Playhouse production of the ill-fated musical Carrie. They also talk Spring Awakening - which marked Hoskins’s stage debut and is back for an original cast reunion; the loveable Dawn in Waitress where she shared the stage with the composer Sara Bareilles; and the stranger-than-fiction alchemy of 42 Balloons soon to be seen at the Lowry in Manchester. Never miss an issue – subscribe to Musicals magazine today:...
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Musicals Meets... Sarah Crompton (Hadestown special)
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For this Musicals Meets Podcast, Sarah Kirkup talks to Sarah Crompton, one of Britain’s most respected writers and broadcasters, about the new production of Hadestown which has just premiered at the Lyric Theatre in the West End. Crompton is a huge fan of the show, having previously seen the UK production at the National Theatre and reviewing it favourably for WhatsOnStage. She recently wrote a fascinating feature on the new West End production for the current issue of Musicals magazine. Blending modern American folk music with New Orleans-inspired jazz, the music for Hadestown is...
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Musicals Meets... Joel Harper-Jackson
Musicals Magazine Podcast
For our first Musicals Meets Podcast, Editor Sarah Kirkup meets the actor and performer Joel Harper-Jackson. Starring as Harry in the revival of Standing at the Sky’s Edge at the Gillian Lynne Theatre from 9 February, Harper-Jackson – previously known for Musical Theatre roles such as Charlie Price in Kinky Boots on tour and Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – hit the headlines in 2022 in Mike Bartlett’s play Cock at the Ambassadors Theatre. Having covered both lead roles, he took over from Taron Egerton as M opposite Jonathan Bailey after Egerton...
info_outlineIn this episode of the Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson talked to the Olivier-nominated Broadway and West End star Sierra Boggess in February 2023, while the soprano was in London for a one-off concert at Cadogan Hall, and prior to the run of The Secret Garden in Los Angeles (19 February – 26 March).
The podcast includes a world-exclusive preview of the track ‘Many a New Day’ from Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein, sung by Boggess and taken from the forthcoming world-premiere recording of the complete original score by John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London, to be released on 15 September 2023, on Chandos Records. Also included in the podcast is an excerpt of Boggess singing A Quiet Thing from the album ‘Awakening – Live at 54 Below’, courtesy of Broadway Records.
The opening and closing musical excerpts are from the Overture to Gypsy (film version), taken from Jule Styne’s ‘Overtures Vol 2’, courtesy of JAY Records.
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