002 - 'TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES' (Savoy Theatre 1999) - Featuring Stephen Edwards, Justin Fleming, Karen Hebden, Poppy Tierney, Philippa Healey
Release Date: 04/02/2015
003 - 'SOMEONE LIKE YOU' (Strand Theatre 1990) - Featuring Dee Shipman, Dave Willetts, Petula Clark
Stage Door Podcast
In this special episode of the Stage Door podcast the spotlight falls on 'Someone Like You', the 1989 / 1990 British musical.'Someone Like You' is a musical with lyrics by Dee Shipman, music by Petula Clark and a book by Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon.Based on a concept developed by Clark over a period of several years, it is set in West Virginia immediately after the end of the Civil War. Originally entitled 'Amen', it was conceived as a dark view of the difficulties Southerners faced dealing with carpetbaggers during the Reconstruction period, and also dealt with the problems of...
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002 - 'TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES' (Savoy Theatre 1999) - Featuring Stephen Edwards, Justin Fleming, Karen Hebden, Poppy Tierney, Philippa Healey
Stage Door Podcast
Stage Door's podcast in which we take an in depth look behind the scenes at the West End musicals we've released on CD. In this episode the spotlight falls on ‘Tess Of The D'Urbervilles’, the 1999 West End musical adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel. Featuring music by Stephen Edwards and a libretto by Justin Fleming, 'Tess' opened at the Sheffield Lyceum on September 6th 1999 and was declared a "landmark in musical theatre" receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews from the critics. Following a brief UK tour, the production transferred to the West End opening at The Savoy...
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001 - 'OUT OF THE BLUE' (Shaftesbury Theatre 1994) Feat. Shun Tokura, David Gilmore, Greg Ellis, Meredith Braun, Paulette Ivory
Stage Door Podcast
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info_outlineStage Door's podcast in which we take an in depth look behind the scenes at the West End musicals we've released on CD. In this episode the spotlight falls on ‘Tess Of The D'Urbervilles’, the 1999 West End musical adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel.
Featuring music by Stephen Edwards and a libretto by Justin Fleming, 'Tess' opened at the Sheffield Lyceum on September 6th 1999 and was declared a "landmark in musical theatre" receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews from the critics. Following a brief UK tour, the production transferred to the West End opening at The Savoy on November 10th, 1999 and was universally damned by the critics, one reviewer sighting the show as "the last great musical flop of the Millennium".
'Tess' closed on January 15th 2000 after just 77 performances. 15 years after 'Tess' closed we look back at the ambitious through-sung drama and explore the journey the production underwent during its development. To reflect on the production we're joined by the composer Stephen Edwards, lyricist Justin Fleming, director and adapter Karen Louise Hebden and both actresses who would alternate the role of Tess; Poppy Tierney and Philippa Healey.
The programme also features excerpts from the previously unheard live recording of the production recorded on the press night at the Savoy Theatre and featuring Poppy Tierney as Tess.
Podcast produced and presented by Tim Hutton for Stage Door Records
'TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES' - ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING
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