MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets STEPHANIE J BLOCK
The Broadway star talks about the highs and lows of a hugely varied career, and her current joy at playing Lili Vanessi in Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican. Edward Seckerson meets the fabulous Stephanie J Block,…
MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets FRANK WILDHORN
Edward Seckerson meets the prolific Frank Wildhorn during the West End opening of Your Lie in April, his latest venture (after Death Note) into the realms of Japanese Manga. From one huge Whitney Houston hit – ‘Where Do Broken…
MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets MELISSSA ERRICO
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Melissa Errico, celebrated purveyor of the songs of Stephen Sondheim and Michel Legrand and a cabaret artist of extraordinary magnetism. Her theatre career on Broadway and beyond has embraced…
MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets CHRISTINE ALLADO
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Christine Allado, fresh from lending her shining soprano to the Old Friends celebrating Stephen Sondheim at London’s Gielgud Theatre. Some may remember her opposite Rob Houchen in the TV documentary The Making…
MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets JACK GODFREY
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…
BONNIE LANGFORD: Here’s to the Ladies + ‘Comparing Notes’ post show interview with Edward Seckerson
Bonnie Langford, leading lady of musical theatre, shares her love and admiration for those who have literally led the way. Those ladies who have blazed a trail through musical theatre and more. A magical evening celebrating stars…
MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets SAMANTHA BARKS
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,…
MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets ZACHARY JAMES
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…
DAME PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE: Facing The Music – A Life in Musical Theatre
Dame Patricia Routledge trained not only as an actress but also as a singer and had considerable experience and success in musical theatre, both in this country and in the United States of America. Her many awards…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! – Soloists, Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
This is important. Oklahoma! was a big moment – perhaps the big moment – in musical theatre’s ‘coming of age’. Granted that sixteen years earlier Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern had already called time on the…