COMPARING NOTES WITH OLIVER SAVILE
Sunday 18th July 2021 3.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting…
COMPARING NOTES WITH LEWIS CORNAY
Sunday 13th June 2021 3.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Flowers For Mrs Harris – Chichester Festival Theatre Cast Recording
This gorgeous piece by Richard Taylor (music and lyrics) and Rachel Wagstaff (book) is a great example of how the musical has evolved in recent years and how much the worlds of opera and musicals can impact…
STAGE AND SCREEN: Legends – Liza Minnelli
Oscar winning Hollywood and Broadway star Liza Minnelli talks to Edward Seckerson about her showbiz career. Featuring plenty of songs in full in this special recording as Liza talks in detail about her parts in Flora the…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – February 2021
When it was first proposed that we might expand the Music Theatre content in Gramophone to include musicals and other less easily definable forms of music drama the question arose as to where they should be placed…
COMPARING NOTES: Oliver Savile in conversation
West End leading man Oliver Savile discusses his starring roles in Wicked and Falsettos, dyslexia, gardening and working with Sting on The Last Ship in Canada and the US with Edward Seckerson.… [Read More]
CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE at Home: FACING THE MUSIC
A MUSICAL SPRING IS COMING! Chichester Festival Theatre is delighted to announce that this Spring will be one of music, memories and fascinating stories as we launch a new digital series of our popular Facing The Music interviews.…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Sondheim – Anyone Can Whistle (Studio Cast Recording): Maria Friedman, Julia McKenzie, National Symphony Orchestra/Edwards
I smell a collector’s item. This cracking recording of Stephen’s Sondheim’s second Broadway show as composer/lyricist, Anyone Can Whistle – complete down to every last dance break and entrance and exit cues – was recorded at Abbey…
COMPARING NOTES: Laura Pitt-Pulford in conversation
Musical theatre star Laura Pitt-Pulford discusses Parade, Mack & Mabel, Falsettos and Flowers for Mrs Harris, her love of Sondheim, the thrill of new writing and the joy of new motherhood with Edward Seckerson. Enjoy!… [Read More]
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – November 2020
Among the many treasured recordings that I have found refuge in during a spring, summer and autumn of discontent for live music and theatre this year a souvenir DVD of the fabulous 2005 David McVicar staging of…