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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 an exciting year for homegrown, grassroots Musical Theatre.    

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.  

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 Wallace, Daniel Mays, Andrew Richardson, Celinde Schoenmaker and Cedric Neal; the opening and closing musical excerpts featured in this podcast are from the Overture to Gypsy (film version), taken from Jule Styne’s ‘Overtures Vol 2’, courtesy of JAY Records.  

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 if not diverse. Plus his 6’6” frame makes him hard to miss.  
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The opening and closing musical excerpts featured in this podcast are from the Overture to Gypsy (film version), taken from Jule Styne’s ‘Overtures Vol 2’, courtesy of JAY Records.

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 Boulevard Theatre on Valentine’s Day, Marlow and Moss – along with some special guests – performed a selection of songs from the show. They speak to Musicals magazine’s Editor about the writing process, the musical styles they have drawn upon, and how their friendship has remained very much intact. 
Why Am I So Single? opens at the Garrick Theatre 27 August and the run is currently scheduled to continue through to 13 February, 2025 
The musical excerpts from Why Am I So Single? – ‘8 Dates’ and ‘Just In Case’ – were recorded at the launch event on 14 February at the Boulevard Theatre in Soho.
The opening and closing musical excerpts featured in this podcast are from the Overture to Gypsy (film version), taken from Jule Styne’s ‘Overtures Vol 2’, courtesy of JAY Records 

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.
 
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