MusicalTalk - The UK's Independent Musical Theatre Podcast MusicalTalk
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We are a weekly podcast devoted to
bringing you news, views, reviews, interviews and much more content devoted to musical theatre and
film. We discuss composers, writers, actors, theatres and shows and encourage listeners to join in.
Visit our site at musicaltalk.co.uk
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Episode 840: La Serva Padrona Gets Funky
In 2020 Coronavirus threatened to kill opera! By 2022, only one man could save it - using his one person production of La Serva Padrona - where baroque meets 1970s funk in a new English version of Pergolesi's 1733 comic masterpiece. Thos joins the extremely talented musical academic and performer, David William Hughes, to discuss the third of his historic music trilogy - a joyous and delightful version of La Serva Padrona - served up from "an emergency opera kit" saved over from the Cold War era! It's a funkadelic relic!
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Episode 839: A Past Programme Program
Nick has a large collection of theatre programmes which acts as a wonderful topic generator! Nick digs through it to discuss, with Hannah, many shows from the past.
Shows discussed include Let it Be, Forbidden Planet, Riverdance, Derren Brown, Saturday Night Ever, Mary Poppins, Rock Hamlet, Grand Hotel, Sweeney Todd and others! -
Episode 838: The Wreck of the Queen Thomasina
What is musical theatre? It's a big questions and Thos is asking it. Can a show be a musical without words? Can a show be a musical without music? Is there any point in actually trying to define what makes a musical anyway? And as an illustration of how wide musical theatre can really be, Thos talks to the talented people behind five-star EdFringe show, The Wreck of the Queen Thomasina, which is a verse play with songs and definately plays with the form in a delicious way. Vivat Regina!
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Episode 837: Catching up with Alan Menken
Join Nick Hutson as he sits down with composer Alan Menken to discuss Hercule's current production in Hamburg, Germany. Learn about the new songs, direction and history of the show. You can also hear Alan talk about collaborating, processes and the legacy of the late Howard Ashman
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Episode 836: Mine - A Solo Ghost Story Musical with Asher Muldoon
In this episode, Thos talks to the multi-talented actor, writer and composer, Asher Muldoon, about his wonderful five star show, Mine - A Solo Ghost Story Musical - a multi-layered masterpiece of musical story telling. How do you make a ghost story also function as a comedy? How do you read an audience to amend your performance? And how do both Sondheim and Dear Evan Hanson repackage songs in different ways? All this and some delightful and evocative music will make Mine forever yours!
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Episode 835: His Name Is...Potty the Plant!
With the joyous news of the return of Potty the Plant to the EdFringe in 2024, join Thos as he talks to the three people behind this quirky, subversive and hiliarous musical to discuss all things Potty. Find out about its journey from short film to five-star theatre musical cult and what made it the MusicalTalk's Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023. With songs and laughter, and a special "sneak peak" of the creative team's latest musical this episode, this is the "potty-cast" for you.
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Frank Loesser at 100
Guessing at facts, and often guessing wrong, and carrying on at length about songs not by Loesser.
In Korea
I'm an American living in Seoul, South Korea. We have a thriving and FASCINATING musical theatre scene here but most is in Korean so it is nice to hear about English speaking Theatre. Love the British perspective! Thanks guys!