The Musicals & Theatre Podcast

Magic Radio

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This podcast will return when the theatres reopen with new interviews with the best stars of the West End and national Theatres. Get closer to the stars of the stage with The Musicals & Theatre Podcast! In each episode Magic Radio's Alice Arnold is chatting with a writer, composer, producer or performer from the world of theatre and musicals. Look out for guests including Gary Barlow, Ruthie Henshall and Michael Ball.

03/21/2020

14x10 The Olivier Nominations with Julian Bird

Due the recent government advice the Olivier Awards has sadly been cancelled, the Society of London Theatre are currently trying to find a way to properly honour and announce this year’s winners. We still wanted to honour the nominees so on this weeks episode of the Olivier Awards Podcast – the official podcast of The Olivier Awards with Mastercard, Alice Arnold is sitting down with Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre and producer of The Olivier Awards Julian Bird to talk about the biggest news story of the awards in the Plays and Opera categories. They are chatting about the three top nominated plays Death of Salesman, Rosmersholm and Cyrano de Bergerac all which received 5 nominations plus many more brilliant productions.

25 min
03/13/2020

14x09 The Olivier Nominations with Julian Bird

As the Olivier Awards approach, Alice Arnold sits down with Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre and Producer of the Olivier Awards Julian Bird to get an in depth look at this years musical and dance nominations. The pair talk about the biggest news story of the awards, 9 time nominated musical & Juliet, as well as taking a look at choreography from Evita and the wonderful orchestration of Amélie the Musical. They also hear from stars of the nominated productions, including Jason Donovan, Miriam Teak Lee and Sara Barellis, as we count down to the big night. Don't miss next week's episode where Alice and Julian will be taking a look at the plays and operas nominated in the 2020 Olivier Awards.

27 min
03/07/2020

14x08 Matthew Morrison

This week Alice was joined in the studio by Matthew Morrison, star of Glee, numerous Broadway productions and a judge on The Greatest Dancer. They chatted about his career from the stage to screen and his new album Disney Dreamin’.

17 min
03/06/2020

14x07 Another Bonus Peter Cattaneo

In a special Musicals and Theatre podcast Alex Baker has taken over and is chatting to Peter Cattaneo, director of The Full Monty about his latest film Military Wives. Peter talks about making the film, working with Kirstin Scott-Thomas and Sharon Horgan and his other career highlights.

22 min
03/04/2020

14X06 BONUS Olivier Awards Nominations

As the Olivier Awards nominations were announced yesterday Alice Arnold sat down with Julian Bird the Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre and Producer of the Olivier awards to get an instant reaction to the nominations in this little bonus podcast. They chatted about the most nominated show, & Juliet, as well as other top-nominated musicals such as Dear Evan Hansen, Amélie, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Evita. They also unpicked the play nominations, including Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, Death of a Salesman – which earned nominations for its two leads Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke – and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s nomination for her one-woman show Fleabag. We will be chatting more about the awards as they get closer and chatting with some of the nominees as well!

18 min
02/29/2020

14x05 Be More Chill

This week Alice is immersed in the world of the new hit musical Be More Chill when she was joined in the studio by two of the lead members of the cast, Scott Follan who plays Jeremy and Miracle Chance who plays Christine. They chatted about this new musical phenomenon that sees a young boy implant a super computer in his head in an attempt to be cool! Be More Chill is currently on at The Other Palace

23 min
02/22/2020

14x4 Michelle Collins

This week Alice was joined in the studio by actress Michelle Collins. They chatted about her career on screen including her time in EastEnders and Coronation Street and her time on the stage starring in musicals like Daddy Cool and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They also talked about the tour of Pinters The Birthday Party which she is about to embark on.

28 min
02/16/2020

14x03 Stephen Schwartz

This week on the Musicals and Theater Podcast Alice is joined in the studio by the legendary lyricist and composer Stephen Schwartz. They chat about his career inducing, his work on Pippin, Godspell, Rags, Wicked, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame as well as Prince of Egypt which is had just been turned into a musical and is currently on in London’s Westend.

29 min

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08/14/2019

fishers island

I love this podcast. This keeps me up to date with everything that’s going on with musical theatre in the U.K. I live in America And it makes me want to come over to see your shows Alice is great! 👍👍

This podcast will return when the theatres reopen with new interviews with the best stars of the West End and national Theatres. Get closer to the stars of the stage with The Musicals & Theatre Podcast! In each episode Magic Radio's Alice Arnold is chatting with a writer, composer, producer or performer from the world of theatre and musicals. Look out for guests including Gary Barlow, Ruthie Henshall and Michael Ball.