Acting Up With Jamie Crick

This week Kerry Ellis and Jamie Crick take a look back over the first series of Acting Up and play some of their favourite interviews, including John Owen Jones, Rachel Tucker, Oli Tompsett, Olivier award winner Sharon D. Clarke and many more!

This week the gorgeous Natalie McQueen joins us in the studio to chat all things 9-5, Wicked and Kinky Boots. The Olivier awards take centre stage in this weeks podcast too as we celebrate the success of the winners, including Come From Away, Company and Sharon D Clarke in Caroline, Or Change. Plus, we finish up with a coffee around that famous piano at Joe Allen. Your theatre week starts here.

This week the brilliant Oliver Tompsett joins is in the studio to discuss everything from his upcoming role in new musical And Juliet… to how his falsetto managed to make Kerry Ellis corpse on stage. Jonny Bunyan goes behind the scenes with Paul Hicks and we hear YOUR views from Liza Pullman Sings Streisand. Your Theatre Week Starts Here.

This week we chat to the LOVELY John Owen-Jones about his favourite role playing John Valjean in Les Miserables. We go backstage to find out what a company Stage Manager does, hear your take on the hit new musical 9-5, plus all the latest news and gossip for your theatre week.

This week the team bring you all the fun from the Collabro UK Tour with Kerry Ellis. Jonny Bunyan goes behind the scenes with Tour & Production Manager Chris Haylett and we hear from the Collabro fans. PLUS all this weeks news and views. Your theatre week starts here.

This week the lovely Joe McElderry joins us to discuss all of the gossip from the club Tropicana Musical Tour. We go behind the scenes with Oli Matthews from The Savoy Theatre and we hear YOUR views on the musicals you miss having in the West End. Your theatre week starts here.

This week we are joined in the studio by the brilliant Matthew Croke from smash hit musical Disney’s Aladdin. He and the team discuss everything from magical carpets to magical moments. We go behind the scenes with theatre marketing expert Benji Haigh plus all the news and views from this awards season. Your theatre week starts here.

We are getting VERY excited for the 2019 WhatsOnStage Awards and with that in view, we chat to the Director of the awards Damian Sandys on what we can expect this year. He's the man behind the mask, star of numerous west end shows and a songwriter too (is there anything he hasn't done??), Ben Forster joins us in the studio and tells us how he was invited to Andrew Lloyd Webbers' home. Plus, we go backstage to find out why PR is so important, listen to what you thought about The Comedy About A Bank Robbery  and hear the latest goss with the team down at Joe Allens.

Welcome to episode 7 of Acting Up, and boy do we have a stonking show for you this week! West End star Lucie Jones pops in for a chat on what she is up to at the moment, plus reminisces on playing Elle Woods in the Legally Blonde Tour. Jonny Bunyan reports back fresh from Edinburgh on the touring production of Les Misérables, and Kerry Ellis tells us about her encounter with the eye-wateringly handsome Hugh Jackman! Plus all the latest news, gossips and stories from the world of musical theatre.

A filled-to-the-brim podcast this week as we chat to the gorgeous Rachel Tucker who is one of the stars in the new musical Come From Away. How do you begin to write the words to songs for a musical, I hear you ask? Well we catch up with lyricist and book writer Jake Brunger, most notable for work on the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. Plus theatre news, a dramatic Am Dram mishap involving Captain Hooks' hook, a stop off at Joe Allens and something about eating oysters! All here on your theatre week.