Backstage With...

In this episode we meet some of the 2020 WhatsOnStage Awards nominees from shows including &Juliet, Waitress and Dear Evan Hansen at the awards launch in the West End. 

Mikey Worrall went along to the reception at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden where he spoke to &Juliet's Miriam-Teak Lee, Cassidy Janson and Jordan Luke Gage, Waitress's David Hunter and Marisha Wallace, and Dear Evan Hansen's Sam Tutty. 

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Oliver Ormson is currently playing Rob in High Fidelity at the Turbine Theatre in south London. 

The theatre was recently founded by its Artistic Director, Paul Taylor Mills. High Fidelity is the theatre’s second production and its first musical. 

The show originally opened on Broadway in 2006 where it closed 10 days after its opening night. 

The show is about a north London record shop owner called Rob who ranks everything in his life in top 5 lists and whose girlfriend breaks up with him. It’s based on a novel by Nick Hornby.

You may have seen Oliver before in shows such as Cats at Kilworth House and The Addams Family UK tour.

We had a chat before a midweek matinee in the auditorium which was built beneath a railway arch on the mainline into London Victoria.

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It’s 25 years since Melissa Jacques left Sheffield to pursue her musical theatre dreams in London. 

A year-long course at the London School of Musical Theatre led her to summer seasons, pantomimes and rep work where she cut her teeth before she joined the original cast of Mamma Mia. That’s where Melissa says she grew up and really learned her trade.

This autumn she was promoted to the role of Margaret, one of the roles she previously understudied, in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, after joining the show as a standby last summer.

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Daniel Boys is currently playing Marvin in Falsettos at The Other Palace, just around the corner from where he saw his first West End musical as a child, Starlight Express, at the Apollo Victoria.

After graduating from Guildford School of Acting, Daniel appeared in Rent, Sunset Boulevard and Grease before auditioning for the BBC’s Any Dream Will Do, the search for a man to play Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He made it through to the live show stage and was the seventh contestant to leave the programme.

Daniel went on to star in I Love You Because, at the Landor Theatre, before landing the leading role of Princeton and Rod in the West End production of Avenue Q.

Since then he’s performed in numerous concerts and appeared in shows including Ordinary Days, Peter Pan, Spamalot and Nativity! The Musical.

We had a conversation in a basement dressing room at The Other Palace where a giant inflatable unicorn was being stored.

Falsettos is running at The Other Palace until 23rd November 2019.

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Jon Robyns is about to take on the role of Jean Valjean in the new production of Les Misérables which is due to open at the newly renamed and renovated Sondheim Theatre in December. 

Jon is currently playing King George III in the West End production of Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre. He will handover to an as yet unnamed heir in the coming months before moving across town to Shaftesbury Avenue to tell another revolutionary tale.

Jon’s many theatrical credits include Marius and Enjolras in Les Misérables, Robbie in The Wedding Singer, Emmett in Legally Blonde, Eddie in Sister Act, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Alternate Huey in Memphis and Jamie in The Last Five Years.

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Lucie Jones is currently playing Jenna in the West End production of Waitress.

Since appearing on The X Factor in 2009, Lucie has played Cosette in Les Misérables (West End), Elle in Legally Blonde (Curve and national tour), Molly in Ghost (Chinese tour), Maureen in Rent (UK tour) before returning to London to play Jenna.

This episode was recorded in Lucie’s enormous dressing room at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End.

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Caroline Sheen is currently playing Violet in 9 to 5 the musical in the West End.

She joined the original cast of the production after Louise Redknapp injured her wrist, giving her only a week to learn the show before having to perform it.

Over the years Caroline has starred in Mary Poppins (UK and US tours), City of Angels, Les Miserables (as Eponine and Fantine), The Witches of Eastwick, Mamma Mia, Into the Woods and Grease - to name a few.

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Andy Mientus is currently playing Patrick in The View UpStairs at the Soho Theatre in London.

Andy is thrilled to be making his London theatre debut, it’s something he’s wanted to do for a long time.

You might know him from the TV shows Smash, The Flash and Gone. He also played Marius in the recent broadway revival of Les Miserables, and Hanschen in the original US touring production of Spring Awakening. Andy played that role for a second time in the Broadway transfer of the Deaf West production of the show which he co-created with his now-husband, actor and director Michael Arden.

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Jamie Armitage is the co-director of the the hit musical, Six.

He took a break from rehearsing with new cast members to chat about his most recent project, Southern Belles, which is currently running at the King’s Head Theatre, in London.

You can buy tickets to see Southern Belles on the King’s Head Theatre website.

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Whose Mind is it Anyway? is a theatrical experience combining hypnosis, improv and movie musicals.

My guests this week are the creators of the show, Michelle and Simon. They’ve taken the show to the Edinburgh Festival where it’s running at Gilded Balloon’s Patter Hoose.

We recorded this episode in Michelle’s voiceover booth, which was extremely cosy, on one of the hottest days of the year so far.

Click here for tickets to the show. If you can’t make it to Edinburgh this summer, then you can catch Whose Mind is it Anyway? on tour later this year.

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