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A treat this week; The legends that are Sam Hunter and Julia Whittle join us in our zoom room. We talk teams, masterclasses, show disasters and wow-factor chats about show calling opening and closing Olympic ceremonies. Sam and Ju share anecdotes (Guildhall alumni's prepare!), lots of name dropping, and many, many laughs.

In between Jigjaw puzzle masterminding, we are delighted that the infamous Orange Jackets were able to give up their time to chat and delight us.

Check them out at https://www.orangejackets.uk/

....and for a gorgeous bit of "slow TV": Jigjaw.

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Giving up family time on the Memorial weekend, from his kitchen in NYC, we are delighted to be joined by Broadway Stage Manager, Matthew Stern.

Matt has an impressive career working on some of the biggest shows on Broadway. Many of us know him as the guy who set up and runs the annual Broadway Stage Management Symposium, (this year's symposium is online this weekend), or will have been one of the hundreds who have attended his SM Tec Fridays. There's also a good chance you have read his blog post Ten Changes for Stage Managers & Life Backstage in a COVID World.

We talk about his time working on in New York, corporate gigs, The Symposium, and his knack for closing shows.

It's not too late to book your place online at this year's Symposium.

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest" - Benjamin Franklin"

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Simon Gooding is one of the UK's busiest Production Managers. We persuaded him to come off his allotment and talk about not going to the theatre, boats, and not going to run-throughs in the rehearsal room. Oh, and how he almost had a very different career...

Despite the fact that Simon has a very squeaky office chair, figets, clicks his pen all the way thru the recording, and failed on all things audio, the content, like Simon, is joyful.

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General Manager of the Playhouse Theatre, Weston-super-Mare, Producer and globe-trotting impresario, Mark joined us for our first-ever podcast. Armed with brand new headphones that he couldn't plug into his mac, over a shaky Zoom connection we covered topics including:

• running a successful venue 
• blowing stuff up in the Middle East 
• learning how to produce a panto
• being a terrible plumber and expert tap breaker...

"All over the walls are posters of memories that never happened..."

For more about Mark and his production company; mt-productions.co.uk

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Tash and Mark have second thoughts about doing a podcast, and then get excited about the (potential) Guestlist.

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