Stage Appropriate (A Musical Theatre Podcast)

We went to Edinburgh Fringe for the first time! We saw ten shows in 48 hours! We had a depressing pizza experience! It’s an emotional rollercoaster as we relive our Fringe trip, featuring court battles, wild age ratings and emus.

Is this show appropriate? No. But we’re a bit beyond that now, so off we went to the cinema to a screening of Sara Bareilles starring in the show for which she wrote the music. We also discuss another inappropriate modern classic and a Sondheim show that we won’t be rushing to see again.

This might seem like a weird combination of shows and that is an accurate and perceptive reflection. We laughed till we cried at one show and then cried until we couldn’t remember a time before we started crying at the other. Which is which? Listen to find out! Plus bonus content as we discuss Juno’s West End debut with PQA.

Another visit to Leeds Playhouse brings our first encounter with My Fair Lady (regardless of baseless claims that Katy has definitely seen the film). Expect rants about accentism and man-babies, as well as an exciting guest appearance from an often-mentioned but previously unheard visitor.

It feels like we waited ages to see this show but that’s really just a sign of how impatient we are. Either way, it was worth the wait. You’ll hear why in this episode, along with tales of rubbish stalking, excessive caution around luggage and the virtues of Shake Shack as a pre-show meal.

Yes, we've already done a Mean Girls episode BUT that was about the movie and this one's about the show's long awaited London transfer so it's fine. Hear our (extremely detailed) opinions as well as tragic tales of 1990s eyebrow trends and some beautiful harmonising.

We get treated like actual professional theatre reviewers in this special episode about Brassneck's 2025 show, Ghost. One time, autocorrect changed the title of this show to 'Ghost!' which seems like it would be a very different show. Stay tuned till the very end to hear Juno's hard-nosed journalistic skills in action.

Crazy dentists, killer plants and very expensive tote bags all feature in our last New York episode on the long-running Westside Theatre’s revival of Little Shop of Horrors. And if this show is a favourite of yours, we recommend reading ‘Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors’ by Adam Abraham.

If Juno sounds like she’s falling asleep in this episode, let’s put it down to jet lag; it’s definitely not a reflection on this show, which, despite what the reviews might have said, was very entertaining. And also JEREMY JORDAN. Big questions we ask in this episode include what excuse can there be for a boring poster, can a playbill be used as a weapon, and, seriously, had nobody else actually read ‘The Great Gatsby ‘?

The problem with having a big lag between recording and posting episodes is made clear here as we speculate wildly on the outcome of the Tony’s, which happened months ago. Oh well. Merrily We Roll Along has been one of *the* big shows on Broadway in 2024 and we were lucky enough to see it on our New York trip, so listen to find out why Playbills can be scary and for some bad Harry Potter jokes.