Sunday Show Tunes

This week we chat with Joanna Gleason. Joanna has had a glittering career on stage and screen. She won a Tony award for creating the iconic role of the Baker’s Wife in the original Broadway Production of Into The Woods.

We also catch up with Scott Alan to talk about his song cycle. The Distance You Have Come follows the lives of six individuals who juggle the constant challenges of life, depression, heartache and love. Having had a successful run in October 2018, the show is making its West End debut.

Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty are considered the foremost theatrical writing team of their generation. They’ve won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle and have been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes and four Grammy Awards.

Their shows include: Once on This Island, Ragtime, Seussical, Rocky the Musical and Anastasia.

This week we chat to musical theatre legend, Frances Ruffelle, who created the role of Eponine in the original London production of Les Miserables. She went on to play the same role in the original Broadway production and winning herself a Tony Award in the process. 

We also chat to Waylon Jacobs (Hamilton) about the brand new studio cast recording of Cases.

This week we chat with West End legend and National Treasure, Bonnie Langford.

Bonnie made her West End debut aged just 7 years old and hasn’t looked back since. She’s starred on stage, television, film and radio in both the UK and USA.

We also catch up with Howard Goodall. With a career spanning over 30 years, Howard is without doubt one of the UK’s most distinguished and versatile composers. Howard has won Ivor Novello, Brit, Emmy and BAFTA awards and he’s with us now.

This week we're chatting to with the star of Six, Heathers, Ghost, Sweet Charity, Evita and Kinky Boots, Lauren Drew who turned all four judges chairs and the was first to join Anne-Maries’ first team member.

We also catch up with Tony Award Nominee and Broadway Legend, Norm Lewis.

Norm's West End and Broadway credits include Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, The Little Mermaid, Chicago, Sondheim on Sondheim and Porgy and Bess (earning him that Tony Award nomination). Norm was also the first African American to play the role of the Phantom on Broadway in The Phantom of the Opera.

This week we chat with West End star Danielle Steers who has starred in the West End production of Six and Bat out of Hell has just released her first solo album,“The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be, an intimate album of nine Steinman songs.

The current season of The Voice UK has already featured West End performers Matt Croke (who played the title role in Aladdin) and Lauren Drew (best known for Six) and now Andrew Bateup, a performer who trained at the Royal Academy of Music and toured the UK in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He tells us all about it.

This week we chat with comedienne and composer, Vikki Stone, about her brand new musical #ZoologicalSociety and catch up with West End star, Matt Croke fresh from Disney's Aladdin about appearing on The Voice UK.

This week we chat with Kyle Taylor Parker who has starred on Broadway in Kinky Boots and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and is about to release his Broadway Soul, Vol. 2, a concept album arranged and produced through remote collaboration featuring 12 show tunes filtered through the prism of R&B and soul.

We also chat with West End legend Linzi Hateley, who made her professional stage debut when she was was 17 years old, playing the title role in the cult classic, Carrie. She’s since gone on to star in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as The Narrator, Oliver! as Nancy, Éponine and Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables and Roxie Hart in Chicago.

This week we chat with Sally Wilfert about All The Girls. Adapted from the show of the same name, All the Girls comes from a deep friendship forged on and off the stage between Broadway’s Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert. 

We also chat with Sunset Boulevard's original Norma Desmond, Ria Jones.  Ria has starred in Evita, Chess, Cats and Les Miserables. She created the role of Norma Desmond over 30 years ago at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sydmonton Festival, went on for Glen Close in the role at London’s Coliseum and has recently toured the UK playing Norma as well.

This week we chat with Paul Taylor Mills about this year’s MTFestUK which will take place online following the new National Lockdown. The festival, which celebrates new musicals, runs from 1 to 13 February 2021 at London’s Turbine Theatre.

We chat with Andrew Lippa about The Man In The Ceiling; Caroline Kay about Daisy and Scott Frankel about Far From Heaven. All three musicals can be seen as part of MTFestUK.