Sunday Show Tunes

It's the end of our third season. On this week's episode we chat with composer, lyricist, conduction, orchestrator, director and performer, Jason Robert Brown. Best known for his scores to some of the most renowned musicals of our time, including the generation defining, The Last Five Years and Parade, which won him his first or two Tony Awards.

Jason tells us about what his first influences were, why he loves writing musicals and what he's been doing during lockdown.

On this week's show, we chat with multi award winning Jim Caruso, who made his Broadway debut alongside Liza Minnelli in the Tony Award-winning Liza's At The Palace and the host of the weekly NYC showbiz bash "Jim Caruso's Cast Party";  multi award winner Billy Stritch,  one of the premier singer-pianists on the New York and national jazz and cabaret scene and  actress, singer and comedienne, Klea Blackhurst, known for her award-winning tribute to Ethel Merman, Everything The Traffic Will Allow.

They talk to us about the 11th Year of NYC seasonal favourite, Christmas at Birdland.

On this week's episode, we chat with Aimie Atkinson, an original star of Six and who most recently has been playing Vivian Ward in the hit West End production of Pretty Woman.

We also chat with Frank DiLella, the Emmy Award winning host of the weekly half-hour theatre news programme “On Stage” on Spectrum News NY1. His celebrity interviews, along with his in-depth reporting of the theatre scene, have helped make him a trusted friend and confidant within the theatre and entertainment communities in New York City and around the globe.

On this week's episode we chat with Danny Kaan and Sophie Ross from The Digi Creative about their brand new coffee table photo book of the West End.

We also catch up with West End star, Joel Harper-Jackson about his brand new solo album, So What Happens Now?

On this week's show we chat with Ute Lemper. Her career has taken her around the world as an actor, concert, cabaret and recording artist. Her new show, Ute Lemper: Rendevous with Marlene is being streamed internationally and Ute is here to tell us all about it.

We also catch up with Hiba Elchike who has just made her West End debut in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre. Not content with that, she’s just become a producer of her very own online series, Out of the Darkness, Into the Spotlight.

This week we chat with record producer, John Yap, about the forthcoming release of Anyone Can Whistle. He tells us why it took 23 years to get released and what goes into producing a new release.

We also chat with Love Island Star, Amy Hart. She talks about celebrity, and her musical theatre obsession and tells us which musical she'd go back in time to see if she could.

This week we chat with award winning choreographer, Philip Joel, who (in our opinion) has been the funniest thing on social media during the Pandemic. His hilarious lockdown characters and sketches have inspired a brand new sitcom, The Fosse Forest Ballet.

We also catch up with Mazz Murray. Mazz played Killer Queen in We Will Rock You for almost nine years and most recently has been playing Donna in the West End production of Mamma Mia.

On this week's show we chat with David Bedella, three time Olivier Award winning actor who is currently appearing in the hit musical & Juliet at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre.

We also catch up with Maury Yeston to talk about Maury Sings Yeston: The Demos which has been released to commemorate his 75th Birthday. The 40 tracks of Maury singing and playing his compositions draw from a wide range of sources - his Tony Award–winning scores, un-produced works, a concept album, a smattering of pop tunes, and some theatrical works still in progress.

On this episode we chat with stars of stage and screen Peter Polycarpou and Sally Ann Triplett who will unite in the new musical, Falling Stars.

A song cycle that's an homage to the composers, collaborators, and publishers of the 1920s, who created some of the greatest music of all time.

Peter and Sally Ann tell about how they've been coping of the past few months, where the idea of Falling Stars came from and how they've been working on the show together.

In this week's episode we chat with Kerry Ellis has starred in the West End and on Broadway and achieved chart-topping success as a recording artist. Kerry originated the role of Meat in London in We Will Rock You, and was the first British Elphaba in Wicked before transferring to Broadway.

Kerry talks to us about what she's been up during Lockdown, her West End debut, being the first British Elphaba and the Proud Cabaret on the Southbank.

We also chat with multi Olivier Award nominee Sophie-Louise Dann's extensive career has encompassed the worlds of musical theatre, opera, TV and film. In the West End Sophie’s starred in Spamilton, The Girls, Bend It Like Beckham, Lend Me a Tenor and Made In Dagenham.

We chat to Sophie-Louise about what's she's been up to to celebrate her Birthday, Zooming with the W.I. and her brand new cabaret, May I Have A Moment?