On this episode John and his friend who is the guest co-host today Meagan Vazquetelles do a deep dive of the award winning musical In The Heights and also the 2021 movie version of it where we do comparison and talk many about things about the musical made by the legend Lin-Manuel Miranda.

On this episode John and Emma talks about being an dancer and musical theatre actress.

Emma Levene is a British dancer and musical theatre actress who had experience in dancing and appear in musical theatre shows in the UK. Emma also own a dance company called Double Twist Dance Academy for kids and teens where they teach children to dance and Double Twist Dance Company for pro dancers.

On this episode John along wit his friends Sydney Maloney also known in TikTok as Sydthedisnerd and Chris Diaz who are guest co-host for this episode talks about the 2025 Movie Wicked: For Good where they discuss about the scenes, different of it from the stage musical and accolades of the movie.

Wicked: For Good is a 2025 movie featuring Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and it was based on the Act 2 of the stage musical Wicked.

Sydney had her own YouTube channel too called Disney Deep Dive where she do deep dive of Disney Movies there you can subscribe to it through this link:

https://youtube.com/@disneydeepdivepod?si=46DIjokmHQRVyAHN

On this episode John chats with film critic Jedd Jong from Singapore to talk about the 2025 Movie Sinners and gave their opinion about the movie.

Jedd Jong is a film critic and writer from Singapore who has a blog that posts his opinions and reviews about movie he watches.

You can visit his blog:

https://jeddjong.wordpress.com/

You can follow him on Instagram too:

https://www.instagram.com/jeddthejedi?igsh=N3kxZjAzNG13aXQ5&igsi=N3kxZjAzNG13aXQ5

https://www.instagram.com/jedithemovieguy?igsh=MW9vcTN1dXBma3Bpdw==&igsi=MW9vcTN1dXBma3Bpdw==

On this episode John and Angelique talks about her career as musical theatre actress and dancer. They also talks about the Australian tour of Beetlejuice where she was play there as Miss Argentina.

Angelique Cassimatis is an Australian musical theatre actress and dancer who appeared in many musicals like the stage production of High School Musical, Mary Poppins, King Kong the Musical, Pippin and most recently Beetlejuice where she was play there as Miss Argentina.

Today I made a read of my new own short play that I made titled I Can Win! It's a short play about a 17 years old teenage girl named Eva who is finishing her High School and dreaming to become a professional ballerina but her family can't afford to study her into a university but when she participate in a dancing contest on her school and win the competition her dream becomes true by getting an scholarship into a university to study there as a dancer.

Cast of the read:

Emma Clandon as Eva Watkins

Heather Leigh Cameron as Tricia Watkins

Lisa Schectman as Sandra Smith

Me as Max

Ellie Clayton as Emcee

Elizabeth Morriss as Narrator and Stage Directions

After we do the read we greet our listeners from Singapore a Happy National Day by singing Happy Birthday to Singapore.

I hope you will like my new short play I make.

On this episode John and Monica talks about her career on theatre in Australia and West End in UK and also being a fitness and weightlifting coach. We also talk about her business Surge Performance n online platform that offer coaching in CF Gymnastics, Oly and S&C.

Monica Swayne is an Australian musical theatre actress and weightlifting coach who appears in many musicals in Australia and West End in UK like Mary Poppins, Wicked, Aladdin, Frozen and Evita where she perform with Rachel Zegler. She is also a weightlifting coach and participate in tournaments. She also owns a business called Surge Performance.

For more info about Surge Performance go to their page:

https://www.instagram.com/surge_performance?igsh=MWZ4cmN1bHQxb29neg==

On this episode John talks to Iroy Abesamis about his career as actor in West End and the things he miss in the Philippines.

Iroy Abesamis is a Filipino actor who is based on London and appeared in many West End musicals like Wicked which he is playing as Chistery and Miss Saigon.

For our listeners who doesn't understand Tagalog language I want to tell you that this episode was created for our audience in the Philippines and I am very comfortable to use my native tongue language when I am talking to a fellow Filipino.

On this episode John chats with Australian actor Bobby Fox to did a short deep dive of the award winning jukebox musical Jersey Boys.

Jersey Boys is a musical that tells about the rise and break up of the 1960s musical group The Four Seasons.

Bobby Fox is an Australian actor who originally play Frankie Valli in the original Australian production of Jersey Boys in 2009. Bobby has also an upcoming event on August 7 at Palais Theatre in Melbourne called Jersey Forever that reunite the original lead casts of the Australian production of Jersey Boys.

Please note that Bobby left earlier because he is busy and had many things to do.

To buy and get the tickets to see the show just go to this website:

https://jerseyforever.com.au/

On this episode John along with his guest co-hosts Shayna Dean Wroe, Chris Diaz and Sydney Maloney (known in TikTok as sydthedisnerd) talks about the 2024 Movie Wicked featuring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo where we will take a deep dive about the scenes of this movie as part of the new segment of The John Clarence Gomez Show titled Exploring Musicals, Movies and Plays where he will discuss any musicals, movies.