The Musicals & Theatre Podcast

We are back with our new Summer season brining you all the news about what to see this summer at the theatre.

We are starting this week with Christie Prades who plays Gloria Estefan in the new west end musical On Your Feet, which tells the story of the singers life. She chats to Alice about how Gloria asked her to play the role, her career and how Lin Manuel Miranda's advice encouraged her to take her career to the next level.

This week it's a very special edition of the Musicals and Theatre podcast, featuring Will Young who has starred in Cabaret, The Vortex, and more recently Strictly Ballroom The Musical

On the night before Pride in London Alice sat down with Will Young talk all things LGBTQ+ in a one off show on Magic called Pride. We wanted to share it here with some added in bonus bits that didn't make it into the final program. In the podcast Alice shares memories from her first ever Pride, when it was definitely still a march for rights and Will chats about his time on Pop Idol, what it was like to come out in the public eye and the power of LGBTQ+ role models.

This week Alice is back stage at the Phonix Theatre speaking to the Robert Hands, Clive Carter and Rachel Tucker who are all starring in the Olivier Award winning musical Come From Away. They talk about the amazing production that tells the story of the people of Gander who took in 7000 air passengers from all over the world who were grounded in Canada during the wake of 9/11.

This is the last podcast in this season but don't worry as we will be back in a few weeks with more great interviews and ideas of what to see this summer.

This week Alice is backstage at the Duke of York's Theatre to chat to Olivier Award Winner Giles Terera. They chatted about his extensive career including his role in Hamilton, which he won the Olivier for best actor in a musical for and the Ibsen play he is currently starring in Rosmersholm.

This week Alice was out and about and found herself in Opera Legend Lesley Garrett's music room - as you do!

There they chatted about Lesley's career from her training at the Royal Academy, to dipping her toe in the world of musical theater with her role in the Sound of Music.

Now she is encouraging new writers to create more roles for older singers and leaving a legacy for generations to come.

As well as all that she tells Alice all about Chiswick proms which is happening next weekend.

This week Cassidy Janson popped into Alice's studio to record a special show for Mellow Magic, It was so lovely we have turned it into a podcast with all the extra bits that got cut out of the show! She chatted to Alice about being Carol King (obviously), her current role in Man of La Mancha, her new album and the show she is going to be starring in later in the year & Juliet.

Magic at the Musicals backstage special Part 2! Alice is still talking to performers back stage at the Royal Albert Hall, in this podcast she is talking to Trevor Dion Nicholas, who is the Genie in Aladdin, Sara Poyzer who is playing Donna Sheridan in Mama Mia the Musical, Natalie Paris who is Jane Seymour in Six, Louise Dearman, Rachel Tucker, Matthew Croke who is Aladdin, Harriet Bunton and Molly Osbourne who are both in Fiddler on the Roof and Craig Gallivan who is Dewy in School of Rock.

Magic at the Musicals took place last Friday and Alice was in the artist bar backstage waiting to interview the performers. As there were so many we have split this week's podcast in two. In Part 1 Alice is chatting to.... Mellow Magic's very own Ruthie Henshall, Layton Williams ,currently playing Jamie in Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Sabrina Sandhu who is his best friend Pritti Pasha, Nkeki Obi-Melekwe who is playing Tina in Tina the Tina Turner, John Owen Jones, Lucie Jones and Janique Charles who is playing Nala in The Lion King.

This week Alice is back stage at the Apollo theatre to chat to Bianca Del Rio / Roy Haylock who is currently starring in Everybody's Talking About Jamie. They chat about what it's like performing in London, about Bianca's upcoming tour and obviously, Drag Race does get mentioned!

This week Bonnie Langford popped into Alice's studio, they talked about her amazing career including her time on Dancing on Ice, her role in EastEnders, what it was like to go to Broadway at the age of 10 to star with Angela Lansbury in Gypsy and her current role in 9 to 5!