Monday, October 22, 2007
TIM TALKS with Mat Fraser, creator of Thalidomide!! - A Musical, about his work, his favourite musicals, his views on Wicked, Billy Elliot and some taboo topics. WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE!
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 09:00PMTuesday, October 16, 2007
THOS INTERVIEWS Nicholas Parsons and Jon, Nick and Dom discuss the Sweeney Todd Trailer.
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 05:21AMFriday, October 12, 2007
JOIN NICK, Andy and Jon for the final and fiftieth episode of season one to discuss the past year of MusicalTalk and Andy's new job in We Will Rock You in London at the Dominion Theatre. We …
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 08:31AMTuesday, September 18, 2007
JONATHAN COHEN is back, and discusses with Nick the music of West Side Story on its fiftieth anniversary. Jon asks Nick about his musical production of Just William (and plays the overture) …
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 05:00AMTuesday, September 11, 2007
THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL is home to a massive array of productions, of all levels of quality, and including many musical theatre productions. Thos took the handheld recorder to the Frin…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 05:00AMTuesday, September 4, 2007
DISNEY, as well as producing H*gh Sch**l M*s*c*l, which we don't talk about, have created a series of stage shows that have played both Broadway and the West End. Recently closed is Beauty a…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 07:40PMMonday, August 27, 2007
WHAT DEFINES A FLOP? Nick, Rebecca and Thos work their way through examples from the nineteenth century to 2005 to consider what we mean by this term. Is it about money; is it about critical…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 08:00PMTuesday, August 21, 2007
THE MARVELLOUS Mr Andy Edwards returns to the MusicalTalk studio to spill the beans about his adventures on the national tour of The Producers. We also discuss a panoply of musical theatre f…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 06:22AMSaturday, August 18, 2007
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SOURCE: musicaltalk.libsyn.com at 04:39AMMonday, August 13, 2007
LET'S HAVE A HEATED DEBATE! Tim recently took friend Darren to see Wicked. Neither had ever seen it before and neither rated it high. Lisa, meanwhile, (making her debut as a presenter) has n…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 05:15PMTuesday, August 7, 2007
EMMA recently appeared in the role of Johanna at the Royal Festival Hall's all-star concert staging of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Tim, Thos, Nick, Rebecca, Jonathan and regular MT listener And…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 06:27AMTuesday, July 31, 2007
BORODIN's music was never written for a musical, but he still managed to win a Tony in the fifties (66 years after he'd died) for Kismet, the musical (or is it an operetta?) based mostly on …
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 04:12PMTuesday, July 24, 2007
THE NEW MOVIE-MUSICAL version of John Waters' Hairspray is now out, a few months ahead of hitting the London stage. Nick and Rebecca review the movie, and consider how it will differ when th…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 03:38AMTuesday, July 17, 2007
TIM AND THOS are joined by cabaret experts Paul L Martin and Sarah-Louise Young of Millionth Muse Productions to dissect the art of cabaret and where it relates to or diverges from musical t…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 11:27PMTuesday, July 10, 2007
NICK, MARTIN AND REBECCA discuss the fuzzy musical Avenue Q, and we quiz Martin on the often under-appreciated role of Stage Manager.
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 06:21AMTuesday, July 3, 2007
IN THIS EPISODE, we countdown the top 25 AFI film musicals, with only two minutes for each musical. Join Nick, Thos and Rebecca for this fun episode - where you get 25 musical discussions fo…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 10:10AMTuesday, June 26, 2007
JOIN Nick, Emma and our 10th new presenter, Martin Ball, for this week's show. We discuss everything from Martin's role in the London production of Wicked, to critics and The Drowsy Chaperon…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 12:55PMTuesday, June 19, 2007
WE'RE JOINED by guest interviewer Jenifer Toksvig who interviews guests Bonnie Langford and Sandi Toksvig. They discuss all things musical theatre and we also discuss The Drowsy Chaperone, r…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 07:44AMWednesday, June 13, 2007
IT'S JUDY'S BIRTHDAY. Thos, Tim and Nick delve into The Wizard of Oz - and the career of its star, Judy Garland. Also, Dom and Kate return to discuss their trip to see a new children's music…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 07:31PMTuesday, June 5, 2007
MUSICALS FOR CHILDREN - exactly what falls into this category and what doesn't? Nick, Emma and Dom talk about this issue as well as offering a bit of reflective commentary about The Lord of …
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 11:56AMWednesday, May 30, 2007
GEORGE STILES AND ANTHONY DREWE are Britain's currently most successful musical writing team. Since winning the Vivian Ellis prize in 1985 for Just So, their 'ugly duckling' musical Honk! an…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 04:02PMThursday, May 24, 2007
THE EPIC MUSICAL version of J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece is about to open in London after weeks of techs, a rebuild of the Drury Lane Stage and a famous tryout in Toronto. Nick, Tim, Dom and…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 12:48PMThursday, May 17, 2007
OK, SO Kiss of the Spiderwoman isn't a superhero musical; it just sort of sounds like it could be. And OK, so the version currently playing at the Donmar isn't the Kander and Ebb musical, bu…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 06:21PMTuesday, May 8, 2007
POPULAR MUSICALTALK guest turns presenter as we welcome Emma Williams to the MusicalTalk studio. Many topics are discussed in this entertaining episode such as The King and I, how one record…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 06:17AMMonday, April 30, 2007
THOS TALKS about An American in Paris. Our listener, Steve, reviews the last Kander and Ebb, Curtains, now on Broadway. Tim reviews the Finborough Theatre production of Adam Guettel's Myths …
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 09:51PMTuesday, April 24, 2007
CONTINUING ON with Nick's adventures in Orlando, he discusses a marvellous theme park stage production he saw - but not one from Disney or Universal. Tim, Nick and Thos also talk about their…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 03:54PMTuesday, April 17, 2007
NICK'S BACK from his holidays in Orlando, where he saw The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin, one of several productions all over the States. Thos br…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 05:05PMTuesday, April 10, 2007
SPANNING THE HISTORY of musical theatre, our Easter episode begins with a discussion of the Irving Berlin 'jukebox musical' Easter Parade; the updates bring news of revivals of forgotten mus…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 01:31PMWednesday, April 4, 2007
WE'RE PLAYING AWAY! We join our Celebrity Guest Presenter, Jonathan Cohen, in his lovely front room and he takes to the ivories to help us talk about MDing, incandescent minims and anything …
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 09:31PMSunday, March 25, 2007
EEK - NICK'S AWAY! Can Tim and Thos work all the levers in the MusicalTalk studio? We have the second half of the Jen Toksvig interview and Nick will join us virtually for a pre-recorded cha…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 08:52PMTuesday, March 20, 2007
DOM AND NICK discuss Miss Saigon and its Fillipina star Lea Salonga. Tim talks about The Harder They Come (playing at the Theatre Royal Stratford East) and interviews lyricist/bookrwriter an…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 02:23PM 
