MusicalTalk - The UK's Independent Musical Theatre Podcast

Nick sits down with the delightful Lotte Wakeham to discuss her career path from student to associate director of Matilda.

Hear the songs from - and the stories behind - MusicalTalk's 2013 Pick of the Fringe, the brilliant Take It Interns.  And if that wasn't enough Thos investigates Forest Boy and Avenue Q and hears how one of the hits of last year's Fringe is back on the road as the 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee starts a national tour.  We Like It A Lot!

As the 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee goes on a nationwide tour, Thos talks to some of the cast of this wonderful show including a saucy chat with the lovely Niki Evans, star of Legally Blonde, Blood Brothers and of course The X Factor!

Scoff a slice of the fun and funny side of this year's Fringe, as Thos giggles with gladness about the Jake Thackray tribute show, Lah di Dah, and then gurgles with glee as he meets the people behind both the brilliant That Was Your Life, and the sure-fire copper-bottomed Grade-A five-star comedy musical treat, Snakes! The Musical.  If you don't enjoy this, you're dead!

Join Thos as he investigates four shows with powerful, sometimes deadly, women at their heart as he explores some of the best named shows from this year's Fringe: Kiss of the Spider Woman, A Body to Diet For, John Rawls' A Theory of Justice the Musical! and Lysistrata: the Disco, Vaudeville, Roll'n'Roll Musical.

David Herzog has a quick chat with composer and writer Elliot Davis about his upcoming evening of music entitled "Collaborations," featuring songs co-written with Anthony Drewe, George Stiles, Graham Gouldman, Stephen Clark, Sam Kenyon and James Bourne.

History has all the best stories and this week Thos helps prove it as he dissects and delights in two marvellous musicals bringing the stories and characters from the past to life is song and dance.  Enjoy conversation about - and songs from - Armada and Gilbert and Sullivan The Musical and discover how a modern musical approach can bring the dead to life! Clappy clappy!

Thos talks to the people behind four brilliant but very different musical shows - each of which is framed and presented in an unusual way: None of your run-of-the-mill traditional musicals, hear all about Get Got, Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision, 35MM: A Musical Exhibition and [title of show] and enjoy the variety and versatility of modern musical theatre!

David Herzog sits down with the director and star of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, now playing at the Leicester Square Theatre in London.

Thos talks to the people behind three wonderful shows about relationships and the stresses and strains that they can come under.  Hear about suicide, sexual love, adolescence, hen nights, pencils, God, the Devil and Sondheim as Thos chats about Adam and Eve the Musical, Merrily We Roll Along and Blood Ties - just three of the fantastic shows at this year's fringe!

Whilst giving very little away, Nick Hutson talks to Dominic Lindesay-Bethune about Punchdrunk's new production The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable; Punchdrunk's biggest production to date. A huge immersive theatre production playing taking place at "Temple Studios" in Paddington. Will Nick convince Dom to see this production?

David Herzog talks to fellow company members Hollie Cassar, Ricardo Castro, andKimberley Ensor, as well as director and producer Catherine Lomax about the Stevenage production.

Join Caroline and Jen as they talk to singer-songwriter Nadim Naaman's new album: "We Want All The Same", due for release on 23rd August! For more information, visit http://nadim.auburnjam.co.uk.

As the Edinburgh Festival Fringe heads into its last week, there's still time to see musicals to suit all tastes - and so to help you with your selection, Thos offers up a wide-ranging collection of interview snippets about his choice of best musicals - including his five and four star rated shows and the MusicalTalk Pick of the Fringe.  Listen and go!

Emma Howe, Shaun McCourt, and Hayley Guild talk with David Herzog about the upcoming Giggin 4 Good concert at the Actors' Church in Covent Garden, a show featuring West End stars performing musical theatre standards with proceeds benefiting Great Ormond Street.

Join Jen Green and Caroline Wigmore as they sit down with Thom Sutherland at the Southwark Playhouse to discuss the musical of Titanic - currently playing there until 31st August 2013

Thos has the pleasure of talking to the hugely talented Dougal Irvine about his fantastic new musical, "The Other  School" and how Sondheim's famous maxim "content dictates form" has guided him.  Cue wreaths of creepy fog, Scooby Doo!

It's all Edinburgh and London in this absolutely capital episode.  Join Thos for all the fun of [Title of Show] and Take It, Interns - both currently wowing audiences at the Fringe in Edinburgh - and in London Jen and Caroline find out more about The Color Purple.  Or Colour, if you prefer!  Stagey!

The world's largest arts festival starts this week and to mark the fact, Thos talks to the delightful Sue Casson, about her latest show which premieres at the Fringe, the enigmatic and haunting Albion Forlorn.  A torch song for a broken society perhaps, but also a balm for the thoughtful!

David Herzog investigates the world of choral music as he talks to Re:Sound Music Theatre, the company putting on the intriguingly beautiful Battles Within and Without, a new piece of music theatre exploring human conflict and the resulting external struggles on the battlefield and the inner turmoil of the heart.

It's here – Britain's first dedicated musical theatre festival arrives in the fine city of York this week and Thos gets talking to the people behind it all! Hear how it started, what's on, and how some of the shows came to be – and don't forget to get along to see it! 

Britain's first dedicated musical theatre festival has arrived - it's in York and it is new but it's not New York! Join Thos as he finds out more!

To honour all the volunteers who kindly offered their services for free during last year's London Olympics, there is a concert in The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on July 19th to celebrate their efforts.  One section of this concert is a 10 minute West End Musical celebration, during which Lauren Samuels, Jodie Prenger, Ricardo Alfonso and a choir (made up of Arts Educational students and alumni)...

It's marvellous!  It's magnificent!  It's mighty! It's slightly contrived around the letter "M"!  Join Tim and Thos as they mine the meaning of musicals,  make merry with minutiae, and muck around with Musical Husbands!