MusicalTalk - The UK's Independent Musical Theatre Podcast
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MusicalTalk - The UK's Independent Musical Theatre Podcast
We are a weekly podcast devoted to bringing you news, views, reviews, interviews and much more content devoted to musical theatre and film. We discuss composers, writers, actors, theatres and shows and encourage listeners to join in. Visit our site at musicaltalk.co.uk
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Episode 938: EdFringe 2026 - War of the Worlds (On a Budget) Redux
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 is here! Hoorah! It's the biggest arts festival in the world and MusicalTalk is there - as always - to see what's o...
Episode 937: From Smiles to Sandworms - Why Annie Works (and Beetlejuice Doesn't)
Nick and Hannah head to the theatre for two of the biggest musical revivals currently touring the UK—but come away with very different reactions.
Episode 936: Savoy! Everybody's Doing It!
In this episode of MusicalTalk, it's time to join Thos as he stomps at the Savoy - and perhaps not just stomp! So take a sophisticated interwar sensi...
Episode 935: Breaking into Song with Edward Easton in Flo and Joan's One Man Musical
Edward Easton never imagined his next role would see him leading a musical. With no previous musical theatre experience, taking on One Man Musical was...
Episode 934: Going Wild! – Craig Crowton and The Animal Guyz
What do you get when you combine theatre, spectacular puppetry, conservation, comedy and a whole host of incredible animals? Nick Hutson finds out as...
Episode 933: War & Musicals - Untold Wars
MusicalTalk continues its exploration of the many and varied ways that war and conflict can be portrayed in the world of musical theatre. This week,...
Episode 932: War & Musicals - Enigma
Join Thos as he continues his look at the amazingly varied way that musical theatre has approached war and its consequences. This week he revisits Eni...
Episode 931: War & Musicals - Alfie
One of the many paradoxes of war is that it often generates a surprisingly rich cultural output and when musical theatre decides to tackle the subject...
Episode 930: The Bear, the Puppets and the Mockumentary
On this week's episode of MusicalTalk, Nick and Robert dive into a trio of very different theatrical experiences!
Robert shares his thoughts on...
Episode 929: The Breadth of Broadway - Part 2
Colm and Thos are back to discuss two more diverse musical theatre gems from Colm's recent visit to Broadway: Ragtime and Maybe Happy Ending - one mus...
Episode 928: The Breadth of Broadway - Part 1
The Great White Way is still the centre of the musical theatre universe, and so it's no wonder that Colm's been filling his Broadway boots and is burs...
Episode 927: High School Musical...Talk
On this episode of MusicalTalk, Nick Hutson experiences a cultural phenomenon for the very first time: High School Musical. Joining him is Hannah, a d...
MusicalTalk Mini 73: Revisiting Avenue Q
Nick revisits Avenue Q at the Shaftesbury Theatre for its 20th anniversary—and discovers a show that's traded shock value for something warmer, wiser,...
Episode 926: The Final Timeline - Back to the Future Closes
Nick, Chris and Nikki fire up the flux capacitor one last time as they attend the final performance of the London production of Back to the Future: Th...
Episode 925: Mad About the Boys: Novello, Coward and Porter (part 2)
Join Thos for more about Mad About The Boys - A Marvellous Party, Wela Kapela Productions' five star EdFringe Cabaret that tells the tales, and sings...
Episode 924: Mad About the Boys: Novello, Coward and Porter (part 1)
MusicalTalk marks the 75th anniversary of the death of Ivor Novello, one of the greatest British musical theatre writers of the 20th Century in opulan...
MusicalTalk Mini 73: David Herzog on OUR TOWN
After many, many years, MusicalTalk Mini returns!
In this revived short-form format, David Herzog brings his expert eye to the Welsh National Th...
Episode 923: Into the Woods, Out to Sea… and Into the Choir: When Musicals Get Lost
In this episode of MusicalTalk, Nick and Hannah take a candid and wide-ranging look at four very different theatrical experiences: Titanique, The Litt...
Episode 922: Adapting Monte Cristo: Stephen Weiner on His New Musical
In this episode, presenter Michael Gordon Shapiro speaks with multi-award-winning composer Stephen Weiner about his newest musical project: an adaptat...
Episode 921: From Mosh Pit to Orchestra Pit (Feat. SVALBARD's Serena Cherry)
What happens when a screamo guitarist and singer falls down the musical theatre rabbit hole? Nick Hutson is joined by Serena Cherry, whose musical jou...
Episode 920: Shining in Misery - A Stephen King Sized Parody!
Nick is joined by composer (and friend of the podcast) Andy Abrams and director Gary Lloyd to talk all things Shining in Misery, following its UK prem...
Episode 919: Sondheim Was Alive in 2025
Yes, Sondheim was alive and kicking in 2025, at least so far as his works and legacy were concerned because in London alone, you could have seen Road...
Episode 918: They Can't Take That Year Away From Me!
The "LeDorean" is polished, the flux capacitor is fluxing and Thos and Nick are ready to take MusicalTalk somewhere very specific in the timeline — th...
Episode 917: Stranger Sings! The Musical Parody
Thos takes a trip back to the town of Hawkins, Indiana in 1983 where times were simpler, hair was bigger (much bigger) and and unsupervised children w...
Episode 916: From Page to Stage: Creating SEA WITCH
This week on MusicalTalk, Nick is joined by Michael David Glover, the book writer of SEA WITCH, playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Sunday 1st...
Episode 915: From Our Canadian Correspondent
Come From Away undoubtedly put Canada on the global musical theatre map, but this fine, independent and creative nation has a long tradition of writin...
Episode 914: Singing with Nureyev and Living with Lerner: Liz Robertson Interview.
Nick welcomes the legendary Liz Robertson to MusicalTalk for a wide-ranging and intimate conversation spanning a remarkable life in musical theatre. M...
Episode 913: Holding Space for Wicked - Magic or Misdirection?
With the dust now well and truly settled, Nick sits down with Ruby – a self-confessed Wicked obsessive – to take a long look back at the two film adap...
Episode 912: One Year More: A MusicalTalk Theatre Year in Review.
Nick and Hannah look back on a theatre-stuffed 2025, chatting through the shows they saw, loved, questioned and are still thinking about. From West En...
Episode 911: Merry Quizmas and a Happy New Earful for 2026
It's Christmas again - but didn't we have one twelve months ago? Well, just in case Dame Shirley Bassey is correct and it all just a little bit of hi...
Episode 910: The Stage in 1925
Travel back one hundred years as MusicalTalk looks at the world of theatre and musical theatre in late 1925 through the prism of the trade press of th...
Episode 909: Mad for The Queen is Mad
Join Thos as he talks to the cast and writers of the stunning five star show, The Queen is Mad, about the early 16th Century Spanish monarch known to...
Episode 908: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme ABBACADABRA! (The First ABBA Musical)
This week on MusicalTalk, Nick Hutson and Andrew Keating uncover a forgotten gem of musical theatre history as they sit down with the legendary David...
Episode 907: The Real Housewives of the Zombie Apocalypse
By Zeus! It's time for MusicalTalks's celebration of our Pick of the Fringe 2025 - the arrestingly titled (and genuinely brilliant) The Real Housewive...
Episode 906: Two Soups and a Revival - Acorn Antiques Returns
This week on MusicalTalk, Nick and Dom sit down to celebrate one of British musical theatre's most brilliantly bonkers gems: Acorn Antiques.
Wit...
Episode 905: Five, Six, Seven, Elf!
✨ Pop nostalgia meets festive cheer in this lively, laugh-filled episode of MusicalTalk! ✨
This week, Nick and Andrew take a nostalgic step ba...
Episode 904: Songs of the People
Join Thos as he revisits a conversation with celebrated songwriter Sue Casson about her seminal musical masterwork, Dreams of Peace and Freedom, curre...
Episode 903: Revisiting Just William: Two Decades On
In this reflective episode of MusicalTalk, Nick sits down with Thos to revisit his musical adaptation of Richmal Crompton's classic British short stor...
Episode 902: Lofty Musical Discoveries - Rediscovering the Joy of Old CDs, Tapes and Vinyl.
A digital disaster leads Thos to dig out his old CD collection — and rediscover a world of musicals he'd long forgotten. Nick joins him for a nostalgi...
Episode 901: EdFringe 2025 - The Final Round-Up
Join Colm and Thos as they again look at some of the shows you could have seen at this year's EdFringe - including the Queen is Mad, Hot Mess, Annie,...