In part one of this double-header, Simon-Anthony Rhoden and Oliver Tompsett talked about their first experience of Kinky Boots and what it means to be playing in such a loved (and socially important) show. In this episode, we dig a little deeper and get a little more personal as the boys relate how close to their hearts this show has grown, how important they believe the show’s message is and what they will individually take away from their time in Kinky Boots. Learn more about your ad choices. ...
Jan 04, 2019•22 min•Ep. 109
This is going to be a two-parter, with part two coming out this Friday, so listen out for that...but to start it all off, Kinky Boots' Simon Anthony-Rhoden and Oliver Tomsett sat down with me just before Christmas to talk about all things Kinky from their first experience of Kinky Boots, to stepping into the big boots of those who went before them to just what it means to be playing in such a loved (and socially important) show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 01, 2019•24 min•Ep. 108
This week, to celebrate the holidays, I thought I would bring you one of my favourite Christmas stories. I have had the pleasure of reading an adaptation this story on BBC radio a few years back and, in my opinion, this sums up everything that we should all be, not only at this time of year but all year round. Selfless, giving, loving and grateful. So sit back and please enjoy the timeless tale, “The Gift of the Magi” written in 1905 by American author, O. Henry Learn more about your ad choices....
Dec 23, 2018•20 min•Ep. 107
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Andy Nyman (Tevye) before a show at London's Menier Chocolate Factory to talk about his journey to Anatevka, the setting of Fiddler on the Roof, the importance of the story (and not just to the Jewish population) and his personal emotional investment into this production. We were also joined by Paul Bogaev, the Emmy and Grammy winning musical director of Fiddler, who just happened to be walking through the foyer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
Dec 19, 2018•38 min•Ep. 105
This week, we talk to co-founders of Showstoppers Dylan Emery and Adam Meggido, as well as the musical director, Duncan Walsh Atkins...who’s job is to keep up with the lightning fast improv taking place on stage and to somehow come up with any number of musical styles from across the ages at the drop of a hat… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 05, 2018•25 min•Ep. 104
Last week we brought you the first part of a two-part episode with Polly Bennett, the movement director behind Rami Malek’s breathtaking transformation into Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury for the hit film Bohemian Rhapsody. This week, we really wanted to delve deep into her passion project and full time job as creator of The Monobox. The Monobox is one of the best resources around for “emerged” actors, a word that Polly is owning...and to be honest, I love! Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Nov 20, 2018•25 min•Ep. 103
In the first part of a two-part discussion, we speak to Polly Bennett - a woman who has taken the idea and profession of Movement Director to new heights. In addition to being a superwoman running a business that supports artists, she worked with the RSC before going on to work at multiple Olympics ceremonies and top notch cross-over directors like Sam Mendes, who she worked with directly after Bohemian Rhapsody on the absolutely thrilling “Lehman Trilogy” at the National Theatre. Learn more abo...
Nov 13, 2018•41 min•Ep. 102
This week, we sit down with the writer of the world premiere of "Omish" - written by former Curtain Call employee Sophie Soanes and directed by Ewa Dina, as well of two of its cast members Joyce Omotola and Naomi Emanuelle at Above the Arts Club last week. We were super impressed by the enthusiasm at which this group of women was attacking the problems of not only putting on a play in London, but also starting a production company. All the while keeping their day jobs...and their sanity… Learn m...
Nov 06, 2018•26 min•Ep. 101
During the final week of Jonathan Munby's production of King Lear at the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End, we talk to King Lear company members Michael Matus, James Corrigan, Richard Clews, Anthony Howell, John Hastings, John Vernon, Scott Sparrow, James Millard, Caleb Roberts, Jake Mann, Johanne Murdock and Jessica Murrain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2018•21 min•Ep. 100
The John Lyons Theatre is located in Covent Garden within the CityLit building on Keeley Street between Holborn and Covent Garden tube stations. I sat down with Carys and asked her speak about what’s on offer there, both in continuing professional development opportunities for the theatre professional, but also about the history of the theatre, their recent productions and just how you can use this facility for a upcoming project yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...
Oct 09, 2018•22 min•Ep. 99
Milly Thomas doesn’t pull any punches in either her acting or her writing, and her latest play "Dust" tackles the issue of depression and suicide head on with no apologies. In one of our most honest chats to date, I sat down with Milly Thomas to talk to her about the genesis of her show, its journey to the West End, and all of the emotions contained therein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 02, 2018•35 min•Ep. 98
Kirsty Bushell, Claire Price and Anita-Joy Uwajeh, who play Lear's daughters had more to offer including a number of cast changes. Nearly half of the company are new to the production which can be tricky. We also touched upon the political aspects of the play - something which Sinead Cusack also had a bit to say about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 25, 2018•23 min•Ep. 97
Curated by The Mono Box's Polly Bennett, the panel's discussion were kicked off by two questions about mental health and issues of self-worth. Those two questions took half an hour to address, and I thought I would let you listen to how the conversation unfolded. I found it fascinating, and hopefully you will, too. It is apparent that we, in this industry, find it very hard to talk about how we are feeling, and yet we are expected to bare our souls in front of a camera or audience. Learn more ab...
Sep 19, 2018•43 min•Ep. 96
This week, Matt Humphrey and I sat down to talk with Vicki Mortimer, multi-award-winning designer...and just all round fantastic theatre professional. Vicki’s career is so full and varied, it’s one to be envied for anyone considering a career in theatre design. And not just theatre as we speak about it on day to day, but any production in a theatre. Musicals, drama, dance, opera, ballet...you name it, she has designed it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 12, 2018•31 min•Ep. 95
The company of the National Theatre's production of "Julie" talk about how exciting it is bringing this 19th Century Swedish classic to the 21st Century London and being able to share it beyond the walls of the National Theatre's home on the South Bank to cinemas around the globe in their NT Live broadcast on the 6th of September 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 04, 2018•16 min•Ep. 94
Theo Bosanquet talks to George Richmond Scott about his career as a vocal coach, how that role has helped him develop as a director, his time at the Sheffield Crucible, assisting on “Everybody’s Talking about Jamie”, why he chose “Blood Wedding” as his next project and why he set it in London in this reimagining of the piece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 22, 2018•29 min•Ep. 93
We chat to London's Bring it On! company members Robin McIntyre (who plays super-earnest Campbell) and Isabella Pappas (who plays super-bitchy Skylar) along with musical director Chris Ma before the show at the Southwark Playhouse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2018•22 min•Ep. 92
This week, I talk to the company of the latest revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice which begins playing at The Park Theatre later this month, where the director Tom Latter believes that, despite being nearly 30 years old, the play absolutely stands up in today’s fame-crazed social media driven world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 07, 2018•32 min•Ep. 91
Listen to John Goodman, Uzo Aduba and Michael C Hall share their experiences from the London stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 10, 2018•21 min•Ep. 90
We sat down with Rafe Spall and talked about Ivo van Hove’s Hedda Gabler rehearsal process, the intricacies of trying to look cool at all times on stage, avoiding slip ups on rose petals (you’ll have to listen to see what I mean) and just what it takes to come back to the stage as not only a theatre professional, but a theatre professional with a young family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 03, 2018•15 min•Ep. 89
For the last 30 years, the Stage Management Association (SMA)has been presenting awards to the Stage Managers - students and professionals alike - with awards that recognise their hard work through hardship, misstep and mishap, hard work that ensured that the shows would go on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 19, 2018•21 min•Ep. 88
We sat down with one of the founders of The Stable Musicals, Neil Marcus, a theatre producer with a distinguished history of developing new musicals and a massive supporter of emerging British musical theatre talent to discuss the growth of The Stable Musicals, their slate of new musicals and just how far they have come in the last four years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 12, 2018•20 min•Ep. 87
The Factory is a theatre company like no other. No sets, no props, no blocking, no set cast, no auditions, open rehearsals...you name the theatrical convention and they are tearing it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 29, 2018•52 min•Ep. 86
I went to go see a show, as they say in the business. And that show was “Building The Wall” at The Park Theatre. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan’s hard-hitting piece. I got to speak to Angela and Trevor about their thoughts on the play at the Park Theatre, performing in front of major theatre stars, the immediacy of this new piece and what keeps bringing them back to the theatre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
May 22, 2018•32 min•Ep. 85
Earlier in the year, we had the pleasure to visit the incredible show An American in Paris. I don’t think we have covered a show that was so full of triple threats… and maybe even quadruple threats - singing, acting, dancing, and stage management / technicians. There was so little in the way of automation of set pieces coming on, it was dazzling to see so much movement from the company, pushing and pulling, in between incredibly complicated singing and even more complicated dance numbers…. Learn...
May 15, 2018•22 min•Ep. 84
Curtain Call co-founder, Matt Humphrey, sat down with multiple award-winning lighting designer Paule Constable to talk about the proposed EU regulations, the huge implications they bring and explain in simple terms what it means for the industry here in the UK and across Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 01, 2018•25 min•Ep. 83
We sat down with Sean Kingsley, Sanne Den Besten and Louis Maskell about how hard it is to place and describe The Grinning Man, (the musical transfer from The Bristol Old Vic to Trafalgar Studios), working with puppets and keeping the voice in fine working order in one of toughest sings on stage at the moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 24, 2018•24 min•Ep. 82
In this episode Lesley Manville, Jeremy Irons, Rory Keenan, Matthew Beard and Jessica Regan talk about their experience of bringing the classic Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night from the Bristol Old Vic to the Wyndham's Theatre in the West End before their trip across the Atlantic to BAM in New York and the Wallis Centre in Los Angeles. Curtain Call Show Page Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 10, 2018•21 min•Ep. 81
Listen to Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Matt Cardle, Denise Gough and Lesley Manville talk about their love of theatre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 27, 2018•25 min•Ep. 80
I want to give you guys the experience that we have when we go backstage. And no better an example to be in one of the boys’ dressing rooms of Giovanni Spano, Patrick Sullivan and Dom Hartley-Harris during a quick break while “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is blaring out of the tannoy. You can hear mid-show vocal chord steaming, working out and having a light snack…this is what it takes them to get through this huge sing of a show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...
Mar 20, 2018•17 min•Ep. 79
