Curtain Call Podcast
by Broadway Podcast Network
From the dresser in the wings the A-list star in the dressing room; from the production manager putting the tour together to the sound mixer out front at Glastonbury...hear what it really takes to make an event happen and immerse yourself into the world of entertainment across the cultural landscape from London’s West End to the American desert and Burning Man. Experience a creative's life as you never have before with unparalleled access to the events you love.
Episodes
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Welcome to the Rock: 25th Anniversary Commemoration Re-release Episode 6
I know we’ve released these for the 20th anniversary, but this is a monumental time to reflect on the last quarter-century. A period where life sometimes doesn’t seem to have got much better. The story of Gander is such a feel-good story. Come From Away is a feel-good musical. Welcome to the Rock...
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Welcome to the Rock: 25th Anniversary Commemoration Re-release Episode 5
I know we’ve released these for the 20th anniversary, but this is such a monumental time to reflect on the last quarter of a century. A period where life sometimes doesn’t seem to have got much better. The story of Gander is such a feel-good story. Come From Away is a feel good musical. Welcome…
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Welcome to the Rock: 25th Anniversary Commemoration Re-release Episode 4
I know we’ve released these for the 20th anniversary, but this is such a monumental time to reflect on the last quarter of a century. A period where life sometimes doesn’t seem to have got much better. The story of Gander is such a feel-good story. Come From Away is a feel good musical. Welcome…
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Welcome to the Rock: 25th Anniversary Commemoration Re-release Episode 3
I know we’ve released these for the 20th anniversary, but this is such a monumental time to reflect on the last quarter of a century. A period where life sometimes doesn’t seem to have got much better. The story of Gander is such a feel-good story. Come From Away is a feel good musical. Welcome…
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Welcome to the Rock: 25th Anniversary Commemoration Re-release Episode 2
I know we’ve released these for the 20th anniversary, but this is such a monumental time to reflect on the last quarter of a century. A period where life sometimes doesn’t seem to have got much better. The story of Gander is such a feel-good story. Come From Away is a feel good musical. Welcome…
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Welcome to the Rock: 25th Anniversary Commemoration Re-release
I know we’ve released these for the 20th anniversary, but this is such a monumental time to reflect on the last quarter of a century. A period where life sometimes doesn’t seem to have got better. We’ve had wars, which seem endless. We’ve had political turmoil across the nation. We’ve suffered...
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179 - Desmonda Cathabel: Mary Magdalene
My fears of suffering by comparison were quashed within the first minute of this highly entertaining, beautifully sung (with musical direction by Tom Scutt) and astonishingly choreographed (kudos to Drew McOnie) production. The original revival at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in 2016 was just…
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178 - Guys & Dolls Revival at The Bridge...Cast Change Special with Jonathan Andrew Hume
Today, we have both a returning guest and a returning show…although not what you’d expect. Listeners of this podcast will remember Jonathan Andrew Hume from the original London Cast of the Olivier Award winning best musical “Come From Away” as one of the Kevins. He was brilliant in that show…and...
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177 - The Wrong Cat Died with Mike Abrams
This is PART ONE of a TWO-PARTER. Listen to The Wrong Cat Died via the links below for the companion episode to this episode. Mike Abrams is the creator and host of the theatre podcast “The Wrong Cat Died’. Originally conceived as a 10-part mini series, he’s now over 150 episodes in and going...
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176 - Same Day Plays with Markus Flannagan
This is an attempt to answer the age old theatre questions; “Is it possible to remove expectations and worry over results and create theater that is pure execution? Is there a way to insure that every artist works only from their instinct in creating a play?” Hmm… So what if an evening was…
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175 - Anoushka Lucas. Star of U.Me: The Complete Musical
This week, i chat to Olivier Award nominee Anoushka Lucas - actree, playwright, singer, songwriter, composer...I mean, she's defining multi-hyphenate We first had Anoushka on the podcast in 2016 when she starred in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regents Park Open Air Theatre - a critically acclaimed...
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174 - 1979 at the Finborough Theatre
To kick off 2024, and what seems like a year of non-stop elections…USA Presidential elections, General Election here in the UK as well as a Russian Election (if you can actually call it that)...less of that, the better, I watched 1979 at the Finborough Theatre. A scathing satire of the Canadian...
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Annual Christmas Episode #5
This week, we bring you another dose of cheer in the form of our annual Christmas podcast. In the past, I have asked some of my theatrical friends to read out a classic Christmas story, with past readers such as West End stalwart Siobhan Harrison and The Walking Dead star Eleanor Matsura. This...
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172 - untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play & Lourdes Faberes
This week I’m chatting with a dear friend of mine Lourdes Faberes. You may have seen Lourdes in Sandman or The Power or No Time to Die or Good Omens or…I could go on!!!! She’s an incredible actor. Lourdes is currently appearing in untitled f**k m*ss s**gon play at The Young Vic in London. Kimber...
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171 - A Strange Loop
This week, I sat down with Sharlene Hector, who plays Thought 1. But you may recognize the voice as Sharlene is the lead vocalist for the band Basement Jaxx and appeared in the West End production of Hairspray.. But Sharlene can also be heard providing backing vocals for artists such as Alicia...
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170 - Akta Photography's Charlie Frances
This week I am talking to a photographer who really is changing the game when it comes to headshots and self-tapes. When I came across Charlie Frances and his AKTA photography, that is A-K-T-A and their model of a “pay what you can” for those who see a professional headshot as a barrier to entry…
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169 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A New Musical
There’s a new show in town, but born a few years ago… pretty much like the main character in this astonishing musical. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is currently playing at the Southwark Playhouse: Elephant (not to be confused with the Southwark Playhouse Borough) . First appearing in…
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168 - Word Theatre's Founder and Artistic Director, Cedering Fox
Cedering Fox is an internationally accomplished voice over artist. However, her most incredible achievement is Founding Word Theatre way back in 2003. Along with Kirsty Peart here in the UK, Word Theatre and Cedering have been casting top film, TV and theatre actors in readings of works by the...
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167 - Maybe, Probably - UK Premiere
This week, I’m chatting with cast and some of the creative team behind the world premiere of Eric Henry Sanders’ play Maybe Probably - a play about two couples as they navigate the hilarious waters of preparing to have a baby, or recently having one. We’re all either the product of this or have...
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166 - Cottage
Cottage is a gripping comic drama that has so many themes bubbling underneath the facade of two men meeting up in a public toilet. It goes beyond a queer story and commands the audience’s attention and asks questions of the viewer’s thoughts into human relationships and their deeply complicated...
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165 - Beautiful Nothing
Earlier in the year, i was honoured to be asked to judge the 2022 Durham Drama Festival at Durham University in the UK. It was an incredible 3 days of workshops, talks, networking events…but most importantly new theatre written, directed and performed by the incredible talent pool of students at...
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164 - Kray Kray! Code of Silence, with actor Ronan Summers and Director Ben Mole
Director Ben Mole has put together an incredible ensemble cast for his latest project, "Code of Silence" - a feature film surrounding the events that led to the arrest and incarceration of the legendary London gangland bosses, the Kray Twins, Imagine my shock at hearing good friend, the American...
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Curtain Call Pioneers: Andrew Bishop, BishopSound
in our Pioneer series, we’re going to be highlighting the companies that are getting the live events industries back to business and who’ve been supporting the freelancers and professionals that found themselves unable to make a living in the sector due to the pandemic. Andrew Bishop - of...
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163 - Sunset Boulevard at the Royal Albert Hall / Stephen Sondheim Tribute
Alex Parker is a musical director, composer, conductor...you name it, if it has anything to do with music or musicals, Alex is all over it..and now he has his own orchestra, to boot! Alex is the musical director on a massive concert presentation of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical Sunset Boulevard in...
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162 - When The Lights Are Bright Again
Andrew Norlen is a New York-based artist and performer, most recently on stage in the national touring company of Broadway’s Kinky Boots. During lockdown, when Andrew was at a loss as to what his performing career was going to look like when things opened up, if indeed they were ever going to…
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161 - Screen 9, Pleasance Theatre
In July 2012, a gunman opened fire on a cinema audience that had just sat down to watch a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora Colorado killing 12. Writer/Director Kate Barton, actors Hannah Schunk-Hockings, David Austin Barnes as well as original designer Matthew Jennings take…
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Welcome to the Rock - Anniversary Special
The Come From Away team didn’t want to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the events of September 11th 2001, without sitting down with the current West End company and really drilling down into their personal experiences of that day. Come From Away tells the story of how the inhabitants of a...
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Welcome to the Rock - Ep 2
“Welcome to the Rock!” is a behind the curtain peek of the multi-award winning musical Come From Away - and what it takes to get a show from a seed of an idea all the way to a Broadway hit and beyond. In this episode, meet the real inhabitants of Gander, Newfoundland and the Come From Away’s that...
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Welcome to the Rock - Ep 1
“Welcome to the Rock!” is a behind the curtain look at the musical hit Come From Away. Listen to the incredible real-life story of the passengers from all over the world that were grounded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland in the wake of the events of 9/11. In the first episode, the...
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160 - Grace Aki, Actress, Comedienne, Podcaster
Listeners to Broadway Radio’s “Today on Broadway” will recognise Grace, as she has recently joined the line up alongside Matt Tamanini and Ashley Stevens. Grace Aki is an actress, stand up comedienne and podcaster in her own right - you can find her podcast “Tell Me on a Sunday” on all good...
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159 - The Wardrobe Esnsemble
This week’s guests are Bristol's The Wardrobe Ensemble - a group of young theatre makers who met whilst studying drama. They create new pieces that explore modern themes through intimate storytelling, with the Wardrobe Ensembles’ nine core members garnering praise up and down the country for…
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Ghost Shows: Episode 4 - Restoration
2021 had felt like a beacon of hope, and the new year promised the restart we were all waiting for. But as the year ticked over, shows programmed for the new year, for Spring for Summer even well into the future that started to feel uncertain, then impossible, and inevitably, they were cancelled...
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Ghost Shows: Episode 3 - Hope
In the attempt to resurrect live theatre while navigating constantly shifting terrain, how far can hope get you? How do you make theatre when the world keeps changing, when time keeps collapsing, when the earth beneath your feet keeps sinking into bog? And how do you communicate with a government...
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Ghost Shows Call Out
While we wait for Episode 3 to drop (20th April 2021), we'd like to know if you were taking part in a "Ghost Show"
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Easter Trailer
Enjoy your Easter Holiday. Stay safe. Be kind. Listen next week for details on how you can get involved in a very special episode of Ghost Shows.
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Ghost Shows: Episode 2 - Lockdown
Ghost Shows follows the shows that were conceived, programmed and even rehearsed in 2020 but were closed down before they’d even opened. This is not a historical document - this is an emotional record of the first few months of lockdown. This is our untold story. If you haven’t listened to the...
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Ghost Shows: Episode 1 - 16 March, 2020
A year on from theatres closing their doors, ‘Ghost Shows’ asks what happened to the shows that were created, rehearsed and tech'ed but never lived in front of audiences? Presented by freelance opera director, Adele Thomas, the series features interviews with freelance performers, stage...
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Freelancers Make: A Theatre Podcast Ep 3
Sally Beck Wippman, an American Director, had just moved back to the UK a few months before the pandemic sent the country into lockdown. Far from family, and without an established place in the UK theatre community, she found solace in Freelancers Make Theatre Work - and the Migrants in Theatre...
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Freelancers Make: A Theatre Podcast Ep 2
In this episode, Lighting Designer Prema Mehta returns to Storyhouse during the pandemic to reflect on previous experiences there, and also to show what a theatre freelancer feels like when they are no longer able to go into work with theatres shut. Prema has designed the lighting for over 200...
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Annual Christmas Episode #4
We thought we’d bring you a little bit of cheer in the form of our annual Christmas podcast. This year we turn our ears towards the creator of the world of The Wizard of Oz which, of course, begat the megahit musical “Wicked”. In this slightly different Christmas tale by L Frank Baum, Santa...
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Freelancers Make: A Theatre Podcast Ep 1
Paule is an Olivier and Tony award-winning freelance lighting designer. She is an associate director of the National Theatre and of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. She has worked on shows like Ocean at the End of the Lane, Angels in America, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Les...
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Freelancers Make: A Theatre Podcast - Trailer
A little bite-size morsel of what's to come from the Freelancers Make Theatre team. A fantastic insight into the world of theatre in lockdown and it's anticipated return.
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No Pressure Podcast - George MacKay
No Pressure is all about artists, freelancers, creatives and creators like George MacKay - the people that make things happen, who are up against it every day, and work tirelessly behind the scenes (and as in George’s case) in front of the camera too. This podcast was recorded at the tail end of...
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158 - The Survival Tour Success
We catch up with Proper Production's Mark Ward and Loud Sound's Steven Reynolds as they take us through their journey from Newcastle to London via Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Reading, Oxford, Brighton and more. The #WeMakeEvents campaign continues to highlight the precarious position of...
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157 - David Hunter and "Songs for a New World"
We return to our first ever interviewee. Over five years ago, I sat down with West End actor David Hunter to chat about his career and recorded it, even though we didn’t know at that point we’d even have a podcast. Those were different times, for sure. This week, we did an online call to talk…
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156 - Special: Survival Tour, Episode 1
After a successful event lighting the Thames-side venues in London (and beyond) in red on August 11, followed by a global day of action on the 30th of September where over 2,300 venues around the world were lit in red...proving that even when there is no show..there IS a show... the next event is...
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155 - Fizzy Sherbet Podcast
Tamara von Werthern, Lily McLeish and Josephine Starte are the podcast equivalent of the Three Musketeers - bringing justice and equality to the world of online audio theatrical drama. The Fizzy Sherbert Podcast is an extension of an idea that brought together the brightest female writing,...
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Special Episode: We Make Events
What started out as a campaign launched by the Professional Lighting and Sound Association to highlight the devastating impact of Covid-19 on the live events industry has grown into a global movement to keep the issues faced by those industries in the spotlight - both at governmental level and...
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154 - Georgia Tapp, American Actress in London!
Georgia Tapp is an inspiration for anyone looking to find their way in the business. She’s done it all because she is a “doer”, and we love “doers” at Curtain Call. Sit back for the next 25 minutes and let Georgia tell you what called her to the theatre, her travels, the final auditions she was...
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153 - Sounds of Broadway Founder, Stuart Brown
Founded by Stuart Brown in early 2019, Sounds of Broadway has an absolutely full schedule of musicals you love, along with some you may not even have heard about. There’s also weekly quizzes and request shows...not to mention his podcast. Needless to say he is a very busy man. His audience reach…
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From the dresser in the wings the A-list star in the dressing room; from the production manager putting the tour together to the sound mixer out front at Glastonbury...hear what it really takes to make an event happen and immerse yourself into the world of entertainment across the cultural landscape from London’s West End to the American desert and Burning Man. Experience a creative's life as you never have before with unparalleled access to the events you love.
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