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570: Our Love Never Dies for Jamie, Caroline and The Girl from the North Country May 15, 2018

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Nick chats to Robert about musicals we've never mentioned on MusicalTalk - Everybody's Talking about Jamie and The Girl from the North Country (as well as touching on other topics) and we then hear from Mike Shapiro about Love Never Dies - which he saw recently in California.

569: Marry Me on a Little Strictly Field Trip to a Ballroom May 08, 2018

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Dom treats you to this week's episode - as he talks to Alisdair Kitchen about this production of Sondhiem's Marry Me A Little (open at the Drayton Arms Theatre in South Kensington) - and then he and Tonia check out Strictly Ballroom - now playing at the Piccadilly Theatre.

568: Follies in Focus May 01, 2018

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As the Royal National Theatre announces that its star-studded and star-attracting production of Sondheim's Follies will be returning to London in 2019, Thos sits down with composer and Sondheim expert, Colm Molloy, to dissect and discuss the show. Is it a concept musical? Is it really a revue? Does it even have a narrative? Is it all spectacle and no heart like the original Follies shows it lovingly pastiches? All these questions and more are tackled in this in-depth, forensic analysis! It's certainly a classic - ah, but underneath?

567: Chomping at the Savoy Apr 24, 2018

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In this bumper episode, Dom and Thos have a wide ranging conversation about Gilbert and Sullivan (with a dose of Offenbach thrown in) and find many conversational tributaries and diversions taking them all over the wide wide world of musical theatre and beyond - including the Ruddigore cartoon, Savoy spin offs, Fred Astaire, Allegro, Pacific Overtures, Three Men Naked from the Waist Down and Animaniacs to name but a few. They are the very models of some odd and aged generalists!

566: Forgive Us, Oh Father! Apr 17, 2018

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It's confession time as Thos chats to Harry Style and Arnoud Breitbart, the two people behind the fresh and impressive new British musical, Forgive Us, Oh Father!. Hear about the creation of this impressive show and how various ideas permutated over time until it became a little slice of Heaven! The main character, Stephen-Peter, an incredibly lazy priest, might end up in purgatory – but you certainly won't!

565: Thrilled by Thrill Me! Apr 10, 2018

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Thos sits down with Harry Downes and Ellis Dackombe, the impressive stars of the national tour of award-winning musical, Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story, to discuss the background and craft required to bring dark and thrilling show to life. Based on a famous murder case of the 1920s, learn how the show is designed to hurtle along at breakneck pace and how to make social transgression dramatically engaging!

564: A Brief Encounter with Alex Lacamoire Apr 04, 2018

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Nick and Dom discuss Brief Encounter now playing at the Empire Cinema in the West End, and Nick chats to Hamilton's orchestrator, arranger, music supervisor and all-round music guy - Alex Lacamoire.

563: Buried Treasures Mar 27, 2018

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Prior to its much anticipated arrival in London, Thos sits down for a wonderful chat with the talented writers of hit Edinburgh Fringe show, Buried - winner of the NSDF Award 2017, as well as MusicalTalk's own silver medallist Pick of the Fringe for last year, to discuss this magnificent, dark and macabre musical comedy. Hear songs and stories from this tale with a twist. And talking of the Fringe, you'll get to hear the first of David Herzog's Edinburgh Journals, as he prepares to take a show to Scotland this Summer.

562: Merrily We Ramble Along: Jeremy Sams on the post Lloyd-Webber musical Mar 22, 2018

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Michael Billington recently said of Andrew Lloyd Webber: "For all his attempts to encourage new talent, he also looks like a swimming instructor in a largely empty pool. Stiles and Drewe are the only team to have left their imprint on the British musical post-Lloyd Webber". Nick and composer, book-writer, translator, director and orator - Jeremy Sams - as they discuss this statement travel on a wonderful musical journey covering everything from pop rhymes to jukebox musicals - via Sondheim and The Beatles.

561: You've Got to be Carefully Taught: Musical Musings with YouTube's Kevin Lynch Mar 15, 2018

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Join Nick and YouTube musician Kevin Lynch as they discuss such varied topics as Spongebob Square Pants' Broadway outing, Dear Even Hansen, Billy Joel's Movin' Out, EmojiLand and the importance of singers being able to look at music and understand it! It's a fun, raucous and - at times - foul-language ridden discussion. But what else would you expect from YouTube's angriest musical theatre fan?!

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