May 13, 2025
It's the best possible news - MusicalTalk's Pick of the Fringe 2024 hits London in 2025! Pop Off Michelangelo! took Edinburgh by storm last summer, and now comes to London from May until July - and it's a tasty treat. Thos talks to the show's writer, 21st century Renaissance Man, the talented Dylan MarcAurele, about...
Apr 29, 2025
In this week's episode, Thos takes a close look at the 1930 Marx Brothers musical comedy film, Animal Crackers, and its place against the backdrop of a number of transitions - the move from stage to screen for the madcap quartet, the loss of popularity of Hollywood film musicals at the end of the 1920s, the move...
Apr 22, 2025
It's a century since Minnie's Boys, better known as the Marx Brothers, appeared on Broadway in their first fully fledged musical, and to mark the occasion, MusicalTalk is taking a close look at their 1930 musical comedy film, Animal Crackers. In this week's episode, Thos investigates what makes the Marx Brothers...
Mar 25, 2025
At last, a musical about one of the unsung female heroes of musical theatre - Helen D'Oyly Carte! Join Thos as he talkes to Susan Ellerby about her latest modern G&S show, Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical....And Helen, about the accomplished, and even trailblazing, Victorian businesswoman, who was one of...
Mar 18, 2025
Was the recent barnstorming London revival of the 1992 Gershwin Brothers show, Crazy For You, one of the best things to hit the West End in years? Thos certainly thinks so and in this week's episode you can hear him and Josh talking about what made it so delightful. Was it the phenomenal, vital writing of the George...