Musicals

Musicals is the new magazine celebrating the world of Musical Theatre, on stage and on screen, from the West End to Broadway and beyond. Every issue contains exclusive interviews with the stars of the shows and their creative teams, from producers and designers to composers and lyricists; in-depth coverage of the best live productions, from the West End and Broadway to international and regional productions; as well as reviews of the latest recordings and releases.

Musicals

The future is bright for new grassroots musicals

INTRODUCING THIS ISSUE’S FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS…

Curtain Up! • The latest Musical Theatre news, plus exclusive interviews, announcements and reports

Countdown to…

Bring Back That Show! • The Secret Garden

Venue Focus • Gillian Lynne Theatre

From the Green Room • Edward Seckerson takes a look at the inventive originality of the work of Lionel Bart, the East End composer whose musicals provided the soundtrack to his early life

Elaine’s Page Cabaret • Elaine Paige explores how Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret pioneered the concept musical, where the theme is the thing, and celebrates the show’s divinely decadent heroine Sally Bowles

A Day in the Life of… • Elizabeth Newman, artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre

All That Dazzles About Town • London-based reviewer Daz Gale picks his personal highlights from an action-packed few weeks of attending Musical Theatre shows, concerts and events

Backstage with… • Adam Garcia, currently touring the UK as Caractacus Potts – the idealistic inventor of toot sweets and a magical flying car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

BY DEFINITION… • Thrust stage / noun – A stage that extends out into the auditorium, with the audience sitting on three sides

Behind The Song • Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Alexander Hamilton’ from Hamilton

Broadway Bulletin • This year’s Broadway openings have been full of curveballs ahead of the Tony nominations. Matt Wolf explores this busy season and reflects how the Tonys and Oliviers don’t always align

Keeping Score A Chorus Line • Orchestrator Jason Carr on how the brainchild of director-choreographer Michael Bennett, with an outstanding score by first-time Broadway composer Marvin Hamlisch, became an evergreen classic

A SONG OF SONGS VISITS PARK THEATRE

Pop-tastic Cruella casting for Dalmatians tour

Lloyd Webber is given highest knighthood honour

SONDHEIM ’OLD FRIENDS’ TRIBUTE SET TO PLAY ON BROADWAY IN 2025

NEW WRITING AT SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE CONTINUES TO SURGE

Rising Star Jo Foster • Soon to star in Marlow and Moss’s Why Am I So Single?, Jo Foster is treading new ground as a non-binary performer

It’s in front of you! Gearing up for panto season 2024

Dame Judi Dench launches £600k appeal

FRANCES RUFFELLE TO STAR AT THE TURBINE THEATRE

TWO STRANGERS SHOW CAPTIVATES AUDIENCES IN ITS WEST END DEBUT

BYMT celebrates 20th anniversary

Charlie’s ‘TOO DARN HOT’ • The temperature has been rising around this London-born performer since his leading-role debut in Half a Sixpence in 2016. Now, hot on the heels of his Olivier-nominated turn as Bobby in Crazy for You, Charlie Stemp is starring in Kiss Me, Kate, another Golden Age show – because, finds Sarah Crompton, he’s been dreaming of these classic musicals since childhood

The Light at the End of the Tunnel • Forty years after Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical on wheels first powered its way into the West End, a new production is transforming Wembley’s Troubadour Theatre. Now radically updated, what will the impact of this revival be – both for die-hard ‘Starlighters’ and the uninitiated? Sarah Kirkup speaks to key creatives, including lyricist Richard Stilgoe and original director...