Musical theatre composer/writer/photographer Ian Bowkett is not a mayor, but if there's a law against pretending to be one, he sure hasn't heard it. Each week, the (not) mayor interviews a celebrity guest who makes or loves musical theatre, finding out about them via their favourite shows. Once all the categories are complete (funniest musical, best movie musical etc.), he asks them to choose one show that as mayor, he should order run in the West End forever. Then, it may or may not. Again, he really doesn't have that sort of power.
The Mayor of Musical Theatre is produced in association with Musical Theatre Review, your premier source for news, reviews, and interviews on all things onstage, backstage, and worldwide.
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Musical theatre composer/writer/photographer Ian Bowkett is not a mayor, but if there's a law against pretending to be one, he sure hasn't heard it. Each week, the (not) mayor interviews a celebrity guest who makes or loves musical theatre, finding out about them via their favourite shows. Once all the categories are complete (funniest musical, best movie musical etc.), he asks them to choose one show that as mayor, he should order run in the West End forever. Then, it may or may not. Again, he really doesn't have that sort of power.
The Mayor of Musical Theatre is produced in association with Musical Theatre Review, your premier source for news, reviews, and interviews on all things onstage, backstage, and worldwide.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Happy Wicked Movie Day! Let us be glad! Let us be grateful!
Bit of a special episode, this one. To celebrate the release of one of the most exciting and hotly-anticipated stage-to-screen adaptations of all time, here is a never-before-heard interview that I conducted with Wicked’s composer, Stephen Schwartz back in 2021, when we were coming out of Covid and Stephen Schwartz’s first ever musical, Pippin was about to open in Charing Cross Theatre.
Some quotes from this interview appeared in a Musical Theatre Review article about Pippin, but we had a wide-ranging chat beyond that about writing, musical influences, other composers he enjoys, and – significantly – a LOT of chat about Wicked and the Wicked movie, which was still a year and a half away from commencing filming.
Apologies for the worse-than-usual audio quality, my nervousness as a novice interviewer, and for the shameless plugging of my own show, Sisyphus: A Rock 'n' Roll Musical at the start there. Plenty of fascinating chat from Stephen Schwartz beyond that though. I hope you enjoy!
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