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Backstage With...

Mikey Worrall

Backstage With… is a musical theatre podcast from What Goes On Media, where Mikey Worrall gets you into the dressing rooms of some of the biggest names in musical theatre in the UK. It’s all...

Episodes

20 of 89 episodes

Sharon Sexton (Bat Out of Hell: The Musical)

Sharon Sexton reflects on her time playing Sloane in Bat Out of Hell: The Musical including her single audition for the part, creating the s...

40:40May 17, 2022

Peter Hannah (Into the Woods, Waitress)

Peter Hannah talks about playing the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince in the first major UK production of a Stephen Sondheim musical since the c...

41:18Feb 24, 2022

Carly Mercedes Dyer (A Chorus Line, Anything Goes, Six, West Side Story)

Carly Mercerdes Dyer on playing Cassie in A Chorus Line at Leicester Curve, being on the Beeb at Christmas in Anything Goes (Boxing Day at 6...

45:34Dec 22, 2021

Savannah Stevenson (Little Women, Wicked, Mary Poppins)

Savannah Stevenson is currently playing Marmee in Little Women at the Park Theatre in north London. Find out which song she was fearful of,...

46:41Nov 27, 2021

Oli Higginson (The Last Five Years, Bridgerton, The Pursuit of Love)

The Last Five Years' Jamie on bringing the show to the West End, whether it should be categorised as new or a revival in awards season, and...

38:51Oct 7, 2021

Quincy Brown & Kevin Bianchi (Sentimental Men Podcast)

What better way to mark International Podcast Day and the week of Wicked UK's 15th anniversary than with a conversation with Wicked podcaste...

39:17Sep 30, 2021

Samuel Edwards (Anything Goes, Ghost, Wicked)

Samuel Edwards (Billy Crocker in Anything Goes) is here to talk about being back on stage after the pandemic, playing opposite Broadway star...

28:07Sep 22, 2021

Francesca Moody (Producer of Leopards, Mum, Fleabag)

Francesca Moody is best known as the original producer of the multi-award-winning Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which she has produced gl...

19:03Sep 19, 2021

Lara Martins (The Phantom of the Opera)

Lara Martins played Carlotta in Phantom in the West End for a record-breaking six years. She's here to talk about her new album, Canção, whi...

40:57Sep 8, 2021

Christina Bianco (Diva impressionist, Funny Girl, The Ballad of Anne and Mary)

Two-time Drama Desk award nominee Christina Bianco joins us to talk about starring in the musical podcast series The Ballad of Anne and Mary...

1:14:20Aug 18, 2021

Stephen Oremus (Frozen, Kinky Boots, Wicked, The Book of Mormon)

Two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Oremus talks about creating some of the biggest musicals of the last two decades, conducting the orchestr...

1:01:02Aug 3, 2021

Giles Terera (Hamilton)

The Olivier award-winning star of Hamilton talks about what it was really like in The Room Where It Happened. Giles's book, Hamilton & Me: A...

58:10Jul 27, 2021

We All Look the Same But We're Different Than We Were

Reflecting on the reopening night of Come From Away in the West End. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/backstagewith . Hosted on...

7:38Jul 23, 2021

Kayi Ushe (The Lion King, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon)

It sure feels good to be back in your podcast feed. Are you ready for a new series of conversations with your favourite theatre people? Firs...

46:49Jul 13, 2021

Gavin Spokes (Hamilton, Company, Quiz)

Gavin Spokes was playing King George III in the London production of Hamilton when the West End went dark the week before the UK went into l...

54:16Nov 17, 2020

Susie McKenna (Associate Director, Kiln Theatre)

Susie McKenna was creative director at Hackney Empire for seven years and wrote, produced and sometimes starred in its pantomimes for 22 yea...

1:16:57Nov 10, 2020

Kiruna Stamell (Cyrano de Bergerac, Great Britain, Moulin Rouge!)

Kiruna Stamell was working as an extra on the film Moulin Rouge in Australia twenty years ago when the director created the part of La Petit...

59:14Oct 27, 2020

Gavin Lee (Mary Poppins, SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical, Top Hat, Beauty and the Beast)

Gavin Lee is an Drama Desk award winner, Olivier award nominee, and two-time Tony nominee. He's best known for creating the role of Bert in...

1:17:45Oct 20, 2020

Melanie La Barrie (& Juliet, Matilda, Wicked, Mary Poppins)

Chances are you've seen Melanie La Barrie in at least one show in the last 20 years. She's developed and appeared in a number of shows inclu...

1:03:39Oct 13, 2020

Daisy Maywood (Company, A Chorus Line, Phantom, Les Mis)

Daisy Maywood has been in some of the most high profile productions of the last decade such as the Les Mis 25th anniversary concert at the o...

58:27Sep 29, 2020