MusicalTalk - The UK's Independent Musical Theatre Podcast
1) Episode 913: Holding Space for Wicked - Magic or Misdirection?
With the dust now well and truly settled, Nick sits down with Ruby – a self-confessed Wicked obsessive – to take a long look back at the two film adaptations. Together they explore what Wicked has mea...Show More
2) Episode 912: One Year More: A MusicalTalk Theatre Year in Review.
Nick and Hannah look back on a theatre-stuffed 2025, chatting through the shows they saw, loved, questioned and are still thinking about. From West End heavyweights to immersive experiments and concer...Show More
3) Episode 911: Merry Quizmas and a Happy New Earful for 2026
It's Christmas again - but didn't we have one twelve months ago? Well, just in case Dame Shirley Bassey is correct and it all just a little bit of history repeating, we might as well mark the fact in...Show More
4) Episode 910: The Stage in 1925
Travel back one hundred years as MusicalTalk looks at the world of theatre and musical theatre in late 1925 through the prism of the trade press of the period. Josh and Thos thumb through an actor's ...Show More
5) Episode 909: Mad for The Queen is Mad
Join Thos as he talks to the cast and writers of the stunning five star show, The Queen is Mad, about the early 16th Century Spanish monarch known to history as Joanna the Mad - but what if her madnes...Show More
6) Episode 908: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme ABBACADABRA! (The First ABBA Musical)
This week on MusicalTalk, Nick Hutson and Andrew Keating uncover a forgotten gem of musical theatre history as they sit down with the legendary David Wood to discuss the original ABBA jukebox musical:...Show More
7) Episode 907: The Real Housewives of the Zombie Apocalypse
By Zeus! It's time for MusicalTalks's celebration of our Pick of the Fringe 2025 - the arrestingly titled (and genuinely brilliant) The Real Housewives of the Zombie Apocalypse! Join Thos as he figur...Show More
8) Episode 906: Two Soups and a Revival - Acorn Antiques Returns
This week on MusicalTalk, Nick and Dom sit down to celebrate one of British musical theatre's most brilliantly bonkers gems: Acorn Antiques. With the recent Hope Mill Theatre production bringing Victo...Show More
9) Episode 905: Five, Six, Seven, Elf!
✨ Pop nostalgia meets festive cheer in this lively, laugh-filled episode of MusicalTalk! ✨ This week, Nick and Andrew take a nostalgic step back to the '90s as they discuss HERE AND NOW — the brand-ne...Show More
10) Episode 904: Songs of the People
Join Thos as he revisits a conversation with celebrated songwriter Sue Casson about her seminal musical masterwork, Dreams of Peace and Freedom, currently on a national tour, and learn how this piece ...Show More