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Stage Door Podcast

3 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 9 years ago -

Podcast taking an in depth look behind the scenes of the West End musicals released on the Stage Door label. Speaking with the cast and creatives involved in bringing those productions to the stage.

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Episodes

003 - 'SOMEONE LIKE YOU' (Strand Theatre 1990) - Featuring Dee Shipman, Dave Willetts, Petula Clark

April 04, 2015 19:16 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MB

In this special episode of the Stage Door podcast the spotlight falls on 'Someone Like You', the 1989 / 1990 British musical. 'Someone Like You' is a musical with lyrics by Dee Shipman, music by Petula Clark and a book by Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon. Based on a concept developed by Clark over a period of several years, it is set in West Virginia immediately after the end of the Civil War. Originally entitled 'Amen', it was conceived as a dark view of the difficulties Southerners faced dea...

002 - 'TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES' (Savoy Theatre 1999) - Featuring Stephen Edwards, Justin Fleming, Karen Hebden, Poppy Tierney, Philippa Healey

April 02, 2015 15:38 - 1 hour - 162 MB

Stage Door's podcast in which we take an in depth look behind the scenes at the West End musicals we've released on CD. In this episode the spotlight falls on ‘Tess Of The D'Urbervilles’, the 1999 West End musical adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel. Featuring music by Stephen Edwards and a libretto by Justin Fleming, 'Tess' opened at the Sheffield Lyceum on September 6th 1999 and was declared a "landmark in musical theatre" receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews from the critics...

001 - 'OUT OF THE BLUE' (Shaftesbury Theatre 1994) Feat. Shun Tokura, David Gilmore, Greg Ellis, Meredith Braun, Paulette Ivory

December 10, 2014 06:59 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Stage Door's podcast in which we take an in depth look behind the scenes at the West End musicals we've released on CD. For our first edition the spotlight falls on ‘Out Of The Blue’ an ambitious sung through musical drama set against the dramatic back drop of post-war Japan. The musical centred on the characters John Marhsall an American POW and his Japanese wife Hideko in the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropping on Nagasaki in August 1945. With music by leading Japanese composer Shun Ic...

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