This week Kerry Ellis and Jamie Crick take a look back over the first series of Acting Up and play some of their favourite interviews, including John Owen Jones, Rachel Tucker, Oli Tompsett, Olivier award winner Sharon D. Clarke and many more!

Acting Up With Jamie Crick

15: The BEST OF Podcast

This week the gorgeous Natalie McQueen joins us in the studio to chat all things 9-5, Wicked and Kinky Boots. The Olivier awards take centre stage in this weeks podcast too as we celebrate the success of the winners, including Come From Away, Company and Sharon D Clarke in Caroline, Or Change. Plus, we finish up with a coffee around that famous piano at Joe Allen. Your theatre week starts here.

14: Olivier Awards 2019, Natalie McQueen from 9-5 & a Famous Piano

This week the brilliant Oliver Tompsett joins is in the studio to discuss everything from his upcoming role in new musical And Juliet… to how his falsetto managed to make Kerry Ellis corpse on stage. Jonny Bunyan goes behind the scenes with Paul Hicks and we hear YOUR views from Liza Pullman Sings Streisand. Your Theatre Week Starts Here.

13: Oliver Tompsett, Tight White Trousers & Tips on Getting Theatre Tix

This week we chat to the LOVELY John Owen-Jones about his favourite role playing John Valjean in Les Miserables. We go backstage to find out what a company Stage Manager does, hear your take on the hit new musical 9-5, plus all the latest news and gossip for your theatre week.

12: John Owen-Jones, A Company Stage Manager & Your Take On 9-5!

This week the team bring you all the fun from the Collabro UK Tour with Kerry Ellis. Jonny Bunyan goes behind the scenes with Tour & Production Manager Chris Haylett and we hear from the Collabro fans. PLUS all this weeks news and views. Your theatre week starts here.

11: A Collabro SPECIAL!

This week the lovely Joe McElderry joins us to discuss all of the gossip from the club Tropicana Musical Tour. We go behind the scenes with Oli Matthews from The Savoy Theatre and we hear YOUR views on the musicals you miss having in the West End. Your theatre week starts here.

10: Joe McElderry, Visiting Company & Backstage at the Savoy Theatre

This week we are joined in the studio by the brilliant Matthew Croke from smash hit musical Disney’s Aladdin. He and the team discuss everything from magical carpets to magical moments. We go behind the scenes with theatre marketing expert Benji Haigh plus all the news and views from this awards season. Your theatre week starts here.

9: Disney's Aladdin Matt Croke, WOS & Oliviers and a Broadway Star!

We are getting VERY excited for the 2019 WhatsOnStage Awards and with that in view, we chat to the Director of the awards Damian Sandys on what we can expect this year. He's the man behind the mask, star of numerous west end shows and a songwriter too (is there anything he hasn't done??), Ben Forster joins us in the studio and tells us how he was invited to Andrew Lloyd Webbers' home. Plus, we go backstage to find out why PR is so important, listen to what you thought about The Comedy About A Bank Robbery  and hear the latest goss with the team down at Joe Allens.

8: West End Star Ben Forster, a WhatsOnStage Awards Exclusive & the Importance of PR

Welcome to episode 7 of Acting Up, and boy do we have a stonking show for you this week! West End star Lucie Jones pops in for a chat on what she is up to at the moment, plus reminisces on playing Elle Woods in the Legally Blonde Tour. Jonny Bunyan reports back fresh from Edinburgh on the touring production of Les Misérables, and Kerry Ellis tells us about her encounter with the eye-wateringly handsome Hugh Jackman! Plus all the latest news, gossips and stories from the world of musical theatre.

7: Lucie Jones, Les Misérables on Tour & Hugh Jackman at the Brits

A filled-to-the-brim podcast this week as we chat to the gorgeous Rachel Tucker who is one of the stars in the new musical Come From Away. How do you begin to write the words to songs for a musical, I hear you ask? Well we catch up with lyricist and book writer Jake Brunger, most notable for work on the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. Plus theatre news, a dramatic Am Dram mishap involving Captain Hooks' hook, a stop off at Joe Allens and something about eating oysters! All here on your theatre week.

6: Come From Away's Rachel Tucker, Backstage With a Lyricist & Captain Hook's Lost Hook

This weeks packed episode includes hearing about a theatre workshop event at The Other Palace which aims to find the next big NEW musical; Emma Kingston is one of the performers in the associated series of Nightcaps for the MT Festival. The latest on Les Misérables, news on West End Eurovision and we go 'back to school' backstage to meet Alan Bradshaw, the Resident Director of School of Rock. Plus another of your theatre disaster tales which involves a scarecrow going to A&E...

5: MT Festival, Les Misérables 'Revolve'-Gate & School of Rocks' Resident Director

A special report from The Stage Awards last week- we were there with the stars and champers, up to date on The Critics Circle Theatre Awards with Company taking Best Musical. Former pop star Ben Adams joins us from his current tour with the Rocky Horror Show and talks about writing a song with our own Kerry Ellis and creating the critically acclaimed musical Eugenius! which is up for 5 Whats on Stage Awards including Best Musical…. We hear about your disasters on stage all the weeks gossip and what you think of the new cast of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in our Peoples Vote.

4: Stage Awards, Ben Adams on Eugenious! & New Cast for Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Mary Poppins Olivier Award winning choreographer Stephen Mear talks about what makes it takes to make the steps right, star of ‘Caroline or Change’ Sharon D Clarke on playing more British roles in the theatre, Kerry Ellis Google's herself but why? The darkness surrounding Joe Allen’s restaurant but there is light, well footlights on the horizon and your verdict on one of the West Ends longest running shows and firm favourite Les Misérables. Acting Up - Your Theatre Week.

3: Choreographer Stephen Mear, Googling Kerry Ellis & a Mary Poppins Revival

Your theatre week is right here with West End star of ‘Caroline or Change' Sharon D Clarke, Producer Paul Taylor Mills tells us what it takes to run a successful show, the hits to look for in 2019 according to the team at Joe Allens Restaurant and what you think about ‘Company’ on at The Gielgud right now.    Also in Acting Up how you can become part of the Olivier Award Panel and have free theatre tickets for a year, we want your onstage disaster stories and all the weeks news including what the Royal Shakespeare Company think about the change in production of ‘Les Misérables’ and after Louise Redknapp is injured in rehearsals for ‘9 to 5’ physio Nikki Rawlings tells us how the stars stay in shape for doing 8 shows a week.

2: Sharon D Clarke, Injuries in Rehearsals and Becoming a Musical Producer

The New ActingUp podcast is your theatre week with Jamie Crick joined by West End star Kerry Ellis and theatre commentator Jonny Bunyan. This week the best of 2018 and great shows to see in 2019. ‘Aladdin’ Musical Director Alan Williams on what it takes to lead the team, ‘The Stage’ newspaper News Ed Matt Hemley on big changes coming to the West Ends longest running musical Les Misérables. Cathy and Josephine from theatre restaurant Jo Allen’s and how you can be part of the ActingUp show by telling us what went wrong in a show you were involved with.

1: End of an era for Les Mis, Kerry Ellis loves theatre and Aladdin loses his lamp

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