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Tim McArthur Interviews... Blowing Whistles

Sunday 2nd July
5pm BST
Repeated daily at 2pm BST and 10pm BST

This week on TheatreRadio, Tim McArthur is joined by Matthew Todd, author of Blowing Whistles, a new play currently at the Sound Theatre, along with Neil Henry, one of its three stars. As well as playing some fantastic music, Tim has a pair of tickets to give away, so make sure you tune in.

As a stand up comedian, Matthew runs and hosts the sometime comedy club False Titters which the Evening Standard called ‘one of the most exciting new nights in London’. A finalist of the Mardi Gras Comedy competition and the London Comedy Festival Big Big Big New Act competition, he has performed alongside Jimmy Carr, Gina Yashere, Tina C, Alan Carr and Al Murray, the Pub Landlord. He is Associate Editor of Attitude magazine, having been Deputy Editor from 1999 – 2004, where he has interviewed Ricky Gervais, Joan Rivers, Joe Mantello and Madonna, amongst many others. For the last two years Matthew has been a director of the Pride Arts festival which aims to give London a gay arts event that will offer a platform and opportunities to new gay writers, producers and performers.

On the eve of London’s Gay Pride day, and their anniversary, thirty something gay couple Nigel and Jamie log onto the internet and decide to celebrate. As with so many online purchases, once delivered the couple begin to question whether a night of casual sex is exactly what their relationship needs.

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Tim McArthur Interviews… Earl Carpenter & Rebecca Thornhill

Sunday 25th June
5pm BST
Repeated daily at 2pm BST and 10pm BST

This week on TheatreRadio, Tim McArthur is joined by husband and wife duo, Earl Carpenter (The Phantom in Phantom of the Opera) and Rebecca Thornhill (Julie in Show Boat), both of whom are set to star in Summer Showstoppers from 23rd July. As well as playing some fantastic music, Tim has a pair of tickets to give away, so make sure you tune in.

Earl Carpenter has played leading roles in an extensive number of West End musicals that include Darryl Van Horne in The Witches of Eastwick, Beast and Gaston in Beauty and The Beast and Courfeyrac in Les Miserables. Since February 2005 Earl has been starring as the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster musical, The Phantom of the Opera, at Her Majesty’s Theatre, which will celebrate its landmark twentieth anniversary in the West End this September.

Rebecca Thornhill has a prolific number of credits to her name including cabarets, concerts and musical theatre. Amongst her leading roles in the West End she has played Lina Lamont in the Royal National Theatre’s production of Singing in the Rain (for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2002), Roxie Hart in Chicago with David Hasselhoff, Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime, Fantine in Les Miserables and Sukie Rougemont in The Witches of Eastwick.

Rebecca recently toured in a one-woman production, Showstopper, which paid tribute to the legendary dubbing singer Marni Nixon. Rebecca will be bringing this successful production to the Jermyn Theatre this August following her appearance as Julie in the blockbuster musical Show Boat at the Royal Albert Hall in June.

From Sunday 23rd July you can catch the very first online audio broadcast of the star-studded musical extravaganza, Summer Showstoppers, recorded live with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

This unique two-hour medley features some of the best loved musicals including Cats, Guys and Dolls, Annie Get Your Gun, Mary Poppins, Anything Goes, Saturday Night Fever, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Singin’ In The Rain, Starlight Express, Evita and We Will Rock You.

The talented line-up of principal artistes includes Earl Carpenter (The Phantom in Phantom of the Opera), Anita Louise Combe (Roxie in Chicago), Kerry Ellis (Elphaba in Wicked), Chris Holland (Gordon in Dirty Dancing), Ramin Karimloo (Chris in Miss Saigon) and Rebecca Thornhill (Julie in Show Boat).

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Tim McArthur Interviews... Jason Moore

Sunday 18th June
5pm BST
Repeated daily at 2pm BST and 10pm BST

This week on TheatreRadio, Tim McArthur is joined by Jason Moore, director of Avenue Q, the unholy comedic alliance of humans and puppets now playing at the Noel Coward Theatre. As well as playing some fantastic music, Tim has a pair of tickets to give away, so make sure you tune in.

Jason’s Broadway credits incude: Avenue Q (Tony nomination, Best Director). Off-Broadway: Avenue Q, The Crumple Zone. Associate director: Les Misérables (Broadway, national tour), Ragtime (Vancouver). Writer: The Floatplane Notebooks (Charlotte Repertory Theatre). TV: episodes of "Dawson's Creek," "Everwood" and "One Tree Hill." Upcoming projects: A live-action movie musical of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame for ABC TV and Shrek: The Musical on Broadway in 2007.

Live may suck on Avenue Q, but for a bright-eyed college graduate called Princeton, this is his new neighbourhood. A tiny bank balance and a variety of weird and wonderful friends and neighbours lead Princeton on a hilarious journey of self-discovery. Performed by an unholy comedic alliance of humans and puppets(!), Avenue Q was the winner of the 2004 Tony Award® for Best New Musical, Best Book Of A Musical and Best Original Score.

Avenue Q is the result of a collaboration between Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. The pair began writing Avenue Q in 1999, thinking that their idea would make for a great TV series. Three years later it opened off-Broadway, and after extending 4 times at the Vineyard Theatre, it transferred to Broadway.

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Summer Showstoppers

Broadcast online at www.musicalmad.co.uk

From Sunday 23rd July you can catch the very first online audio broadcast of the star-studded musical extravaganza, Summer Showstoppers, recorded live with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

This unique two-hour medley features some of the best loved musicals including Cats, Guys and Dolls, Annie Get Your Gun, Mary Poppins, Anything Goes, Saturday Night Fever, The Phantom of The Opera, Les Miserables, Singin In The Rain, Starlight Express, Evita and We Will Rock You.

The talented line-up of principal artistes includes Earl Carpenter (The Phantom in The Phantom of The Opera), Anita Louise Combe (Roxie in Chicago), Kerry Ellis (Elphaba in Wicked), Chris Holland (Dirty Dancing), Ramin Karimloo (Chris in Miss Saigon) and Rebecca Thornhill (Julie in Showboat).

Summer Showstoppers will run exclusively for a limited period from Sunday 23rd July. Varying levels of access available from only £4.95

Log on today at www.musicalmad.co.uk and take your seat for this very special event!

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Tim McArthur Interviews... Valerie Cutko

Sunday 11th June
5pm BST
Repeated daily at 2pm BST and 10pm BST

This week on TheatreRadio, Tim McArthur is joined by Valerie Cutko, who is set to star alongside Oliver Tompsett at the Theatre Museum on 29th June. As well as playing some fantastic music, Tim has a pair of tickets to give away, so make sure you tune in.

Completing the first season of Transatlantic Talent: Best of Both Worlds are two tall, titillating talents, who are both respected West End performers with repertoires extending far beyond the traditional musical theatre idiom.

Baltimore-born Valerie Cutko has featured on Broadway in Grand Hotel and in Nine and Fanny at the Papermill Playhouse. Her UK theatre credits include Silk Stockings at Sadler’s Wells, My Fair Lady at the National Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Beautiful and Damned, Phantom of the Opera and Camelot. She has performed her solo cabaret at London venues including Jermyn Street, the Pit Bar at the Old Vic, Too2Much, the Zetter and Lauderdale House. She appeared in the film of Phantom of the Opera and recently performed in the UK première of Michael John LaChiusa’s Lucky Nurse. 

24 year old newcomer Oliver Tompsett, who has previously performed the work of Michael John LaChiusa in the West End’s critically acclaimed Notes from New York series at the Trafalgar Studios, is currently appearing in The Royal Hunt of the Sun at the National Theatre, with previous credits including the role of Sky in Mamma Mia in the West End.

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Internet Radio For Musical Theatre

With a range of theatre classics and more contemporary tracks, TheatreRadio provides a unique blend of music and is accessible to everyone wanting to listen to musical theatre. You can now listen to music absolutely free of charge, anywhere, be it at work or at home. Simply visit www.theatreradio.co.uk and click ‘Listen’. As well as providing great music, the website has loads of information on musicals playing in London’s West End as well as those on tour across the UK.

Each week on TheatreRadio, the UK’s only internet radio station for musical theatre, Tim McArthur is joined by a star of the stage, and discusses their career to date, their current project, and their future plans. In addition to playing some great music, Tim has fantastic prizes to give away in the weekly competition, so make sure you tune in. Join Tim every Sunday at 5pm, or daily throughout the week at 2pm and 10pm.

Guests to date have included Jenna Russell, Bonnie Langford, James Fox, Stephen McGann, Janie Dee, Paul Spicer, Liam Mower, Clare Higgins, Shona Lindsay, David Burt, Sally Ann Triplett, Nigel Lindsay, Earl Carpenter, Hayden Tee, Frances Ruffelle, John Barrowman, David Bedella, Ellen Greene, Rosemary Ashe, Caroline O’Connor, Adam Garcia, John Owen-Jones, Jason Robert Brown and George Stiles & Anthony Drewe, as well as cast members from Mamma Mia, Dancing In The Streets, The Big Life, The King And I, The Far Pavilions, Beauty & The Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Bat Boy and Jerry Springer The Opera.

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