Desmonda Cathabel & Dylan Wood: Doomed Lovers Duets + ‘Comparing Notes’ post show interview with Edward Seckerson
Fresh off their run as Eurydice and Orpheus in the West End’s Hadestown, Desmonda Cathabel (Mamma Mia: I Have a Dream, Miss Saigon, Disney’s Aladdin) and Dylan Wood (Orphans, Moorcroft, No Love Songs) are no strangers to playing doomed lovers together. “Wood’s chemistry…
SOME OTHER TIME: Leonard Bernstein – In Words & Music with Kim Criswell and Edward Seckerson
Writer, Broadcaster and Presenter EDWARD SECKERSON was one of the last journalists to interview the legendary Leonard Bernstein less than a year before he died in 1990. A passionate, some might say fanatical, advocate of Bernstein’s exceptional talents as…
MARTI WEBB in Conversation with EWdward Seckerson – Newbury Spring Festival
Marti Webb is renowned for her leading roles in West End musicals. She gained prominence through performances in productions such as Evita, in which she played the role of Eva Perón from 1979, and Tell Me on a…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Ragtime – 2025 Broadway Cast Recording
I don’t think anyone would argue with the assertion that this is one of the great theatre scores of the last half century. That Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens actually auditioned for it – three or fours…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Floyd Collins – Original Broadway Cast Recording
It’s been a staggering 30 years since I reviewed the original Nonesuch recording of this masterwork right here in Gramophone. This true story of the cave explorer Floyd Collins whose quest for the ultimate sand cavern –…
GRAMOPHONE Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Original West End Cast Recording
I’ve followed this beautiful uplifting show from its inception at the postage stamp Southwark Playhouse to its arrival in the West End and a well deserved Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Its scale is small, its…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Next To Normal – Original London Cast Recording
It took 15 years for Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical to make it to London’s West End from Broadway – a staggering statistic in itself though its topicality with regard to mental health…
RICHARD RODGERS: SOMETHING WONDERFUL – Jewish Literary Foundation Book Week 2025
For our grand finale, join us for an enchanting celebration of Richard Rodgers, hailed as one of the greatest popular melodists of all time. Writer and broadcaster Edward Seckerson teams up with Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny to explore Rodgers’ iconic collaborations…
LEONARD BERNSTEIN: SOME OTHER TIME – Jewish Literary Foundation Book Week 2024
Working with fellow theatrical legends such as Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green he created iconic shows, ballets and concert works, including West Side Story, Candide, Mass and Dybbuk, winning numerous Emmy, Grammy and…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Maybe Happy Ending – Original Broadway Cast
At a time when A.I. is all over the news and robotic ‘helpers’ are seen as both progressive and downright scary is it any wonder that Maybe Happy Ending – a super-smart new musical from Korean-American writers…
