Edward Seckerson meets JAMIE PARKER
In this episode of the Musicals Podcast Edward Seckerson talks to the multi-award-winning Jamie Parker (The History Boys, Harry Potter – The Cursed Child) about his current project The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a new musical by Jethro Compton and Darren…
Edward Seckerson meets JON ROBYNS
In this episode of the Musicals Podcast, Edward Seckerson talks to Jon Robyns about his journey from singing in the National Youth Choir to playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and now the new Phantom in Phantom of the Opera. The episode…
Edwarwd Seckerson meets SIERRA BOGGESS
In this episode of the Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson talked to the Olivier-nominated Broadway and West End star Sierra Boggess in February 2023, while the soprano was in London for a one-off concert at Cadogan Hall, and…
COMPARING NOTES with JACOB FOWLER
Sunday 21st May 2023, 7.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation, host Edward Seckerson will be getting…
COMPARING NOTES with ALFIE FRIEDMAN
Sunday 2nd April 2023, 7.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – April 2022
I never need much of an excuse to write about Leonard Bernstein – but in the wake of the Spielberg remake of West Side Story (doubtless laden with awards by the time these words are published) I…
COMPARING NOTES with DESMONDA CATHABEL
Sunday 5th June 2022 3.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – January 2022
It’s 1992 and Sam Mendes’ celebrated staging of Sondheim and Weidman’s Assassins is in rehearsal at the Donmar Warehouse. In the green room Stephen Sondheim sits reading a copy of Gramophone during the lunch break (yes, really),…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Bernstein Candide – Soloists, London Symphony Orchestra/Alsop
Absence doesn’t make the heart grow any fonder of this performance. I heard (and saw) it live back in 2018 and it was in so many ways a mirror image of what the composer himself tried to…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – November 2021
We all love a drama, most especially one that stems from an unforeseen crisis. During this year’s foreshortened Prom season tenor Simon O’Neill, the eponymous hero of Glyndebourne’s Tristan und Isolde realised after act two that his…
