Contents

Contents What to expect, from news reports and features to reviews of live shows and recordings, in Issue 9 of Musicals Magazine

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6 Curtain Up! The latest Musical Theatre news, plus

featurettes, our specialist columnists, exclusive interviews and much more

13 Elaine’s Page Beloved legend of Musical Theatre

Elaine Paige explores a defining show that has stood the test of time: Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret, the first ’post-book musical’

FEATURES 24 Kiss Me, Charlie! As the triple-threat performer –

fresh from his Olivier-nominated turn as Bobby in Crazy for You – prepares to star in Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican Theatre alongside Adrian Dunbar, Stephanie J Block and Georgina Onuorah, he talks to Sarah Crompton about the enduring thrill of Golden Age classics – first encountered when he was an energetic child growing up in South East London

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30 Make way for the Starlight Express

As a new production rolls into Wembley’s Starlight Auditorium, 40 years after the show first opened at London’s Apollo Victoria, Sarah Kirkup takes a train ride down memory lane. What were the show’s originators – Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe, Trevor Nunn, John Napier and Arlene Phillips – trying to achieve, and what has been its lasting impact?

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38 Tina Fey’s Mean Girls and

all things campus musical With the pink cult classic finally

sashaying into London this summer following a successful run on Broadway, Jack Pepper delves into the popularity of the ‘campus musical ‘ – from Heathers to Legally Blonde to Carrie. That’s so fetch!

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