Katie & Olly have an informative and enormously entertaining chat with a true Sondheim connoisseur, Tim McArthur - who is also a legend of the pantomime scene and an esteemed host of choir favourite, Overtures. The conversation covers all things Sondheim, the arts in education, mental health and a healthy dose of festive frivolity to finish. Released on Christmas Eve as the penultimate episode of 2022, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas! We hope you enjoy the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Katie and Olly are joined by the wonderful Jennifer Tierney who is currently in the West End smash show, Come From Away. We chat to her about her early career and journey to being in CFA, as well as going into detail about how she manages to be cover for all the female roles in the show - she is the first person to achieve this feat, which just adds to the wonderment! Our WEMC Loves section simply had to be about Come From Away, so we find out what makes it so special for our members and how many times they have been to see it - spoiler alert, there are some super fans Katie and Olly also h ..read more

Katie and Olly reflect on an eventful and enjoyable Autumn term, with contributions from choir members via WEMC Loves We get to know new angels Chintu Bhatt and Lucy Mills with the return of Meet the Team Then it's an update from choir member Hannah Doyle about life onboard a cruise ship as part of the entertainment and performance team We scratch the surface of a really exciting Spring term - but more of that to come in Season 3 of WEMC Talks in the new year We hope you have had an amazing Christmas and wish you all a very Happy New Year We hope you enjoy the show Hosted on Acast. See a ..read more

We are kicking off the 2022 Autumn term with a serious bang! Katie and Olly are absolutely delighted to have a chat with veritable West End star Nikki Bentley! We have a joyous chat with Nikki covering aspects of her early career, her parts in Mamma Mia and Wicked on the West End as well as other career highs - and lows - that are fascinating to hear about; along with some tips and tricks for choir members to use when getting ready to perform at shows. We also cover some of her inspirations, role models, dream duet partners and Miscast options too - along with Disney, Queen, ABBA and Yacht Ro ..read more

In this episode, Katie and Olly were joined by the fabulously talented and entertaining Show Director of DisneyLand Paris, Emanuel Lenormand. We discuss Emanuel's long career with Disney and some of the highlights, along with behind the scenes details that make the park the most magical place on earth. More importantly, we discover his favourite Disney films, songs, heroes and above all, villains. Many of our choir members will have had the opportunity to work with Emanuel and the Disney Performing Arts team already, but after listening to this, we expect many more will want to perform on one ..read more

The culmination of Katie G and Maxine going rogue in Edinburgh, this second part of the special Fringe series features WEMC members Margaux and Anna discussing their favourite parts of the festival - which features some 'unforgettable' shows and drunk Shakespeare, to name but a few highlights. Olly is left even more jealous by not being able to get to Edinburgh as Katie & Maxine flex their networking muscles by getting more of the Choir of Man cast to come and talk on the pod. Not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR of the guys joined our clearly delighted hosts for a fantastic chat in ..read more

As part of a special episode marking World Mental Health Day, Katie and Olly sit down and talk with our King's Cross MD James Cleeve about his work in music therapy. It's a thought provoking and moving discussion, so we hope you enjoy it and find it informative. Katie and Olly recently managed to go and see Dear Evan Hansen in the West End, which they discuss with the lens of mental health - trying to avoid too many spoilers for those of you haven't seen it yet - and their passion for a genuinely special show. Lastly, we asked you for your WEMC Loves contributions about 'how/why choir helps ..read more

Katie and Olly talk with WEMC veteran Mark Hunter about his involvement with choir - including Angel'ing - and how it has given him the confidence to get involved with amateur dramatics over the last few years. He also shares with us a brilliant list of shows that he has seen over the years and the varied geographical locations he has seen them in. Not to mention some great anecdotes featuring some of the most notable names on the West End! All of this prompted us to ask a double barrelled WEMC Loves question about Mark's potential show tally and where our members have been to outside the UK ..read more

Katie and Olly are joined by long time WEMC MD James Cleeve to discuss his brand new show "Oh yes I am!" which is opening at the legendary King's Head Theatre in Islington, 11th and 12th September 2022 In this interview, we cover James' involvement with WEMC - particularly at Kings Cross and with Disney - before finding out more about his most recent project. Even if you listen to this after the show dates, it's a great listen as James talks about the creative process involved and the fact that this is only the start of the journey for this show. We also discover James is a massive Sondheim ..read more

On this episode we have the final instalment of our Meet the Team segment - for now - where we chat with WEMC veterans Maxine Haher and Lyn Whiston about their time with choir and how they ended up as Production/Social Angel and Choir Leader respectively. We also spoke with the wonderful Jack Gregson about his recent run in 'The Producers', which was a real treat and covered all kinds of topics from musical theatre dream roles, Adam Sandler movies, to the fledgling Daniel Craig Casting Agency... and some gentle bonhomie from Jack and Olly to Katie about songs featuring Canada... Katie and Ol ..read more