Musical theatre is an important part of LGBTQ+ culture, but how effectively do our musicals represent lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex and asexual creatives and audience members in all their fabulous glory? Dr James Lovelock, curator of www.queermusicals.com, is joined by special guests from across the musical theatre industry to think about how these productions are creating spaces that centre queerness and represent LGBTQ+ people of different genders, races and lived experiences. Join us to celebrate how our queer identites are challenging conventions and creating a bold new future for musical theatre! This podcast is funded by the University of Wolverhampton.
Episodes
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
In this week's episode from Podstream Studios in New York, Dr James Lovelock talks to actors Evan Kinnane and Ben Jackson Walker about LGBTQ+ representation on Broadway and beyond. We talk about Evan's role as Marc Hall in the 2020 production of The Louder We Get at Theatre Calgary in Canada, and about Ben's current role as Romeo in & Juliet as well as our hopes and dreams for queer musical theatre in the future.
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'This Dance Is For You' from The Louder We Get
This episode was recorded at Podstream Studio in New York and engineered by Desta Wondirad (thanks Desta!)
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
In this episode, Dr James Lovelock is joined by Oliver Houser, the writer of XY and She Reached For Heaven. We talk about intersex representation in musical theatre, and the writing and development process of XY as a queer musical.
Oliver's website is here and you can follow him on Instagram here.
You can follow James on instagram here.
This episode was recorded at Podstream Studio in New York and engineered by Desta Wondirad (thanks Desta!)
Monday Aug 05, 2024
Monday Aug 05, 2024
This week's episode comes from New York's Podstream Studios, where James Lovelock chats with the amazing L Morgan Lee about her recent performance as Nina-Mae in A Complicated Woman at Goodspeed Musicals and her involvement in workshopping the new musical version of The Danish Girl.
You can find out more about L Morgan on her website and her instagram page.
James Lovelock's instagram page is here.
This episode was recorded at Podstream Studio in New York and engineered by Desta Wondirad (thanks Desta!)
Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
In this episode, Dr James Lovelock chats to Jessica Aubrey and Joshua Clemetson from Wicked about their experiences as queer people in the musical theatre industry. We discuss Jessica's work on But I'm A Cheerleader and Joshua's ambition to be the first octagenerian Lola in Kinky Boots.
TW: Conversion therapy
You can follow Jessica on Instagram here.
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This episode was funded by the University of Wolverhampton.
Monday Jul 22, 2024
Monday Jul 22, 2024
In today's episode, Dr James Lovelock talks to Elizabeth Ayodele (Standing At The Sky's Edge) and Madeline Charlemagne (Hadestown) about the representation of black, working class women in musical theatre and the importance of diverse education in drama schools.
You can follow Elizabeth on Instagram here and Madeline on Instagram here.
Find out more about Open Door here.
Standing At The Sky's Edge is at the Gillian Lynne theatre until Saturday 3rd August - tickets are available here.
Hadestown is playing at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue - tickets are available here.
You can follow queermusicals on Instagram here and Dr James Lovelock on Instagram here.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
This episode's guest is director Tania Azevedo. Tania has directed several new musicals with LGBTQ+ characters including But I'm A Cheerleader, Mayflies and A Mother's Song as well as working as an associate director on & Juliet and Heathers.
In this episode, we discuss Tania's work along with LGBTQ+ representation in the musical theatre industry.
The podcast is hosted by Dr James Lovelock.
You can find Tania's website here.
Don't forget to follow us @queer.musicals on Instagram and Facebook!
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
In this episode, I am joined by David Cumming and Zoe Roberts from Spitlip to discuss the fabulous smash-hit West End musical Operation Mincemeat. We talk about how the show has been shaped by the perspectives of its creative team (and actors) to represent women and LGBTQ+ people in a story that is dominated by male characters, and we explore how the real life characters and their legacies have inspired a new generation of musical theatre fans.
Operation Mincemeat
The year is 1943 and we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse.
Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Coward meets Noel Fielding, Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that won us World War II. The question is, how did a well-dressed corpse wrong-foot Hitler?
Tickets available here
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Tickets for fantasies come true - the queermusicals.com concert are available here.
Represent! The queermusicals.com podcast
Musical theatre is an important part of LGBTQ+ culture, but how effectively do our musicals represent lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex and asexual creatives and audience members in all their fabulous glory? Dr James Lovelock, writer and curator of www.queermusicals.com, is joined by special guests from Legally Blonde, Rent, But I’m A Cheerleader, Daddy, The Normal Heart and Interstate: A New Musical to think about how these productions are creating spaces that centre queerness and represent LGBTQ+ people of different genders, races and lived experiences. Join us to celebrate how our queer identites are challenging conventions and creating a bold new future for musical theatre!