The Wicked Stage: The reality TV cast-a-thon returns
Last October I wrote a blog about celebrity casting, including a quote where composer Andrew Lloyd Webber declared: “I think the reality shows are at saturatio...
Sarah Green
The Wicked Stage: What’s happened to musical theatre in the South West?
Last September I left the bright lights of London for the countryside of North Devon, where my family now live. I grew up in Birmingham before the move to the S...
The Wicked Stage: Book musicals vs. concept musicals – are they both under threat?
If you study musical theatre in any sort of depth you will come to realise that nearly every show falls into one of two categories: either a book musical or a...
The Wicked Stage: Can musical theatre ever be naturalistic?
One of my biggest pet peeves is how musicals are often perceived as being as far from reality as you can get in theatre, because the characters sing and dance...
The Wicked Stage: Are operas better than musicals?
Last month I read The Guardian's supplement on 'How To Enjoy Opera' containing a rather typical debate about which is best: musicals or opera. In one corner ...
Sarah Green
Sarah is a musical theatre graduate now studying for her Masters in theatre practice with hopes of going onto a PHD. She has been writing for A Younger Theatre since September 2011 on all things musical theatre related.