It's All An Act

S3 Ep19 - Bob marley, Pinewood studios and Fake musicals

Hello, hello and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this Episode, We pick our Am dram shows to go and see in the next fortnight, we hear Lucie talking about the new Bob Marley musical, Anna has pinewood studio on the brain,
Tom wants us to guess musical in a cryptic way and Jaz is trying to find out who the lady in the Mamma Mia logo is.

As always we play a game and in this episode and it is 'Who's that character?' so come and play with us to see if you can guess before the team does.

We had our 'Album of the week' from Lucie and she chose 'The Phantom of the Opera', find out what we thought of this classic soundtrack. We spin the wheel to see who is picking the next album.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

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The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows

Jaz's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1306-inspector-drake-and-the-time-machine/ 
Tom's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1281-caods-presents-evita/ 
Anna's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/footloose-1553619742 
Lucie's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1332-bothered-bewildered/ 

Articles

Jaz's Articles - http://www.playbill.com/article/searching-for-sophie-who-is-the-girl-in-the-mamma-mia-logo 
Tom's Article - http://www.playbill.com/article/9-fictional-musicals-from-film-tv-every-theatre-fan-should-know 
Anna's Article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49633203 
Lucie's Article - https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/new-bob-marley-musical-2020_49893.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=13september2019 

S3 Ep20 - How to improve amateur theatre

Hello, hello and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this Episode, We pick our Am dram shows to go and see in the next fortnight, we hear Lucie talking about the Elton Johns's new musical, Anna has something BIG to talk about,
Tom is kicking his legs high in a chorus line and Jaz wants to know how to improve west end and amdram theatre.

As always we play a game and in this episode and it is 'Who's that character?' so come and play with us to see if you can guess before the team does.

We had our 'Album of the week' from Anna and she chose 'Oklahoma (2019 broadway cast recording)', find out what we thought of this twist on a classic musical. We spin the wheel to see who is picking the next album.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

So tune in, Join in, have some fun and take a listen.

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The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows

Jaz's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1254-mmcs-presents-42nd-street/ 
Tom's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1327-urinetown-the-musical/ 
Anna's Choice - https://cornexchangenew.com/event/made-in-dagenham 
Lucie's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1338-dangerous-liaisons/ 

Articles

Jaz's Articles - https://www.thestage.co.uk/advice/the-green-room/2019/green-room-how-can-west-end-theatre-be-improved/ 
Tom's Article - http://www.playbill.com/article/10-part-a-chorus-line-netflix-series-in-the-works-from-ryan-murphy 
Anna's Article - https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/reviews/big-the-musical-dominion-west-end_49915.html 
Lucie's Article - https://www.pretty52.com/entertaining/news-the-devil-wears-prada-musical-summary-cast-elton-john-20190918?source=facebook 

S3 Ep21 - Pick up a cat with ghost Tom (Halloween Special)

Hello, hello and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this Episode, We pick our Am dram shows to go and see in the next fortnight, we hear Lucie searching for twins, Anna wants to know if you have had enough of people putting 'the musical' at the end of shows,
Jaz wants to know if doing a show so close to you makes you a better actor, Tom sitting back and taking it easy this episode (In Ibiza).

As always we play a game and in this episode and it is 'Who's that character?' so come and play with us to see if you can guess before the team does.

We had our 'Album of the week' from Jaz and he chose 'Bugs bunny on Broadway', find out what we thought of this bizarre album. No need to spin the wheel as Tom is up.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

So tune in, Join in, have some fun and take a listen.

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The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows

Jaz's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1304-proscenium-presents-woman-in-mind/ 
Tom's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1323-new-stagers-presents-a-study-in-fear/ 
Anna's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1344-sister-act/ 
Lucie's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1325-panto-read-through/ 

Articles

Jaz's Articles - https://www.onstageblog.com/editorals/2018/2/23/every-high-school-should-perform-26-pebbles 
Tom's Article - No article as he is sunning himself in Ibiza.
Anna's Article - https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2019/david-benedict-its-time-producers-killed-off-the-musical/?login_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestage.co.uk%2Faccounts%2Fusers%2Fsign_up.popup 
Lucie's Article - https://www.whatsonstage.com/bath-theatre/news/new-musical-identical-parent-trap-nottingham_49957.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=23september2019 

S3 Ep22 - Whistle through your nose

Hello, hello and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this Episode, We pick our Am dram shows to go and see in the next fortnight, we hear Lucie talking about Gareth Gates and Jaz asking who should get paid in an am-dram production?

No game this week as we have some much to talk about including all the shows that we have seen over the last couple of weeks.

We had our 'Album of the week' from Tom and he chose 'Beetlejuice', find out what we thought of this Halloween themed album and see who is picked my the spinning wheel next.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

So tune in, Join in, have some fun and take a listen.

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Yours From

The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows

Jaz's Choice - https://yitc.yolasite.com/ 
Tom's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1307-the-vicar-of-dibley/ 
Anna's Choice - https://www.andovermusicaltheatre.co.uk/ 
Lucie's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1263-terry-pratchetts-johnny-and-the-dead/ 

Articles

Jaz's Articles - Questions from Russell Brown and Shaun Blake.
Tom's Article - http://www.playbill.com/article/tv-adaptation-of-spongebob-squarepants-musical-will-air-on-nickelodeon 
Anna's Article - http://www.playbill.com/article/broadways-30-longest-running-shows 
Lucie's Article - https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/gareth-gates-star-new-footloose-uk-tour_50246.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=30october2019 

S3 Ep23 - Stop jibber jabbering

Hello, hello and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this Episode, We pick our Am dram shows to go and see in the next fortnight, we talk about the west end shows we have seen and also an awesome interactive map we received from Andrew Stuckey at Ticket source.

No game this week as we have some much to talk about including all the shows that we have seen over the last couple of weeks.

We had our 'Album of the week' from Tom and he chose 'In the Heights', find out what we thought of this album and see who is picked my the spinning wheel next.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

So tune in, Join in, have some fun and take a listen.

Please rate and review us on iTunes or our facebook page

Yours From

The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows

Jaz's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1353-legally-blonde-auditions/ 
Tom's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1328-hidden-stories-a-devised-play/ 
Anna's Choice - https://www.anvilarts.org.uk/whats-on/event/9-to-5-the-musical 
Lucie's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1252-it-runs-in-the-family/ 

Top musical in every country in the world Interactive Map - https://www.ticketsource.us/blog/top-musicals-around-the-world 

S3 Ep24 - Thanks to our mums

Hello, hello Am-Dram-Fam and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this Episode, We pick our Am dram shows to go and see in the next fortnight, Anna tells us the tales of the latest show she has been in, Tom and Anna tell us the shows that they have seen since the last episode.

As always we play a game and in this episode and it is 'Who's that character?' so come and play with us to see if you can guess before the team does.

We had our 'Album of the week' from Jaz and he chose 'Soho Cinders', find out what we thought of this album and see who out of the girls is picked by the spinning wheel next.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

So tune in, Join in, have some fun and take a listen.

Please rate and review us on iTunes or our facebook page

Yours From

The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows - By www.amdram.community 

Jaz's Choice - https://wlos.co.uk/ 
Tom's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1191-cinderella/ 
Anna's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1349-aladdin-%E2%80%93-a-pantomime/ 
Lucie's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1356-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/ 

Links;
Tom's show he was talking about - Enter the dragon - https://aandecomedy.co.uk/enter-the-dragons 

S3 Ep25 - A piratey Christmas

Hello, hello Am-Dram-Fam and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this Episode, We pick our Am dram shows to go and see in the next fortnight and play some Christmassy games, so come and join in the festivities.

We had our 'Album of the week' from Lucie and she chose 'Nativity - the original cast recording', find out what we thought of this album and what Anna has chosen for us to listen to as our last album of the year.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

So tune in, Join in, have some fun and take a listen.

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Yours From

The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows

Jaz's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/sleeping-beauty-1568131968 
Tom's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year 
Anna's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/the-frog-prince-family-pantomime 
Lucie's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/the-nutcracker 

 

S3 Ep26 - Last episode of this decade

Hello, hello Am-Dram-Fam and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this final episode of the decade, We talk about our favourite episode of the year, future shows we would love to see and say thank you to everyone who listens, downloads and has helped us grow.

We had our last 'Album of the week' of the decade from Anna and she chose 'The Wedding Singer', find out what we thought of this album and how we round of the year with our favourite 'Album of the week' of the year.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

So tune in, Join in, have some fun and take a listen.

Please rate and review us on iTunes or our facebook page

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The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

 

Thank you to everyone for supporting us, we really appreciate all of you.

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas, Happy New Year.

 

S4 Ep1 - New Year, New Series

Hello, hello Am-Dram-Fam and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

We kick off the year with a brand new Series and series 4 sees the return of a game that was created from the start of It's all an act podcast.

This have changed ever so slightly for this series, we still have am-dram shows for you, and album of the week but we will only have one article each episode for you rather than an article from each of us.

So take a seat as the show is about to start and we will see you at the end at the stage door.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

Please rate and review us on iTunes or our Facebook page

Yours From

The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows - By www.amdram.community 

Jaz's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1359-cinderella/ 
Tom's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1361-treasure-island/ 
Anna's Choice - https://arlingtonarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873608558 
Lucie's Choice - https://amdram.community/calendar/event/1375-beauty-and-the-beast-a-pantomime/ 

Recommendations:
Lucie - https://www.chillysbottles.com/uk/categories/bottles 
Anna - https://support.wwf.org.uk/australia-bushfires 
Tom - https://hstyles.co.uk/ 
Jaz - https://voiceoverkickstart.com/ 

S4 Ep2 - Lucie eats a cucumber, find out why

Hello, hello Am-Dram-Fam and welcome to the award-nominated podcast.

In this Episode, We pick our Am dram shows to go and see in the next fortnight, Anna asks a question that gets a much longer answer than she was hoping, Jaz wants to know about being a character actor and Lucie eats a cucumber and we find out why.

As always we play a game and in this episode and it is the game that everyone loves 'Reversal Rehearsal' so come and play with us to see if you can guess before the team does.

We had our 'Album of the week' from Anna and she chose 'The Little Mermaid - A Broadway Musical', find out what we thought of this album and see who is picked by the spinning wheel next.

We have a community over on Facebook, so please come and join us for a chat. https://www.facebook.com/groups/148894559115729/ 

So take a seat as the show is about to start and we will see you at the end at the stage door.

Please rate and review us on iTunes or our facebook page

Yours From

The 'It's all an act' Team (Jaz, Lucie, Tom, and Anna)

Intro and Outro Credit - www.Joepurdue.com 

It's all an act Logo - Joe Foskett

Am Dram Shows - By www.amdram.community 

Jaz's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/the-hollow-by-agatha-christie-1567516469 
Tom's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/wind-in-the-willows-1567897662 
Anna's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/sleeping-beauty-pantomime-1576670382 
Lucie's Choice - https://www.noda.org.uk/whats-on/robinson-crusoe-and-the-pirates-1551872896 

Recommendations:
Lucie - https://www.thecollectivedairy.com/yoghurt/gourmet/morello-cherry-450g/ 
Anna - https://uk.lush.com/products/lavender/sleepy 
Tom - https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80190510 
Jaz - https://www.snatchhq.com/ 

Album of the week: https://open.spotify.com/album/4mCM4pXPU1JSsTNNEslE4v?si=o9Yp3cXSS8m8E32l0uBxmQ 

Links:

Disney broadway hits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY-g09lacFA 

Jaz's Article - https://theatrenerds.com/10-benefits-character-actor/