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Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical theatre star — and two-time Disney Princess — Lea Salonga rose to international fame for originating the role of Kim in the stage musical Miss Saigon. She retraces her journey into the spotlight and struggles along the way.

Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson explains how she helps actors to find their character's voice and the prolific, 'critic-proof' composer Frank Wildhorn reflects on his long career and best-known work, including Jekyll and Hyde and Bonnie and Clyde.

Max interviews Dialect Coach Paige Walker
What does it take to perfect an accent?
The 3 things Aussie Actors are doing wrong
The difference between Stage and Screen
Being audition ready


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In this episode we find out about the true story that inspired Lee Hall’s play The Pitmen Painters, which tells the tale of the Ashington Group: a group of coal miners who became well-known artists. We’ll be interviewing Karen Kelly, who is a voice coach, actor and production assistant, to find out about her life and loves in amateur theatre, and her experience of teaching accents and dialects. This month, John will be going behind the scenes on the Crescent Theatre’s forthcoming production The Pitmen Painters and will be finding out about being an artist pretending to be a miner who becomes an artist.

Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl was most famously adapted into a musical film by Barbra Streisand. Now a new adaptation breathes new life into the story. It's directed by Gary Abrahams, who is also at the helm of Admissions at the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Also, playwright and Blak & Bright Festival Director Jane Harrison curates a session of monologues by First Nations writers and Voice and Text Coach at the Sydney Theatre Company Leith McPherson shares tips on how an actor's voice can supplement their income.

In 1972, a lecturer at the University of Adelaide was attacked at a gay beat, thrown into the River Torrens and drowned. 50 years on, Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan shines a light into this appalling story and how his death changed Australia.

Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shares more insights into the power of voice and we attend the rehearsal of a reimagined version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland presented by the Australian Contemporary Opera Company.

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When the writer of Rent died on the day of the show's first preview, he also left behind a little-known autobiographical musical called Tick, Tick… Boom! Now Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) and Steven Levenson (Dear Evan Hansen) have brought it to the screen.

Also, voice and text coach at the Sydney Theatre Company, Leith McPherson, shares more of her insights into the power of voice and Circa's visionary artistic director Yaron Lifschitz shares what's on his Top Shelf.

A common thread runs through much of Australian theatre's boldest and most influential new work: director Paige Rattray. From humble beginnings in Tasmania, she now helps our most exciting new playwrights to realise their vision.

Also, Stage Show regular Leith McPherson introduces her new role as Voice and Text Coach at the Sydney Theatre Company and dancer Raghav Handa and musician Maharshi Raval skirt the boundaries of Indian classical dance in Two at the OzAsia Festival.

A discretely recorded conversation between Jefferson (Bill Fryer) and his "attorney" (Andy Bridges).  

Also, an appearance from Jessica (CassAsssss)

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Following its acclaimed world premiere season, the Australian musical Fangirls returns. We learn how the show's writer, composer and original lead, Yve Blake, a theatre geek who can't play any instruments came to write one of the hottest musicals around.

Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shows us how to find the performer within when reading stories to children and Dr Erin Brannigan continues to share the joys of watching contemporary dance.

Since launching to stardom with The Sapphires, Shari Sebbens has become a mainstay of the Australian stage and screen. Now making her directorial debut at Griffin, she has high hopes for what it might mean to other aspiring theatre-makers.

Also, Opera Queensland bring us An Aria a Day and voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson helps us to channel our inner politician.

Thomas E.S. Kelly proves that you can be built like a rugby player and be a contemporary dancer. From a childhood committed to sport and dance, Kelly is emerging as one of our top dancers and choreographers.

Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson on how to effectively use our voices within and beyond our COVID-19 bubbles, and we touch base with Carriageworks, Brisbane Festival and the Malthouse.

Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) has been confronting the racial tensions at the heart of America throughout his career. His new musical Soft Power tackles the country's waning influence in the Trump era.

Also, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival offers a bite-sized home delivery, and voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shares more of her insights into the power of voice.

Renowned theatre and opera director Phelim McDermott discusses his journey from Phillip Glass obsessive to collaborating with the man himself, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shares more insights into the power of voice, and following the fires in eastern Australia, we ask playwright Campion Decent about the power of verbatim theatre and the impact of his play Embers.

With the yuletide season drawing near, a live radio play version of the 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life will be staged in Perth, theatre producer and columnist Richard Jordan discusses the emerging transfer hubs for new theatre in New York and London, Fiona Blair reviews the Australian premiere of Oil by British playwright Ella Hickson, Leith McPherson leads us through some vocal warm-ups to get mouths moving and tongues twisting, and the Women's Circus stage their triennial large-scale production: The Drill.

Circa continue their thrilling fusion of acrobatics with classical music and opera by teaming up with Opera Queensland for a new production of Orpheus and Eurydice, arts critic Tim Byrne reviews contemporary dance at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival, Tony Award-winning director of Come from Away Christopher Ashley shares his Best Advice, we ask voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson whether we should affect accents on stage, and Open Homes, presented by La Boite, invites the public to step into a stranger's home and learn about their life.

92 years since its German premiere, Ernst Krenek's Weimar-era opera Jonny Strikes Up! will have its Australian premiere, State Opera South Australia's Lost Operas of Oz series continues with a new production of John Haddock and Michael Campbell's Madeline Lee, and voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson returns to The Stage Show to share more of her insights into the power of voice.