Setting up for our ‘archive on show’ afternoon… #womenshistorymonth #musichall

It's Monday, it's Music Hall! 🎭 #MusicHallMonday
The legendary boots of Little Tich — whose Big-Boot Dance influenced everyone from Chaplin to Tati — are on loan from our #archive to Blackpool's Showtown Museum. Go and see them!

Showtune 213 06.02.2026 A mix of fabulous show tunes from stage and screen musicals. This week featuring an interview with Becky Hope Palmer, book writer of new musical Life Line

In show 213, I spoke to Becky Hope Palmer about her new musical #LifeLine @swkplay.bsky.social give it a listen and go and support new writing!

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Your curation of the shows is wonderful! Always something for everyone

Showtune 214 13.02.26 A valentine's themed show of love songs from all eras of stage and screen musicals

I don't have the backing of a big station behind me and yet I have built a show that has regular worldwide listeners. It's very very hard to publicise a radio show, nobody wants to share it, but I'm still plugging away.
This week's playlist is 'love'ly

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Shani Wallis and Ivor Emmanuel in A Time for Singing.

Meanwhile in NY, Shani Wallis's performance in A Time for Singing, a 1966 flop musical adaptation of How Green Was My Valley got her the role of Nancy in Oliver! (she played the same role Maureen O'Hara played in the film)

A Time for Singing lasted 41 performances.

Bleep-Bleep Sheila White

17-year-old Sheila White so impressed the creatives of the 1966 British musical On the Level that they wrote a charm song for her and it proved an enormous showstopper.

On the Level lasted 118 performances, but "Bleep-Bleep" led directly to Sheila getting cast as Bet in the film version of Oliver!

Showtune 212 30.01.26 Fabulous show tunes from all eras of stage and screen musicals

Yet another grey and wet day outside. What's needed is an hour of fantastic songs from stage and screen to brighten things up a bit.

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If you like musicals, you’ve got to give Showtune a listen. The best mix of show songs out there!

🎶 NEXT WEEK 🎶

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Agreed!!

Hello Bluesky friends, I’m back at one of my favourite cabaret venues, Crazy Coqs, for another edition of the award-winning THE SHOWS WE USED TO KNOW.

This time I have dazzlingly talented guests joining me to sing the things I can’t!

Hope to see you there:

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"I to Monte Carlo went, just to raise my Winter's rent.. " 🎶
Remembering #otd b.Stepney, London, music hall comic singer, Charles Coborn, The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo!
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The Shows We Used To Know
MAY ROUND-UP

A selection of shows that opened in May in years gone by:

I’ll REMEMBER HER
by Noel Coward
from ‘The Girl Who Came To Supper’

From #TheShowsWeUsedToKnow at Crazy Coqs

Great mix and the perfect start to the day. Thank you for playing the Witches of Eastwick - maybe some more of that? Or a classic Fred Astaire number? Something from Top Hat?

UNROMANTIC US
by Sandy Wilson
from ‘The Buccaneer’

A rare outing for Wilson’s follow up to The Boy Friend.

LONDON (IS A LITTLE BIT OF ALL RIGHT)
by Noel Coward
From ‘The Girl Who Came To Supper’

As sung by music hall star Tessie O’Shea in her Tony-winning performance!

SOMEONE TO BELIEVE IN
by Julian Slade
From ‘Vanity Fair’.

One of his best songs, from a now almost completely forgotten show.

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Oh my goodness! Well thank you for ploughing on. Looking forward to listening.

Answers over on Instagram @showsweusedtoknow across May!

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QUIZ TIME!

How many of these titles can you complete….? They’re all ‘shows we used to know’ that opened in May.