Showtune on Radio Abbey

11/01/2025

This week's show is finally online (I have been a little tardy this week) hopefully you enjoy it.

A wide playlist of songs from Stage and Screen

06/01/2025

Happy New Year!
We are back with a schedule of live shows for this week!

Monday 7pm - 8pm
Soul Lounge with Paul Roberts
Tuesday 4pm - 5pm
The Ecclectic Mix
Wednesday 6pm - 7pm
Shakepeare in the Alley
Thursday 7pm - 8pm
Read to me
Friday 12pm - 1pm
Showtune
Sunday 7pm - 9pm
Easy Listening

https://www.radioabbey.com/

03/01/2025

Happy new Year!

Here we go, kicking off 2025 with a bit of a celbration of New Year and a look ahead to some of the shows that are coming up

A wide playlist of the best of songs from stage and screen

01/01/2025

Happy New Year! May it be one filled with health, happiness and Musical Theatre!

31/12/2024

My programme collection for the year. Not as big as most of the theatre bloggers/reviewers but I don't get gifted tickets, and live in a more awkward place for getting to shows. It's probably the best year that I have had since I stopped working in the West End.
There is so much enjoyment and happiness in this image for me.

I do miss the days of the programme and/or souvenir brochure option. A collection of A5 programmes was much more aesthetically pleasing, and kinder to the purse (there's probably a week's wages in this image)

29/12/2024

After seeing all of the 'wrapped' stories on various platforms I decided to take a look at the past year on Showtune
This took me days to do as I had to input all of the data by hand. I found it fascinating though. I saw connections that I hadn't made before. I was able to identify my own biases and also those of the people who make the most requests. You can see the trends of the shows that were on this year. A lot of the results were predictable, some less so (how had I only played 5 Audra McDonald numbers?)
The composers section was particularly interesting. The different collaborators interconnected to form quite a 'spider web'
The artists section raised a few points in my mind. Is this the one area of the entertainment industry where women genuinely dominate or is it just my own bias? Even if roles are still stereotypes, they still get the best numbers. Is this a clue to a deep seated reason why so few straight men love musicals? There are obvious advantages to raising your profile if you are in a 2 hander😂
I will compile this week by week in 2025 because it gave me a great overall insight. I was quite pleased generally by the balance achieved, I think that there was plenty of variey.
I didn't post a most played song list because I try not to repeat a song within 6 months, so nearly all songs scored 1 or 2.

28/12/2024

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26/12/2024

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25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

(I wanted a gif of Judy Garland singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas but the Internet isn't musicals minded enough so have my tree instead)

21/12/2024

Kenilworth Lions have a charity duck race every year to raise money for local charities. Local businesses have had a duck designing competition to raise extra funds and this is the winner.
Radio Abbey Kenilworth will be providing the live stream to go with it this year.

The Winning Corporate duck submitted by Edmonds!
https://kenilworthlionsclub.co.uk/duck-race-2024/

21/12/2024

When I started doing this show 3.5 years ago it was for a variety of reasons. I missed working in the West End, I needed a challenge now that my daughter was grown and off making her own life, I had become very anxious and needed to face the fears, I didn't have anyone locally who knew what I was on about when I taked musicals, so mght as well talk to myself......probably a whole lot of other reasons too.

It has come to mean so much to me now. It has made me get out and go and see shows that I want to see instead of sitting at home wishing that I could (it has made me broke 😂) It has helped to invigorate several of my old friendships from theatre days, it has taught me so much, brought some new experiences and it has even given me a bit more confidence.

Thank-you so much if you have ever listened to the show, even if you didn't like it, at least you gave it a go! I hope that people do enjoy it though. That is after all the main reason for doing it, to connect with other people who love musical theatre as much as I do.

I have ended the year with the festive special. As usual it's full of songs that you know well and songs that may be new to you. There will always be as much variety as possible. Please take a listen.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

A festive special of fabulous songs from stage and screen

21/12/2024

This week's show is now uploaded, but as it's 2am I think that I'll say more about it tomorrow
Here's the link

A festive special of fabulous songs from stage and screen

19/12/2024

There are 18 songs in this week's festive Showtune - what great value for money (especially as it costs nothing to listen - unless you are still on dial-up I guess) Friday 12 o'clock on Radio Abbey Kenilworth

Radio Abbey is an online radio station for Kenilworth, Warwickshire.

18/12/2024

On air tonight with a folky Christmas special and a bit of Thomas Hardy. Join me at 6 on www.radioabbey.com or later on Mixcloud (all being well!).

15/12/2024

Anyone else want to vote for their favourite Christmas Musical Theatre number for this week's festive show? So far Judy Garland is going to run away with it for the 3rd year in a row!

14/12/2024

Last show of the year

13/12/2024

This week's show is now online. I said that it was going to be a chaos show, and it really was, as you can probably tell from listening to it, there were a few issues with the microphone, and at one point it involved Sarah, the station manager performing some difficult contortions to try and fix it.

I need to give massive thanks to Sarah, who has done a massive amount to get the station back up and running again when the tech has been plagued by gremlins lately. All that whilst co-running the entire centre as well as trying to co-ordinate the presenters (which is indeed like herding cats)

A big thanks to everyone who joined in with the chat and sent requests. Well done for managing to pick a bunch of tracks that I didn't already have on the system (that makes for some interesting shenanigans during the tracks where I have to transfer them from my computer to the radio database computer and then to the DJ software computer, all without missing the next cue.

There were some excellent choices - please give it a listen, make all the drama worthwhile!

Christmas show next week

A wide playlist of fantastic songs from stage and screen

12/12/2024

If you're listening to the live broadcast of tomorrow's show, I'll be doing a 'chaos week' I'm opening up the chat on the radio Radio Abbey Kenilworth website and taking requests during the show. I'm only on for an hour so get in early if you want to be sure of a mention (hopefully I'll have the track that you want)

When you go to the website, the chat icon is in the bottom right hand corner of the page.