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BrumHour saw Ghost The Musical at the invite of The Alexandra.
For Brum Radio’s Interval Theatre, Josh St Clair talks about playing Sam in the UK tour of Ghost the Musical. Listen below:
By Dave Massey x.com/BrumHour
Ghost The Musical at The Alexandra: Review
Romantic pottery and Unchained Melody
Directed by Bob Tomson, book and lyrics by Bruce Joel Rubin, music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard
After Sam moves into a Manhattan apartment with his partner Molly, Sam is stabbed to death in a robbery in the street. But Sam finds himself still on Earth with trapped ghosts. Meanwhile Sam’s best friend Cal tries to move into Molly’s life disrupting her grief.
Rebekah Lowings and Josh St Clair play our leads Molly, and Sam, with Josh St Clair showing his vocal range throughout, plus a New England style American accent. Rebekah Lowings grief is very raw at times and makes the audience empathise with her. Jacqis Dubois is excellent at Oda Mae and clearly relishes every second of this fun role.
The sets move in and out very quickly as Sam “jumps” locations and there is some neat stage trickery during ghost moments.
It’s a strange premise to take a supernatural thriller and make it a musical, but it seems purely down to romantic pottery and Unchained Melody. A couple of the songs don’t really need to be in the production like the song More. I felt the production could certainly have ten minutes cut from it somewhere along the line. I’d have been happy to see the regular story as a stage version with a performance of Unchained Melody build in. There’s a lot of love for it though as this is the third tour and the Birmingham dates are very well sold.
Ghost The Musical is at The Alexandra until 5th April 2025. Book tickets here: atgtickets.com/shows/ghost-the-musical/the-alexandra-theatre-birmingham.
