"We're two Northerners singing about true crime"
2 hours ago
Yasmin Rufo,BBC News, @YasminRufo
Pamela Raith The theatrical landscape is evolving. A few decades ago, the West End was full of classic musicals and Shakespeare adaptations, but now they're giving way to a new kind of show.
Enter Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder, a musical about two real-life friends obsessed with crime podcasts who find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery.
"We're two northerners singing about true crime, we really didn't think it would happen in the West End," says Bronté Barbé who plays Stella . .
Her co-star Bex Hinds is just as enthusiastic about "bringing the female voices of the North to the stage", especially since it This is the first time Hull has played the role of the set of a West End musical.
"People really feel seen as a result of this show and it's incredible, especially as the stories of the people of Hull are rarely the main plot of a play or in big musicals," Hinds told the BBC.
Olivier-winning producer Francesca Moody, who also produced Fleabag, says that because the series is about a pair of strangers, it's "Even more rewarding to bring greater representation to the stage with this musical."
Pamela Raith The characters of Kathy and Stella "haven't found their way in life and haven't really fit in," according to Barbé.
The audience meets the couple eight years after recording a true crime podcast in Kathy's mother's garage.
Despite the lack of listeners, they live and breathe the podcast and become even more obsessed with crime when their fa...
2 hours ago
Yasmin Rufo,BBC News, @YasminRufo
Pamela Raith The theatrical landscape is evolving. A few decades ago, the West End was full of classic musicals and Shakespeare adaptations, but now they're giving way to a new kind of show.
Enter Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder, a musical about two real-life friends obsessed with crime podcasts who find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery.
"We're two northerners singing about true crime, we really didn't think it would happen in the West End," says Bronté Barbé who plays Stella . .
Her co-star Bex Hinds is just as enthusiastic about "bringing the female voices of the North to the stage", especially since it This is the first time Hull has played the role of the set of a West End musical.
"People really feel seen as a result of this show and it's incredible, especially as the stories of the people of Hull are rarely the main plot of a play or in big musicals," Hinds told the BBC.
Olivier-winning producer Francesca Moody, who also produced Fleabag, says that because the series is about a pair of strangers, it's "Even more rewarding to bring greater representation to the stage with this musical."
Pamela Raith The characters of Kathy and Stella "haven't found their way in life and haven't really fit in," according to Barbé.
The audience meets the couple eight years after recording a true crime podcast in Kathy's mother's garage.
Despite the lack of listeners, they live and breathe the podcast and become even more obsessed with crime when their fa...
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