Tell Me on a Sunday is a one-woman song cycle with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black which charts the turbulent love life of British girl Emma who moves to the United States in constant search of love, happiness and that all-important green card.
Needless to say, things tend to go wrong for the unlucky-in-love girl and the cycle is an erratic journey of ups and downs for both the character and the audience – injected with equal measures of comedy and pathos.
The show is a Watermill Theatre production, who have staged many hits over the years and is directed by Paul Foster.
The musical started life as a concept album back in the 1980s starring Marti Webb and was then staged as the first act of a show called Song & Dance before becoming a piece in its own right in 2003 and has toured numerous times with the likes of Denise van Outen and Faye Tozer taking on the role. This production, however, has been called the “definitive version” by the creators.
Acclaimed actress Jodie Prenger is back for her second stint in the role having first played the role the first time back in 2016. Jodie is probably best known to wider audiences for winning the role of Nancy in Oliver! through the BBC series, I’d Do Anything but has since gone on to carve out a solid and versatile career in theatre, having played leading roles in both musicals and plays such as Calamity Jane, Abigail’s Party and A Taste of Honey. In the role of Emma, Jodie is as formidable as ever. She tackles every song with perfect levels of comedy and drama and easily puts her own welcome spin onto songs that have been staples of musical theatre for decades, accompanied on stage by a live band.
