“Andrew Lloyd Webber would be quite angry about it!” – Flo & Joan on new show One Man Musical
It’s January: cold, bleak, miserable, seemingly never ending. We’re always on the lookout for a healthy dose of escapism at this time of year, and One Man Musical, the new show from comedy duo Flo & Joan, has caught our attention.
Fresh from a sell out run at last summer’s Edinburgh Fringe festival it has just opened at the Underbelly Boulevard Theatre in Soho, and we’ll be checking it out very soon.
Ahead of that we caught up with the pair – sisters Nicola and Rosie Dempsey – for a quick chat. For the uninitiated – what can we expect from the Flo & Joan experience? “Well this is slightly different to a normal Flo & Joan show,” Nicola begins, “because a normal Flo & Joan show is the two of us with a collection of songs that we’ve written over a year, about life in general.
But we decided we wanted to try something different – we always wanted to write a musical, and we were writing a big musical, and everyone just kept telling us that no-one makes big musicals anymore, there’s no money in it.
