We talk to Ashley Ward (Baby Wants Candy) about her first memories doing musical improv in our interview with her on #TBT.
Hey Ashley! What is your favorite musical of all time?
All time is probably Little Shop of Horrors. Though Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a close second.
What’s it like performing at Edinburgh? And how did you all decide to submit to the festival and what was that process like?
Performing in Edinburgh is like being at grown up summer camp. The whole place is crawling with all kinds of theater and theater nerds. It’s pretty magical! And Baby Wants Candy (the show I have gone to Edinburgh with 6 times) has an incredible fan base there. The energy when you come on stage is full blown rockstar. When Baby first went to Edinburgh (back in 1998) I wasn’t a member of the troupe. They kind of went on a whim and it turned out great for them right away. At this point the submission process for us is very different than for most troupes because we are a known quantity over there. I’m honestly not even sure what they have to do these days.
Is the new Cats trailer a total abomination to Andrew Lloyd Weber, or a truly just remake that Cats has always deserved?
Ha! I mean no. Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to make a musical out of a bunch of poems with no actual storyline. It is a fever dream/acid trip of a show and the movie seems like it’s going to be pretty much that as well. I think the movie is going to be slightly creepier because we are seeing the cats so large on the screen and I’m concerned about the genital situation. Like if they do have genitals, that’s weird and if they don’t that’s also weird? Kind of a no win either way. (Though for the record I’m team “no genitals”- for the Cats movie only)