Refreshing Pod - Footballers' Wives The Musical (Fringe 2025)
Refreshing Podcast - With Johnny Collins
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 - 26 minutes
Refreshing Pod - Fringe 2025: Footballers' Wives The Musical It's Johnny's last Fringe Festival Interview for 2025 and he takes you back to the year 2002.We're delighted to be joined by Ceili O'Connor, AKA Tanya Turner, from Footballers' Wives, The Musical, that ends it's run this Sunday.A new British musical based on the iconic TV series following the fall and rise of captain's wife Tanya Turner as she schemes to save her marriage and her husband's career. Go back to 23 years, Sven as the England manager, and the WAG scene was just kicking in. Premier League football was the new rock'n'roll – with the money, glamour and bad behaviour to match. Johnny & Ceili talk about life back in 2002 (fashion, haircuts, big mobile phones) the impact the show had, and how each character was OTT, including how well Zöe Lucker played the original Tanya. Ohh & look out for a great piece of knowledge from Ceili regarding the whole 'Wagatha Christie' saga.Behind the scenes of this musical, has music and lyrics by Kath Gotts (Bad Girls The Musical), based on the book by Maureen Chadwick (original creator of Footballers' Wives, ITV; Bad Girls, ITV; Waterloo Road, BBC), and choreography by Dame Arlene Phillips. The show is directed by Anthony Banks.Spoiler alert: Contains scenes of an adult nature, drug-taking, noughties fashion, attempted murder, coercion, offensive language, outmoded attitudes, sexual impropriety, drama, heartbreak, comedy, singing, dancing – and absolutely no football! 'Gloriously OTT sass with brains and heart' (Musicals Magazine)Nominated for 'Musical Theatre Award - Best Musical Award'Tickets: edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/footballers-wives-the-musicalOnline: www.fwmusical.com (bookmark to see what happens post Fringe Festival).Footballers' Wives: The MusicalMusic Hall at Assembly Rooms, New Town, Edinburgh. Ends Sunday.ITVX: Complete Footballers Wives original series available to stream now.Refreshing Pod is a magazine style podcast, giving you ideas, interviews, big name guests, and guaranteed laughs along the way, with new content every month, now in it's 8th series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
