Ep. 473 - Pippa Evans
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Pippa Evans is an award-winning musical performer, improviser, author, writer and dramaturg who specialises in improvisation and musical theatre. Pippa is a regular on BBC Radio 4 with credits including: The Now Show, Just a Minute and The Unbelievable Truth and she has toured theatres nationwide as a member of the official I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue cast. Pippa wrote NOW! That’s What I Call Musical, which will begin its nationwide tour in September 2024, directed by Craig Revel Horwood. She was the dramaturg on the Savoy Theatre’s production of 9 to 5: The Musical, which toured the UK following its London residency and was commissioned to write an original song for the closing of Netflix’s Jack Whitehall: Christmas With My Father, which Jack performed. Pippa is a founder member of Olivier Award winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and has performed with them across the UK, in the West End and internationally. She has also performed her original comedy songs on ITV’s Tonight at the Palladium and has performed multiple critically acclaimed solo musical comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and across the world, including the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. A published author, Pippa’s debut book, Improv Your Life: An Improviser’s Guide to Embracing Whatever Life Throws At You .
Pippa Evans is our guest in episode 473 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
For tickets for Showstopper: The Improvised Musical, visit - https://showstopperthemusical.com .
For tickets for The London 50-hour Improvathon, visit - https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/london-50-hour-improvathon-2025-because-we-can-can-can .
For tickets for NOW! That’s What I Call Musical, visit - https://thenowmusical.com .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
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| 1:17.6 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is a podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 1:35.7 | They pick four things that they love and one thing that they'd like to forget forever. |
| 1:41.3 | My guest in this episode is Pippa Evans. |
| 1:46.5 | Pippa is an award-winning musical performer, |
| 1:53.2 | author, writer and dramaturg who specialises in improvisation and musical theatre. Pippa wrote, |
| 1:58.6 | Now That's what I call Musical, which is touring the UK now. It was directed by Craig Revel Horwood and stars award-winning comedy actress and EastEnders star Nina Wadia with Sam Bailey, |
| 2:04.9 | winner of The X Factor and star of Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Chicago, who will be joined on stage by 80s pop icon Sinita, Sonia, Sonia, Taua, Wilcox, performing one of their smash hits. Sounds brilliant, |
| 2:19.4 | doesn't it? Well, tickets available now. Pippa is much in demand as a dramaturg. She was the |
| 2:25.2 | dramaturg on the Savoy Theatre's production of 9 to 5, the musical, and was commissioned to write an original |
| 2:31.1 | song for the closing of Netflix, Jack Wightall, Christmas |
| 2:34.3 | with my father, which Jack performed. Pippa is a founder member of the Olivier Award-winning |
| 2:40.3 | Showstoppers The Improvised Musical, and will be performing with them across the UK and in the West End |
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