The critically acclaimed musical Nine brings to life the story of the renowned but fictitious film-maker Guido Contini as he navigates the complexities of love, creativity and identity. With a score by Maury Yeston, Nine intertwines the lives of the women in Guido’s life, each representing different facets of his journey.
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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Always great
00:06to speak to the students at the University of Chichester, especially the Musical Theatre
00:10Triple Threat course, and you are doing something really intriguing. Your latest show is Nine
00:16now, lovely to speak to Tom and Stan, despite the fact it says Lydia and Sophia in the corner,
00:21but it's Tom and Stan. Tom, starting with you, what is Nine all about? It sounds so
00:27intriguing. Yeah, so Nine essentially follows the life and journey of the fictitious screen
00:37and playwriter Guido Contini, who me and Stan are both playing. It essentially delves into
00:43him coming up with his next big thing and how he's, for one of the first times in his
00:50life, struggling to find that, just that idea that he needs. And all these women from his
00:55past and his present all come back in various different dream-like and literal scenarios,
01:03and they go through so many different feelings and emotions with him to put him and stir
01:08him off and back on track. So it's this big winding path, and alongside that he sees his
01:15younger self and how his childhood and what he went through inspired him. So Stan, you're
01:21both playing the older Guido, but you're also, when you're not playing the older one, playing
01:25the younger one. Yes, that's right. I think that it opens a lot of doors. There's a lot
01:32of interesting choices you can make there, I think. When you have the same character
01:39but younger, you know, you get to take the character on a journey. To me, that's what
01:46Nine and many musicals really, that's what they're about, is the journey from point A
01:51to point B. And getting to play both aspects of Guido, his older self, his mature Italian
01:58maestro self, and the younger, innocent version of himself on separate nights, is really interesting.
02:06You get to view the character from different angles that I don't think you'd otherwise
02:09get to view him from. Yeah, it's clearly, Tom, a fantastic opportunity, isn't it? And
02:14it's all part of a course that you are really enjoying, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely.
02:19It's great. We've got such an amazing group of 20 of us. Yeah, about 20 of us. About 20
02:26of us in the cast, who are all incredibly, incredibly talented performers. So we're really,
02:33really lucky to work with them. Waking up and going in and getting to work with so many
02:37incredible people, you know, it's a privilege, you know, surrounded by so much talent. And
02:43we have our incredible creative team. We have Emma Kilby, Pamela Fleming and Bianca Fung,
02:49who are going to be leading this big journey towards opening night. And we're really looking
02:55to have them. They've got this mindset and they know what they want, this direction to
02:59go in. Fantastic. Well, it sounds like it's going to be brilliant. Tom and Stan, lovely
03:04to speak to you. The show is Ein and you are students on the Musical Theatre Triple Threat
03:09course at the University of Rochester. Great to speak to you. Thank you. Thanks very much.