Podcast: Edward Seckerson Meets... Jac Yarrow

Friday, August 9, 2024

As his short stint as Marius in the West End ahead of the September world tour of Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular draws to an end, the young performer shares his highlights from what has been a fast-and-furious rise to the top

For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Jac Yarrow, who didn’t even have time to collect his diploma before he was plucked from drama school to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium. His progress since has been fast and furious, establishing him as one of the go-to younger leading men in the business. He talks about life during and after drama school, the instant stardom of Joseph, his brush with Pippin in a stunning concert staging, and being part of the glitziest ensemble in town for the Sondheim tribute Old Friends. Plus, he looks forward to taking the world by storm with Les Mis as we’ve never seen it before.

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Les Misérables will enter its 40^th record-breaking year in London this October – for tickets for London, Japan and the US, plus details of the world tour of Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular, visit lesmis.com

The musical excerpts are taken from Les Misérables: The Motion Picture Soundtrack (Cameron Mackintosh Ltd / Polydor Records / Universal Music). The opening and closing musical excerpts featured in this podcast are from the Overture to Gypsy (film version), taken from Jule Styne’s ‘Overtures Vol 2’, courtesy of JAY Records