Brothers AJ and Curtis Pritchard (Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing With The Stars, Love Island) are joined by a cast of West End performers for Come What May.
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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely to
00:06speak to AJ, one half of AJ and Curtis Pritchard, and you are on the road, brothers, with Come
00:14What May, with dates in Brighton and Portsmouth. And from what you were saying just now, it's
00:19a fantastic show you've got stored up for us, isn't it?
00:22Yeah, it is a brilliant show. Come What May is the ultimate tribute to Moulin
00:29Rouge and other fantastic musicals. You have this singing that really just embodies that
00:36music. All these songs already have an emotion to people. And myself, my brother, the fantastic
00:41cast of other dancers, really just get to bring it alive on stage, as we spoke earlier,
00:47kind of bringing that fourth, fifth dimension. We get to add extra layers to music and emotions
00:53that are already set inside people. So we're having the time of our lives and the audiences
00:58are absolutely loving it. Standard innovations so far, but hopefully we keep that coming
01:03when we get to you guys. And yeah, it is exactly, it's really nice because you purchase a ticket
01:09to this sort of tour, and you immediately know what you're getting. You get great music,
01:14great dancing, and a night that is breaking that fourth wall. You are as much of the performance
01:21as we are, and I love that as a performer.
01:23Absolutely, and it sounds like that's what it's all about for you as a performer, you're
01:27saying that if you're doing something that's being watched by millions of people at home,
01:31well, actually having thousands, hundreds of people in the room with you is rather different,
01:36isn't it?
01:37Yeah, I feel like if you perform in front of millions on TV, you kind of perform in
01:42front of like camera number one, camera number two, and you have to sometimes visualise that.
01:47But when you're definitely on stage, you have that instant gratification, you could say
01:52of being like, they're liking it, or they're confused what's about to happen, or the lighting
01:58change makes the aura change in the room. And that instant reaction is brilliant as a performer.
02:04Absolutely. And as members of the audience, we can enjoy ourselves by thinking about the
02:10differences between you and your brother. You have a different energy, you were saying?
02:14Yeah, no, myself and my brother, I'm very OCD and very kind of like, I like to do the exact
02:20same performance every single night so that it is nailed in. I know what I'm doing. I can do it
02:24with my eyes closed now. And Curtis is a bit more creative and controlled in an aspect where
02:32he's creative. Let's reuse the word creative in that aspect of if the audience has given him more,
02:38he may decide to go and sit down with the audience over there or do this. I'm like,
02:42yeah, that's definitely not in the script, but the audience love it. So if the audience love it,
02:46if that was what they want, they get it.
02:48Fantastic. Sounds a perfect balance. Really lovely to speak to you. Good luck with the
02:52rest of the tour dates, including Portsmouth. Thank you for your time.
02:57No, thank you very much.