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And just like that, winter slipped away… ☀️

We’ve been hibernating for the last few months but our Stations of the Month challenge is still here to inspire your adventures! Take a look at this month’s pick from across the UK and Benelux region - and be sure to share your snaps with #OOLSotM!

New Episode Alert 🚨

Charley Goes To Broadway sounds like a sitcom, but it’s actually all about @jcmg.io’s recent trip to Broadway!

Find out now wherever you get your podcasts!

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Wicked: Part One Overstudies · Episode

Apologies for the delay in @overstudies.co.uk episodes returning, we were too busy holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity.

Tune in wherever you get your podcasts now! open.spotify.com/episode/0OZe...

Wicked: Part One Overstudies · Episode

It’s good to see us, isn’t it? 💚🩷

We’re back, better than ever and ready to talk about one of the hottest films of the last 12 months - Wicked: Part One.

Head over to wherever you get your podcasts to check out the latest episode now! open.spotify.com/episode/0OZe...

Surprise! Guess who’s back? Your fave podcasting duo round off 2024 with highlights and memorable theatre moments, as well as taking a look ahead to 2025.

Thanks for joining us this year - Season 5 is coming soon.

Have a stunning new year!

Bekki & Charley 💖

open.spotify.com/show/57PuaiA...

I am considering promoting the app to my home screen tbh... but also not sure I want to go back to being as chronically online as I was prior to the demise of the other place 😂

it's official: trains are cool.

Been a while, BlueSky. 😂 Just coming in to say: the cinematography of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy still blows me away and I am thoroughly enjoying my rewatch.

Rail Adhesion Train 710, formed of converted D78 stock, heads north for Watford, whilst Transplant training train 765, formed of battery locomotives L31 and L28, waits time in the siding. An S8 stock working a Metropolitan line service for Aldgate approaches in the background.

Our latest Picture of the Month comes from @jcmg.io, taken from the signal cabin at Harrow on the Hill. Rail Adhesion Train 710 heads north, whilst Transplant training train 765 waits time in the siding.

The competition for February is open now on our Discord - discord.onourlines.co.uk.

Love that staff taxi life…

(And yes, we have a ‘this show needs work’ review pod coming today, ‘cos I practice what I preach.)

I’ll take your ‘good’ reviews far more seriously if you sometimes go ‘this wasn’t for me’, and you explain why.

If every single review you write is ‘good’ it devalues every review you write or publish on your site. Not every show is good. Not every show is great. It’s okay to not like shows by big names or with big names.

Sure “it has potential” but tell us what isn’t working. Tell us what that potential is. If you’re actually trying to sell a show to people you need to be honest about why it doesn’t work or why you’re using “it has potential” as a euphemism for “it needs work”.

The theatre reviewing “community” really needs to grow a spine. Not every show has to be ‘great’, a review isn’t simply rehashing a press release and it’s fine to say that things need more work AND THEN BE EXPLICIT about what the work is.

Had some fun with the brand account yesterday to celebrate the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version). Which other MT characters would be massive Swifties? Let @overstudies.co.uk know!

Called it the day the TTN was published 😂 HWP has been the bane of my life for well over a year now, because managers can’t manage.

It was only a matter of time. Absolute joke tbh - can’t wait for my meeting on this with senior management in a fortnight.

Yesterday started in Leeds at 6am, arrived in Swanage at 1pm, & eventually ended in Reading at 8pm.

An overwhelming & exhilerating rollercoaster from start to finish. One that I wouldn't have missed for the world.

Esp. with @jarley.bsky.social & @dlpb.bsky.social for company. 💖

#XCHSTFarewell

Also, “shinigami” is a word designed for MT

It’s a week since our @overstudies.bsky.social pod on Death Note dropped and it’s still a soundtrack living rent free in my head. All of the classical musical theatre tropes intertwined with a modern sound and style: a rock opera for the current generation. This show is one to watch.

Can’t decide whether to put BlueSky or Threads on my homescreen; whichever one wins will see me return to my The Artist Formerly Known As Twitter era 😅

Get yourself a best friend like @bekkirichardson.bsky.social who sorts GUTS tickets 🫶🏻😭

This is actually really exciting ngl

Your journey starts here: a new platform for a new destination! Hello and welcome, Bluesky! 👋🏻

I think we can all agree I’m the ten amongst these threes…

Got a Katherine Howard ‘fit done for my BBQ, but it got delayed by HMRC.

So instead I cut about London for a few hours with Shona and we grabbed these epic snaps instead. 😎

K Howard: Caffeinated, Beheaded, Slayed. 💅🏻

Part two because you can only share four images here apparently.

I had some of my favourite people round for a BBQ a couple of weeks ago to round out my 30th celebrations. It was musical theatre themed and it was so much fun! I, obviously, went as the OG ✨mythic bitch✨ herself Heather Chandler.

📸: Various.

Why not?

Charley and Bekki are the Overstudies, standing in front of a sign with the Overstudies logo - white text on a black background with a pink stage light. Charley, a thirty yo trans woman, has pink hair and is wearing a shiny pink stage costume - that of Katherine Howard from Six. Bekki is a 29yo cis woman and is wearing a white denim jacket over a green dress and corset - the costume of Anne Hathaway from musical & Juliet.

We dropped the new season of our podcast yesterday and this is going to be such an exciting one! Overstudies isn’t on Bluesky yet (soon!) but you can gib us a listen anywhere you get your podcasts or at overstudies.co.uk!