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Carrie Dunn talks to London's Georges and Zaza about dresses, Doctor Who and damaged knees...
How's everything going?
Both (in unison): Great!
Both enjoying yourselves?
Both (in unison): Very much!
I know you'd both say that anyway, even if you weren't...
Roger Allam: Well, it's hard work, and it certainly took me a while to enjoy it, because the first half, particularly for Albin, is incredibly frenetic. You run on stage, jump around, sing, dance, and then go off-stage and jump into other costumes.
Philip Quast: I've got one dresser, to help me change my shirt, and I see about four descend on you!
Roger: It's like a flock of seagulls! What's lovely, on Saturday night, for instance, we had a riotous audience who loved it all the way through, they stood up and were cheering and clapping. That's incredibly enjoyable, to feel that you're sending an audience out like that. It's a standing ovation most nights.
A show like this must depend quite a lot on the audience, because there's interaction with them throughout.
Roger: Yes, it depends on the demographic. It really does. It's one of those shows where you can get a table of four people that can affect the whole audience, or turn them off - I don't think that's happened, but it could, like any comedy really.
Philip: It can turn a comedy into a tragedy!
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