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We're here to talk about steps here and now
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I think it's a natural progression for all of us. We've been talking about putting our music on stage
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in terms of not fronted by ourselves, but creating a musical. We've got a fantastic team, award-winning team
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So it's set in a seaside supermarket, as you said, and Kaz is kind of the linchpin of the four friends
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and she seems to have her life all together, and they all look up to her
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because she's about to adopt a child, she's married um and they and it's just before her 50th birthday so they are all kind of saying
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oh we wish our life was as perfect as yours and she says well you know you've got to take control
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of it and they've got to basically find their summer of love they've got two weeks to sort their
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lives out but in the meantime Kaz's life may kind of start to fall apart and it's yeah it's just
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about that journey and it's about friendship, it's about love, it's about, yeah, all sorts
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It's just, it's got everything. It's a roller coaster. Including a drag queen. It one of those shows actually that caused a bit of trouble in Birmingham because people were getting up mid and dancing and doing stuff It like you not at a concert you actually watching a show so you know respect for the artist it the
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music obviously we all love the fans are going to love it but I think what's important to all of us is that if a person walked past the theatre that doesn't really know anything about steps and went
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in and watched the show and then leave smiling going oh my god that was amazing absolutely loved
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it I think that's ticked then every single box we could possibly take with this musical. It's
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actually a jukebox musical a bit like mamma mia with the music of abba so it's not the story of
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abba so yeah and that's how i i kind of explain it but people always come up to me and say who's
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playing you you know and it's like it's it's not actually us yeah it is our music and i think
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we let the the story and the music like i say speak for itself um and i think it's people would
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have expected it to be our story yeah we've always when whenever we've talked about it we always said
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and we always knew that we didn't want it to be our story. We wanted it to have a life on its own
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Do you know what I mean? We wanted it to fly without us
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It is the music. And we are lucky. You know, we have done a few covers as well. So there's going to be songs that everybody knows
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You know Tragedy in there Better the Devil You Know in there Chain Reaction in there It as well as all our original catalogue as well so it We somehow got 5 6 7 8
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And 5, 6, 7, 8. And it's brilliant. Yes. It's brilliant. All the fans that have grown up with us and listened to us from day one
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a lot of them were feeling the same thing as us. They didn't want the musical to kind of let them down
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and ruin their memories of steps and things like that. They didn't want it to be rubbish lead. Basically, they didn't want it to be not very good
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I think everybody cares, don't they? so much love as you know kev you know still all over the years and all across the world so i do
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think you know we're really happy with with the outcome um it's a fabulous musical and we want
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we love everyone to come and see it when it comes near you we always felt like we had to work harder
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than everybody else because we were seen because of five six seven eight i guess as a novelty
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pop act we weren't but everything that we've done over the last 28 years is very carefully thought
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out we care about it we don't do anything on a whim we we really everything's planned and and
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it's our legacy we don't want to we want to enjoy it just as much as the fans do and a large part
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of that now is that everything we do do is with the fans in mind what what do they want what do they want to see what songs do they want to hear us perform literally yesterday i sat on the stairs with my little boy
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i haven't really ventured into steps with him yet for whatever reason he's he sees me on stage in
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pantos and musicals and whatever and he looked at the discs on the wall and he kind of sat there and
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he tries to name you all and that and and then he looked at another disc he went oh that one's the
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same oh daddy daddy that one's the same so he started to realize we're all the same so i went
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do you want to see a video? And he went, yeah. So I showed him tragedy and I showed him what the future holds
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And he went, can I come and watch you, please, Daddy? Oh, my God! Oh, what
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That's adorable. Oh, I can't go. So, yeah, there we are. When we started on this journey
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we never even thought that we would... We weren't thinking about children. You know, we were all young
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And so I think it's so lovely now that what we have achieved
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and the work that we've put out there, now our children can watch
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And that's something that I never thought about at the time. so yeah it's lovely
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it's all on YouTube it's not going anywhere you've always been there
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I just want to say thank you you've always supported us from day one can't wait to hear
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what you think about the musical
