00:00 All our artists, they'll always be given auditions because they're talented.
00:05 And our job, as I said before, is to support them.
00:09 So if they say in two and three weeks' time we've got an audition in the West End,
00:14 this isn't a problem, it's a pleasure.
00:16 A unique musical dining experience has arrived in Manchester,
00:20 bringing the sounds of West End and Broadway shows to the city.
00:24 The Broadway is a new restaurant venue on the edge of the Orient car park
00:28 at the Trafford Centre and features a team of staff who are all professional singers.
00:33 Customers are taken on a theatrical musical journey
00:36 as waiters and waitresses stand up and sing to give them a thrilling dinner and a show.
00:41 The restaurant has been opened by the creative producers of Karen's Diner,
00:45 where diners are greeted with incredibly rude service,
00:48 an experience which could not be more different from the cheery singing workers at the Broadway.
00:53 The unique venue is filled with young, local talent, belting out solos and group numbers
00:58 while you wait for your tapas-style food and smoking cocktails.
01:01 Diners are treated to an immersive experience at the Broadway
01:05 and we were invited down to check it out for ourselves.
01:08 Broadway is a concert that we've put together that's a magnet for local talent.
01:14 The whole purpose is that we can entertain,
01:17 let people forget everything for at least an hour and a half
01:21 and then give them great sound, great music
01:24 and at the same time give some super young and up-and-coming artists an opportunity to climb.
01:31 These are all performers who serve and wait at tables as against waiters who can perform.
01:38 The most important thing is that they are performers.
01:41 We try and do something from a musical every seven or eight minutes.
01:45 Don't hold me to that because if the kitchen's a little slow
01:49 and we get problems with staff because people get poorly,
01:52 we don't over strain so we relax with all the performers,
01:56 ensure that they can work within the constraints of their vocal ability
02:01 and then we support them.
02:03 We don't need to do more than that because we're very lucky.
02:06 The teams we've got are utterly fabulous as people as well as performers.
02:11 We tried a selection of the tapas-style dishes including chicken wings,
02:15 mac and cheese balls, stuffed jacket potatoes, buffalo cauliflower and more.
02:20 As well as all three desserts on offer which included a New York cheesecake,
02:24 Rocky Road and ice cream and an apple pie.
02:27 To accompany the food we also got to sample some of the cocktails
02:30 including passion fruit martinis and mojitos
02:33 though the restaurant does have a much more extensive list of drinks.
02:37 I think when you have a business like this, you don't think of coming into work.
02:41 You're excited because you know you've got so many songs to do and so many shifts
02:46 and I think the nice thing is they bond.
02:50 So they all are excited for each other and when some of them have got songs on
02:55 and because they can't be working all of them every night,
02:58 they're enthused for the others
03:00 and that's why I think this is working perhaps even better than we'd hoped.
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