How Very Hannah

On THURSDAYS we wear pink… and talk Mean Girls, Heathers, Legally Blonde AND handling the internet when it’s doing the most…
This week I’m joined by my friend – and actual real-life Regina George – Vivian Panka. We met doing the Heathers movie together (she was Heather Duke, I was New Wave Party Girl…), and now she’s leading the UK & Ireland tour of Mean Girls as Queen Bee herself.
Vivian takes us inside the *wild* audition process: going in for Gretchen, asking to be seen for Regina, last-minute recalls, and finding out she’d booked it while on holiday listening to the cast album on repeat.
We also get into some big stuff:
- Being the first black Regina George and what it means to see yourself in roles you weren’t “traditionally” cast in
- Why colour ≠ “type”, and how she’s gone from 9 to 5 to Mean Girls
- Learning English from a bootleg of High School Musical 2 (yes, really) and why everyone thinks she’s American
- The reality of Stage Door – vocal health, boundaries, safety, weird encounters and why sometimes it *is* okay to slip out the back
Hope you love this one – it’s stagey, sooo fetch and a little bit therapeutic 🫶🏼
New episodes every Thursday at 7am! 
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🎟️ See Vivian in Mean Girls (UK & Ireland Tour) – https://meangirlsmusical.com/
🎧 Watch us together in Heathers: The Musical – now streaming on Amazon Prime Video
🎟️ See me in Legally Blonde on tour!!
Book your tickets 👉🏼 https://legallyblondeshow.com
💌  Want to send your hotlines, dilemmas or questions? 
Email [email protected] or slide into the DMs @howvery_hannah
And make sure to follow the pod EVERYWHERE!
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Produced by Bear Lane Productions 🎙️
Music by Joe Truscott 🎵

If you’ve watched Good American Family and found yourself obsessed with Natalia Grace… this is the girl behind her. 👀
This week I’m joined by my friend – and fellow theatre girly – Imogen Faith Reid. We met doing Panto years ago, and now she’s leading a huge drama series playing Natalia Grace. No big deal!!!
Imogen talks about going from Panto and body-double gigs to landing her first major TV role, and what it actually takes to transform into Natalia: prosthetic hands, a padded bodysuit to hide her curves, fake baby teeth, and learning to act for camera after years of big, stagey musical theatre faces.
We also get into stunt work – including the motorway car-door moment – living in LA for months, and the utterly wild day she found out Ellen Pompeo was going to play her mum(!!) plus there’s SO much more, so dive in drama queens!!
Follow Imogen on platforms: IG - https://www.instagram.com/imogenfaith__/?hl=en TT - https://www.tiktok.com/@immifaith?lang=en-GB

🎟️ Come see Legally Blonde on tour!! Book your tickets 👉🏼 https://legallyblondeshow.com/⁠

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New episodes every Thursday at 7am! Hit FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to never miss an ep ✨
💌 Want to send your hotlines, dilemmas or questions? Email [email protected] or slide into the DMs @howvery_hannah
And make sure to follow the pod EVERYWHERE! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/howvery_hannah TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@howvery_hannah

and… BUY MY BOOK https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/476785/les-quizerables-by-lowther-hannah/9781529978964

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Produced by Bear Lane Productions 🎙️ Music by Joe Truscott 🎵

Week three of Legally Blonde rehearsals nearly finished me (🤪)… so let’s have a little debrief, shall we?! 💖
In this solo ep I’m giving you a full life update – how rehearsals are actually going, why week three is always chaos, and what it’s like setting the whole show!
Plus, I’m answering YOUR questions - like my favourite numbers from the show, the joy and pain of learning choreography, and I get really honest about stage door, nerves and boundaries. We talk about cover life, why I’m not off-book for Elle yet (and why that’s normal!), feeling shy in week one rehearsals, and the pressure of proving I’m there for more than just TikTok.
Plus: dog rehearsals with Bruiser (Sprout, the tiniest king), what happens when your acting has to make sense to a puppy, my skipping-rope trauma, and how it feels living in Leicester for seven weeks with a whole year of touring ahead…
EEK! So much to discuss… Hope you love it! 💕
🎟️ andddd come see Legally Blonde on tour!! Book your tickets 👉🏼 https://legallyblondeshow.com/⁠

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New episodes every Thursday at 7am! Hit FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to never miss an ep ✨
💌 Want to send your hotlines, dilemmas or questions? Email [email protected] or slide into the DMs @howvery_hannah
And make sure to follow the pod EVERYWHERE! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/howvery_hannah TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@howvery_hannah

and… BUY MY BOOK - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/476785/les-quizerables-by-lowther-hannah/9781529978964

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Produced by Bear Lane Productions 🎙️ Music by Joe Truscott 🎵

West End besties on the pod alert !!

This week I’m joined by actual West End royalty and on-stage power duo Lucie Jones & David Hunter... the iconic pairing from Waitress and the world premiere of 13 Going On 30 The Musical !

We get into all of it: how they first ended up opposite each other, what makes on-stage chemistry actually work, and why generosity is the secret sauce when you’re sharing the stage.

They talk corpsing on stage and get nostalgic about the Waitress company being absolute MENACES for giggles - and I hear how you keep a show feeling fresh when you’re on performance number 247 of the week.

Lucie takes us through the long road to playing Elphaba on Wicked, whilst David spills on an iconic Jason Donovan moment.

We also talk cover life, first-day-of-rehearsals fear, the cursed “fun fact” circle, parasocial friendships, and the very real responsibility that comes with people watching everything you do online and on stage.

Hope you love it… and don’t forget to FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE wherever you’re watching and/or listening!!

📩 and email me your confessions & hotlines to: [email protected] 💌
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🎟️ SeeDavid in Beautiful Little Fools at Southwark Playhouse – tickets via https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/beautiful-little-fool/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23391641016&gbraid=0AAAAAosxaonhMUaLXhq2aOgiKX-AMJshv&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4eHLBhCzARIsAJ2NZoKeYUHkL6x6jk-dDwvhjr6c-LlW1xUsRc60UCH4hfwJYowr_KDAJxMaAkqqEALw_wcB

🎤 Grab tickets for Lucie Jones Live at the London Palladium on 16th February – https://lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/lucie-jones-tlp/

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🎟️ Come see Legally Blonde on tour! Book your tickets 👉🏼 https://legallyblondeshow.com/⁠

📚 BUY MY BOOK https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/476785/les-quizerables-by-lowther-hannah/9781529978964

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🔗 TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@howvery_hannah
🔗 IG – https://www.instagram.com/howvery_hannah

Produced by Bear Lane Productions 🎙️
Music by Joe Truscott 🎵
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All You Wanna Do... is hear about Katherine Howard, right?! 💅

Well you are in LUCK because I’m getting all the SIX West End scoop from none other than stagey icon and my friend Leesa Tulley!!

Leesa’s just been announced as the new Katherine Howard in SIX in the West End (I KNOW), so we’re getting the inside story on her stage debut award, the diner dash of actual dreams (she left the Theatre Café mid-shift and was on stage an hour later), and what it’s like returning to a show you’ve lived, breathed and belted in for years – but this time as the full-time lead.

We also get into the madness of Why Am I So Single?, press night nerves, award-season awkwardness, and what happens when confetti gets stuck in your you know where. Plus: the fly that toured with us. Yes, really.

Hope you love it!
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🎟️ See Leesa in SIX from February on the West End!
https://sixthemusical.com/london/

Follow Leesa!
IG: https://www.instagram.com/l.eesa/
TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@l.eesa

🎟️ Come see Legally Blonde on tour!
Book your tickets 👉🏼 https://legallyblondeshow.com/⁠

Don’t forget to FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE wherever you’re watching and/or listening!!

📩 Email me at [email protected] 💌

📚 BUY MY BOOK https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/476785/les-quizerables-by-lowther-hannah/9781529978964

SOCIALS
🔗 TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@howvery_hannah
🔗 IG – https://www.instagram.com/howvery_hannah

Produced by Bear Lane Productions 🎙️
Music by Joe Truscott 🎵
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.