As his new show, Hairspray, leads the return to theatres, the singer talks about his mental health struggles, going back to his mining-town roots " and how the government has let down the performing arts It is only an hour and a half before curtain-up, and if Michael Ball is feeling a rising panic at the idea of spending this time speaking to me through his iPad, rather than on his usual warmup, he is hiding it well.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM on June 29, 2021