STAGE TUBE: Michael Ball Talks Music and Career to The Hour

Singer and actor Michael Ball is currently on his UK tour, travelling round the country, and stopped by AM chat show "The Hour" to cover a variety of topics including his acclaimed run in Hairspray.

He joins the touring company of Hairspray in March 2010, appearing in Cardiff, Glasgow, Southampton, Manchester and Edinburgh.

Michael Ball is an Olivier Award winning actor, singer, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in Les Misérables, Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray for which he won the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for best actor in a musical.