Aisling Bonner: Like Jessie Buckley, my love for musical societies was inherited from my parents who met doing The John Player Tops of the Town

It’s a Friday afternoon in January and my phone is lighting up. By the time I check it, there are over 150 messages in a group chat called ‘JCS Cast *church emoji*, *electric guitar emoji*’. JCS stands for Jesus Christ Superstar, which is the musical I’m rehearsing for with Entr’acte Musical Society. The emojis are for decoration. I wonder what in God’s name (pun intended) is going on, so I open the chat and learn that there’s big news in the world of Irish musical theatre. It concerns someth...