Guys Who Like Musicals

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We Love Hello Dolly and Will Burton Aug 28, 2020

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WILL BURTON IS BACK!! Friend of the pod and all around winner, Will Burton, has returned to nerd-out with us about HELLO, DOLLY! That's Hello Comma Dolly Exclamation Point. DON'T YOU FORGET IT. In case you're wondering, HELLO, DOLLY! is a musical about a woman and her favorite restaurant. In college, Will had to write a 40 page paper on HELLO, DOLLY! (that's musical theater college for ya) and he appeared as Ambrose in the recent revival with DAME Bette Midler. Will has been in three different professional productions of HELLO, DOLLY! so we thought it only right to have him back as the resident expert. We celebrate the magnificent Jerry Herman this week, the composer of HELLO, DOLLY!, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, MAME, among others, who we lost in December of 2019 at the age of 88. Our favs this week include It Only Takes a Moment, Before The Parade Passes By, and Gavin Creel's "OUT THERE... there's a world outside of Yonkers." After this week we know for sure... if we have to dig ditches for the rest of my life, we will be a ditch diggers who once had a wonderful day. COME ON BARNABY WE'RE GOING TO NEW YORK!!

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We Love Howard Ashman and Disney Musicals Aug 21, 2020

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He gave a Mermaid her voice and a Beast his soul. Joe sings backup as Dan belts out "Kiss The Girl". This week we love Howard, a new documentary now on Disney+. Howard is the untold story of Howard Ashman, the brilliant lyricist behind Disney classics like “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Little Mermaid” and creator of musicals including “Little Shop of Horrors.” First, listen to our show, and then go relive your favorite Disney lyrics in this remarkable documentary.

We had the amazing opportunity to witness a masterclass with Howard's longtime collaborator, Alan Menken, when we were undergrads at the University of Michigan. Listen in for when long time friend of the pod, Will Burton, sings Proud of Your Boy in front of a misty Alan Menken.

This week we celebrate Howard by geeking out over his lyrics and revisiting the movie musicals that shaped our lives. Howard died in his prime due to complications from AIDS. This week we celebrate the genius lost waaaay too soon, and the countless artists who died during the AIDS epidemic. The world lost a generation of brilliant minds, and they will not be forgotten.

We would have no "Waving Through a Window" without "Somewhere That's Green", no "In The Heights" without "Belle", no "Wizard and I" without "Part of Your World"... The musical theater we know today is BECAUSE of Howard Ashman. Cheers to Howard... to the musicals you gave us, and the ones that might have been. Thank you.

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We Love Phantom of the Opera and Jim Hogan Aug 14, 2020

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This week we're chatting with stage and small screen star Jim Hogan, founding member and arranger for the viral Tiktok group t.3 (tik tok tenors), and we're nerding out over another Musical We Love.....The Phantom of the Opera. The longest-running show of all time, Phantom of the Opera has made more than $6 billion dollars worldwide. It has played to over 140 million people in 35 countries in 166 cities. It has been performed in 15 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Castilian, Hungarian, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Estonian, and Russian. There are 19 official cast recordings. Don't miss Joe and Jim in a new game, "Guess the Language"... Spoiler alert. They don't guess a single language.

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We Love Company, Matt Doyle and Another Vodka Stinger Aug 07, 2020

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This week we're talking Dan's favorite musical, COMPANY, with one of Joe's best friends, Matt Doyle. Matt is currently playing the gender-swapped role of "Jamie," in the revival of COMPANY on Broadway. He shares with us his mad dash to learn "Not Getting Married Today" 16 hours before the final callback, and the utter generosity that Mr. Sondheim shares with all his collaborators. Put some vodka on ice, sit back in your recliner, and treat yourself to the 2006 Revival...just maybe don't invite your spouse.

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We Love Passing Strange, Only Love Is Real Jul 31, 2020

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This week we start a brand new format...MUSICALS WE LOVE… We love Musicals, we miss musicals… Starting this week we’re going to explore some shows you might not know and get a closer look at the shows you love. This week… Joe’s favorite musical of all time. PASSING STRANGE . . "You know its weird when you wake up that morning and realize that your entire adult life was based on the decision made by a teenager… A stoned teenager.” Passing Strange won the Tony for Best Book of a Musical at the 2008 Tony Awards and closed WAY soon. If you don’t know this show… YOU MUST!! Check out the Spike Film on iTunes or Amazon and check the cast album wherever you get music. This show changed Joe’s life and super charged his love for theater at a time when the theater was nowhere to be found. A search for “the real”, a mother’s love might feel insane, nothing ever made him feel as real as when she mended him, remove your mask .. I'll give you all the love life allows… Passing Strange is everything we love about theater. We’re thrilled to bring you this new segment and celebrate the art form we love so much. I wonder what we'll cover next week???

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What A Year It's Been Finale Jul 24, 2020

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Max and Robyn, Robyn and Max. Max Clayton and Robyn Hurder are the best of friends, the best of people, the most hilarious and most insightful. This week we're bringing you the highlights of each interview brought together through the glorious technology of ... sound editing. It's like they were in the room AT THE SAME TIME. Their love story can be seen all over Instagram so check it out. We revisit the moment when Max was in Vegas seeing Celine Dion and Broadway called. As well as the birth of Steak and Cheese Productions. Max has been seen on Broadway in Pretty Woman; Hello, Dolly!; Bandstand (Chita Rivera nom.); Something Rotten!; On the Town; Gigi. Robyn has been seen on Broadway in Chicago, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Grease, and The Wedding Singer... she's done a million regional shows and tours AND... one of Joe's TOP 10 THEATRICAL MOMENTS AS AN AUDIENCE MEMBER: A Chorus Line at City Center.

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Next week we start our new segment for the beginning of Season 3!! Tune in next week for all new stuff!!

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What a Year It's Been Part 4 Jul 10, 2020

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Joe is off vacationing this week, and Dan has settled into his new home in beautiful Colorado, and he's bringing you back to one of our favorites - our interview with Gavin Creel. Gavin has won a Tony Award, and an Olivier, but what we know him as the most-played singer on our car radios. Gavin has a brilliant perspective on the business, knowing you're enough, telling the story first, and being KIND. He is the King of Kindness (NICE WAITRESS Reference) more at guyswholikemusicals.com

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What A Year It's Been Part 3 Jul 03, 2020

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Is everyone watching Hamilton? This was the interview that really put Guys Who Like Musicals on the map this past year... and Joe was NOWHERE to be seen. Shoshana Bean puts her heart into her voice. This was the interview that really made us feel like we could talk with people at the absolute top of their game. We started this show as a couple guys who like talking to people about musicals, and this interview was a awakening for us that an interview show about Broadway could be so much more. She had just finished up her run as Jenna in Waitress when Dan talked with her and she speaks so openly about the highs and lows of her career. Shoshana loves the theater, but her story is long and complicated and beautiful and heart wrenching. We are so thrilled that Shoshana came back to Broadway .... She talks about how Waitress healed many of the wounds of replacing in Wicked. You'll always remember your first Elphaba. She talks about coming to terms of the impact that playing Elphaba and so many other remarkable stories. There were so many gems in this interview and we wanted to bring you our favorite moments. We can't wait for the follow up episode where we talk about artist self care. She is such a generous and a remarkable talent... and we're so grateful she talked to us. Well... Dan. She talked to Dan.

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What a Year It's Been Part 2 Jun 26, 2020

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Let the celebration continue!! More highlights from year one, Hamilton is coming to Disney plus, and Guys Who Like Musicals has a new look for year 2... What does that mean? Stay tuned. We really REALLY want to hear from you. How are you? Whatcha thinkin about?? What do you want more of? What sucked? We want to connect with our listeners more... we love you guys you guys :)

This week we continue to celebrate Black Artists by revisiting our favorite moments from Joe's interview with Noah J Ricketts. We talk about gratitude lists, going on as Kristoff without a costume in Denver, the gift of training, and fighting Russian meddling in our musical theater.

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What A Year It's Been Part 1 Jun 12, 2020

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Happy Anniversary Darling. For the next few weeks we will be recapping some of our favorite memories from the past year, as well as bringing you some things we should've paid more attention to... like the way our black colleagues deal with racism in the theater every single day. So that's where we start today. Please tune in to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition TONIGHT on Youtube and The Antonyo Awards on June 19th.

This week we wanted to highlight the conversation we had with Aisha Jackson. This was such a great conversation about art and race in the Broadway community. Aisha is generous and strong and she is hurting. We need to be better.

We want to tell our listeners that we're not experts, we're not polished, at times we have NO idea what we're doing, but, we're trying. And, frankly, if we can have these conversations SO CAN YOU. Talk to your family members, your friends, read, post, yell, donate, march, get out there, but mostly listen.

What a year. We can be better. We WILL be better. We're so grateful to everyone who has tuned in for the past year. When we started Guys Who Like Musicals we wanted to create a place where we could have candid, vulnerable conversations with our friends and colleagues. We have grown a lot as podcasters and we want to thank YOU our listeners so SO much. Cheers to another year.

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