The Original Cast

Lauren Halvorsen / The Wild Party - Original Cast Recording | A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000) *FLASHBACK* Nov 13, 2024

part 1 originally released: January 10, 2018

Dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen is here for the first of our epic, two-part dive into both musical versions of THE WILD PARTY. Here we cover not only Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway take on Queenie, Burrs, Black, et al.; we also talk through Joseph Moncure March's novella-length poem upon which both musicals are based.

part 2 originally released: January 17, 2018

The thrilling conclusion to our deep-dive into THE WILD PARTY. We talk the La Chuisa/Wolfe Broadway version, Mandy Patinkin, the philosophy of adaptation, Mandy Patinkin, which we prefer, and Mandy Patinkin in . . . (not a joke, wish it was) blackface.

Poem excerpts read and recorded by Lee Liebeskind.

Featured recordings:

THE WILD PARTY - Original Cast Recording (2000)

THE WILD PARTY - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000)

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY - Vol. 5: Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act! (1999)

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Amanda Zeitler / Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) *FLASHBACK* Oct 30, 2024

originally released: October 26, 2016

Amanda introduces Patrick to a show he had not only never heard but never heard of. After a thorough plot synopsis things get personal, then philosophical, then pedagogical, then philosophical again, then paleontological.

Featured recordings: STARMITES - Original Cast Members (1999)

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Doug Wilder / No Way to Treat a Lady - Original Cast Recording (1997) *FLASHBACK* Oct 16, 2024

originally released: June 28, 2017

Helen Hayes Award-winner Doug Wilder brings us our third Zeitler! A tiny, dark comedy musical about a serial killer and a cop and the woman the cop loves and the mother of the serial killer and also the cop's mother.

Topics include: earnest love, montage theory, and DEATH TO SMOOCHY.

Featured recordings: NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY - Original Cast Recording (1997)

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Alexandra Silber / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) *FLASHBACK* Oct 02, 2024

originally released: September 18, 2019

Actor and author Alexandra Silber is currently appearing as Fraulein Sally Bowles in Olney Theatre Center's production of Cabaret. But she's here this week to talk about this beautiful Lucy Simon/Marsha Norman musical and so much more. Really, we get deep.__Topics include: living with grief, communing with nature, and the glory of Rebecca Luker.

Buy Alexandra's memoir White Hot Grief Parade and her novel After Anatevka. Both titles are also available on Audible read by Al herself!

Featured recordings: The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? August's episode has Married super-cool duo Lee Liebeskind (Spring Awakening) and Megan Reichelt (The Scarlet Pimpernel) join Patrick and his super-cool ladywife Kelley to talk about The Muppet Movie (1979) the super-coolest movie of all time. Seriously, it's so good you guys.

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Kenny Neal / Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984) *FLASHBACK* Sep 18, 2024

originally released: March 29, 2017

Sound designer Kenny Neal comes by to talk about what he describes as “nobody’s favorite musical.”

Topics include: “What?,” “Why?,” “Really?,” “He does?,” “They are?,” and “I don’t get it.”

Featured recordings: STARLIGHT EXPRESS - The Original Cast Recording (1984)

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Robert W. Schneider / La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983) *FLASHBACK* Sep 04, 2024

originally released: June 10, 2020

Director/podcaster Robert W. Schneider is here for a musical whose legacy may be unfairly besmirched by an infamous Tony speech.

Topics Include: George Hearn, staging the overture, cutting the entr’acte, and maybe revoking Rob’s gay card live on the air!

Featured Recording: La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983)

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Logan Culwell-Block / Little Shop of Horrors - Original Cast Album (1982) *FLASHBACK* Aug 21, 2024

originally released: November 29, 2017

Playbill writer (now news editor) Logan Culwell-Block stops by ostensibly to talk about LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS but Patrick and he nerd out pretty fast. Topics include: How should a cast album be produced? Early versions of how Seymour killed the dentist. And why in the name of heavenly glory would you autotune Jerry Orbach?!?

Featured recordings:

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Original Cast Album (1982)

EXPERIMENT - Mandy Patinkin (1994)

COMPANY - Original Broadway Cast (1970)

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Rebecca Luker / Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) *FLASHBACK* Aug 07, 2024

originally released: July 22, 2020 • updated intro: December 23, 2020

Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a walk through her career and the show Sheldon Harnick calls our “greatest American opera.”

Topics Include: getting an agent out of town, auditioning for Hal Prince, balancing your work and your life, and of course we talk about The Secret Garden and I play “How Could I Ever Know” are you kidding?

Watch At Home with Rebecca Luker: An Evening of Song! All of the proceeds from the virtual benefit performance will go to supporting Prosetin, a promising new drug candidate for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It was in February when Broadway favorite Luker revealed that she had been diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). For more information about this treatment, visit Prosetin2020.org. If you would like to place a donation, click here: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/270277/#!/donation/checkout.

Featured Recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)

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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies!This month is the Judy Garland installment in our A Star is Born series with Roddy Flynn and Kari Ginsburg as we tackle all 4 Stars is Born films this year!

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Amy Oestreicher / In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) *FLASHBACK* Jul 24, 2024

originally released: June 17, 2020 • updated intro: April 9, 2021

Writer/performer/amazing human Amy Oestreicher comes to us with us to complete the Falsettos trilogy (by going back to Part 1).

Topics Include: Bill Finn calling on the phone, convincing teachers to let you do your own version of the assignment, tap dancing so hard you need surgery, and another in what is booming a series of scrapbooks!

Featured Recordings: In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) • March of the Falsettos - Original Cast (1981) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990)

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Douglas J. Cohen / Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973) *FLASHBACK* Jul 10, 2024

originally released: May 8, 2019

Composer/lyricist (and former subject of this podcast), Doug Cohen is here for the first-ever Sondheim tribute.

Topics include: cut songs, Ethel Merman, Sondheim's singing voice, the glorious Nancy Walker, and drowning your babies.

Featured recordings: Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973) • Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall - Stephen Sondheim (1992) • Random Access Memories - Daft Punk (2013)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? April's episode has perennial favorites Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) talking Yentl (1983), Barbara Streisand's epic story about a woman pretending to be a man so she can study the Talmud and sing alone in the woods with candles.

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Liz Callaway / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) *FLASHBACK* Jun 26, 2024

originally released: June 30, 2021

Tony nominee and favorite of this podcast, Liz Callaway is here for the first show she saw on Broadway at 9, a decade before she’d appear on the same stage in a show by the same creative team.

Topics include: the Mets, reunion concerts, auditioning for Sondheim without knowing it, demos, and luck.

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Featured recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • A Stephen Sondheim Evening - Whitney Museum of American Art Composers' Showcase (1983) • The Essential Liz Callaway - Liz Callaway (2015)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.

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IT'S THE 2024 TONYS!!!!!! Jun 12, 2024

It's TONYS TIME!!

Patrick, Lauren Halvorsen (Nothing for the Group), and Robbie Rozelle (Center Stage Records) break down this incredibly overpacked Tony season.

Who will win? Who will lose? Who won't show up? Who wasn't invited? Which version of The Wild Party should've been on Broadway 24 years ago? We cover it all!

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Elegy: Joanna McKee Jun 04, 2024

Friend of the podcast, repeat guest, and genuine ray of sunshine Joanna McKee passed away today and I’m at a loss. Listen to her talk about the musical Anastasia and hear the joy in her heart.

originally released: March 25, 2020

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Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor respects the emotional implications of said facts. But, y'know, royalty!

Topics include: Frozen 2, Gleb, Starlight Express, Gleb, eating the rich, Gleb, disregarding history, and seriously what is up with Gleb?

Featured recordings: Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)

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Robbie Rozelle / Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) *FLASHBACK* May 29, 2024

originally released: October 3, 2018

Designer, record producer, performer, and talent-whisperer Robbie Rozelle is here to bring some joy into Patrick's life (he says).

Topics include: Jerry Herman's pros, Jerry Herman's cons, Jerry Herman's women, and the movie version of Mame which is just the worst.

Featured recordings:

Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

Mame - Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1974)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? September's episode features Tia Shearer Bassett (Titanic) and James Finley (The Life) talking about that Disney musical experience: Newsies (1992)

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Roddy Flynn / Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964) *FLASHBACK* May 15, 2024

originally released: June 22, 2016

Roddy is the Executive Director for the U.S. House of Representative’s LGBT Caucus. He is also our first guest drawn “from the house” and Patrick’s brother. Roddy and Patrick gab about Angela Lansbury, intermissions, and the unbearable heaviness of this show’s plot.

Featured recording: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)

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Kari Ginsburg / Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) *FLASHBACK* May 01, 2024

originally released: October 12, 2016

Actor and director Kari Ginsburg is here to talk about one woman’s fall from grace as she facilitates the rise of her daughter from the front of a cow to the greatest stripper in the history of the world.

Featured recordings: GYPSY - The Original Broadway Cast (1959)

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Glen Weldon / My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) *FLASHBACK* Apr 17, 2024

originally released: April 21, 2021

NPR’s Glen Weldon is here for the musical that (according to him) made him gay.

Topics include: Herb Alpert (not the dirty one), Charles Emerson Winchester III, Doolittle as a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza’s agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important.

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Featured recordings: My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) • Brigadoon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1947)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

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Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) *FLASHBACK* Apr 03, 2024

originally released: July 13, 2022

Emmy-winner and former The Daily Show head-writer Elliott Kalan is here for a musical running now about then but really about way back then which seems to have been lost now.

Topics include: losing on Jeopardy!, adding jokes by Larry David, ethical use of a resurrection machine, Frank Loesser, the House Committee on “Shipoopi,” Broadway sets of the 50s & 60s, and (of course) is Winthrop Marion’s son and does that matter?

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Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)

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Clint McElroy / The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) Mar 20, 2024

Clint is the paterfamilias of the McElroy family of podcasters as well as a comic book author, theatre director, and general enthusiast of all things. And he’s here for his favorite original cast album of a show he was IN on BROADWAY (kinda).

Topics include: spelling your way to Broadway glory, not making fun of the kids, getting choreo tips from Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Guys and Dolls Jr. (aka Bugsy Malone), and Liev Schreiber’s finger acting.

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Featured recordings: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)

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Justin McElroy / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) Mar 06, 2024

Justin is the oldest brother on the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast but is also a best-selling author, voice actor, and community theatre director. And he’s here with a show that rode the early-90s obsession with the late-60s to Tony glory!

Topics include: how Tommy is like Joseph from a protagonist standpoint, seeing the original Broadway production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe, the jauntiest song about molestation, and (weirdly) the State Farm’s Super Bowl commercial.

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Featured recordings: The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) • Tommy - The Who (1969) • Who’s Next - The Who (1971)

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Bruce Robert Harris / Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011) Feb 21, 2024

Bruce is (along with his producing partner Jack W. Batman) a two-time Tony Award winning producer of shows such as Pippin, Be More Chill, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, and the very show we’re talking about today!

Topics include: what a producer does, why shows are so expensive, what a producer should do, being an extra in Fame, and the upcoming revival of The Who’s Tommy!

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Featured recordings: Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011)

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Em Whitworth / Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) Feb 07, 2024

Em is an actor in New York and DC who brings us this most classic of musicals as revived St. Ann’s Warehouse revival that ****s. There is really no other way to put it. That’s how we all remember it. I bleep it every time but that’s what we’re saying. It’s the Oklahoma! that ****s.

Topics include: the buttery/flaky crust of nostalgia, Rebecca Naomi Jones doing no wrong, Mary Testa opening numbers, a moment of meta-textualism that brings things to a crashing halt, disappointing revivals, reclaiming Jud, and can one out-sexy Julie Andrews & Robert Goulet?

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Featured recordings: Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • Oklahoma! - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1943)

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Dani Stoller / The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014) Jan 24, 2024

Dani is a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright and actor who brings us this JRB musical by way of a Clint Eastwood movie by way of a 90s romance novel about Kelli O’Hara making out with Laura Benanti’s ex-husband.

Topics include: wet old men, the dangers of casting Steven Pasquale, complicated women, the high stakes of everyday life.

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Featured recordings: The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)

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Stephen Beaudoin / Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976) Jan 10, 2024

Stephen is the incoming President & CEO of the Music School of Delaware of which Patrick is an alumnus (but Stephen doesn’t know that when we start so keep it under your hat).

Topics include: sensitive kids, deceptive simplicity, passing on Rooster, mom’s lullabies, George C. Wolfe’s Annie, and the teachers who poured themselves into us.

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Featured recordings: Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976)

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The Original Cast at the Movies: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) Dec 27, 2023

Did you know we had a bonus podcast on our PATREON page? Well, we do. Each month, you can listen to The Original Cast at the Movies, a long-form movie discussion podcast with musical theatre implications.

Beth Amann and Kari Ginsburg are here to kick off The Original Cast at the Movies's new theme: THE YEAR OF BARBARA (HARRIS)! We'll be covering 13 Barbara Harris films starting with this Academy Award-nominated comedy(?) from Francis Ford Coppola Peggy Sue Got Married featuring Ms Harris in one of her many "mother" roles. The question is: Is Barbara Harris the best part of this movie? PATREON DOT COM SLASH ORIGINAL CAST POD

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Jenny Bilfield / Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001) Nov 29, 2023

Jenny is the President and CEO of Washington Performing Arts and she’s here for a trip downtown, across the world, and back in time.

Topics include: the Berlin Wall, A Night at the Opera, Leonard Bernstein, being asked to change your name, arts education, the Air Force Band, and what you can accomplish without a building.

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Featured recordings: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001)

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Austin Pendleton / The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970) Nov 15, 2023

It is impossible for me to overstate how special it was to speak with Austin Pendleton. An actor’s actor, playwright, director, and a wonderfully kind human being. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do.

Topics include: working with jazz artists, Salvador Dalí on the phone at 4:00am, trying to blow off Jerome Robbins (and failing), promises made to Zero Mostel, Barbara Harris & Hunter College, acting with Kermit the Frog, and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad.

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Featured recordings: The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970) • People - Barbra Streisand (1964)

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Eleni Hagen / Sunset Boulevard - World Premiere Recording (1993) Nov 01, 2023

Eleni comes to us from the Kennedy Center’s Digital Learning Center to talk about a musical that lives in her very soul and bones.

Topics include: preteen sunset, channelling Maria Callas, tired performances, unfinished lyrics, Betty Schaefer’s agency, and (of course) a swimming pool named “Andrew.”

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Featured recordings: Sunset Boulevard - World Premiere Recording (1993) • Sunset Boulevard - Original Niedernhausen Cast (1995) • Sunset Boulevard - American Premiere Recording (1994)

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Stuart Wellington / "Them" - King Diamond (1988) Oct 18, 2023

Stuart is 1/3 of The Flop House podcast (the 3rd third to guest on this show) as well as the proprietor of both Hinterlands and Minnie’s Bar in Brooklyn. And he’s here with a Danish Heavy Metal concept album that is more well-thought-out than The Who’s Tommy.

Topics include: deep dives and rabbit holes, allegorical mother draining, being a completist, Queen, showmanship, and Patrick’s familiarity with the iconography of the Church of Satan.

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Featured recordings: “Them” - King Diamond (1988)

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Patrick O'Neill / Swing! - Original Cast Recording (1999) Oct 04, 2023

Patrick and Patrick have been friends for multiple decades and they talk entirely about Swing! and they don’t almost immediately diverge into talking about the Harry Connick Jr/Jessie Mueller revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever that Patrick was in and I don’t know how these rumors get started.

Topics include: the dark corners of Joe Allen’s, the concrete floors of Toby’s, Anne Hampton Calloway, dinner-theatre CATS, the St. James Theatre (aka: the horseshoe of death), meeting Jessie Mueller, Almost Famous, being “the kiss of death,” and Harry Connick Jr’s assistant.

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Ben Brantley’s 2011 review of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Featured recordings: Swing! - Original Cast Recording (1999)

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Vince Gatton / Nine - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992) Sep 20, 2023

Playwright and actor Vince Gatton is here to talk about an album that is not his favorite show but has a strong hold on him nonetheless.

Topics include: unusual ways, first recordings vs best recordings, burning out cassettes, disgustingly wonderful fithiness, and what happens when you can get Elaine Paige instead of Sarah Brightman but not until the weekend.

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REALLY NSFW: Jane Krakowski - “A Call from the Vatican”

Featured recordings: Nine - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992) • Nine - Original Cast Album (1982) • Nine - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

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Distantly Social 76: The Big Time (w/ Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane) Sep 08, 2023

SPECIAL DELIVERY! Friends of the show Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane are here to talk about the new cast album for their musical The Big Time which drops on Concord Theatricals TODAY! Starring Tony winners Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte and featuring Jackie Hoffman and Will Swenson, The Big Time is a big musical comedy that you are going to love.

THE BIG TIME - Studio Cast Recording (2023) at Concord Theatricals Recordings

Douglas J. Cohen / Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973)

Douglas Carter Beane / Babes in Arms - 1999 New York Cast Recording (1999)

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Kari Ginsburg / The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) Sep 06, 2023

Kari’s back to talk about a musical no one wants to talk about! Well, not NO ONE but not enough people in Patrick’s opinion.

Topics include: Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, the greatness of Barbara Harris, 3 Act musicals, the glorious comedic timing of Barbara Harris, the genius of Sheldon Harnick, the rhapsodic joy one feels listening to Barbara Harris, Warren Beatty (and how he wronged Barbara Harris), and how much we miss Barbara Harris.

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Barbara Harris in Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

Barbara Harris performing “Oh to Be a Movie Star” and “Gorgeous” at the Tonys in 1966

Barbara Harris winning her (much deserved) Tony Award

Featured recordings: The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

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Joe Iconis / The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978) Aug 23, 2023

I’m guessing if you listen to a podcast about original cast albums, then you know who Joe Iconis is and you probably also know how thrilled I am to be talking with him this week. Aside from his Tony-nominated score for Be More Chill, Joe’s other vast musical credits include the likes of The Black Suits, Punk Rock Girl!, Bloodsong of Love, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love in Hate Nation. He’s coming to us from La Jolla Playhouse where he is debuting his newest musical: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical.

Topics include: parents with shitty musical tastes, Inner-City Mother Goose, Carol Hall, Elaine Stritch, and Mandy Patinkin auditioning for Back to the Future

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Featured recordings: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978) • Free to Be... You and Me - Marlo Thomas and Friends (1972) • Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • Guys and Dolls - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1992)

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Robbie Rozelle / The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1987) Aug 09, 2023

Robbie’s back (again) for what is a seminal recording for fans of a certain age.

Topics include: single fun aunts, over-acting with masks, jumpers & big collars, natural disasters, Michael Ball, documentaries about Laurie Beechman, vests, and Victoria Clarke Syndrome.

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Featured recordings: The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1987) • Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection Encore (1992) • Gold - Linda Eder (2002)

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Mike Meaney / Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968) Jul 26, 2023

Mike is a New York City-based director who loves the Great American Songbook, trivia, collecting LP records, and hot beverages. And he’s here for a Kander & Ebb show that’s right up there with 70, Girls, 70 and The Happy Time in terms of popularity, influence, and success.

Topics include: getting the plot wrong, death in musicals, Anyone Can Whistle, who would’ve won the Best Score Tony in 1969 had it existed, Don Walker, and Hal Prince’s ethos (or lack thereof).

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Featured recordings: Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968)

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Erika Villalba / Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) Jul 12, 2023

Erika is a co-host of the great podcast That Aged Well as well as a writer and performer who loves the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Bookshop. And she’s here for a show she saw FIVE TIMES on Broadway!

Topics include: songs from the ’66 original, is Sally Bowles just Millie Dilmount on drugs, the problem of irony, making Generation X feel better, The Wolf of Wall Street, and what has aged well.

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Featured recordings: Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • Cabaret - The Original Broadway Cast (1966) • Cabaret - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1972)

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Kimberly Cooper Schmidt / Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016) Jun 28, 2023

Broadwaysted!’s own Kimberly is back (for the 3rd time) to talk about the album that makes us wonder: "Who . . . is Barbra Streisand?”

Topics include: how to headphone like Barbra, doing more Zack than you want, James Brolin self-tapes, Hugh Jackman playing a wolf-man, Barbra as the emcee, what you get with the “Deluxe” Edition, and how much dialogue is too much dialogue?

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Featured recordings: Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016) • The Broadway Album - Barbra Streisand (1985)

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PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 66: The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) Jun 27, 2023

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Confession time. This whole “Year of Barbra” thing has really been a long con to promote a production of the play The Owl and the Pussycat directed by Patrick and starring today’s guests: Serena Berman (Hair, tick, tick…BOOM!) and A.J. Ditty (High Fidelity). We open at the Snapple Theatre this fall on the set of Perfect Crimes and are actively looking for investors.

Paul Caiola / Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) Jun 14, 2023

Paul acts, he writes, he podcasts, he does many things. And he is here to talk about a show that maybe won a lot of Tonys this past Sunday! Or maybe not!! Only way to find out is to listen!!!

Topics include: parents acting like children, children forced to be parents, crying through Act 2, Barnum!, story structure, and how Paul doesn’t know music theory, he just feels things.

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Featured recordings: Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015)

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Taylor J. Williams / Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008) May 31, 2023

Taylor J. Williams is a 2023 Tony Award-nominee in the Best Sound Design of a Play category for Ain't No Mo'. He is also a musician who has worked as an electronic music designer on more than 30 Broadway productions including Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice, Be More Chill, King Kong, Frozen, and Falsettos.

Topics include: pageantry, melodrama, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, napping in a rats’ nest of cables, Adam Pascal bootlegs, and what does a programmer . . . do?

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Featured recordings: Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008) • Aida - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000)

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PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 65: Nuts May 27, 2023

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The Year of Barbra Continues!

Rob W. Schneider (Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) join Patrick for yet another bad psychiatrist movie. Now with 5x as much ACTING!

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Dana Spialter / In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) May 17, 2023

Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she’s come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job.

Topics include: getting typecast out of Fiddler, Anthony Newley, what a producer does, RENT, coming home, and musicals based on nothing.

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Featured recordings: In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008)

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Mark-Eugene Garcia / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) May 03, 2023

Mark’s website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music Eight Tales of Pedro (written with Luis D’Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he’s here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart.

Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, The Opposite of Sex: The Musical, and fan-boy-ing out.

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Featured recordings: A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

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Rob Weinert-Kendt / The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) Apr 19, 2023

Rob was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West & is the editor-in-chief of American Theatre magazine. And he’s here for the only Off-Broadway show to win a Tony Award.

Topics include: psuedo-Marxist propaganda, in rep with The Fantasticks, Gilbert & Sullivan, Double-LP German recordings, Domar Warehouse, how existence is a female dog and then one perishes, and the vocal stylings of Dame Bea Arthur.

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Featured recordings: The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) • Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill - Hal Willner (1985) • The Threepenny Opera - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Die Dreigroschenoper - Columbia Masterworks (1958) • Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

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Kaiya Lyons / Our First Mistake - Kerrigan-Lowdermilk (2011) Apr 05, 2023

Kaiya is a civil rights lawyer and a lifelong thespian who uses her legal expertise to empower theatre community members to stand up for their rights and create truly safe and equitable spaces. And she is here with a greatest hits/concept/song collection that helped get her through college.

Topics include: everything everywhere all at once, Kickstarter, Melancholy of being in your 20s, Amicus Briefs, the ouroboros of law and culture, Shucked, Bad Cinderella (for, like, a while), and being a lawyer with a passion for theatre.

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Featured recordings: Our First Mistake - Kerrigan-Lowdermilk (2011)

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Robert W. Schneider / Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992) Mar 22, 2023

It’s Steve’s birthday! And Rob is back to talk to us about a 30-year-old concert that has the best hair, goofiest sleeves, and ALLLLLLLL the Liza Minnelli you could dream for.

Topics include: The Tonics, wearing upholstery, The Tonics’s vocal arrangements, the ’87 Tonys, The Tonics’s full discography, Karen Ziemba killing it, and The Tonics (mostly we just talk about The Tonics).

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Featured recordings: Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992) • Unsung Sondheim (1993) • Sondheim: A Celebration (1997)

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Liz Wasser / Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001) Mar 08, 2023

Liz is an actor, writer, and musical theatre kid from way back. And she’s here with a show that is possibly more relevant now than when it debuted.

Topics include: going into the City by yourself when you’re 13, Little Sally, Urinetown the place, transferring at Jamaica, Brechtian (in the true sense), and is this show ahead of its time?

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Featured recordings: Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001) • Songs in the Key of Springfield - The Simpsons (1997)

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Jack Canfora / Guys and Dolls - A Decca Original Cast Album (1950) Feb 22, 2023

Jack is an Award-Winning American playwright, actor, musician, and teacher and he’s here with a show that is certainly in the running for the title of THE quintessential American musical.

Topics include: Proto-Fonzi, the first time someone treats you like you’re cool, thinking of yourself as a musician, Henry V, and failing better.

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Featured recordings: Guys and Dolls - A Decca Original Cast Album (1950)

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Debra Warren / Mack & Mabel - Original Cast Recording (1974) Feb 08, 2023

Debra is the author of the new biography Robert Preston: Forever the Music Man. And she’s here to talk about Preston’s most famous flop from the team that brought you Hello, Dolly!.

Topics include: working actors, voicemails from Rosemary Harris, journalism, Robert Preston not getting cast in things over and over again, and Christopher Walken.

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Featured recordings: Mack & Mabel - Original Cast Recording (1974) • The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) • Mame - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974)

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Sean Patrick Murtagh / The Scarlet Pimpernel - A Romantic Musical Adventure (1992) Jan 25, 2023

Actor/singer Sean Patrick Murtagh, whom you may know from Green Room 42 and/or his new album The Mario 101, is here for the album that he describes as: “the album that made [him] gay.”

Topics include: moonlight on the bed, Linda Eder as diva, local gays, Linda Eder as instrument, formulas, Linda Eder as gateway drug, the heart and soul of why we do it, Linda Eder’s placement, and Linda Eder’s vowels.

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Featured recordings: The Scarlet Pimpernel - A Romantic Musical Adventure (1992) • Jekyll & Hyde - The Complete Work (1995) • The Scarlet Pimpernel - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) • The Mario 101 - Sean Patrick Murtagh (2022)

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Shoshana Greenberg / Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972) Jan 11, 2023

Shoshana is a dramatist, journalist, and host of the Scene to Song podcast. And she’s here to talk about a show that (at one time) was the longest-running show in Broadway history. And it won a surprising number of Tony Awards.

Topics include: how Grease is like Cats, Little Mary Sunshine, 98.1FM WOGL, nostalgia, the bad shows we did in high school, and does Sandy cave under societal pressure or simply play with her identity like every teenager should?

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Featured recordings: Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972)

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The Original Cast at the Movies: Funny Girl (1968) Dec 28, 2022

Fan-favorites Roddy Flynn and Robbie Rozelle are here to kick off THE YEAR OF BARBRA on The Original Cast at the Movies with her cinematic and Oscar-winning debut!

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Stephen Spotswood / Nick & Nora - Original Broadway Cast (1991) Dec 14, 2022

Stephen is the author of the critically acclaimed Pentecost & Parker mystery series. Book 3 of which is OUT NOW! And he’s here for a musical based on another famed murder mystery duo: Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man movie series. And this musical is . . . definitely a musical.

Topics include: Arthur Laurents, missing the magic, slime tutorials, Raymond Chandler, not knowing your source material, and veranda finales.

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Featured recordings: Nick & Nora - Original Broadway Cast (1991)

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Mark William / Legs Diamond - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1989) Nov 30, 2022

Mark is a 2-time BroadwayWorld Award-winning singer, actor, dancer, etc. And he’s here for a musical that flopped so hard it closed a Broadway theatre. Like, permanently.

Topics include: the importance of going out-of-town, the art of the cabaret, writing a musical for yourself to star in, the moon & New York City, and disco ball death scenes.

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Featured recordings: Legs Diamond - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1989) • Long Live Love - Olivia Newton-John (1974) • The Boy from Oz - A Decca Original Broadway Cast Album (2003) • Making Every Moment Count - Peter Allen (1990)

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Julie Benko / Grease 2 - Original Soundtrack Recording (1982) Nov 16, 2022

You can see Julie every Thursday as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the August Wilson but you can listen to her HERE and NOW talking about . . . Grease 2?

Topics include: FYE, open-heart surgery, the insecurity of being Tom Hanks, voice lessons as a kid, and not being recognized by Lin-Manuel in a pharmacy.

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Featured recordings: Grease 2 - Original Soundtrack Recording (1982) • Hand in Hand - Julie Benko & Jason Yeager (2022)

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Margaret Hall / Assassins - The Broadway Cast Recording (2004) Nov 02, 2022

My guest today is an author, performer, and theatre historian. Her book Gemingani is available now from Applause. And she’s here about a dark musical about dark times with some bops along the way.

Topics include: Elvis, being a Cerveris evangelist, incel icons, bardic tradition, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

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Featured recordings: Assassins - The Broadway Cast Recording (2004)

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Paul Salsini / The Golden Apple - Original Cast Recording (1954) Oct 19, 2022

Paul was the editor and publisher of the famed Sondheim Review and he’s written a book about his relationship with the master entitled Sondheim & Me (which is great and you should buy it and read it)! And he’s here with one of the first musicals he saw that engendered a life-long vocation.

Topics include: seeing Do I Hear a Waltz? In its original Broadway run, translating Sondheim lyrics, donating your media, Greek mythology, and the time Stephen Sondheim got SO mad.

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Featured recordings: The Golden Apple - Original Cast Recording (1954) • Off Broadway - Jerry Orbach (1963)

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A.J. Ditty / High Fidelity - The Record (2007) Oct 05, 2022

A.J. is a comedian and co-host of the wonderful The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast and here for a bad show that has one or two moments of music theatre heaven.

Topics include: slime tutorials, 2x4 with googly eyes, “broken clock” moments, the living embodiment of “well, actually,” Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and lyrics with a good mouth-feel.

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Featured recordings: High Fidelity - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007) • American Idiot - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010)

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Alexandra Bowman / Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Perón: 1919-1952 (1976) Sep 21, 2022

Alexandra Bowman is a freelance illustrator, political cartoonist, satirist, and fine artist from Washington, D.C. Her cartoons have appeared in Our Daily Planet, World War Zero, and The Lincoln Project. And she’s here to talk about a show SHE’S WRITING A MASTER’S THESIS ABOUT!

Topics include: starting with Cats, Tim Rice says things, being a Cogsworth in a room full of Belles, Hamilton, the definition of satire, and can you ethically produce historical events on stage?

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Queen of Hearts, the 1972 Eva Peron Thames Documentary narrated by Diana Rigg

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Featured recordings: Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Perón: 1919-1952 (1976)

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Dan McCoy / Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) Sep 07, 2022

Dan is an Emmy-winning writer and 1/3 of the wonderful podcast The Flop House and he has come here today to talk about the barber, the baker, his wife, and her Toby.

Topics include: HAIR, Josh Groban & Annaleigh Ashford, Johann’s agency, Death in the Cathedral, pre-Fletcher Lansbury, and why maybe the Coen Brothers should’ve made the movie.

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Featured recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • A Wild and Crazy Guy - Steve Martin (1978)

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Marc Bonanni / Drat! The Cat! - Studio Cast Recording (1997) Aug 24, 2022

Marc is the host of the popular YouTube channel Broadway by Ghostlight and is here for a show that ran for 8 performances despite Barbra Streisand’s best efforts.

Topics include: selling merch at The Drowsy Chaperone, Lee Wilkoff v. Eddie Korbich, shows that should’ve gone out of town, Anyone Can Whistle, and Blue Pear Records.

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Featured recordings: Drat! The Cat! - Studio Cast Recording (1997) • My Name Is Barbra, Two... - Barbra Streisand (1965)

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Adam Feldman / Evita - Premiere American Recording (1979) Aug 10, 2022

Adam is the National Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic at TimeOut New York and President of the New York Drama Critics' Circle. And he is here for a big episode about a very big show on a very big, double-LP.

Topics include: Patti, Mandy, Patti's rage, Bob Gunton’s accent, Mandy being Mandy all over the second act, comma writing, Mark Syers, the worst lyric in Chess, the “Big Apple,” and the agony and the ecstasy of Tim Rice.

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Featured recordings: Evita - Premiere American Recording (1979) • Pacific Overtures - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1976) • Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988)

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Len Rodino / Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recording (1993) Jul 27, 2022

Playbill’s Director of Events & Creative Strategy Len Rodino stops by to talk about this BIG musical about BIG drama that had BIG drama around it for 40+ years!

Topics include: taking the bus from PA, Patti LuPone’s memoir, 5 “useful” majors, starting as the receptionist, cigarette ads in my Playbill, and And Juliet!

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Featured recordings: Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recording (1993) • Boulevard! - The Complete Musical Adaptation (2008)

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Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) Jul 13, 2022

Emmy-winner and former The Daily Show head-writer Elliott Kalan is here for a musical running now about then but really about way back then which seems to have been lost now.

Topics include: losing on Jeopardy!, adding jokes by Larry David, ethical use of a resurrection machine, Frank Loesser, the House Committee on “Shipoopi,” Broadway sets of the 50s & 60s, and (of course) is Winthrop Marion’s son and does that matter?

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Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)

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Em Humble / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Original Cast Soundtrack (1968) Jun 29, 2022

Comedian/filmmaker Em Humble comes to us from the North of England to talk about a film that . . . makes . . . no . . . . . . sense?

Topics include: the Childcatcher, late 60s sexism, Colonialism, songs that make no sense, the Leeds Tealights, and stage freight.

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Featured recordings: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Original Cast Soundtrack (1968)

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Zach Raffio / The Lion King - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) Jun 15, 2022

Zach is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Broadway Beat, a Broadway/theatre-based satire publication which has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and which Seth Rudetsky called “truly brilliant comic writing.”

Topics include: Hans Zimmer, Scar being a creeper, Parade, backstage industrial accidents, folks who don’t know what a stage manger is, and The Original Cast BINGO!

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Featured recordings: The Lion King - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

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IT'S THE 2022 TONYS!!!!! Jun 08, 2022

Broadwaysted’s own Kimberly Cooper Schmidt returns to talk about Sunday’s TONY AWARDS!

Topics include: Caroline, or Change, Company, Diana, Flying Over Sunset, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Funny Girl, Girl from the North Country, MJ, Mr. Saturday Night, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Music Man, Paradise Square, SIX, and A Strange Loop

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Stephanie Ridgeway Johnson / In the Green - Original Cast Recording (2019) Jun 01, 2022

Stephanie is an actor, musician, and theatre practitioner who is here for a one-act, five-actor musical telling the true story of a future saint, her friend locked in a church, and her eye, hand, and mouth.

Topics include: anchoresses, nuns, Catholic college, intentional dissonance, wrestling with songs, and staying true to yourself in the midst of it all.

Stephanie Ridgeway Johnson

Featured recordings: In the Green - Original Cast Recording (2019) • Novelty Idols - Stephanie Ridgeway Johnson (2021)

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HaleyJane Rose / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Original Canadian Cast Recording (1992) May 18, 2022

HaleyJane does many, many, many things (songwriter, performer, comedian, et al.) but listeners of our little show probably know her best from her work on Broadway’s answer to The Onion: The Broadway Beat.

Topics include: camping up the camp, genre-blending, the King, how Joseph was kind of a dick, and maybe ALW just NEEDS a narrator?

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Featured recordings: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Original Canadian Cast Recording (1992) • “Three First Names” - HaleyJane Rose (2018)

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Sophie Klahr / Parade - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999) May 04, 2022

Sophie’s a poet. And she’s aware of the fact that she is one. A poet that is. And she’s here for Jason Robert Brown’s first Broadway show with a title that is an exclamation point away from a Gwen Verdon/George Abbott joint from the late 50s. But only in the title.

Topics include: someone else’s tragedy, staging musicals in your head, having your heartbroken, being “Sophia,” and tilting at windmills (because somebody’s got to).

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Sophie’s Twitter exchange with Jason Robert Brown

Featured recordings: Parade - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)

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Jesse McAnally / Hello Again - Original Cast Recording (1994) Apr 20, 2022

Podcaster and filmmaker Jesse McAnally is here for a musical about sexuality based on an early 20th-century play that is NOT Spring Awakening and the movie based on that musical that is also not Spring Awakening but does have Audra McDonald, T.R. Knight, and Martha Plimpton and that’s very good. (We do jump between the movie and the stage show a lot.)

Topics include: leitmotif, The Wild Party, Mandy, Marla Singer, “post-coital enlightenment,” and do the author(s) of this musical know what this show/movie.

Jesse’s profile on the Broadway Podcast Network

Musicals With Cheese episode about the Meat Loaf feud(?)

Featured recordings: Hello Again - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Hello Again - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2018) • The Wild Party - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000)

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Emilio Ramos / Flower Drum Song - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2002) Apr 06, 2022

Emilio is a Broadway ensemblist featured in the film Ensemble who brings us a show with a very strong ensemble indeed.

Topics include: when an ensemble member takes your eye, the information superhighway, tear-down revivals, East meets West, and DHH.

Watch ENSEMBLE at Broadway On-Demand

”Fan Tan Fannie” choreography

Emilio’s Instagram

Featured recordings: Flower Drum Song - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2002)

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David Loud / The Scottsboro Boys - Original Cast Recording (2010) Mar 23, 2022

David has a unique place in Broadway history. No only has he music directed some of your favorite Broadway shows of the last 20+ years (Ragtime, Company 1995, She Loves Me 1993, to name a few) but he is also the originator of the three roles on the Broadway stage in Master Class, Curtains, and Merrily We Roll Along.

Topics include: Stro’s kitchen table, touring with Scott Ellis, wanting to be Paul Gemignani, and the 7-hour version of Curtains.

Get David’s memoir Facing the Music

Featured recordings: The Scottsboro Boys - Original Cast Recording (2010) • Curtains - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007)

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Distantly Social 75: Ensemble The Movie (w/ Aaron J. Albano) Mar 11, 2022

Aaron J. Albano is back to talk more about the short documentary Ensemble that he co-produced and appears in.

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Featured recording: “Opening: I Hope I Get It” from A Chorus Line - Original Broadway Cast (1975)

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Margaret Gleason / Violet - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014) Mar 09, 2022

Margaret is directing Violet right now at Georgetown University but she never says why she wanted to discuss this album!

Topics include: progress, Donald Margulies, Hedda Gabler, finding the humor in dramas, going too far, the state of modern theatre education, and perception

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Come see Violet! Free performances March 24th-27th, 30th, and April 1st-2nd at Georgetown University

Learn more about Georgetown performing arts

Earth Cover to Cover (Margaret’s travel blog)

Featured recording: Violet - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)

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Aaron J. Albano / Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) Feb 23, 2022

Aaron has been in 9 Broadway shows, is currently on the road with Hamilton, and has produced the film Ensemble which you simply must-see. And he’s here for a show that took Northern California by storm in the mid-nineties!

Topics include: “high” concept musicals, things going viral pre-Internet, not being in the best number in the show, and THE GREATEST PLOT SUMMARY IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PODCAST SINCE ANYONE CAN WHISTLE!

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Featured recordings: Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999)

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Our original Starmites episode with Amanda Zeitler!

Our episode with the Trinkulus of the original Broadway Starmites cast: Gabriel Barre! (A performance for which he was Tony nominated.)

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Distantly Social 74: Funny Lady Kay Medford (w/ Douglas J. Cohen) Feb 16, 2022

Composer, lyricist, and friend of the show Douglas J. Cohen responds to questions raised during the most recent The Original Cast at the Movies episode about Funny Lady and its lack of Kay Medford.

Kay Medford and Zero Mostel performing “Do You Love Me?” on The Dean Martin Show. [NOTE: There is a low buzz on the left channel of this video so only use the right earbud.]

Info about the Kojak episode Doug references.

Featured recordings: "Who Taught Her Everything?" performed by Kay Medford and Danny Meehan from Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) • "Some People" performed by Kay Medford from Gypsy - Studio Cast (1969)

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Analise Scarpaci / Gypsy - The 2008 Broadway Cast Recording (2008) Feb 09, 2022

Analise has done 3 Broadway shows before the age of 22 (including Mrs. Doubtfire) and has an EP of original songs out with Broadway Records. She’s here with a musical about the harrowing family experience of a couple of child musical performers and their mythological stage mother. . . Don’t read too much into that.

Topics include: introverted extroverts, roasting yourself, breaking the mold, Tony Orlando & Dawn, lip-syncing Patti, and marathons (not sprints).

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Pathetic Little Dreamer now available from Broadway Records

Featured recordings: Gypsy - The 2008 Broadway Cast Recording (2008) • Pathetic Little Dreamer - Analise Scarpaci (2021)

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Brooke Muller / Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) Jan 26, 2022

Brooke is the creator of Call Time Broadway, a theatre-specific social media network and she’s here to explain that to an old man while talking about a show based on almost 6% of a Russian novel.

Topics include: Russian FBs, Josh Groban, what to do when you love theatre but can’t sing/act/dance, opera, and the private & intimate life of the house.

Call Time Broadway

Backstage with B

Featured recordings: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)

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Duane Richards II / SpongeBob SquarePants - Original Cast Recording (2017) Jan 12, 2022

Duane is a performer, songwriter, and teacher who is here for an album that can be heard every-other-morning in my car.

Topics include: 90s Kids, DisneyMania, T.I., writing, writing without knowing what you’re writing, and writing some more.

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Featured recordings: SpongeBob SquarePants - Original Cast Recording (2017) • “Momentum (Duane’s Version)” - Duane Richards II

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Cast Album Cage Match: EVITA vs. Billy Recce Dec 22, 2021

9 recordings enter. Only 1 can leave. And it shall leave a champion. This is CAST ALBUM CAGE MATCH!

Composer/lyricist Billy Recce joins Patrick to find the best cast album of one of their favorite shows: Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber’s EVITA!

PLAY-IN ROUND

- 1979 Disco Album v. 1996 Movie Soundtrack

ROUND 1

- Studio Casts: 1976 Concept Album v. Play-In Round Winner

- World Casts: 1980 Australian v. 1989 World Tour

- West End Casts: 1978 v. 2006

- Broadway Casts: 1979 v. 2012

ROUND 2

- Studio Winner v. West End Winner

- Broadway Winner v. World Winner

ROUND 3: The FINALE!!

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A Musical About Star Wars

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Jimmy Gaspero / Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast (1960) Dec 08, 2021

Attorney by day & Interview Content Editor for Comic Book Yeti by night, Jimmy is an old friend of Patrick’s who is here for a show they did together just after the original production of The Life opened on Broadway.

Topics include: Bring Back Birdie, 16-year-old Harry MacAfees, Paul Lynde, Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, comics, and aging out of Conrad.

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Gate Crashers Dot Fan

Featured recordings: Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast (1960) • Bring Back Birdie - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981)

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Elegy: Stephen Sondheim Nov 27, 2021

Stephen Joshua Sondheim, 22 March 1930 - 26 November 2021

The Original Cast at the Movies: tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) Nov 24, 2021

Serena Berman and Robbie Rozelle join Patrick for a discussion of the new Netflix film tick, tick . . . BOOM!. Is it as good as everyone says? Yes. And yes.

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Distantly Social 73: Everything is Choreography Nov 22, 2021

Kevin Winkler, author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical, has a new book out NOW!!

Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune

Featured Songs: “’S Wonderful” from My One and Only - Original Cast Recording (1983) • “We’ll Take a Glass Together” from Grand Hotel - Broadway Cast Recording (1989)

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Katya Stanislavskaya / The Last Five Years - Original Cast Recording (2002) Nov 17, 2021

Composer/lyricist/educator Katya Stanislavskaya takes us back about 20 years for 5 years of pain and beauty and all that.

Topics include: autobiography, tsuris, shiksas, Odessa, writing your first song, and what kind of person would ever say “I could never rescue you?” Seriously?!

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”This isn’t Christmas,” music & lyrics by Katya Stanislavskaya, performed by Sarah Corey at 54 Below

Featured recording: The Last Five Years - Original Cast Recording (2002)

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SPECIAL LIVE STREAM 11/23! 'tick, tick . . . BOOM!' Nov 16, 2021

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Join Patrick, Serena Berman, and Robbie Rozelle as they discuss the new Lin-Manuel Miranda film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick . . . BOOM!

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Miriam Pultro / Jane Eyre - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) Nov 03, 2021

Miriam is a performer and writer who has written a new musical about the Brontë Sisters called Glass Town and she’s here for this Brontë musical that is . . . a lot

CW: This episode contains a brief discussion of sexual misconduct and assault.

Topics include: Mr. Bumble, voices across moors, contemporary scores & corsets, Diana (of course), endings are hard, and WHERE DID ALL THE BARITONES GO?

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Glass Town (EP) on Bandcamp

Featured recordings: Jane Eyre - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Glass Town - Live Selections from the February 2021 Workshop (2021)

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What is Love Actually?: SEASON 2 COMING 11/26/2021!! Nov 01, 2021

Patrick and Beth are back with 6 new episodes covering 6 romantic holiday films from Hallmark, Lifetime, and Netflix!

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David Levy / Girl Crazy - Studio Cast (1990) Oct 20, 2021

David has been there, done that, gave away the T-shirt, met the Muppets, and now he’s with us to talk about this reassemblage of a Gershwin classic.

Topics include: operettas and 1930s-40s movie musicals, not getting theatre internships, Fynsworth Alley, and DIANA: THE MUSICAL!

David Levy בלעק לײַװס מעטער on Twitter!

Album Produced By... by Bruce Kimmel

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LIVE STREAM The Evolution of (Henry) Mann at American Theater Group

Featured recordings: Girl Crazy - Studio Cast (1990) • Godspell - 2000 Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Girl Crazy - Mary Martin (1951)

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Dan Elish / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book - Ella Fitzgerald (1956) Oct 06, 2021

Dan is probably most well known to music theatre fans as the book writer of 13 (coming soon to Netflix). But he’s also a lyricist, YA novelist, and an accomplished musician. And he’s here for an amazingly deep, 2-LP collection from the First Lady of Song.

Topics include: discovering Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart’s words, working with JRB and Doug Cohen, knowing what you’re good at, and yes I forgot about The Boys from Syracuse I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry please don’t @ me.

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American Theater Group presents The Evolution of (Henry) Mann; music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen, book and lyrics by Dan Elish; October 14-24, 2021

Featured recordings: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book - Ella Fitzgerald (1956) • Once Upon a Summertime - Blossom Dearie (1958) • The Evolution of Mann - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2018)

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Emergency Episode: DIANA THE MUSICAL!! Oct 03, 2021

GO WATCH DIANA: THE MUSICAL ON NETFLIX RIGHT NOW!!

Intermission: Eyes, Eyes, Nostrils, Silent Scream (w/ Roddy Flynn) Sep 29, 2021

Roddy is here for an anecdote and reminiscence about a cult classic.

Featured Songs: “How Shall I See You Through My Tears” from The Gospel at Colonus - Original Cast Recording (1985) • “Turkey Lurkey Time” from Promises, Promises - Original Broadway Cast Album (1968)

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Grace Aki / Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) Sep 22, 2021

Performer/writer/raconteur Grace Aki is here for a show that just keeps being the best.

Topics include: parents, podcasts, personalities, the Queen Judy Kuhn (long may she reign), and how Michael Cerveris may be a deity.

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Featured recordings: Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • Song & Dance - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1985) • Tell Me on a Sunday - Marti Webb (1980) • Leslie Odom Jr. - Leslie Odom Jr. (2014)

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Intermission: Richard & Henry & Henry & Henry & Richard Sep 15, 2021

There’s stuff a-comin’.

To Free a Mockingbird, written and performed by Grace Aki

Featured Songs: “What a Piece of Work is Man / Walking in Space (Reprise)” from Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968) • “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” from Kiss Me, Kate - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1999)

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Jeremy Diamond / Come from Away - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) Sep 08, 2021

Jeremy comes from away (Seattle) for one of the best musicals of the last decade. Certainly better than the one everyone thought was the best musical — okay I’ll stop.

Topics include: no intermission, The Laramie Project, Bonnie & Bob & Hannah & Kevin & Kevin, and discovering this show on a plane to Hong Kong.

Featured recordings: Come from Away - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)

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Intermission: Start the World -- I Want to Get On Sep 01, 2021

Building others up when you’re feeling down.

"Feeling Good" performed by Nina Simone

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Uproar Coaching

This Was a Thing with Ray Hebel and Robert W. Schneider

Featured Songs: “Feeling Good” performed by Gilbert Price from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1965) • “What Kind of Fool Am I?” performed by Anthony Newley from Stop the World – I Want to Get Off - Original Broadway Cast (1962)

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Ben Schrager / A New Brain - Original Cast Recording (1998) Aug 25, 2021

Actor Ben Schrager is here for a show that has a very special place in his life.

Topics include: the generosity of Billy Finn, teenage A New Brain, the Mary Testa-of-it-all, the Chip Zien-of-it-all, autobiography, and some really lousy days in the Universe.

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Featured recordings: A New Brain - Original Cast Recording (1998) • Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Joe's Pub (2001) • A New Brain - 2015 New York Cast Recording (2016)

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Intermission: Patrick & Kari Solve 'Follies' Aug 18, 2021

Good old fashioned intermission about movie musicals and the perpetually coming Follies.

Featured Songs: “Losing My Mind” performed by Charity Angél Dawson & Joshua Hinck from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020) • “Losing My Mind” from A Perfect Little Death - Eleri Ward (2021)

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Eleri Ward / Spring Awakening - A Decca Broadway Cast Album (2006) Aug 11, 2021

Singer/songwriter/actress and genius behind Indie-Folk Sondheim Eleri Ward is here for a musical about self-expression (and indie-folk Sondheim).

Topics include: songs for boys, escalators v. elevators, songs about things, what and how you share yourself, how you see yourself when you’re writing as yourself, and Lil Nas X.

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Indie-Folk Sondheim (formerly SUF/SOND)

Featured recordings: Spring Awakening - A Decca Broadway Cast Album (2006) • Friction (EP) - Eleri Ward (2021) • A Perfect Little Death - Eleri Ward (2021)

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Intermission: Christmas in July (in August) Aug 04, 2021

What is Love Actually?

Spandex the Musical Homepage

Featured Songs: “We Need a Little Christmas” from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1996) • “Twelve Days to Christmas” from She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016)

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Kelly Colburn / Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) Jul 28, 2021

Flying V’s newly minted Theatrical Artistic Lead is here for a musical that maybe no one should do any more?

Topics include: bonding with your parents thru comedy, problematic plot points, meeting people where they are, and Marshall McLuhan.

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Featured recordings: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)

Monumental Theatre Co.’s Songs for a New World now STREAMING!

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Intermission: Spandex for a New World Jul 21, 2021

Two musicals for your enjoyment!

Spandex will debut on Musical Theatre Radio Sunday, August 8th at 1pm and continue for the next four Sundays through September 5th!

Spandex the Musical Homepage

1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Opening

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Songs for a New World/Monumental Theatre Co-Related Episodes• Megan Bunn / The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) • Mary Myers / Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1996) • Jimmy Mavrikes / Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996) • Beth Amann / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

Featured Songs: “I'd Give It All for You” from Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1997) • “Old Broken Mirror” and “Spandex” from Spandex: The Musical (2021)

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Megan Behm / Six - The Album (2018) Jul 14, 2021

Director and Tudor-nerd Megan Behm is here for a musical of the moment that is more than it initially seems to some of us (by which I mean, me).

Topics include: snootiness, history, and feminism.

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Featured recordings: Six - The Album (2018)

Monumental Theatre Co.’s Songs for a New World now STREAMING!

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Intermission: Ten Favourite Cast Albums Jul 07, 2021

. . . I mean, not really but I like lists.

Featured Songs: “The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square” performed by Steven Sutcliffe & Judy Kaye from Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • “Rich and Happy” from Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) • “Another Hundred People” performed by Pamela Myers from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • “We Do Not Belong Together” performed by Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin from Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast Recording (1984) • “Javert's Soliloquy” performed by Terrence Mann from Les Misérables - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) • “Still Hurting” performed by Sherie Rene Scott from The Last Five Years - Original Cast (2002) • “Raincoat of Love” from Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • “Buenos Aires” performed by Julie Covington from Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron: 1919-1952 (1976) • “Didn't Want Nothin'” from A Strange Loop - Original Cast Recording (2019) • “Feelings” performed by Barbara Harris and “Eve” performed by Alan Alda from The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.

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Liz Callaway / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) Jun 30, 2021

Tony nominee and favorite of this podcast, Liz Callaway is here for the first show she saw on Broadway at 9, a decade before she’d appear on the same stage in a show by the same creative team.

Topics include: the Mets, reunion concerts, auditioning for Sondheim without knowing it, demos, and luck.

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Featured recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • A Stephen Sondheim Evening - Whitney Museum of American Art Composers' Showcase (1983) • The Essential Liz Callaway - Liz Callaway (2015)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.

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Intermission: Stephen Sondheim Brings "The Miller's Son" to Music Theatre Writing Class Jun 23, 2021

A short fantasia by Katya Stanislavskaya.

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Featured Songs: “The Miller’s Son” performed by D. Jamin-Bartlett from A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) • “The Miller’s Son” performed by Aili Venho from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May’s episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.

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Marissa Rosen / The Rocky Horror Show - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2000) Jun 16, 2021

Actress and cabaret star Marissa Rosen comes by to talk about the show she saw dozens of times on Broadway. Dozens.

Topics include: finding family at the stage door, support singers, sexy/sleazy, Marty Thomas, and going to Duane Reade in a full face and lashes.

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Featured recordings: The Rocky Horror Show - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show - The Skivvies featuring Marissa Rosen (2020)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May’s episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.

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Intermission: SUF/SOND Jun 09, 2021

Eleri Ward, Stephen Sondheim, Bill Finn, William Shakespeare.

SUF/SOND

Featured Songs: “Every Day a Little Death” & “Take Me to the World” from A Perfect Little Death - SUF/SOND (2021)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May’s episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.

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Billy Recce / Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Joe's Pub (2001) Jun 02, 2021

Composer, lyricist, performer Billy Recce (Little Black Book) is here for an evening of Bill Finn and why he wrote a great musical about Heidi Fleiss.

Topics include: Tom Lehrer, Wanda Houston, Bill Finn’s vocal stylings, and three-dimensionalizing those whom society has two-dimensionalized.

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Featured recordings: Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Joe's Pub (2001) • The Perks of Being a Snowflake - Billy Recce (2018) • Little Black Book - World Premiere Recording (2021)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May’s episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.

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Intermission: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? May 26, 2021

Billy Porter Breaks a 14-Year Silence: “This Is What HIV-Positive Looks Like Now” from The Hollywood Reporter

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Hal Prince on The South Bank Show in 1978

Featured Songs: “In His Eyes” performed by Gavin Creel & Aaron Tveit from Jekyll & Hyde (1996) • “You and Me (But Mostly Me)” performed by Kelly Marie Tran from The Book of Mormon (2013)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).

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Dom O'Hanlon / Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) May 19, 2021

Instagram’s own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written.

Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the “Follies” portion, and moving house with so many CDs.

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Featured recordings: Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) • Follies - Original London Cast (1987)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).

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Intermission: The First of Sheila May 12, 2021

We’ve got voicemails and comments and clips and all you want.

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Featured Songs: “Another Hundred People” from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • “Fanfare” from The Frogs / Evening Primrose - Stephen Sondheim (2001) • “Megamix: Take Me to the World: from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren (2020)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).

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Chris Adams & Holly Morgan / Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) May 05, 2021

Two Guests for the price of one! Chris & Holly from the podcast Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical are here for a show they did at Edinburgh Fringe that bears more than a passing resemblance to said Stephen King musical.

CW: sexual assault.

Topics include: Holly as the lead, singing Wicked during Bat Boy, does Off-West End exist?, bags of wigs, and Carrie (of course).

Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical

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Featured recordings: Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) • Bat Boy - Original London Cast Recording (2004)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).

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Intermission: Pie in the Sky Apr 28, 2021

A voicemail on Forum and vaccine stuff.

Featured Songs: “Lullaby of Broadway” - Wini Shaw (1935) • “Seeing is Believing” from Aspects of Love - Original Cast Recording (1989)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).

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Glen Weldon / My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) Apr 21, 2021

NPR’s Glen Weldon is here for the musical that (according to him) made him gay.

Topics include: Herb Alpert (not the dirty one), Charles Emerson Winchester III, Doolittle as a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza’s agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important.

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Playbill’s “The Definitive List of the 43 Best-Selling Cast Recordings of All Time” by Logan Culwell-Block

Featured recordings: My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) • Brigadoon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1947)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

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Intermission: Heidi Fleiss - The Musical Apr 14, 2021

It’s been a week, but we’re focusing on the positive. Like She is Risen, Vol. II and “Pop Corn!”

Featured Songs: “Pop Corn” from Hot Butter - Hot Butter (1972) • “Summer in Nevada” from Little Black Book - World Premiere Recording (2021)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

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Elegy: Amy Oestreicher Apr 09, 2021

I’ve just learned that amazing friend of the podcast and past guest Amy Oestreicher has passed. Please relisten to her interview about In Trousers and enjoy her beautiful spirit and boundless energy.

ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:

Writer/performer/amazing human Amy Oestreicher comes to us with us to complete the Falsettos trilogy (by going back to Part 1).

Topics Include: Bill Finn calling on the phone, convincing teachers to let you do your own version of the assignment, tap dancing so hard you need surgery, and another in what is booming a series of scrapbooks!

_Featured Recordings: In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) • March of the Falsettos - Original Cast (1981) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990)

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Intermission: The Heat is on in Saigon (w/ Evan Casey) Mar 31, 2021

A dip back into the archives with Evan Casey and some Miss Saigon talk from the early days.

Featured Songs: “Mama Told Me Not to Come” from It Ain't Easy - Three Dog Night (1970) • “Bui-Doi” from Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

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Mandy Patinkin Sings 90s Hits!

Marty Thomas / Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1990) Mar 24, 2021

Broadway vet and cabaret mainstay Marty Thomas is here for a show he first saw on Broadway when he was 11 and thought everyone was just really good friends at Dreamland in Saigon.

Topics include: How one pronounces “Alain Boublil;” Double-tape deck stereos; Branson, MO; changed lyrics; And why cast Jonathan Pryce in the first place?

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Featured recordings: Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1990) • My Broadway - Sean McDermott (1999) • Slow Dancing with a Boy - Marty Thomas (2019) • It’s a Holiday Soul Party - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (2015) • The Award Winning Holiday Album - Marty Thomas & Marissa Rosen (2020)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month’s episode has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961).

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Mandy Patinkin Sings 90s Hits!

Intermission: Out for Blood Mar 17, 2021

Seriously. It’s a lot of pigs.

Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical

Studio Tenn Talks Presents The Assassins Reunion Show!

Featured Songs: “Out for Blood” and “I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance” from Carrie - Original Broadway Closing Night Soundboard (1988)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month’s episode has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961).

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Frank Britton / Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk - Original Broadway Cast (1996) Mar 10, 2021

D.C.’s theatre’s favorite son is here for our first live cast recording from a show that couldn’t be recorded any other way.

Topics include: film composers, meeting Ann Duquesnay at the buffet, Planet of the Apes, one-note cues, Terence Blanchard, Michael Camen, Frank’s first solo show, and Frank’s second solo show.

More info on Frank’s one-person show for 1st Stage Theatre.

Featured recordings: Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk - Original Broadway Cast (1996) • Die Hard - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1988) • Die Hard with a Vengeance - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1995) • Inside Man - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month’s episode has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961).

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Intermission: In & Of Itself Mar 03, 2021

A one-man show/documentary, a voice memo, and something you should all be reading this week.

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Featured Songs: “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin - Original Cast Album (1972) • “Magic to Do” from Pippin - New Broadway Cast Recording (2013) • “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” from Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! February’s episode has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961).

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Intermission: Broadway Soul, Vol. 2 Feb 17, 2021

TL;DR: Go buy Broadway Soul, Vol. 2

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Featured Songs: “New Music,” “What Would I Do If I Could Feel?,” “Some Enchanted Evening / All I Do is Dream of You,” “Falling in Love with Love / Mr. Pitiful,” “Sugar Daddy” from Broadway Soul, Vol. 2 - Kyle Taylor Parker (2021)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).

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Emily Esten / Newsies - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012) Feb 10, 2021

Emily is the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities at Penn Libraries, as well as Web Manager for Contingent Magazine and the Director of Communications for the National Emerging Museum Professionals Network. So, naturally, we’re talking about Newsies!

Topics Include: does anyone like Dear Evan Hansen?, what Broadway looks like, Octet, sounds made while dancing, and when it’s okay to be snobbish.

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Featured Recordings: Newsies - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).

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Intermission: Over and Out (Averno II) Feb 03, 2021

A sexually explicit Godspell-esque musical next to Averno’s latest side-by-side by Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures.

Featured Songs: “Ketchup” and “Nova Phone Home” from Over and Out - A New Musical (2020) • “I’m Gay” from Let My People Come - The Original Cast Album (1974)

Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 - Kyle Taylor Parker (2019)

Slow Dancing with a Boy - Marty Thomas (2019)

Marty Thomas on Gay Card Revoked

Behind the Curtain with Nathan Lane

the Buried Broadway Podcast

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).

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Alexandra Ley / tick, tick... BOOM! - Original Cast Recording (2001) Jan 27, 2021

Alex is a dramaturg, writer, and arts administrator in the Washington, D.C. area and she’s here for Jonathan Larson’s musical bout turning 30 in 1990 that she discovered when she was 14 after having not been alive in 1990.

Topics Include: Cats (but just for a second), unfair comparisons to Rent, 8th grade, St----- S-------, and is Jon a good guy?

Featured Recordings: tick, tick... BOOM! - Original Cast Recording (2001) • The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019)

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Intermission: The Game Done Changed (Maybe) Jan 20, 2021

Was Ratatouille a watershed?

Featured Songs: “El Tango de Roxanne” from Moulin Rouge! - Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film (2001)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).

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Emily Clark / A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) Jan 13, 2021

Music theatre historian and YouTube educator par-excellence, Emily Clark is here for a show so fine! In three-quarter time!

Topics Include: Cats, Frid, Hermione Gingold, Cats, the never-endingness of “Liaisons,” Disco Sondheim, Bob Fosse’s The Phantom of the Opera, and Cats. We talk more about Cats than one might expect.

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Emily and her husband singing “You Must Meet My Wife”

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Featured Recordings: A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) • Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (1973) • Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! December closes out our epic covering of all 4 versions of A Star is Born with 2018’s edition starring Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper.

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Intermission: Ratatouille (The TikTok Musical) Jan 06, 2021

We’re kicking off 2021 with the first Broadway presentation of the new year!

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Live at La-Ti-Do! Dec 30, 2020

Songs:

0:02:18 - “The Best Imitation of Myself” - music and lyrics by Ben Folds (1995)

0:07:35 - “Perspective” - music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick from She Loves Me (1963)

0:14:09 - “I’m Happy as Can Be” - music and lyrics by Patrick Flynn, from How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Frog! (2020), sung by Alex De Bard

0:19:47 - “I Wish I Could Go Back to College” - music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx from Avenue Q (2003)

0:24:27 - "America's Next Top 20 Something" - music and lyrics by Michael Finke (2017), sung by Alex De Bard

0:28:46 - "Everybody Says Don't" - music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from Anyone Can Whistle (1962)

0:32:45 - "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" - music and lyrics by Jeff Moss (1986)

Recorded 8/31/2020. Video available on YouTube!

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Elegy: Rebecca Luker Dec 23, 2020

Rebecca Luker passed today. So here’s the episode I was lucky enough to record with her back in July. Stayed tuned through the end for Rebecca singing one of my favorite Jerome Kern songs from the review The Land Where the Good Songs Go.

ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:

Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a walk through her career and the show Sheldon Harnick calls our “greatest American opera.”

Topics Include: getting an agent out of town, auditioning for Hal Prince, balancing your work and your life, and of course we talk about The Secret Garden and I play “How Could I Ever Know” are you kidding?

Watch At Home with Rebecca Luker: An Evening of Song! All of the proceeds from the virtual benefit performance will go to supporting Prosetin, a promising new drug candidate for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It was in February when Broadway favorite Luker revealed that she had been diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). For more information about this treatment, visit Prosetin2020.org. If you would like to place a donation, click here: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/270277/#!/donation/checkout.

Featured Recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)

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Intermission: Misc. Sondheim (w/ James Gardiner) Dec 23, 2020

A meandering journey from Assassins to The Frogs to Bounce and back again.

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Featured Songs: “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience” from The Frogs from the 2001 studio cast recording • “Addison’s Trip” from Bounce - Original Cast Recording (2004)

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Jen Bevarelli / They're Playing Our Song - The Original Cast Recording (1979) Dec 16, 2020

Actor/podcaster Jen Bevarelli is here for the semi-autobiographical music about not-Marvin Hamlisch and not-Carole Bayer Sager with a book by actually Neil Simon.

Topics Include: crying backstage, doing what you love, existing out of time, and living your authentic life. Y’know, light stuff.

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Featured Recordings: They're Playing Our Song - The Original Cast Recording (1979)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November’s movie is the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2007).

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Intermission: DisinHAIRited (w/ Serena Berman) Dec 09, 2020

A voice memo about Amy Adams and a DISCOVERY!

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Featured Songs: “Hello There,” “Manhattan Beggar,” “One Thousand-Year-Old Man,” “Mr. Berger,” “Sheila Franklin,” “So Sing the Children of the Avenue,” “Washing the World,” “Exanaplanatooch,” “Eyes Look Your Last / Sentimental Ending”. from DisinHAIRited - Original Cast Members (1969) • “Temporarily Humbolt County” from Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him - The Firesign Theater (1968)

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Morgan Smith / Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014) Dec 02, 2020

Creative force of nature Morgan Smith (Averno Township) is here to talk about two of Patrick’s favorite topics: Heathers and the state of theatre in America.

Topics Include: why there is no theatre for teens, Beetlejuice, high school pressure then & now, and founding a multi-media empire in your 20s.

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Featured Recordings: Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014) • Beetlejuice - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November’s movie is the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2005).

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Five Minutes and Forty-One Seconds of "What is Love Actually?" Nov 27, 2020

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Intermission: Andrew Lloyd Webber Doing the Washing in His Kitchen Nov 25, 2020

Excepting Alice.

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Featured Songs: “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” from Alice’s Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie (1967)

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Megan Bunn / The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) Nov 18, 2020

Director/theatre artist Meg Bunn is here for a show that revitalized her theatre exhaustion.

Topics Include: the glory of low stakes, the luscious voice of Katrina Lenk, the beauty of simplicity, and it's just a good show.

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Playbill’s “The 17 Most Tony Award-Winning Works of All Time” by Logan Culwell-Block

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Featured Recordings: The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)

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Intermission: Willow & Averno & Burnt & Joan Nov 11, 2020

Drinking White Russians and holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting.

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Featured Songs: “Sweet Willow” and “How to Let Go” from Willow - A New Musical (2020) • “Feelings” from The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) • “Blue Rondo a la Turk” from Time Out - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)

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Ted Chapin / The Rothschilds - Original Cast Recording (1970) Nov 04, 2020

Ted is President of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, co-founder of Encores!, and many other things. But his biggest claim to fame came while he was in college and got a job as a gopher on the original Broadway production of Follies. He wrote a book about it. It’s a great book. You should buy Ted’s book.

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Topics Include: making a musical about banking, the break-up of Bock & Harnick, out-of-town in Detroit, taking notes for Hal Prince, and caring for the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon.

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Featured Recordings: The Rothschilds - Original Cast Recording (1970)

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Jeremy O'Keefe / Big - Original Cast Recording (1996) Oct 21, 2020

Filmmaker Jeremy O’Keefe is with us this week to talk about a musical that I disparaged on the show 2 weeks ago. So that’s karma for you.

Topics Include: Wilmington, Delaware, being afraid of growing up at 16, Tony Randall, sleeping on the sidewalk for Rent tickets, and Big 2 which is my idea and you can’t steal it and Jeremy has first look so don’t even ask.

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Featured Recordings: Big - Original Cast Recording (1996) • Sunset Boulevard - American Premiere Recording (1993)

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Intermission: Einstein's Dreams of Al Silber Oct 14, 2020

We’re talking about the new musical Einstein’s Dreams and your reaction to the episode on 1776.

Featured Songs: “Einstein’s Dreams” sung by Alexandra Silber and “High-Speed Motion” sung by Talia Cosentino and the Ensemble from Einstein’s Dreams - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2019)

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Mikey Bevarelli / Groundhog Day - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) Oct 07, 2020

From the Buried Broadway podcast, actor Mikey Bevarelli is here for a musical by an Aussie based on an American movie by an Aussie based on an American movie.

Topics Include: audience expectations, Andy Karl, big Broadway scores, the little things, Let My People Come, and Ned Ryerson.

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Featured Recordings: Groundhog Day - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) • Let My People Come - The Original Cast Album (1974) • Look at Us - Sonny & Cher (1965)

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Intermission: Trimmed Hair (w/ Serena Berman) Sep 30, 2020

I’m away this week so here’s some an excised portion from my conversation with Serena Berman about Hair. Mainly deleted because I talk a lot. I had a lot to say about Hair.

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Featured Song: “Going Down” from Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968)

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Theresa Beckhusen / 1776 - Original Broadway Cast (1969) Sep 23, 2020

Journalist Theresa J. Beckhusen is here for a musical adaptation of a half-heard history lesson retold through the lens of “everything’s fine!”

Topics Include: not-so-bad-for-1969, Thomas Jefferson’s views on enslavement, how dumb “The Egg” is, Mr. Feeny, Vietnam, and one song that is actually more relevant now than it even was then.

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Featured Recordings: 1776 - Original Broadway Cast (1969) • Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)

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Intermission: Musicals Named After My Kids Decades Before They Were Born Sep 16, 2020

Two big musical discoveries made recently but I’m saving one so here’s the other!

Featured Songs: “I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way” and “Maggie Flynn” from Maggie Flynn - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968), music and lyrics by Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore & George David Weiss

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Dane Figueroa Edidi / Ain't Misbehavin' - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1978) Sep 09, 2020

Performer-singer-mentor and Helen Hayes Award-winning writer Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is here for a Tony-winning revue of 30s music staged in the 80s but that lives forever.

Topics Include: songs about weed, Billy Porter, Nell Carter, the black experience through white eyes, art that shouldn’t survive, and the good reasons why Lady Dane does not like Hamilton.

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Featured Recordings: Ain't Misbehavin' - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1978) • “Lush Life” - Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington (1965)

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Intermission: Summer Lovin', Had Me a Blast Sep 02, 2020

Intermissions are back! But in a slightly different format! Exclamation! I hate Grease!!

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Featured Songs: “Summer Nights” from Grease! - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972) • “An Element of Magic” from Reporting Live - Hannah Whitney and Jacob Samuels (2011)

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Michael Finke / Elegies - A Song Cycle (2003) Aug 26, 2020

Music theatre writer Michael Finke is here for Bill Finn’s song cycle about death. . . It’s not as much of a bummer as it may sound.

Topics Include: Hell’s Kitchen, Joe Papp, Jack Eric Williams, 14 Dwight Ave (Natick, MA), how anything can be a musical, and Michael’s forthcoming album!

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Featured Recordings: Elegies - A Song Cycle (2003) • Songs from Inside My Locker - Robbie Rozelle (2020)

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Christian Douglas / Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) Aug 19, 2020

Strathmore artist-in-residence singer/songwriter Christian Douglas is here for a musical by another singer/songwriter. Christian’s written and recorded an album during our time inside and just got out of the Army. Those things are connected but they’re both interesting and true.

Topics Include: the Jessie Mueller of it all, Sara v. Ms. Bareilles, life in the singing Army, and stories about ordinary people.

Featured Recordings: Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) • Inside Voice - Christian Douglas (2020)

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Stefania Lounsbury / Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) Aug 12, 2020

Straight back into Toronto and the Off2Broadway podcast, it’s Stefania Lounsbury taking us back to the Goodman household and all contained therein.

Topics Include: Alice Ripley’s eyes, the over-analysis of musical theatre, Pretty Woman, Superboy, the Invisible Girl, and does Billy Elliot actually have a tragic ending?

Featured Recordings: Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)

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Tara Stanton / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Aug 05, 2020

Straight outta Toronto and the Off2Broadway podcast, it’s Tara Stanton taking us back to Oz not once, not twice, but SEVEN TIMES!

Topics Include: Hamilton, projections, the magic, the joy, the love, and living a 2-show life.

Featured Recordings: Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

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Douglas Carter Beane / Babes in Arms - 1999 New York Cast Recording (1999) Jul 29, 2020

Five-time Tony Award-nominee Douglas Carter Beane brings us an overlooked Rodgers & Hart classic.

Topics Include: putting on shows in barns, woke for 1939, a more talented but more annoying version of Shirley Temple, aircraft on stage pre-Miss Saigon, and how Hollywood turned Lorenz Hart from gay to short for the biopic.

Featured Recordings: Babes in Arms - 1999 New York Cast Recording (1999)

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Seven Minutes and Twenty-Seven Seconds of The Original Cast at the Movies Jul 27, 2020

Thinking about becoming a patron of The Original Cast but don't know if it's worth it?

Well, check out this sample of The Original Cast at the Movies which you get on the 27th of every month with your patronage as Patrick, Robbie Rozelle, and Robert W. Schneider talk about the Village People's 1980 musical biopic(?) Can't Stop the Music.

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Rebecca Luker / Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) Jul 22, 2020

Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a walk through her career and the show Sheldon Harnick calls our “greatest American opera.”

Topics Include: getting an agent out of town, auditioning for Hal Prince, balancing your work and your life, and of course we talk about The Secret Garden and I play “How Could I Ever Know” are you kidding?

Watch At Home with Rebecca Luker: An Evening of Song! All of the proceeds from the virtual benefit performance will go to supporting Prosetin, a promising new drug candidate for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It was in February when Broadway favorite Luker revealed that she had been diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). For more information about this treatment, visit Prosetin2020.org. If you would like to place a donation, click here: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/270277/#!/donation/checkout.

Featured Recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)

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Christopher Gattelli / Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984) Jul 15, 2020

Tony-winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, SpongeBob SquarePants, Altar Boyz, The King and I, High Fidelity, et al.) brings our third dive into a show that you either love deeply or have no strong opinion on either way.

Topics Include: harrowing at the start, Pouncival, hidden ᗅᗺᗷᗅ references, and what Channing Tatum did not sign up for.

Featured Recordings: Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984)

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Carly Ciarrocchi / Godspell - A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1971) Jul 08, 2020

Children’s TV host Carly Ciarrocchi is here for a wonderful conversation about how one show can set your whole world in motion.

Topics Include: discount Disney DJ for bar mitzvahs, working together, finding what you’re good at, live children’s TV, and getting rejected in a letter you sent yourself.

Featured Recordings: Godspell - A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1971)

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Tori Boutin / Hadestown - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019) Jul 01, 2020

Actor/performer/writer Tori Bouton is here for the last year’s Tony Award-winner for Best Musical.

Topics Include: Amber Gray, tragic endings, Amber Gray, why we sing this song, Amber Gray, Andre DeShields, and Amber Gray.

Featured Recordings: Hadestown - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • Hadestown - Live Original Cast Album (2017)

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Distantly Social 72: Songs from Inside Robbie's Locker Jun 30, 2020

Best friend of the show Robbie Rozelle has a new live album out called Songs from Inside My Locker and you should buy it and here’s why . . .

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MUSIC: “In Hell’s Kitchen” performed by Robbie Rozelle from his new album Songs from Inside My Locker (2020, Broadway Records), music and lyrics by Michael Finke

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Kevin David Thomas / Violet - A New Musical (1997) Jun 24, 2020

Actor/music director/podcaster Kevin David Thomas is here for a musical that takes you there and back. On a bus.

Topics Include: Jekyll & Hyde, Lauren Ward over Sutton Foster, M&M’s, why we do what we do, and Kevin & Patrick try to get Jeanine Tesori on their respective podcasts through fawning and begging.

Featured Recordings: Violet - A New Musical (1997) • Violet - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)

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TONIGHT! At Home with Rebecca Luker! Jun 17, 2020

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Hosted by Tony-winner Santino Fontana and featuring an interview with Rebecca Luker by Katie Couric.

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All proceeds benefit Prosetin, the first-ever ALS drug candidate developed using cells from ALS patients.

MUSIC: “Come to My Garden / Lift Me Up” performed by Rebecca Luker & Joel E. Chaiken from The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991), music by Lucy Simon, lyrics by Marsha Norman

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Amy Oestreicher / In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) Jun 17, 2020

Writer/performer/amazing human Amy Oestreicher comes to us with us to complete the Falsettos trilogy (by going back to Part 1).

Topics Include: Bill Finn calling on the phone, convincing teachers to let you do your own version of the assignment, tap dancing so hard you need surgery, and another in what is booming a series of scrapbooks!

Featured Recordings: In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) • March of the Falsettos - Original Cast (1981) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990)

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Robert W. Schneider / La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983) Jun 10, 2020

Director/podcaster Robert W. Schneider is here for a musical whose legacy may be unfairly besmirched by an infamous Tony speech.

Topics Include: George Hearn, staging the overture, cutting the entr’acte, and maybe revoking Rob’s gay card live on the air!

Featured Recording: La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983)

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Distantly Social 71: Alexandra Petri Jun 01, 2020

Here’s a snippet from Alexandra and me talking from the before times.

recorded March 4, 2020

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MUSIC: “Birdhouse in Your Soul” performed by They Might Be Giants from their album Flood (1990), music and lyrics by John Flansburgh & John Linnell

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Distantly Social 70: Have You Been to the New Harris Teeter? May 31, 2020

Distantly Social Theatre presents Have You Been to the New Harris Teeter? a short play written by Patrick Flynn starring Serena Berman & Ava Eisenson, and directed by Jake Beckhard.

Covert art photograph by David Wardrick.

Have You Been to the New Harris Teeter? was originally presented as part of Theatre Alliance’s Hot House Readings series in 2017.

Have You Been to the New Harris Teeter? script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange!

Recording produced by Jake Beckhard and edited by Patrick Flynn.

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Distantly Social 69: The Furth/Lapine-of-It-All with James Gardiner May 30, 2020

A fun edit from my talk with James Gardiner about Merrily We Roll Along.

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MUSIC: “Opening (Doors)” performed by Joshua Hinck & Charity Angél Dawson featuring Chip Zien & Aili Venho from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 68: Off2Broadway May 29, 2020

Tara & Stefania are podcasting from the North!

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MUSIC: “Blame Canada” from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999), music and lyrics by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman

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Distantly Social 67: Jensen Clifford May 28, 2020

Jensen is keeping busy and becoming goo.

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MUSIC: “I Believe” performed by Andrew Rannells from The Book of Mormon - Original Broadway Cast (2011), music and lyrics by Trey Parker & Robert Lopez &Matt Stone

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Lara Paquette / Footloose - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999) May 27, 2020

Lara is the host of the podcast Stage Door Stories and has the best “how did this show come into your life?” story ever.

Topics Include: Jeremy Kushnier, Jeremy Kushnier rapping, the Kenny Loggins of it all, and running into Jennifer Laura Thompson on the street.

Featured Recordings: Footloose - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999) • Footloose - Original Soundtrack of the Paramount Motion Picture (1984) • Flashdance - Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1983) • An Officer and a Gentleman - Original Soundtrack (1982) • Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie (1986) • Arthur: The Album - Christopher Cross (1981) • Top Gun - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1986) • Fame - The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1980) • The Woman in Red - Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)

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Distantly Social 66: Tuesday with Robbie May 26, 2020

Robbie’s album Songs from Inside My Locker is finally coming out!

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MUSIC: “If You’re Right Right Right” written and performed by The Flynn Twins • “I’m Leaving Texas” performed by Dee Hoty from The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1994), music and lyrics by Carol Hall

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Distantly Social 65: Douglas J. Cohen May 25, 2020

Is the world that different for writers?

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MUSIC: “So Far, So Good” performed by Marguerite MacIntyre and Adam Grupper from No Way to Treat a Lady - Original Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen

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Distantly Social 64: The Royal Me May 24, 2020

Distantly Social Theatre presents The Royal Me performed by Anna Grace Nowalk, written by Patrick Flynn.

Covert art photograph by David Wardrick.

The Royal Me script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange!

Recording produced by Anna Grace Nowalk and edited by Patrick Flynn.

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Distantly Social 63: University with Jonathan Howard May 23, 2020

A quick cut from my wonderful conversation with King’s Singer bass Jonathan Howard about “University.”

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MUSIC: “He is an Englishman” performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from H.M.S. Pinafore (1949), music by Arthur Sullivan, lyrics by W.S. Gilbert

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Distantly Social 62: Kurt Peterson May 22, 2020

It’s my birthday today so I’m reviving one of my favorite interviews of all time with the delightful Kurt Peterson.

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MUSIC: “Too Many Mornings” performed by Kurt Peterson & Victoria Mallory from their album When Everything Was Possible: A Concert (2012), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from Follies (1971)

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Distantly Social 61: Christina A Coakley & Michael Innocenti May 21, 2020

This is a bad idea.

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MUSIC: “This Plum is Too Ripe” performed by Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson, William Larsen, & Hugh Thomas from The Fantasticks - Original Cast Album (1960), music by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones

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Jake Beckhard / Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988) May 20, 2020

Jake is a director who brings his insightful theatrical mind to the best worst musical of all time that people either love to death or have no strong feelings about either way.

Topics include: Bobby Fischer, the agony of Freddie, the ecstasy of Judy Kuhn, and whether or not the plot is just Tim Rice fan-fiction written by Tim Rice.

Featured Recordings: Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988) • Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984)

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!

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Distantly Social 60: Tuesday with Robbie May 19, 2020

Another runaway train of thoughts.

Ordinary Days reunion info!

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MUSIC: “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)” performed by Barbra Streisand from A Star is Born - Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson (1976), music and lyrics by Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams

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Distantly Social 59: Adam Gwon May 18, 2020

Tomorrow, 5:30pm EDT, Facebook Live!

Ordinary Days reunion info!

MUSIC: “Saturday at the Met” performed by Kate Wetherhead from Ordinary Days - Original Cast Recording (2009), music and lyrics by Adam Gwon

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Distantly Social 58: No But May 17, 2020

Distantly Social Theatre presents No But a short play written by Patrick Flynn starring Angeleaza Anderson, Michelle Polera, and Carl Williams.

Covert art photograph by David Wardrick.

No But was originally presented at Bethesda Play-in-a-Day 2019 with this same cast.

No But script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange!

Recording produced, directed, and edited by Patrick Flynn

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Distantly Social 57: Joanna McKee May 16, 2020

Walking and thinking and walking and watching.

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MUSIC: “C.B.” performed by Michael Staniforth with Jeffrey Daniel from Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe

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Distantly Social 56: Eliza Berkon May 15, 2020

Eliza just started a new job in March!

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MUSIC: “Tear Me Down” performed by John Cameron Mitchell from Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Cast Album (1998), music and lyrics by Stephen Trask

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Distantly Social 55: Tia Shearer Bassett May 14, 2020

Tia and I talk to each other while kids talk to us.

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MUSIC: “I Feel Pretty” performed by Kyle Taylor Parker from his album Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 (2019), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from West Side Story (1957)

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Star Johnson / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) May 13, 2020

Star is playwright/lyricist/director who brings to us a fun and funny conversation about a still-relevant turning point in the history of American musical theatre that is further from us historically than it is from Oklahoma!.

Topics Include: gender-blind Bobbies, keeping the comedy in musical comedy, being alive, and sliding into her DMs.

Featured Recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • Company - 1995 Broadway Cast Recording (1995) • Experiment - Mandy Patinkin (1994) • Marry Me a Little - Songs by Stephen Sondheim (1980)

T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!

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Distantly Social 54: Tuesday with Robbie May 12, 2020

Conspiracy theories, one-person shows, Ordinary Days, and Tell Me on a Sunday just to name a few.

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17!

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MUSIC: “The Cookie Chase” performed by Angela Lansbury from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 53: Kenny Neal May 11, 2020

Nostalgia is a dangerous drug.

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MUSIC: “U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.” performed by Frances Ruffelle from Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe

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Distantly Social 52: Mama's Turn May 10, 2020

For Mother’s Day, I’m counting down my Top 5 Favorite Broadway Mamas that we’ve covered on this show!

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Featured Recordings: Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) • Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) • The Who’s Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) • The Light in the Piazza - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) • Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) • Caroline, or Change - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2004) • Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) • Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) • Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) • The Phantom of the Opera - The Original Cast Recording (1986) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990) • Into the Woods - Original Broadway Cast (1987) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • Les Misérables - Orginal Broadway Cast Recording (1987)

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Distantly Social 51: Eric Messner May 09, 2020

I should’ve paid attention in Health class.

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MUSIC: “Soliloquy” performed by John Raitt from Carousel - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1945), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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Distantly Social 50: Bryan Plofsky May 08, 2020

Bryan from the official Broadwaysted! Podcast (where they’re drunk on theatre) is here for some inside baseball and outside dog walking.

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MUSIC: “Hair” performed by James Rado & Gerome Ragni from Hair - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968), music by Galt MacDermot, lyrics by James Rado &Gerome Ragni

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Distantly Social 49: Robyn Rikoon May 07, 2020

In January, Robyn moved from DC to New Mexico to become the newly minted Artistic Director at the Santa Fe Playhouse!

The Santa Fe Playhouse Donut Button!

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MUSIC: “Santa Fe” performed by Jesse L. Martin from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music by Jonathan Larson, lyrics by Jonathan Larson and Billy Aronson

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Casey Erin Clark / Little Women - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) May 06, 2020

Actor/singer/coach/multi-hyphenate Casey Erin Clark is here for a Sutton Foster vehicle that brings the sincerity.

Topics Include: snark, corsets, Frank Wildhorn, and that time Casey slid 15’ across a stage on her bum.

Featured Recordings: Little Women - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) • Frankenstein - World Premiere Recording (2008) • Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989) • The Song Begins... - Casey Erin Clark (2008)

T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!

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Distantly Social 48: A Strange Loop with Robbie Rozelle May 05, 2020

It’s still Tuesday with Robbie but we need to talk about the latest Pulitzer winner!

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MUSIC: “Exile in Gayville,” “Intermission Song,” and “Today” performed by Larry Owens with L Morgan Lee, James Jackson Jr, John-Michael Lyles, John-Andrew Morrison, Jason Veasey, & Antwayn Harper from A Strange Loop - Original Cast Recording (2019), music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson

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Distantly Social 47: Nicole Hertvik May 04, 2020

Nicole and DC Metro Theater Arts have an interesting problem: what do you write about when there’s no theatre to write about

"Fade to Black: Coronavirus Closures Force Local Theaters to Rethink Their Futures" by Nicole Hertvik

Nicole’s “Artists Who Inspire!” series (and, yes, I am the most recent one, that is a coincidence, sort of).

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MUSIC: “Being Alive” performed by Dean Jones from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 46: Lee Liebeskind May 03, 2020

Lee works for WILL Interactive and they’re figuring it out just like you and me.

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MUSIC: “Allegro” performed by Norbert Leo Butz & Liz Callaway from Allegro - First Complete Recording (2009), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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Distantly Social 45: Laura Esti Miller May 02, 2020

Laura and I want you to check on your extroverts.

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MUSIC: “Circles in the Sand” performed by Adam Chanler-Berat from Fly By Night - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2014), music and lyrics by Will Connolly & Michael Mitnick & Kim Rosenstock

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Distantly Social 44: Broadwaysted! May 01, 2020

Two fun cuts from my wonderful conversation with Kimberly & Bryan from the official Broadwaysted! podcast about Sunday in the Park with George.

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MUSIC: “I’ve Got You to Lean On” performed by Angela Lansbury, Gabriel Dell, Arnold Soboloff, & James Frawley from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 43: Garrett Anderson Apr 30, 2020

Garrett works in Acquisitions and Artistic Development at Concord Theatricals where they’re innovating their way through the suck.

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MUSIC: “Stool Boom” performed by Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, & Fred Willard Parker Posey from Red, White & Blaine - Original Cast Album (1996), music and lyrics by Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer

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Michael Innocenti / The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001) Apr 29, 2020

Director/actor/lighting designer Michael Innocenti brings this (now) 19-year-old megahit to the podcast and asks "What am comedy?"

Topics Include: Neil Simon, Catskills, the corner of Jewish and Catholic, and what is Mel Brooks's 2nd-worst film?

Featured Recordings: The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001)

T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!

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Distantly Social 42: Tuesday with Robbie Apr 28, 2020

Robbie started a podcast. How dare he.

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3.

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MUSIC: “Hosing the Furniture” performed by Lauren Marcus from the album The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, written for Sitting on the Edge of the Future (1989)

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Distantly Social 41: Someone Else's Story Apr 27, 2020

Sorry, it’s a sad one today.

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MUSIC: “Farewell to Stromness” written and performed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies from Farewell to Stromness (2016)

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Distantly Social 40: Stephen Spotswood Apr 26, 2020

Stephen is missing solitude in public places.

Preorder Fortune Favors the Dead!

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MUSIC: “You Can Always Count On Me” performed by Randy Graff from City of Angels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1989), music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel

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Distantly Social 39: Heather C. Jackson Apr 25, 2020

Heather is a costume designer, which is a hard job to do remotely.

Read Heather’s articles on Grounded Reason.

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MUSIC: “Magic Dance” performed by David Bowie, from Labyrinth - From the Original Soundtrack of the Jim Henson Film (1986), music and lyrics by David Bowie

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Distantly Social 38: James Finley Apr 24, 2020

James is here to explain Animal Crossing.

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MUSIC: "Two-Player Game" performed by Will Roland & George Salazar from Be More Chill - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019), music and lyrics by Joe Iconis

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Distantly Social 37: Anna Grace Nowalk Apr 23, 2020

Anna wants to go back to college, please.

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3.

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MUSIC: "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" performed by John Tartaglia, Peter Linz, Stephanie D'Abruzzo from Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast (2003), music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx

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Jonathan Howard / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - London Palladium Cast Recording (1991) Apr 22, 2020

Johnny sings bass in The King's Singers and was almost literally born into this Lloyd Webber/Rice mainstay.

Topics Include: finding oneself part of a six-man vocal ensemble, naming all the colours in Joseph's coat, jacks-of-all-trades/masters-of-none, and Tuffi the elephant who accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn monorail into the River Wupper in 1950.

Featured Recordings: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - London Palladium Cast Recording (1991) • Finding Harmony - The King's Singers (2020) • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Original Broadway Cast (1982)

T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!

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Distantly Social 36: Tuesday with Robbie Apr 21, 2020

Jim Steinman wrote a Batman musical.

LISTEN TO SHE IS RISEN, VOLUME I

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MUSIC: "Simon Zealotes / Poor Jerusalem" performed by Ledisi and Morgan James, from Jesus Christ Superstar - She is Risen: Volume I (2020), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

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Distantly Social 35: Rick Westerkamp Apr 20, 2020

Rick is teaching drama to 5th-8th grade girls.

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MUSIC: "Do-Re-Mi" performed by Mary Martin, from The Sound of Music - Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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Distantly Social 34: The Lady's Got Potential Apr 19, 2020

Today we take a deep-dive into a song's evolution with this number from Evita from its debut on the 1976 concept album, its deletion from the stage production, and reinstatement for the film.

Featured recordings: Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron 1919-1952 (1976) • Evita - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1979) • Evita - The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack (1996)

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Distantly Social 33: Mary Myers Apr 18, 2020

Mary's teaching Shakespeare to stuffed animals.

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MUSIC: "Hip Hop Hooray" performed by Naughty by Nature, from 19 Naughty III - Naughty by Nature (1993), music and lyrics by Ronald Isley, Ernie Isley, Rudolph Isley, Chris Jasper, O'Kelly Isley Jr., Marvin Isley, Vincent Brown, Anthony Criss, Keir Gist

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Distantly Social 32: Nexus Apr 17, 2020

Danielle Mohlman's play Nexus is going on a virtual national tour.

WATCH NEXUS!

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MUSIC: "Opening Night" performed by the company, from The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001), music and lyrics by Mel Brooks

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Distantly Social 31: Serena Berman Apr 16, 2020

Staying mentally balanced in Harlem.

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MUSIC: "Another Hundred People" performed by Pamela Myers, from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Patrick Flynn / Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) Apr 15, 2020

Guest host Kari Ginsburg talks to usual host Patrick Flynn about his rebirth as a music theatre devotee and what he thought the podcast would be versus what it is.

Topics Include: the Queen, Judy Kuhn, long may she reign; oddball Juan Peróns; crying and crying; the eternal struggle of the cast album as artform, commodity, and obsession.

Featured Recordings: Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Original Broadway Cast (1962) • Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) • Fun Home - Original Cast Recording (2014)

T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!

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Distantly Social 30: Robbie Rozelle Apr 14, 2020

Musical theatre solo albums dos and don'ts and please do dos and please please don't dos.

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MUSIC: "You'll Never Get Away from Me" performed by (the Queen) Judy Kuhn (Long May She Reign), from Just in Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne (1995), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, from Gypsy (1959)

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Distantly Social 29: Megan Reichelt Apr 13, 2020

Megan is keeping it upbeat and active and thank God for her.

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MUSIC: "Another Day / Finale B" performed by Daphne Rubin-Vega & the Company, from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson

(Yes, that's two days of Rent in a row.)

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Distantly Social 28: Michelle Polera Apr 12, 2020

Michelle is hosting workouts and walking in the woods. And the animals have come out to feast.

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MUSIC: "We're Okay" performed by Fredi Walker, from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson

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Distantly Social 27: Caroline Dubberly Apr 11, 2020

It's raining in Texas.

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MUSIC: "The Long Grift" performed by Lena Hall, from Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Broadway Cast Album (2014), music and lyrics by Stephen Trask

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Distantly Social 26: Kari Ginsburg Apr 10, 2020

Puzzles and dogs and tables and dungeons and dragons.

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MUSIC: "Rose's Turn" performed by Ethel Merman, from Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 25: Jeremy Diamond Apr 09, 2020

Jeremy does business business and is here for business business facts to supplement the business business theories I brought up on Tuesday's business.

PIZZA ROBOT!

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MUSIC: "The Company Way" performed by Sammy Smith & Robert Morse, from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1961), music and lyrics by Frank Loesser

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Tracy Lynn Olivera / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967) *Flashback* Apr 08, 2020

Next Wednesday will be our 100th guest! So before that, let's look all the way back to March 2016 and our very first guest: Tracy Lynn Olivera! Which, synergistically, also happens to be the same show our 99th guest chose (though a different recording)!

ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:

Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright/filmmaker/professor Patrick Flynn.

Our first guest is actress, singer, & recording artist Tracy Lynn Olivera who stops by to discuss the 1967 original cast album of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

We’re also joined by dramaturg Megan Westman as we discuss off-Broadway basement shows, the wrong kind of meta, and how Tracy feels about the 1999 Broadway revival (spoiler: she hates it).

Featured Recording: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967)

T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!

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Distantly Social 24: Tuesday with Robbie Apr 07, 2020

Not feeling it.

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MUSIC: "It's Today" performed by Angela Lansbury, from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

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Distantly Social 23: Amanda Zeitler Apr 06, 2020

We start in a genuine place of interest and then I get obsessed with the idea of "Conference Conference" and now that's my whole day.

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MUSIC: "Superhero Girl" performed by Liz Larsen, from Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999), music and lyrics by Barry Keating

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Distantly Social 22: Jason Schlafstein Apr 05, 2020

Jason and Flying V are launching a podcast. I ask: "How dare he?"

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MUSIC: "Opening Ceremony" performed by Björn Skifs, from Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984), music by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, lyrics by Tim Rice

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Distantly Social 21: Everybody Ought to Have a Maid Apr 04, 2020

Maybe not the best song for a 10-year-old but we're keeping him level.

Plus I mix up Marcus Lycus and Miles Gloriosus for almost 10 minutes much The Boy's frustration.

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MUSIC: "Lovely (Reprise)" performed on the clarinet by Bobby Flynn, music by Stephen Sondheim, from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; "Everybody Oughta Have a Maid" performed by Lewis J. Stadlen, Nathan Lane, Mark Lin-Baker, & Ernie Sabella, from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Original 1996 Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 20: Logan Culwell-Block Apr 03, 2020

DISCO EVITA!!! (Also mp3 organization.)

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MUSIC: "Buenos Aires" performed by the band Festival from their album Evita (1979), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

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Distantly Social 19: Chil Kong Apr 02, 2020

Chil is the Artistic Director at Adventure Theatre MTC and is working on ways of keeping his community engaged and entertained.

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MUSIC: "Together Wherever We Go" performed by Ethel Merman with Jack Klugman & Sandra Church from Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Clare Carys O'Connell / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Broadway Musical (1999) Apr 01, 2020

Clare has appeared in some of the top theatres in DC and Baltimore. Which wouldn't be so remarkable except for the fact that she's nine-years-old!

Topics Include: auditioning, forgetting to breathe, pretending to drive a car, and loving what you're doing.

Featured Recording: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Broadway Musical (1999)

T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!

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Distantly Social 18: Tuesday with Robbie Mar 31, 2020

Okay, your prompt is Lee Remick taking Stephen Sondheim to Studio 54 in 1975. Go!

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MUSIC: "Ah, Paris!" performed by Fifi D'Orsay from Follies - Original Broadway Cast (1971), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 17: Jenna Duncan & Kevin Place Mar 30, 2020

Jenna is Associate Artistic Director at Olney Theatre. Kevin is Associate Producer at Theatre J. And they're engaged!

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MUSIC: "With You on My Arm" performed by Gene Barry & George Hearn from La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

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Distantly Social 16: Evan Casey & Tracy Lynn Olivera Mar 29, 2020

Have some coffee with Evan & Tracy as they keep on keepin' on.

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Stream The Amateurs by Jordan Harrison featuring Evan Casey at OlneyTheatre.org!

Take a class with Tracy Lynn Olivera through Theatre Lab!

MUSIC: "Come Up to My Place" performed by Mandy Patinkin & Judy Blazer from Leonard Bernstein's New York - Nonesuch Records (1996), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green, from On the Town (1944)

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Distantly Social 15: Chris Klimek Mar 28, 2020

Chris Klimek has been socially distant for six weeks due to knee surgery and not even Twin Peaks makes sense anymore.

Apologies for the audio on this one, both of our internets were acting up.

MUSIC: "I'm Not Finished Yet" performed by Patricia Marand from It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams

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Distantly Social 14: Kevin Jaeger Mar 27, 2020

Kevin from Broadwaysted! is keeping busy uptown.

MUSIC: "Curtain Call" performed by Ben Fankhauser from Broadwaysted, Actually - Original Cast Album (2019), music by Ben Fankhauser, lyrics by Kevin Jaeger

Buy Broadwaysted, Actually on iTunes and support Broadway Bound Kids, a transformative and inclusive community that inspires and empowers young lives through the performing arts.

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Distantly Social 13: Don Mike Mendoza Mar 26, 2020

Don Mike Mendoza is here from La-Ti-Do talking about Pittsburgh, making money where possible, and #RacismIsAVirus.

MUSIC: "We're Gonna Be Alright" performed by Judy Kuhn & Malcolm Gets from Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel - Judy Kuhn (2015), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)

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Joanna McKee / Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) Mar 25, 2020

Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor respects the emotional implications of said facts. But, y'know, royalty!

Topics include: Frozen 2, Gleb, Starlight Express, Gleb, eating the rich, Gleb, disregarding history, and seriously what is up with Gleb?

Featured recordings: Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee (this episode) talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).

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Distantly Social 12: Tuesday with Robbie Mar 24, 2020

It's Tuesday and that means Robbie Rozelle and that means DISCO SONDHEIM!

MUSIC: "Megamix: Take Me to the World" performed by Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Joshua Hinck & Scott Wasserman (2020), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, additional music by Leonard Bernstein

Listen on Spotify and/or iTunes!

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Distantly Social 11: Alexandra Silber Mar 23, 2020

Al Silber wants you to be exactly like her cat.

MUSIC: "Matchmaker" performed by Alexandra Silber with Samantha Massell & Melanie Moore from Fiddler on the Roof - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

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Distantly Social 10: Sondheim90 Mar 22, 2020

It's Sondheim's 90th birthday!

Thanks to Jonah, Liz, Anna, Roddy, Heather, Bridget, Beth, Serena, Sam, Alex, Katherine, Farrell, Michael, Caroline, Sharon, Theresa, Qoc, Emily, Elisa, & Doug

music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964) :: "Me and My Town" - Angela Lansbury

Assassins - Original Cast Recording (1991) :: "The Ballad of Guiteau" - Jonathan Hadary : "Another National Anthem" - Eddie Korbich

Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) :: "Sorry-Grateful" - Charles Kimbrough, John Cunningham, George Coe, Steve Elmore

Follies - Original Broadway Cast (1971) :: "I'm Still Here" - Yvonne De Carlo

Into the Woods - Original Broadway Cast (1987) :: "Giants in the Sky" - Ben Wright : "Moments in the Woods" - Joanna Gleason : "Children Will Listen" - Bernadette Peters : "No One is Alone" - Chip Zein, Kim Crosby, Ben Wright, Danielle Ferland

A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) :: "A Weekend in the Country" - Victoria Mallory, D. Jamin-Barlett : "The Miller's Son" - D. Jamin-Barlett

Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) :: "Good Thing Going" - Lonny Price : "Opening Doors" - Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, Lonny Price, Sally Klein

Passion - 2013 New York Cast Recording (2013) :: "Loving You" - Judy Kuhn

Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast Recording (1985) :: "Finishing the Hat" - Mandy Patinkin : "Sunday in the Park with George" - Bernadette Peters : "Beautiful" - Mandy Patinkin & Barbara Bryne

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) :: "Kiss Me / Ladies in Their Sensitivities" - Sarah Rice, Victor Garber, Edmund Lyndeck, Jack Eric Williams

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original London Cast Last Night Live (1980) :: "Beggar Woman's Lullaby" - Dylis Watling

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Distantly Social 9: Catscast Mar 21, 2020

The first and last episode of the podcast Catscast with Kari & Patrick & Roddy.

MUSIC: "The Rum Tum Tugger" performed by Terrence V. Mann from Cats - Original Broadway Cast (1982), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by T. S. Eliot

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Distantly Social 8: Lauren Halvorsen Mar 20, 2020

Lauren Halvorsen talks cemetery walks and nothing else.

MUSIC: "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" performed by Paul Williams from Bugsy Malone - Original Soundtrack Album (1976), music and lyrics by Paul Williams

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Distantly Social 7: Danielle Mohlman Mar 19, 2020

Danielle Mohlman is a Seattle-based playwright and one of my favorite people. And she's here with tales of theatres doing the right thing.

MUSIC: "Try It and See" sung by Rita Pavone the B-side of her single "Till Tomorrow" (1969), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

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Alexandra Petri / Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960) Mar 18, 2020

Columnist, playwright, and the mind behind @KyloR3n is here for one of the most capital-M Musicals ever to grace the Broadway.

Topics include: unintentional weird, songs and book and when they don't meet, the unbearable heaviness of Alan Jay Lerner, and a 70-year-old musical that slaps.

Featured recordings: Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960)

NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 4, 2020 before any gathering restrictions were in place.

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).

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Distantly Social 6: Robbie Rozelle Mar 17, 2020

Robbie's here! 3 Act Musicals! Astoria, Queens! Office Trees!

MUSIC: "Try Me" sung by Nicholas Barasch from She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

Distantly Social 5: Farrell Parker Mar 16, 2020

Farrell Parker talks about New Jersey and tax prep!

MUSIC: "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" sung by Christopher Neil from Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron: 1919-1952 (1976), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

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Distantly Social 4: Alex Fossella Mar 15, 2020

It's the Broadway Baby himself: Alex Fossella is here to wildly speculate on what the trailer for the Hamilton movie will be like.

MUSIC: "Broadway Baby" sung by Daisy Eagan from Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 3: Roddy Flynn Mar 14, 2020

Roddy is here straight from the room where it* happened!

*Congress, not like, the room where the virus started. That'd be bananas.

MUSIC: "The Room Where It Happened" sung by Leslie Odo m Jr. from Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015), music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Distantly Social 2: Beth Amann Mar 13, 2020

Beth Amann (Wicked) is the Managing Director of the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Monumental. Their acclaimed production of Head Over Heels has been cut short by recent events. Also cheese boards.

MUSIC: "Mad About You" sung by Andrew Durand from Head Over Heels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018), music and lyrics by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan, Mitchel Young Evans

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Distantly Social 1: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt & Jay Schmidt Mar 13, 2020

I'm going to try and release 7 episodes a week during this time of social distancing where I talk to people in the theatre about what they're seeing and how they're doing.

First up: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk from uptown Manhattan.

MUSIC: "We Need a Little Christmas" sung by Angela Lansbury from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

Intermission: Movies Made Musical (w/ Jay Schmidt) Mar 11, 2020

People make movies and then musicals of those movies and some are not great. But some are transcendently good.

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).

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Chris Stinson / The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984) Mar 04, 2020

It's a play this week! No singing, no music, just words. Good words. Tom Stoppard words. And a great guest: Chris Stinson.

Topics include: nihilism, love, Cynthia Nixon doing two Broadway plays at once, and how Jeremy Irons's character may have led to Brexit.

Featured recordings: The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984)

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).

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Intermission: Don't Make Me Sing (w/ Eliza Berkon) Feb 26, 2020

I give you this guitar but only if you solemnly promise never to bring it to a party without being asked.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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Jenna Duncan / Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) Feb 19, 2020

Jenna is a director in DC (she directed my adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit) and is also the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at Olney Theatre Center. And she's here for a big hit that we all love and, actually, is a lot more layered than you may think.

Topics include: tradition, love, Thestrals, and the importance of stage presence.

Featured recordings: Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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Intermission: The Gardiner-Flynn Flop Test for Flops (w/ James Gardiner) Feb 12, 2020

Is it possible to mathematically determine whether or not a Broadway show is a flop?

Yes, it is.

We did it.

Yay!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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James Gardiner / Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) Feb 05, 2020

James is many things to many people. He's a performer, director, publicity director at Signature Theatre in DC, and also the book writer for the musical Glory Days which ran on Broadway for one performance in 2008. And he's here to talk about all those things as well as the best show ever written that doesn't work. Topics include: That Frank, book writing is hard, Glory Days (of course), and how what we lose in the fire we gain in the flood. Read Logan Culwell-Block's full Playbill article "22 Broadway Musicals That Closed on Opening Night" Featured recordings: Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) • Merrily We Roll Along - The New Cast Recording (!994) • Glory Days - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Intermission: POPular Music (w/ Nicole Hertvik) Jan 29, 2020

Did you know there were other kinds of music besides original cast recordings? Me neither.

Also, we talk about Cats.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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Serena Berman / Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968) Jan 22, 2020

Playwright/actress Serena Berman has finally brought us the landmark "bookless" musical Hair.

Topics include: free love, the Starbucks-itization of hippies, drugs, the power of revivals for a new generation, and the anxiety of having a good time.

Featured recordings: Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968)

Listen to Serena's play Apocalypse Air BnB on Flying V's Paperless Pulp podcast series!

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Robbie Rozelle (Mame) talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, accurately entitled: Original Cast Album: Company (1971).

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Intermission: What Theatre Can Do (w/ Adam Gwon) Jan 15, 2020

A snippet from my conversation with composer/lyricist Adam Gwon (Scotland, PA, Ordinary Days) about the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of theatre.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Robbie Rozelle (Mame) talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, accurately entitled: Original Cast Album: Company (1971).__Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Broadwaysted! / Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast (1985) Jan 08, 2020

It's a big one to kick off the year! Bryan Plofsky and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt of the official Broadwaysted! podcast (where they're drunk on theatre) are here for a big musical that two of us love and one of us also loves but not as much as the first two which is fine but not really because this is the best musical ever.

Topics include: anti-heroes, shows that hold you at arms-length, Fosse/Verdon, and the Mandy of it all.

Featured recordings: Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast (1985)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Robbie Rozelle (Mame) talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, accurately entitled: Original Cast Album: Company (1971).

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Intermission: The Best Shows to Perform Without Air Conditioning (w/ Caroline Dubberly) Jan 01, 2020

Here's a silly one to kick-off 2020. The title says it all. Well, not ALL. If it said it ALL then you wouldn't need the 9-minute episode, you'd just need the title.

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Robbie Rozelle (Mame) talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, accurately entitled: Original Cast Album: Company (1971).

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The Original Cast at the Movies 24.1: Original Cast Album: Co-op (2019) Dec 27, 2019

Still don't know whether or not to become a Patreon patron of The Original Cast? Well, you should. But if you're on the fence, here's Robbie Rozelle and I giving you a sample as we dissect the "Original Cast Album: Co-op" episode of Documentary Now!. This month's patrons-only episode of The Original Cast at the Movies features Robbie & I talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, accurately entitled: Original Cast Album: Company (1971), which is parodied in this Documentary Now! episode. #Synnergy The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information! Go to http://bit.ly/originalcaststore for ORIGINAL CAST MERCHANDISE! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

What is Love Actually? Dec 25, 2019

It's Saturnalia! So here's the pilot episode of a podcast Beth Amann and I created called What is Love Actually?!

What is Love Actually? Is it a simple romantic Christmas movie or is it a horrible mistake that actually killed the rom com? Well, that's what Beth Amann and Patrick Flynn are here to find out.

We're kicking it off with Solomon Parker III and Josh Simon, two millennials that have never seen Love Actually before. What will they think? What will they feel? How great were the cheese plates Beth made for the screening? You'll learn the answers to the first two questions during the episode and the third right now: they were amazing.

Send your feedback to loveactuallypod@gmail.com!

The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information!

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies!This month it's Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no. It's All That Jazz (1979)!

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Jay Schmidt / The Full Monty - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) Dec 18, 2019

Jay is a stand-up, actor, co-host of pReview'd, co-host of Broadway Baby and is here for this David Yazbek adaptation of the Academy Award-nominated film about working-class male strippers.

Topics include: overtures, Ithica graduates, hard moments in tech, and the hardest a stranger has ever seen Jay cry.

Featured recordings: The Full Monty - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Jesus Christ Superstar - A Rock Opera (1970)

The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information!

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies!This month it's Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no. It's All That Jazz (1979)!

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Intervalle: Les fantômes de l'opéra (avec Angela Kay Pirko) Dec 11, 2019

Saviez-vous qu’il existe de très nombreuses adaptations du roman de Gaston Leroux, Le Fantôme de l’opéra? Eh bien, il y en a. Et nous discutons de certains d'entre eux. (Toutes mes excuses à tous les auditeurs francophones.) Featured recording: Phantom - American Premiere Recording (1991) The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information! Go to http://bit.ly/originalcaststore for ORIGINAL CAST MERCHANDISE! Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies!This month it's Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no. It's All That Jazz (1979)! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Kevin Winkler / Sweet Charity - Original Broadway Cast (1966) Dec 04, 2019

Kevin is the author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical (now in paperback!) and is here for the first "Fosse" musical.

Topics include: filming dance, grandmom Gwen Verdon, the Church-of-the-Month Club, and finding Fosse in Oklahoma in the '60s.

Featured recording: Sweet Charity - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information!

Go to http://bit.ly/originalcaststore for ORIGINAL CAST MERCHANDISE!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies!This month it's Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no. It's All That Jazz (1979)!

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A Message from the Children Nov 29, 2019

Patrick's children have a very important message for you.

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The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies!This month it's Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no. It's All That Jazz (1979)!

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Musicals Based on Comics: Live from Flying V Awesome-a-Thon Vol. 3! Nov 27, 2019

Did you know there were musicals based on comics (besides Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark)? Well, we explore them and their impact in this wonderful live show from Flying V Theatre's Awesome-a-Thon Vol. 3, their annual 24-hour fundraiser.

Featuring Chris Klimek's point of view and the heavenly voices of Kari Ginsburg, Don Mike Mendoza, and Anna Grace Nowalk with Heather Hurley on piano.

Also: Patrick sings and plays guitar and talks and there's a slideshow you can't see because you weren't there but can see but you can follow along with if you go to this LINK!

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Songs:

0:00:00 “Holy Musical, B@man!” from Holy Musical, B@man! · performed by Patrick, Kari, Don Mike, & Anna · music and lyrics by Nick Gage & Scott Lamps

0:08:40 “Pulled” from The Addams Family · performed by Anna · music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa

0:16:15 “The Boy from...” from The Mad Show · performed by Don Mike · music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

0:33:30 “Days” from Fun Home · performed by Kari · music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Lisa Kron

0:49:48 “Magneto and Titanium Man” · performed by Patrick with Kari, Don Mike, & Anna · music and lyrics by Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney

0:56:20 “Just One Night” from Doonesbury · performed by Anna & Don Mike · music by Elizabeth Swados, lyrics by Garry Trudeau

1:03:15 “The Doctor is In” from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown · performed by Kari & Patrick · music and lyrics by Clark Gesner

Recorded live on April 14, 2019 in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Intermission: Go See Love Letters! (w/ Christina A. Coakley) Nov 20, 2019

Have you seen Love Letters? You should see Love Letters. It's a play. And a perfectly cromulent one.

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month it's Chris Klimek (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line) talking about the greatest movie Prince ever made: Purple Rain (1984)!

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Gabriel Barre / Rags - A New American Musical (1991) Nov 13, 2019

Tony-nominated actor (Starmites) and director (Amazing Grace, Lippa's The Wild Party) Gabriel Barre is our first guest to be in the original Broadway cast of the show we're discussing, and you will soon see why. Rags famously ran for 4 performances on Broadway but nevertheless was nominated for 5 Tony awards and has survived through the years due to staunch advocation by its devoted fans and creators.

Topics include: opening in Boston without a director, learning on the job, John & Jen, and (to the delight of at least one of you) Starmites.

Featured recordings: Rags - A New American Musical (1991) • Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) • John & Jen - Original Cast Recording (1996)

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month it's Chris Klimek (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line) talking about the greatest movie Prince ever made: Purple Rain (1984)!

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Intermission: Stro (w/ Courtney Laine Self) Nov 06, 2019

Courtney worked with Susan Stroman. So we talk about Susan Stroman. A lot! With that good Courtney/Patrick energy!

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month it's Chris Klimek (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line) talking about the greatest movie Prince ever made: Purple Rain (1984)!

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Adam Gwon / Das Barbecü - Original Cast Recording (1994) Oct 30, 2019

Composer/lyricist Adam Gwon is here for a western adaptation of Wagner's The Ring Cycle and to talk about his new musical Scotland, PA which is based on an early-aughts indy film that adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth into a story about competing burger joints in 1970's rural Pennsylvania.

What a sentence!

Topics include: finding your path, changing your path, living that new path, and making guacamole.

Featured recordings: Das Barbecü - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Ordinary Days - Original Cast Recording (2009)

There is also a demo recording of "Byron" from The Waves, music and lyrics by David Bucknam, performed by Raúl Esparza with Matt Aument on piano.

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got journalist/radio personality Chris Klimek (It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!) and journalist/actress Rachel Manteuffel (Annie, maybe?) talking Prince's first movie: Purple Rain (1984)!

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Intermission: Licence to Play (w/ Garrett Anderson) Oct 23, 2019

Did I ever tell you about the time I co-produced a production of Grease! and it turned out we didn't have the rights?

By the way, the The Simpsons episode I reference is "Jaws Wired Shut" (s13e09).

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)!

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Nicole Hertvik / Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010) Oct 16, 2019

DC Metro Theater Arts editor and publisher Nicole Hertvick is here for an emo telling of the 7th President of the United State's rise to power that fully commits to its premise.

Topics include: Emo, Spring Awakening, the Trail of Tears, and (somehow) Cats. We talk about Cats for a minute. And I don't remember how we got there but there it is: Cats.

CONTENT WARNING: Some of the songs in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson employ some of the seven words you cannot say on television and so may not suit your current listening situation.

Featured recordings: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2014) and Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)!

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Intermission: Gypsy, Follies, & Two Gentlemen (w/ Douglas J. Cohen) Oct 09, 2019

Doug and I do a lot of great musical theatre back-and-forth but really you just need to read this line from Dorothy Rodgers (wife to Richard, mother to Mary) New York Times obituary: "Mrs. Rodgers founded Repairs Inc., an agency that hired craftsmen to repair broken objects, in 1935 and was its head until 1941. In 1945 she patented the Jonny Mop, which was sold by Johnson & Johnson. It was one of several inventions. In 1958 she created the Basically Yours dress pattern for McCall's, and in 1972 she patented the Turn and Learn storybooks, sold by the Ideal Toy Company."

Seriously!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)!

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Caroline Dubberly / Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Broadway Cast Album (2014) Oct 02, 2019

**TRIGGER WARNING** The episode contains frank discussions of sexual assault and stalker behavior.

Caroline Dubberly is here for a show about the dichotomy of existence, the destructiveness of revenge, the cycle of abuse, and the power of self-love.

Topics include: the origin of love, the power of tattoos, and the hymns that get us through.

Featured recordings: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Broadway Cast Album (2014)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (this episode) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)!

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Intermission: Getting Married on CBS (w/ Alexandra Silber) Sep 25, 2019

Doubling up on Al Silber with portions of last week's interview that were edited for time. This episode will also dovetail nicely into next week's episode on Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Synergy! Here's a link to the Tonys performance Al mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j661y6KwYA Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Alexandra Silber / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) Sep 18, 2019

Actor and author Alexandra Silber is currently appearing as Fraulein Sally Bowles in Olney Theatre Center's production of Cabaret. But she's here this week to talk about this beautiful Lucy Simon/Marsha Norman musical and so much more. Really, we get deep.__Topics include: living with grief, communing with nature, and the glory of Rebecca Luker.

Buy Alexandra's memoir White Hot Grief Parade and her novel After Anatevka. Both titles are also available on Audible read by Al herself!

Featured recordings: The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? August's episode has Married super-cool duo Lee Liebeskind (Spring Awakening) and Megan Reichelt (The Scarlet Pimpernel) join Patrick and his super-cool ladywife Kelley to talk about The Muppet Movie (1979) the super-coolest movie of all time. Seriously, it's so good you guys.

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Intermission: Dad Guilt (w/ Eliza Berkon) Sep 11, 2019

How can you have a family and do theatre and be a good parent and not feel guilty? . . . You probably can't.

On Saturday, September 14 at the Rockville Town Center, DC Actors for Animals will present Beltway Barks where the theatre and animal rescue communities come together to save lives! They'll have around 40 animals for adoption there that day, as well as awesome pet vendors with toys, treats, gear, as well as trainers and veterinarian services. You'll also see award-winning DC actors perform musical numbers from some of the best theatres in town as we kick off the DC Metro area's 2019-2020 theatre season. Go to www.dcactorsforanimals.com for more details.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? August's episode has Married super-cool duo Lee Liebeskind (Spring Awakening) and Megan Reichelt (The Scarlet Pimpernel) join Patrick and his super-cool ladywife Kelley to talk about The Muppet Movie (1979) the super-coolest movie of all time. Seriously, it's so good you guys.

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Angela Kay Pirko / The Phantom of the Opera - The Original Cast Recording (1986) Sep 04, 2019

We all knew this day would come.

Director Angie Pirko and Patrick take a long walk off the longest-running Broadway musical to see if there's any there there.

Topics include: Christine is a good person, the Cameron Mackintosh of it all, is Raoul an idiot, this show is garbage, and we're here for it anyway.

Programming note: This episode was recorded the day before Harold Prince died.

Featured recordings: The Phantom of the Opera - The Original Cast Recording (1986) • Bad - Michael Jackson (1987) • Il Mito Dell'Opera: Studio Recordings, 1905-1975 - Daniele Barioni (2008) • Meddle - Pink Floyd (1971)

On Saturday, September 14 at the Rockville Town Center, DC Actors for Animals will present Beltway Barks where the theatre and animal rescue communities come together to save lives! They'll have around 40 animals for adoption there that day, as well as awesome pet vendors with toys, treats, gear, as well as trainers and veterinarian services. You'll also see award-winning DC actors perform musical numbers from some of the best theatres in town as we kick off the DC Metro area's 2019-2020 theatre season. Go to www.dcactorsforanimals.com for more details.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? August's episode has Married super-cool duo Lee Liebeskind (Spring Awakening) and Megan Reichelt (The Scarlet Pimpernel) join Patrick and his super-cool ladywife Kelley to talk about The Muppet Movie (1979) the super-coolest movie of all time. Seriously, it's so good you guys.

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Intermission: What She Said Aug 28, 2019

Nicole Hertvik from the incomparable DC Metro Theatre Arts interviews Patrick and Michelle Polera about their new show What She Said which can be seen this Friday at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival.

WHAT SHE SAID performance details here.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? August's episode has Married super-cool duo Lee Liebeskind (Spring Awakening) and Megan Reichelt (The Scarlet Pimpernel) join Patrick and his super-cool ladywife Kelley to talk about The Muppet Movie (1979) the super-coolest movie of all time. Seriously, it's so good you guys.

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Christina A. Coakley / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Aug 21, 2019

Director Christina A. Coakley is here for this beautiful but little-known show from the team that brought you Ragtime about a closeted man in 1960s Dublin.

Topics include: Roger Rees, Faith Prince, Fun Home, when Ireland legalized divorce, and if one can buy a T-shirt that says "Benny was right."

Featured recording: A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? July's episode has James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha 1968) talking about the 2007 film Once which is the basis for the 2013 Broadway musical Once. Funny how that works.

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Intermission: Designs and Designing (w/ Heather C. Jackson) Aug 14, 2019

Heather is a costume designer. So we talked a lot about designing and designers and notes and all that good stuff.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? July's episode has James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha 1968) talking about the 2007 film Once which is the basis for the 2013 Broadway musical Once. Funny how that works.

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Rick Westerkamp / Applause - Original Cast Recording (1970) Aug 07, 2019

Actor/teacher Rick Westerkamp is here for the last Best Musical Tony-winner before Company based on one of the most Academy Award-winning films ever made starring an actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood. And I bet you've never heard it.

Topics include: Seeing Cabaret at 9-years-old, Turkey Lurky Time, the joys of the chorus, and whether or not Katharine Hepburn can sing (you be the judge!).

Featured recordings: Applause - Original Cast Recording (1970) • Coco - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1970)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? July's episode has James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha 1968) talking about the 2007 film Once which is the basis for the 2013 Broadway musical Once. Funny how that works.

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Elegy: Hal Prince Jul 31, 2019

Harold Smith Prince

30 January 1928 - 31 July 2019

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Intermission: Design, Composition, Tension, Balance, Light, & Harmony (w/ Robbie Rozelle) Jul 31, 2019

Robbie is the A&R Director and in-house designer for Grammy-winning record label Broadway Records. So he has a lot to say about design. Patrick wrote a book about visual literacy. So he has a lot to say about design. Here's some of what they said together.

This episode was recorded at Broadway Records. Go to BroadwayRecords.com to view and shop from their extensive catalog of cast albums, solo albums, and live recordings.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? July's episode has James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha 1968) talking about the 2007 film Once which is the basis for the 2013 Broadway musical Once. Funny how that works.

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Garrett Anderson / 35MM - Original Cast Recording (2012) Jul 24, 2019

Samuel French literary manager Garrett Anderson is here for this Ryan Scott Oliver song cycle which, coincidentally, is available through Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company. Funny how that works.

Topics include: literary management, management of literature, song cycles vs. cycles of songs, and a really great table.

Broadway World article containing some of the photos used in the piece.

Featured recordings: 35MM - Original Cast Recording (2012)

Tinker Bell by Patrick Flynn now available for license and purchase through Dramatic Publishing!

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? June's episode features Eliza Berkon (Godspell 1973) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) discussing the Spice Girls' feature film Spice World (1997) just in time for summer!

Intermission: Superman Cheated (w/ Chris Klimek) Jul 17, 2019

Good morning, Mr. & Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. FLASH! Journalist Chris Klimek thinks Superman CHEATED!

Featured recordings: Superman: The Movie - Original Sound Track (1979) • Dragnet - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? June's episode features Eliza Berkon (Godspell 1973) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) discussing the Spice Girls' feature film Spice World (1997) just in time for summer!

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Alex Fossella / Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) Jul 10, 2019

Comedian and the Broadway Baby himself Alex Fossella is here for mainly a talk about Waitress. But we also talk about Hamilton, Rent, Sunday in the Park with George, Carousel, and other random things that cross the transom of our mutual minds.

Topics include: problematic subplots, over-respect for source material, awkward sex scenes in musicals, and metaphors and the people who use them.

Featured recordings: Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) • What's Inside: Songs from Waitress - Sara Bareilles (2015) • Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996) • Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast Recording (1984)

This episode was recorded at Broadway Records. Go to BroadwayRecords.com to view and shop from their extensive catalog of cast albums, solo albums, and live recordings.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? June's episode features Eliza Berkon (Godspell 1973) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) discussing the Spice Girls' feature film Spice World (1997) just in time for summer!

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Intermission: Solo Saxophones and God (w/ Laura Esti Miller) Jul 03, 2019

Laura Esti Miller and Patrick talk about seeing the same show 20 years later.

Featured recordings: Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? June's episode features Eliza Berkon (Godspell 1973) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) discussing the Spice Girls' feature film Spice World (1997) just in time for summer!

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Bryan Plofsky / Seussical - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) Jun 26, 2019

The Official Broadwaysted! Podcast's Bryan Plofsky says what he says and means what he meant. And he likes this musical one thousand percent!

Topics include: Eric Idle, being better than you need to be, and who is the host of this podcast, anyway?

Featured recordings: Suessical - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998)

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Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? May's episode features Eric Messner (The Who's Tommy) and Emily Zickler (Sweeney Todd, et al.) discussing The Monkees' feature film Head (1968) written by Jack Nicholson. Any more details would make no sense.

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Intermission: The Evolution of the Canon of the American Musical Theatre, 1928-2011 (w/ Courtney Laine Self) Jun 19, 2019

Anyone who has spent time with myself and Courtney knows that we can talk. And we like to talk about American musical theatre and debate about knows more. (Spoiler alert: I do.)

Ready to put the work in artwork? Check out friend of the podcast Danielle Mohlman’s online interactive series Crafting Your Artistic Handbook. By the end of this six-week class, you’ll have: a set of rituals geared toward ongoing artistic growth, an accountability process designed to help you reach your goals, and a sustainable documentation method designed to grow and change as you do. Register and learn more at bit.ly/originalcastfriend. Use the code ORIGINAL at checkout for 20% off.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? May's episode features Eric Messner (The Who's Tommy) and Emily Zickler (Sweeney Todd, et al.) discussing The Monkees' feature film Head (1968) written by Jack Nicholson. Any more details would make no sense.

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Bonnie Milligan / Thoroughly Modern Millie - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2002) Jun 12, 2019

Broadway's Belting Bonnie herself is here to talk about the show that put Sutton Foster on the map in a big way.

Topics include: Michigan one-light towns, Out of Town vs. Previews, stage door madness, and tap-dancing elevators.

Featured recordings: Thoroughly Modern Millie - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2002) • A Gilbert & Sullivan Gallery - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (1993) • Head Over Heels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018)

Ready to put the work in artwork? Check out friend of the podcast Danielle Mohlman’s online interactive series Crafting Your Artistic Handbook. By the end of this six-week class, you’ll have: a set of rituals geared toward ongoing artistic growth, an accountability process designed to help you reach your goals, and a sustainable documentation method designed to grow and change as you do. Register and learn more at bit.ly/originalcastfriend. Use the code ORIGINAL at checkout for 20% off.

This episode was recorded at Broadway Records. Go to BroadwayRecords.com to view and shop from their extensive catalog of cast albums, solo albums, and live recordings.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? May's episode features Eric Messner (The Who's Tommy) and Emily Zickler (Sweeney Todd, et al.) discussing The Monkees' feature film Head (1968) written by Jack Nicholson. Any more details would make no sense.

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IT'S THE 2019 TONYS!!!! Jun 05, 2019

The Tony Awards are this Sunday! So we've got Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado, Do I Hear a Waltz?, It's the Tonys!) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, It's the Tonys!, It's the Tonys!!, It's the Tonys!!!) and the essence of Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, It's the Tonys!!, It's the Tonys!!!) here to talk about the TONYS!!!!

We go through the nominees, talk about this year in theatre, and predict our winners.

Topics include: Is it the right year for a musical version of Tootsie? Did the old guard keep Be More Chill out? Was Ben Brantley's King Kong review wonderful or a complete abdication of professional responsibility on the part of The New York Times? How old does Roddy think Cher and Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton are? And does Don Mike need any of this?

Featured recording: 2019 Tony Award Season - Broadway Records (2019)

Ready to put the work in artwork? Check out friend of the podcast Danielle Mohlman’s online interactive series Crafting Your Artistic Handbook. By the end of this six-week class, you’ll have: a set of rituals geared toward ongoing artistic growth, an accountability process designed to help you reach your goals, and a sustainable documentation method designed to grow and change as you do. Register and learn more at bit.ly/originalcastfriend. Use the code ORIGINAL at checkout for 20% off.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? May's episode features Eric Messner (The Who's Tommy) and Emily Zickler (Sweeney Todd, et al.) discussing The Monkees' feature film Head (1968) written by Jack Nicholson. Any more details would make no sense.

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Intermission: 1984! The Musical! (w/ Robyn Rikoon) May 29, 2019

Did you know that Jonathan Larson wrote a musical version of George Orwell's 1984? Neither did Patrick. But Robyn did.

Featured recordings: The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? April's episode has perennial favorites Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) talking Yentl (1983), Barbara Streisand's epic story about a woman pretending to be a man so she can study the Talmud and sing alone in the woods with candles.

Get tickets for Tinker Bell by Patrick Flynn now playing at First Stage Milwaukee!!

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Kevin Jaeger / Bare - The Album (2008) May 22, 2019

From the official Broadwaysted podcast, it's writer-man Kevin Jaeger who's here for a Zeitler pop opera about a gay couple in a Catholic boarding school. As you might imagine there is very little conflict or angst and everyone is happy through the whole show and it definitely doesn't end with a GHB overdose suicide during a performance of Romeo and Juliet.

Topics include: Catholic school, over-writing, under-writing, bullying, and EMOTIONS.

Featured recordings: Bare - The Album (2008)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? April's episode has perennial favorites Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) talking Yentl (1983), Barbara Streisand's epic story about a woman pretending to be a man so she can study the Talmud and sing alone in the woods with candles.

Get tickets for Tinker Bell by Patrick Flynn now playing at First Stage Milwaukee!!

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Intermission: A Lovely Chat with Kurt Peterson, Producer of 'Sondheim: A Musical Tribute' May 15, 2019

I was very lucky to have the chance to chat with Kurt Peterson who produced Sondheim: A Musical Tribute and was in the original Broadway cast of Follies (1971). Kurt spills some tea on how the first Sondheim tribute came together, talks about his plans for the upcoming 50th anniversary, and what it was like to be in Follies before it was considered a classic of American musical theatre. You can learn more about Kurt and his work at his website: James Williams Productions Dot Com.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? April's episode has perennial favorites Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) talking Yentl (1983), Barbara Streisand's epic story about a woman pretending to be a man so she can study the Talmud and sing alone in the woods with candles.

Get tickets for Tinker Bell by Patrick Flynn now playing at First Stage Milwaukee!!

In a digital age where people are being cast based on their social media following and shows are transferring to Broadway after trending and building their audience online, it's time you learned from leading experts how to effectively promote yourself and your show. At Promote U! you'll get practical, hands-on advice from leading experts on a range of topics, including Creating Your Branding Toolkit, How to Use Social Media to Gain Loyal Fans, Creating a Website That Tells & Sells Your Story, and more! The Original Cast fans can use the code ORIGINAL19 to get your ticket to Promote U for $297 (reg. $597)!

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Douglas J. Cohen / Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973) May 08, 2019

Composer/lyricist (and former subject of this podcast), Doug Cohen is here for the first ever Sondheim tribute.

Topics include: cut songs, Ethel Merman, Sondheim's singing voice, the glorious Nancy Walker, and drowning your babies.

Featured recordings: Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973) • Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall - Stephen Sondheim (1992) • Random Access Memories - Daft Punk (2013)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? April's episode has perennial favorites Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) talking Yentl (1983), Barbara Streisand's epic story about a woman pretending to be a man so she can study the Talmud and sing alone in the woods with candles.

Get tickets for Tinker Bell by Patrick Flynn now playing at First Stage Milwaukee!!

In a digital age where people are being cast based on their social media following and shows are transferring to Broadway after trending and building their audience online, it's time you learned from leading experts how to effectively promote yourself and your show. At Promote U! you'll get practical, hands-on advice from leading experts on a range of topics, including Creating Your Branding Toolkit, How to Use Social Media to Gain Loyal Fans, Creating a Website That Tells & Sells Your Story, and more! The Original Cast fans can use the code ORIGINAL19 to get your ticket to Promote U for $297 (reg. $597)!

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Special Interview! 'Caroline, or Change' at the Astoria Performing Arts Center May 01, 2019

Jeanine Tesori & Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change opens tomorrow at Astoria Performing Arts Center. Patrick speaks with Dev Bondarin (director and APAC's Artistic Director) and leading actress LaDonna Burns (Caroline) about the show, their process, and why this is a show more people should be doing.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? April's episode has perennial favorites Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) talking Yentl (1983), Barbara Streisand's epic story about a woman pretending to be a man so she can study the Talmud and sing alone in the woods with candles.

Get tickets for Tinker Bell by Patrick Flynn now playing at First Stage Milwaukee!!

In a digital age where people are being cast based on their social media following and shows are transferring to Broadway after trending and building their audience online, it's time you learned from leading experts how to effectively promote yourself and your show. At Promote U! you'll get practical, hands-on advice from leading experts on a range of topics, including Creating Your Branding Toolkit, How to Use Social Media to Gain Loyal Fans, Creating a Website That Tells & Sells Your Story, and more! The Original Cast fans can use the code ORIGINAL19 to get your ticket to Promote U for $297 (reg. $597)!

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Ken Davenport / The Goodbye Girl - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1993) Apr 24, 2019

Ken Davenport is a Tony Award-winning producer (Kinky Boots), podcaster, and entrepreneur and he's here to talk about a show that had all the ingredients of a hit but just . . . wasn't. He also tells us one thing he wished everyone knew about producers.

Topics include: knowing a show isn't working, 2nd-Acting-musicals, Falsettos, Falsettoland, March of the Falsettos, Tower Records, and Bobby Lopez.

Featured recordings: The Goodbye Girl - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1993) • A Class Act - Original Cast Recording (2001)

In a digital age where people are being cast based on their social media following and shows are transferring to Broadway after trending and building their audience online, it's time you learned from leading experts how to effectively promote yourself and your show. At Promote U! you'll get practical, hands-on advice from leading experts on a range of topics, including Creating Your Branding Toolkit, How to Use Social Media to Gain Loyal Fans, Creating a Website That Tells & Sells Your Story, and more! The Original Cast fans can use the code ORIGINAL19 to get your ticket to Promote U for $297 (reg. $597)!

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? March's episode has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) talking about The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), Dr. Suess's movie for everyone who hated piano lessons.

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Intermission: Title of Song (w/ Robbie Rozelle) Apr 17, 2019

Some musicals have title songs and we cover a bunch: good, bad, and in-between.

Featured recordings: Hello, Dolly! - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1984) • Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) • La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983)

LIVE SHOW! Sunday, April 14, 12:00pm at the Flying V Awesome-a-Thon in Bethesda, MD! Our theme this time out is "Musicals Based on Comics!" Go to UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.

This episode was recorded at Broadway Records. Go to BroadwayRecords.com to view and shop from their extensive catalog of cast albums, solo albums, and live recordings.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? March's episode has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) talking about The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), Dr. Suess's movie for everyone who hated piano lessons.

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Joshua Morgan / Into the Woods - Original Cast Recording (1987) Apr 10, 2019

Straight from Broadway's Imperial Theatre and Ain't Too Proud it's Joshua Morgan, Patrick's newest brother from another mother, here to talk about the Shakespeare of musical theatre and his classic work.

Topics include: Bombay Dreams, Sondheim Divas, 3rd weddings, the incomparable Joanna Gleason, and stage dooring John McMartin.

Featured recordings: Into the Woods - Original Cast Recording (1987) • Bombay Dreams - Original London Cast Recording (2002) • Pacific Overtures - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1976)

LIVE SHOW! Sunday, April 14, 12:00pm at the Flying V Awesome-a-Thon in Bethesda, MD! Our theme this time out is "Musicals Based on Comics!" Go to UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.

This episode was recorded at Broadway Records. Go to BroadwayRecords.com to view and shop from their extensive catalog of cast albums, solo albums, and live recordings.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? March's episode has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) talking about The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), Dr. Suess's movie for everyone who hated piano lessons.

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Intermission: Bootlegs (w/ Kimberly Cooper Schmidt) Apr 03, 2019

Kimberly and Patrick start out talking about My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center and end up talking about Be More Chill by way of the time Patrick went to an Arctic Monkeys show and Matt Helders wore a Go-Pro.

LIVE SHOW! Sunday, April 14, 12:00pm at the Flying V Awesome-a-Thon in Bethesda, MD! Our theme this time out is "Musicals Based on Comics!" Go to UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? March's episode has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) talking about The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), Dr. Suess's movie for everyone who hated piano lessons.

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Eliza Berkon / Godspell - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1973) Mar 27, 2019

Journalist/broadcaster/singer Eliza Berkon is here for a musical another show I can't believe took this long to come up.

Topics include: singing through braces, having a table dropped on your foot during a show, and ELIZA WAS ON THE SING-OFF OH MY GOD I'M FREAKING OUT!

Click here to listen to samples of Eliza's radio show Formative Tracks on Apple Podcasts.

Featured recordings: Godspell - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1973) • The Sing-Off - Season 3: Episode 3 - Current Hits & 60's Favorites (2011)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? March's episode has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) talking about The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), Dr. Suess's movie for everyone who hated piano lessons.

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Intermission: Problematic - The Musical (w/ Don Mike Mendoza) Mar 20, 2019

Golden-age musicals are problematic. Even the ones you don't think are problematic are problematic.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? February's episode features Lauren Halvorsen (The Wild Party) and Kenny Neal (Starlight Express) talking about Bugsy Malone (1976) which is like the Little Rascals doing GoodFellas to the Xanadu soundtrack.

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Mary Myers / Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1996) Mar 13, 2019

It's our THREE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY so we've got a big episode with a big guest talking about a small show that has big ideas about small moments and long songs. Very long songs. So very, very long, these songs.

Topics include: Man 2 is the worst, Mic time for sad white men, why these songs are so long, why are all Man 1's songs gospel-infused, Woman 2's agency, Woman 1's agency, JRB's guest vocalizing Catholic School, and why Billy Porter isn't on this album.

Suport Mary's Kickstarter to send her and Marx in Soho to Edinburgh Fringe!

Featured recordings: Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1996) • Class Clown - George Carlin (1972)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? February's episode features Lauren Halvorsen (The Wild Party) and Kenny Neal (Starlight Express) talking about Bugsy Malone (1976) which is like the Little Rascals doing GoodFellas to the Xanadu soundtrack.

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Intermission: Ragtime - The Book (w/ Elliot Dash) Mar 06, 2019

Before it was a Flaherty/Ahrens/McNally musical, Ragtime was a Miloš Forman movie.

And before that, it was a novel by E.L. Doctorow.

And before that, some of the characters were real people.

And before that, some of those real people were real babies.

We don't go back that far.

Featured recordings: Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? February's episode features Lauren Halvorsen (The Wild Party) and Kenny Neal (Starlight Express) talking about Bugsy Malone (1976) which is like the Little Rascals doing GoodFellas to the Xanadu soundtrack.

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Rachel Barlaam / Legally Blonde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007) Feb 27, 2019

Rachel is here for a show about exceeding your expectations that maybe doesn't exceed Patrick's expectations (or does it?).

Topics include: Challenging roles, Pippin, the joys of singing high, and the unattainable awesomeness of Jessica Vosk. Also Mean Girls.

Link to the Broadway Backstory podcast episode on Legally Blonde Patrick mentions.

Featured recordings: Legally Blonde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado ; Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997).

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Special Interview!: Douglas J. Cohen and Dan Elish's New Musical 'The Evolution of Mann' Feb 20, 2019

Composer/lyricist Douglas J. Cohen (No Way to Treat a Lady) and librettist/lyricist/novelist Dan Elish (13) are here for a phone interview with Patrick about the newly released cast album for their show The Evolution of Mann.

Patreons of The Original Cast can download a free mp3 of the song "What's the Matter with Henry?" from The Evolution of Mann right now.

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Featured recordings: The Evolution of Mann - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2019)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado ; Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997).

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Laura Esti Miller / Jekyll & Hyde - The Complete Work (1995) Feb 13, 2019

We've got a dramaturg to talk about a musical that really could've used a dramaturg. A musical with more concept albums (5) than actual cast albums (1), the last one released fifteen (15) years after it opened on Broadway. A mega(?)- hit from American musical theatre's Saleri: Frank Wildhorn.

Topics include: Laura & Patrick's unironic love of this show, Laura & Patrick's ironic love of this show, Patrick's Colm Wilkinson impression, What Jekyll & Hyde thinks it's about, and What Jekyll & Hyde is actually about.

Featured recordings: Jekyll & Hyde - The Complete Work (1995) • Jekyll & Hyde - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - The 1986 Studio Demo Recording (1986) • Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1991)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado : Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997).

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Intermission: Baby Meets Chess (w/ Broadway Baby Podcast) Feb 06, 2019

Patrick is a guest this week on the wonderful Broadway Baby Podcast talking about Chess (shocker). Here's a snippet of the episode to whet your appetite.

The full episode is available HERE.

Enjoy!

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado ; Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997).

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Anna Grace Nowalk / Beauty and the Beast - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1994) Jan 30, 2019

While our topic is ostensibly the first Disney Broadway musical (and, as of this release, 10th longest running show in Broadway history), Anna and Patrick spend most of this episode on being a young actor and how one gets started in this business at such a young age. Topics include: Social Anxiety in theatre, Young Cossette, and is the Enchantress the real villain of this story? Featured recordings: Beauty and the Beast - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1994) • Beauty and the Beast - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1991) Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado ; Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Intermission: Hope Theory (w/ Tia Shearer Bassett) Jan 23, 2019

Did you know you could major in "Hope Theory?" Did you know "Hope Theory" was a thing? Patrick didn't.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado / Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997).

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Heather C. Jackson / She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016) Jan 16, 2019

Costume designer Heather C. Jackson is here to talk about one of the best musicals ever. Not that anyone’s ranking. But if we did, this would be high on the list. But we’re not ranking. (Like, high high.)

Topics include: Romantic atmosphere, (The Queen) Judy Kuhn (long may she reign), and how someone tries to kill themselves 20 minutes from the end of Act I & we don’t learn their fate until the top of Act II. Also Patrick forgets names a lot in this episode. Like, a lot.

Featured recordings: She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? December's episode features Emma Jackson (Brigadoon 1990) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line 1975) talking about the holiday classic: White Christmas (1954).

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Intermission: High School Theatre (w/ Emma Jackson) Jan 09, 2019

We were all in high school (some of you, statistically, still are), we all did theatre in high school (some of you, statistically, still do), we all had a tap solo sophomore year in Funny Girl that probably should've been cut but we can still do on command 23 years later . . . just me? We talk about all that.

Also parenting.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? December's episode features Emma Jackson (Brigadoon 1990) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line 1975) talking about the holiday classic: White Christmas (1954).

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Katherine Riddle / Les Misérables - The Complete Symphonic Recording (1989) Jan 02, 2019

Actor/singer/teacher Katherine Riddle is here for our third Les Miz episode covering the 3-disc, complete recording. Katherine has played Cossette twice and has some interesting insights into that most maligned of ingenues.

Topics include: How much stage time does Cossette actually have? Cossette v. Eponine: Who is least annoying? Is Cossette's name sung more times than the character has lines?

Featured recordings: Les Misérables - The Complete Symphonic Recording (1989)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? December's episode features Emma Jackson (Brigadoon 1990) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line 1975) talking about the holiday classic: White Christmas (1954).

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BONUS! Ten Solid Minutes of The Original Cast at the Movies Dec 27, 2018

As you may or may not (but probably may) know, over at our Patreon page we have a patrons-only podcast called The Original Cast at the Movies. It's a long-form movie discussion podcast about musical movies.

In 2018 we've had guests like as Tia Shearer Bassett, Kari Ginsburg, Lee Liebeskind, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Michelle Polera, Jason Schlafstein, Courtney Laine Self, Holly Twyford, and Emily Zickler talking about classic movie musicals like Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) & Beauty and the Beast (1991), cult-favorite movie musicals like The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) & Xanadu (1980), and From Justin to Kelly (2003).

So here's a 10-minute sample of our latest episode featuring Emma Jackson (Brigaddon 1990) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line 1975) talking about the holiday classic: White Christmas (1954).

Happy Merry!

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Intermission: Let's Do the Show Right Here! (w/ Doug Wilder) Dec 26, 2018

Doug Wilder is an actor/director/filmmaker. During his episode about No Way to Treat a Lady, we talked about the idea of self-production and what a double-edged sword it can be.

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? November's episode features Peter Boyer (The Fantasticks 1960) and Jenny Male (Urinetown: The Musical) talking about the Marx Brothers' masterpiece: Duck Soup (1933).

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Matt Bassett / The Most Happy Fella - The Complete Broadway Performance (1956) Dec 19, 2018

The Hub Theatre's brand new artistic director is here to talk about Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls follow-up that sprawled 3-LPs in its original release.

Topics include: Catfishing in the 1950s, 3-Act musicals, and Is a Chico Marx impression racist?

Featured recording: The Most Happy Fella - The Complete Broadway Performance (1956)

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Intermission: Disco Jesus and the Apostles of Funk (w/ Vaughn Irving) Dec 12, 2018

Vaughn is the Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Playhouse. During his episode on the GroovyLily musical Striking 12, we discussed two other musicals he wrote/co-wrote: You or Whatever I Can Get and Disco Jesus and the Apostles of Funk, both of which debuted at the Capitol Fringe Festival here in D.C.

Featured recordings: Striking 12 - The New GrooveLily Musical (2005)

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Jennifer Osborn / Jesus Christ Superstar - Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's (1996) Dec 05, 2018

CultralDC's Operations Manager is here to talk about not only the '96 London revival cast album of Jesus Christ Superstar (released in the US in 2000) but also the 2018 NBC broadcast of Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (which was live but was not a concert).

Topics include: pop-culture Catholicism, the 5 notes you want to hear, and how Michael Crawford is Jen's husband.

Featured recordings: Jesus Christ Superstar - Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's (1996) • Jesus Christ Superstar - A Rock Opera (1970)

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Intermission: Playing Auditions (w/ Elisa Rosman) Nov 28, 2018

During pianist and music director Elisa Rosman's episode on Falsettos, we discussed what makes a song difficult and/or fun to play. We also cover what an audition is like from the point-of-view of that person at the piano to whom you just handed your sheet music.

Featured recordings: Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990) • Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast Recording (1984) • The Light in the Piazza - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) • The Last Five Years - Original Cast Recording (2002) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) • Thoroughly Modern Millie - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2002)

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Live from the Flying V Awesome-a-Thon Vol. 2! Nov 21, 2018

Patrick is joined by Michael J. Bobbitt, James Finley, Kari Ginsburg, and Emily Zickler for a discussion, debate, trivia, and singing. Our topic: “I Want” Songs.

Recorded live at Flying V Theatre’s 2nd annual 24-hour fundraiser: Awesome-a-Thon Vol. 2! on April 8, 2018.

0:01:42 “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin ·· performed by Patrick Flynn ·· music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

0:20:16 “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story ·· performed by Michael J. Bobbitt ·· music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

0:35:00 “The Wizard and I” from Wicked ·· performed by Emily Zickler ·· music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

0:50:34 “Somewhere That’s Green” from Little Shop of Horrors ·· performed by James Finley ·· music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman

1:02:00 “Some People” from Gypsy ·· performed by Kari Ginsburg ·· music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

1:15:10 “Maybe” from Annie ·· performed by Emily Zickler & Company ·· music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin

1:23:14 “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from the film The Wizard of Oz ·· music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E Y Harburg

with Heather Hurley on piano

Courtney Laine Self / Crazy for You - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1992) Nov 14, 2018

Courtney Laine Self is a director/choreographer. She directed Sheila and Moby and wrote her thesis on Crazy for You. She also likes to push Patrick's buttons. And the feeling is very mutual.

Topics include: Ken Ludwig (the man, not the poster), the interpretive power of dance, and Susan Stroman.

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Crazy for You - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1992)

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Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? October's episode features Jason Schlafstein (Chess - 1984) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You) talking about the cultiest of cult musicals: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

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Susanna Pretzer / Be More Chill - Original Cast Recording (2015) *Flashback* Nov 07, 2018

Patrick's new play Sheila and Moby presented by Flying V Theatre is NOW PLAYING. So episodes over the next few weeks will all be related to that production. Susanna Pretzer is Flying V's literary manager and served as dramaturg during Sheila and Moby's almost two-year development process. ORIGINAL NOTES: It's a Zeitler*! Dramaturg Susanna Pretzer is here to talk about this Joe Iconis musical based on the YA novel but Patrick keeps bringing up Heathers and it's super annoying. Featured recordings: Be More Chill - Original Cast Recording (2015) Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014) *(An episode about a show of which Patrick has never heard.) Tickets to Sheila and Moby by Patrick Flynn, directed by Courtney Laine Self NOW ON SALE! Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? October's episode features Jason Schlafstein (Chess - 1984) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You) talking about that Disney musical experience: Newsies (1992) Patreon Twitter Facebook Email

Cassie Cope / Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014) Oct 31, 2018

FINALLY! We're talking about Heathers with Cassie Cope who can currently be seen in Flying V's production of Sheila and Moby in the role of "Courtney."

Topics include: Dying alone; bops; and how Cassie convinced her mother to take eighth-grade self and her eight-year-old sister to see this show in New York, twice, on consecutive nights.

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Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014)

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Farrell Parker / A Chorus Line - Original Broadway Cast (1975) *Flashback* Oct 24, 2018

Rehearsals have begun for Patrick's new play Sheila and Moby presented by Flying V Theatre. So episodes over the next few weeks will all be related to that production.

Farrell Parker plays the dual roles of Lara & Curly in Sheila and Moby and we're flashing back to her 2017 episode about A Chorus Line.

ORIGINAL NOTES:

Actor and Shakespearean scholar-in-training Farrell Parker comes by to talk about an album she adores and a show she does not. And the call is coming from inside the studio!

Also T&A, ballet, and the nature and understanding of the concept of success.

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A Chorus Line - Original Broadway Cast (1975)

A Chorus Line - The New Cast Recording (2007)

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Robyn Rikoon / Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996) Oct 17, 2018

You may have seen Robyn on Fringe or Gossip Girl or The Unusuals (my favorite) or as "Moby" in Flying V's Sheila and Moby opening October 27. But today she's here to talk about a show that bears repeating.

Topics include: Do we need awards? Do parents just not understand? And is Benny the bad guy?

Also remember that Angel kills a dog in this show.

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Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996)

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Jason Schlafstein / Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984) *Flashback* Oct 10, 2018

Rehearsals have begun for Patrick's new play Sheila and Moby presented by Flying V Theatre. So episodes over the next few weeks will all be related to that production, starting with this gem, our third ever guest and Flying V's Artistic Director: Jason Schlafstein.

ORIGINAL NOTES: Jason is the artistic director for the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Flying V. He and Patrick discuss the concept album of Chess and how it cemented their friendship. Also: singing in restaurants, the glory of synth rock, and the nature of love. Seriously, it gets deep for a minute.

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Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984)

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Robbie Rozelle / Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) Oct 03, 2018

Designer, record producer, performer, and talent-whisperer Robbie Rozelle is here to bring some joy into Patrick's life (he says).

Topics include: Jerry Herman's pros, Jerry Herman's cons, Jerry Herman's women, and the movie version of Mame which is just the worst.

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Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

Mame - Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1974)

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Intermission: Alan & Howard & Tim & Elton (w/ Logan Culwell-Block) Sep 26, 2018

Logan Culwell-Block is back in this excerpt from his Little Shop of Horrors episode to talk about the Disney work of Ashman & Menken, Menken & Rice, and Rice & John. Featured recordings: Beauty and the Beast - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1991) Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? September's episode features Tia Shearer Bassett and James Finley discussing the Disney musical that launched a thousand hats: Newsies (1992). Patreon Twitter Facebook Email

Kimberly Cooper Schmidt / The Light in the Piazza - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) Sep 19, 2018

Kimberly Cooper Schmidt of the Broadwaysted and Broadway Baby podcasts joins Patrick to discuss this Tony Award-winning musical that launched the career of Kelli O'Hara and made Kimberly's father and sister fell asleep.

Topics include: Where the horse kicked her, overtures, and are we sure this isn't just Do I Hear a Waltz??

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The Light in the Piazza - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)

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Intermission: Heads-Up (w/ Kimberly Cooper Schmidt) Sep 12, 2018

Next week's episode features Kimberly Cooper Schmidt of the Broadwaysted and Broadway Baby podcasts discussing The Light in the Piazza. But this week, Kimberly and Patrick play an exciting round of "Heads-Up" using her The Lights of Broadway Show Cards™. Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? August's episode features Harrison Smith and Bridget Grace Sheaff discussing the most glorious musical Gene Kelly ever appeared in: Xanadu (1980). Patreon Twitter Facebook Email

Elliot Dash / Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) Sep 05, 2018

A big episode for a big show. Actor Elliot Dash is with us to talk about one of Patrick's 10 favorite musicals. And they go all over the place. Except for the plot, if you want a detailed plot synopsis, you'll need to go to Wikipedia.

Topics include: changing lyrics, bootleg CDs, and the state of race and race relations in America from 1902 to the present day.

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Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

Ragtime - Songs from the Musical (1996)

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Intermission: Henry V! The Musical! (w/ Peter Boyer) Aug 29, 2018

We bid adieu to Adventure Theatre MTC's production of Tinker Bell with Capt. Hook (Peter Boyer) returning in this excised conversation about Shakespeare and musicals. Which comes up a lot on this show.

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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010)

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Jenny Male / Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001) Aug 22, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

Multi-hyphenate "ographer" (fight, choreo, et al.) Jenny Male is here to talk about the brilliant play Tinker Bell that she is ography-ing at Adventure Theatre MTC. Also she's here to talk about the Tony-winning musical with self-confessed a "terrible title."

Topics include: Brecht, pay toilets, and how much self-referential humor can one show sustain?

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Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001)

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Intermission: Doubling (w/ Michelle Polera) Aug 15, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

Tinker Bell herself is here for a new Intermission about playing more than one role in the same show.

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Ashley K. Nicholas / Caroline, or Change - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Aug 08, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

Ashley plays a myriad of roles in Tinker Bell (from birds and flowers to all seven Lost Boys) and she's here to talk about this fantastic show about the past that may've been ahead of its time.

Topics include: basements, emotions, truth, beauty, the South, and leaving it all on the stage.

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Caroline, or Change - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

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Intermission: Bad Lyrics (w/ Michael J. Bobbitt) *Flashback* Aug 01, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

So here's a re-release of Michael & Patrick's detoured into one of Patrick’s pet peeves: bad lyricism. And it goes there.

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Girl - Pharrell Williams (2014)

Feeling Strangely Fine - Semisonic (1998)

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys (2005)

Les Misérables - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)

The Lion King - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1994)

West Side Story - Original Broadway Cast (1957)

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Carlos Castillo / American Idiot - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010) Jul 25, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

This week our Peter Pan is here to talk about a rock musical that is more Hair than Tommy.

Topics include: the lyrical metaphors of Bille Joe Armstrong, the enigmatic existence of St. Jimmy, the messianic imagery of Claude Hooper Bukowski, and whether or not Patrick is just an old man who doesn't get it.

Featured recordings: American Idiot - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010) Warning - Green Day (2000) nimrod. - Green Day (1997) Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968) American Idiot - Green Day (2004) Dookie - Green Day (1994)

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Intermission: The Peppermint Twist (w/ Brittany Truske) Jul 18, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

Brittany is production manager for Tinker Bell and in this cut conversation from her Next to Normal episode, she and Patrick discuss the enigma that is Alice Ripley.

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"Peppermint Twist" - Joey Dee and the Starliters (1961)

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Meghan Abdo / Once - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012) Jul 11, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

This week we've got our Wendy: Meghan Abdo talking about this Tony Award-winning musical based on the Academy Award-winning movie about a bittersweet love story between two hurting musicians.

Topics include: crying, laughing, sobbing, romance, drinking, and crying.

Featured recording: Once - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)

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Michael J. Bobbitt / Once on This Island - Original Cast Recording (1990) *Flashback* Jul 04, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

So here's a reissue of the episode featuring Adventure Theatre MTC's Artistic Director: Michael J. Bobbitt.

ORIGINAL NOTES: Michael J. Bobbitt, artistic director of Adventure Theatre MTC, stops by ostensibly to discuss the 1990 Flaherty & Ahrens musical Once on This Island but he and Patrick quickly diverge into discussions of stripped-down theatre, racial appropriation, and what constitutes "children's theatre." It gets real. Get into it.

Featured recording: Once on This Island - Original Cast Recording (1990)

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Peter Boyer / The Fantasticks - Original Cast Album (1960) Jun 27, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

This week we've got Capt. Jas. T. Hook himself, Peter Boyer in studio to talk about the (for now) longest-running American musical ever.

Topics include: amoral versus immoral, emotional versus physical, and how Mortimer is really the main character of this whole musical no matter what the "writers" might say and/or have written.

CONTENT ADVISORY: The Fantasticks contains a song entitled "It Depends on What You Pay" which liberally uses the word "rape." This is addressed frankly.

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The Fantasticks - Original Cast Album (1960)

The Fantasticks - The New Off-Broadway Recording (2006)

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Michelle Polera / Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) *Flashback* Jun 20, 2018

Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) opens this week at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.

To kick things off, here's a re-issue of our episode with Tinker Bell herself: Michelle Polera.

ORIGINAL NOTES: Actress and Soul Cycle instructor Michelle Polera stops by to talk about that magical place 18 blocks east of 1st Avenue on the Lower East Side.

Topics include: puppet sex, puppet nudity, how Michelle is afraid of puppets, and schadenfreude.

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Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? June's episode features Emily Zickler and Sophie Schulman talking about the modern Disney Channel classic High School Musical (2006).

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Chris Klimek / It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - Original Broadway Cast (1966) Jun 13, 2018

Journalist Chris Klimek joins us for a talk about a musical from a multiple-Tony Award-winning songwriting team, Academy Award-winning scriptwriter, and legendary producer/director Hal Prince. It was a flop.

Topics include: Superman, Superman: The Motion Picture, Superman Returns, Superman: Turn Off the Dark, and The Star Wars Holiday Special.

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It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

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IT'S THE 2018 TONYS!!! Jun 06, 2018

It's the Tonys on Sunday!!! And so we're talking the Tonys with Kari Ginsburg and Roddy Flynn. We go through the nominated revivals (5:56) give our thoughts on the shows up for Best Musical: Mean Girls (26:26), Frozen (44:05), SpongeBob SquarePants (56:46), and The Band's Visit (1:08:04), and then tell you our predictions (1:21:17) for who will take home that spinny award Sunday night!

AND you can follow along with us during the ceremony in TWO (2) ways.

Kari, Roddy, and Patrick will be live tweeting from Patrick's living room using #OriginalCastPod so you can keep up with our thoughts and joys and snarks.

And, during commercial breaks, they'll be live on Instagram @OriginalCastPod for some in-person reactions.

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The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)

SpongeBob SquarePants - Original Cast Recording (2017)

Frozen - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018)

Mean Girls - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018)

Once on This Island - New Broadway Cast Recording (2018)

Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? May's episode (now available) features Roddy Flynn & Kari Ginsburg talking about one of Patrick's favorite forgotten films Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971).

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Emma Jackson / Brigadoon - EMI Records (1992) May 23, 2018

It's bloody Brigadoon! Actor Emma Jackson is here with the greatest "how did this show come into your life?" answer yet.

Topics include: Delaware, Delawareans, Delaware theatre, people I know in Delaware, and Longwood Gardens.

Additional topics include: Does the plot make sense? Is Alan Jay Lerner a good writer? And what does Jeff do with his day in Brigadoon?

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BRIGADOON - EMI Records (1992)

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Intermission: Untitled Beth Amann Intermission (w/ Beth Amann) May 16, 2018

Patrick and Beth talk about kids, kids producers, then producing, then kids again. It all makes sense.

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? May's episode features Roddy Flynn & Kari Ginsburg talking about one of Patrick's favorite forgotten films WHO IS HARRY KLLERMAN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME? (1971).

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Brittany Truske / Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) May 09, 2018

Adventure Theatre MTC's Assistant Production Manager extraordinaire Brittany Truske is here for a good but tough musical. The 3rd in our Pulitzer Prize-winning musical series and the most controversial.

Topics include: seeing a show blind, auto-tuning one tiny phrase, and are there any happy songs in Act 2?

Trigger Warning: Next to Normal deals with the issues of prescription drug abuse, electroshock therapy, and suicide. If these topics are not your favorite, we've got 111 other episodes for you to enjoy. And please remember that there is always someone to talk with at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255.

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NEXT TO NORMAL - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)

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Intermission: Billy the Shake (w/ Charlene V. Smith) May 02, 2018

When one has a Shakespeare scholar as a guest, one talks about Shakespeare. Especially when the guest and one agree on so much about Shakespeare.

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? April's episode (now available) features Charlene V. Smith and Sara E. Cohen talking about Mike Leigh's Gilbert & Sullivan film TOPSY-TURVY (1999).

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Don Mike Mendoza / Do I Hear a Waltz? - Original Broadway Cast (1965) Apr 25, 2018

La-Ti-Do co-founder Don Mike Mendoza is back! This time we're talking about that most puzzling of musicals, the Sondheim/Rodgers/Laurents collaboration that ended all those friendships.

Topics include: Why? Seriously why? What? And why?

Also TRIVIA!

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DO I HEAR A WALTZ? - Original Broadway Cast (1965)

SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM - Original London Cast Recording (1976)

SONHDEIM SINGS: VOLUME II - Stephen Sondheim (2005)

DO I HEAR A WALTZ? - The New Recording (2001)

MANDY PATINKING SINGS SONHDEIM - Mandy Patinkin (2000)

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Intermission: Remember the Time (w/ Daisy Eagan) Apr 18, 2018

The final bit of my December 2016 conversation with Tony Award-winner Daisy Eagan is a nostalgic trip down problematic lane and a hopeful look forward.

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? April's episode features Charlene V. Smith and Sara E. Cohen talking about Mike Leigh's Gilbert & Sullivan film TOPSY-TURVY (1999).

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Tia Shearer Bassett / Titanic - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) Apr 11, 2018

Actor/teacher/maker/mama Tia Shearer Bassett is here to talk about the musical about the boat that sank, and Leo & Kate barely come up.

Topics include: Michael Cerveris, Brian D'Arcy James, and the audacity of hope.

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TITANIC- Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

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Intermission: Mean Girls and Legal Blondes (w/ Don Mike Mendoza) Apr 04, 2018

Don Mike returns in 3 weeks to talk about DO I HEAR A WALTZ? but before he does, here's a snip from that conversation about MEAN GIRLS which opens this week at the August Wilson.

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? March's episode (now available) features Lee Libeskind and Liz Maestri talking about that American movie musical classic FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY (2003).

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Katie Whitley and Brad Whitley / Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) Mar 28, 2018

The gang from Decomposition Podcast is here to talk about another Kander & Ebb revival that outran its original production.

Topics include: songs about pineapples, emabarassing things Kit Kat girls do, & how it would feel to write a song that unintentionally becomes a Neo-Nazi anthem.

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CABARET - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998)

CABARET - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974)

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? This month's episode features Lee Libeskind and Liz Maestri talking about that American movie musical classic FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY (2003).

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Intermission: Send in the Clowns (w/ Holly Twyford) Mar 21, 2018

Actress Holly Twyford talks about her musical debut as Desiree in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Signature. A daunting undertaking for which she is currently nominated for a Helen Hayes Award.

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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC - Original Broadway Cast (1973)

THE BROADWAY ALBUM - Barbra Streisand (1985)

FOLLIES - The Complete Recording (1998)

FOLLIES - Original Broadway Cast (1971)

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1977)

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? This month's episode features Lee Liebeskind and Liz Maestri talking about FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY - the greatest movie starring two American Idol winners playing not themselves made in 2003.

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Harrison Smith / Parade - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999) Mar 14, 2018

Actor Harrison Smith is here for one of the most important and difficult to listen to musicals ever.

Topics include: JRB, Prince, Uhry, Guettel, and the terrifying capacity of James Finley.

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PARADE - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)

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Intermission: Collaboration (w/ Logan Culwell-Block) Mar 07, 2018

Logan Culwell-Block is back for this excised conversation about collaboration. Also Barbara Dickson. Also Logan didn't really think ASSASSINScame out in 1976. That was an auditory error.

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THE SOUND OF MUSIC - An Original Soundtrack Recording (1965)

EVITA - An Opera Based on the Life of Eva Peron, 1919-1952 (1976)

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Elisa Rosman / March of the Falsettos ; Falsettoland - Original Cast (1981 ; 1990) Feb 28, 2018

Music director and pianist extraordinaire Elisa Rosman is here for two LPs about a single show that was two shows (really three shows) and is now one show but is still good enough for three shows.

Topics include: The great William Finn, the great Chip Zein, and leaving crying after you came laughing.

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MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS - Original Cast (1981)

FALSETTOLAND - Original Cast (1990)

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Intermission: Try It and See (w/ Danielle Mohlman) Feb 21, 2018

Three quick conversations excised from Danielle Mohlman's episode about JESUS CHRIST SUPERTAR including an amazing surprise I'm so excited for you to hear omigod, you guys.

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - A Rock Opera (1970)

TILL TOMORROW b/w Try It and See - Rita Pavone (1969)

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Vaughn Irving / Striking 12 - The New GrooveLily Musical (2005) Feb 14, 2018

Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Playhouse Vaughn Irving is here with another Zeitler!

Topics include: drummers, grooves, and what does an artistic director do anyway?

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STRIKING 12 - The New GrooveLily Musical (2005)

THING-A-WEEK THREE - Jonathan Coulton (2006)

THE ORANGE BOX - Original Soundtrack (2007)

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Intermission: Decomposing Billy Joel (w/ Decomposition Podcast) Feb 07, 2018

I'm on Decomposition Podcast this week defending the honor of Tony Award-winner Billy Joel. This week's intermission is an excerpt from that appearance. The full episode is available over at Decomposition Podcast.

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52ND STREET - Billy Joel (1978)

STORM FRONT - Billy Joel (1989)

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Intermission: Rent - The Movie (w/ Jimmy Mavrikes) Jan 24, 2018

Jimmy and Patrick divert into the rich vein that is the major motion picture adaptation of RENT. Lord help us.

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? This month's episode features Tracy Lynn Olivera and Holly Twyford talking WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971).

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Lauren Halvorsen / The Wild Party - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000) Jan 17, 2018

The thrilling conclusion to our deep-dive into THE WILD PARTY. We talk the La Chuisa/Wolfe Broadway version, Mandy Patinkin, the philosophy of adaptation, Mandy Patinkin, which we prefer, and Mandy Patinkin in . . . (not a joke, wish it was) blackface.

Poem excerpts read and recorded by Lee Liebeskind.

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THE WILD PARTY - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000)

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY - Vol. 5: Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act! (1999)

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Lauren Halvorsen / The Wild Party - Original Cast Recording (2000) Jan 10, 2018

Dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen is here for the first of our epic, two-part dive into both musical versions of THE WILD PARTY. Here we cover not only Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway take on Queenie, Burrs, Black, et al.; we also talk through Joseph Moncure March's novella-length poem upon which both musicals are based.

Poem excerpts read and recorded by Lee Liebeskind.

Featured recording:

THE WILD PARTY - Original Cast Recording (2000)

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Intermission: Which Party is Wilder? (w/ James Finley) Jan 03, 2018

The next two episodes of this podcast will feature Lauren Halvorsen discussing both Andrew Lippa and Michael John La Chuisa's interpretations of THE WILD PARTY.

So before we dig deep into one of the oddest coincidences in New York theatre history, I'm bringing you this excised bit from James Finley's episode about THE LIFE where James compares the two shows from the perspective of having been in both.

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THE WILD PARTY - Original Cast Recording (2000)

THE WILD PARTY - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000)

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Intermission: More Sweeney (w/ Emily Zickler) Dec 20, 2017

All those little bits excised from Patrick and Emily's discussion of SWEENEY TODD edited into one "coherent" conversation.

Topics include: the un-standable innocence of Tobias Ragg, the un-supressable essence Patti LuPone, and the unbearable bareness of John Doyle.

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SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET - Original Cast (1979)

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET - A Musical Thriller (2005)

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Holly Twyford / Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976) Dec 13, 2017

Four-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Holly Twyford is here to talk about one of the biggest hit musicals of all time.

Topics include: singing along in the audience, stars who own it, and what is the deal with Pepper?

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ANNIE - Original Cast Recording (1976)

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Intermission: Orchestra People v. Theatre People (w/ Jon Jon Johnson) Dec 06, 2017

During their SIDE SHOW discussion, Patrick and Jon Jon took a detour into Jon Jon's formal musical training in violin and the difference between two connected groups of creative people.

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"Csárdás" composed by Vittorio Monti, violin performed by Hyun Su Shin

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Logan Culwell-Block / Little Shop of Horrors - Original Cast Album (1982) Nov 29, 2017

Playbill writer Logan Culwell-Block stops by ostensibly to talk about LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS but Patrick and he nerd out pretty fast. Topics include: How should a cast album be produced? Early versions of how Seymour killed the dentist. And why in the name of heavenly glory would you autotune Jerry Orbach?!?

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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Original Cast Album (1982)

EXPERIMENT - Mandy Patinkin (1994)

COMPANY - Original Broadway Cast (1970)

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Intermission: Traveling Music Nov 22, 2017

What do you listen to on a long drive?

with: Lauren R Alexander Beth Amann Evan Casey Jensen Clifford Sara E. Cohen Roddy Flynn Kari Ginsburg Heather Hurley Lee Liebeskind Don Mike Mendoza Danielle Mohlman Tracy Lynn Olivera Farrell Parker Michelle Polera Megan Reichelt Bridget Grace Sheaff Amanda Zeitler Emily Zickler

Featured recordings: CABARET - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) FUN HOME - A New Broadway Musical (2015) GREY GARDENS - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012) GYPSY - The Original Broadway Cast GYPSY - Original London Cast Recording GYPSY - Original Cast Recording GYPSY - The New Broadway Cast Recording GYPSY - The 2008 Broadway Cast Recording GYPSY - 2015 London Cast Recording HADESTOWN - Anaïs Mitchell HAMILTON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015) LEGALLY BLONDE - Original Cast Recording (2007) THE LION KING - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) LES MISÉRABLES - Original London Cast Recording (1985) LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1986) LES MISÉRABLES - The Complete Symphonic Recording (1990) ONCE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012) THE PRODUCERS - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2005) SHE LOVES ME - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016) SPRING AWAKENING - A Decca Broadway Cast Album (2006) SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET- Original Cast (1979) WEST SIDE STORY - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1957) WICKED - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

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Intermission: Cos Play Horror Stories (w/ Natalie Ann Piegari) Nov 15, 2017

During their CATS conversation, Natalie and Patrick get deep and sad. Because real-life costuming missteps are the wooooooorst missteps.

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James Finley / The Life - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) Nov 08, 2017

Actor James Finley talks about Cy Coleman’s last Broadway show that was more successful than Patrick remembers but does have a terrible title. Topics include: tap-dancing bartenders, why baritones are always villains, and how a high school glee club wound up at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre one Sunday in 1997.

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THE LIFE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

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Intermission: Historical Accuracy (w/ Charlene V. Smith) Nov 01, 2017

A snippet from Patrick's conversation with Charlene V. Smith about the London cast album of MAN OF LA MANCHA about what does historical accuracy actually mean?

Also HAMILTON.

Also is GRAVITY a feminist film?

Also HAMILTON.

Also what is identity?

Also HAMILTON.

And RENT.

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Michelle Polera / Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Oct 25, 2017

Actress and Soul Cycle instructor Michelle Polera stops by to talk about that magical place 18 blocks east of 1st Avenue on the Lower East Side.

Topics include: puppet sex, puppet nudity, how Michelle is afraid of puppets, and schadenfreude.

Featured recording:

AVENUE Q - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

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Intermission: Criticism (w/ Roddy Flynn & Kari Ginsburg) Oct 18, 2017

Roddy, Kari, and Patrick debate the very nature of criticism from all points-of-view in this cut conversation from our 2017 Tonys episode.

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Intermission: Dark Comedy (w/ Doug Wilder) Oct 04, 2017

In this cut conversation from our NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY episode, Doug and Patrick discuss something they both love and wish was more popular.

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Intermission: Phantom (w/ Bridget Grace Sheaff and Beth Amann) Sep 20, 2017

Cuts from our INTO THE WOODS and WICKED episodes both about a show called THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

Maybe you’ve heard of it.

Featured recording: The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1990)

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Emily Zickler / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) Sep 13, 2017

Helen Hayes Award-winning actress Emily Zickler is here to talk about Sondheim's masterwork of Gothic horror. Topics include: a baritone with legs, Nellie toast, and how in the world does Cosette not recognize Thénardier or Eponine in the second half of Act I of LES MISÉRABLES? I mean she lived with them for nine years! NINE!

Featured recordings: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET - Original Cast (1979)

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Intermission: The King of Tangents (w/ Eliot Johnson) Sep 06, 2017

This excerpt from our LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (2004) episode starts on the Tonys and then goes places.

Featured recordings: Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992)

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Jon Jon Johnson / Side Show - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) Aug 30, 2017

Actor/musician Jon Jon Johnson joins Patrick to discuss the critically acclaimed and financially unsuccessful musical about the Hilton Sisters. Topics include: violin, compound 4, theatre kids, and how if you’re going to tackle a complex social issue you’d better have a point-of-view.

Patrick has THREE shows in the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival this year. You can see them all on September 2, CHEAP AS FREE! Visit UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.

Featured recordings: SIDE SHOW - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

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Intermission: Kids and Fame and Kids (w/ Daisy Eagan) Aug 23, 2017

This excised portion of Tony Award-winner Daisy Eagan’s wonderful visit to our podcast features a candid discussion about being a child star, having a child, and what you learn along the way.

Patrick has THREE shows in the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival this year. You can see them all on September 2, CHEAP AS FREE! Visit UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.

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Stephen Spotswood / Once More With Feeling - A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Original Cast Album (2001) Aug 16, 2017

Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright Stephen Spotswood brings this much-heralded musical episode of this much-heralded television series. Topics include: plot dumps, magic charms, appointment television, and why is Dawn always in trouble?

Patrick has THREE shows in the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival this year. You can see them all on September 2, CHEAP AS FREE! Visit UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.

Featured recordings: ONCE MORE WITH FEELING - A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Original Cast Album (2001)

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Intermission: Happily Ever After (w/ Charlene V. Smith) Aug 09, 2017

Charlene and Patrick talk about endings happy, sad, and in between. Also “The Ladies Who Lunch.”

Patrick has THREE shows in the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival this year. You can see them all on September 2, CHEAP AS FREE! Visit UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.

Featured recordings: COMPANY - A Musical Comedy (2006) COMPANY - Original Broadway Cast (1970)

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Natalie Ann Piegari / Cats - Original Broadway Cast (1982) Aug 02, 2017

Actress, playwright, and true original Natalie Ann Piegari is here for that day we all knew we’d have to face eventually.

Topics include: Why do people hate CATS? Why shouldn’t they hate CATS? Do you hate CATS? And does CATS pass the Bechdel Test?

Patrick has THREE shows in the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival this year. You can see them all on September 2, CHEAP AS FREE! Visit UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.

Featured recordings: CATS - Original Broadway Cast (1982)

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Intermission: Something Just Broke (w/ Karen Currie) Jul 26, 2017

We wrap up our three-week ASSASSINS Extravaganza with a discussion of the song added to the show after its 1991 Playwrights Horizons run.

Featured recordings: ASSASSINS - The Broadway Cast Recording (2004)

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Karen Currie / Assassins - Original Cast Recording (1991) - Part II Jul 19, 2017

Part II of our three-week ASSASSINS Extravaganza and we go through the second half of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical about the dark side of American History. Topics include: “Squeaky” Fromme, Sarah Jane Moore, John Hinkley, and is there such a thing as a sympathetic murderer?

Disclaimer: ASSASSINS is a dark show that deals with dark themes, some of which you may find disturbing. Also the recording features numerous gunshots, some of which I have included in both episodes. If any of these things bother and/or trigger you, I will understand if you take a break and rejoin THE ORIGINAL CAST in August. I hope you enjoy this deep-dive into a show I consider to be one of the best musicals ever written.

Featured recording: ASSASSINS - Original Cast Recording (1991)

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Karen Currie / Assassins - Original Cast Recording (1991) - Part I Jul 12, 2017

Stage manager Karen Currie is here to kick off our three-week ASSASSINS Extravaganza! For Part I, we go through the first half of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical about the dark side of American History. Topics include: John Wilkes Booth, Giuseppe Zangara, Leon Czolgosz, and how much attention should one give a terrorist?

Disclaimer: ASSASSINS is a dark show that deals with dark themes, some of which you may find disturbing. Also the recording features numerous gunshots, some of which I have included in both episodes. If any of these things bother and/or trigger you, I will understand if you take a break and rejoin THE ORIGINAL CAST in August. I hope you enjoy this deep-dive into a show I consider to be one of the best musicals ever written.

Featured recording: ASSASSINS - Original Cast Recording (1991)

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Intermission: His Lordship's Cast Albums (w/ Kenny Neal) Jul 05, 2017

Kenny and Patrick talk some cast album theory about Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber and his bizarre catalog. Plus the 10 longest-running shows in West End history!

Featured recordings: STARLIGHT EXPRESS - Music and Songs From (1987)STARLIGHT EXPRESS - The Original Cast Recording (1984)

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Doug Wilder / No Way to Treat a Lady - Original Cast Recording (1997) Jun 28, 2017

Helen Hayes Award-winner Doug Wilder brings us our third Zeitler! A tiny, dark comedy musical about a serial killer and a cop and the woman the cop loves and the mother of the serial killer and also the cop's mother. Topics include: earnest love, montage theory, and DEATH TO SMOOCHY.

Featured recordings: NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY - Original Cast Recording (1997)

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Intermission: Casting (w/ Lee Liebeskind) Jun 21, 2017

Lee and Patrick commiserate about the worst aspect of show business from both sides of the table.

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Lauren R Alexander / In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) Jun 14, 2017

Arena Stage administrator Lauren R Alexander is here to talk about Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated Broadway debut. Topics include: Anthony Newley, BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL, and the front row v. the back row.

Featured recordings: IN THE HEIGHTS - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008)STOP THE WORLD-I WANT TO GET OFF - Original Broadway Cast (1962)BRING IT ON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)

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IT'S THE 2017 TONYS!! Jun 07, 2017

This week we break format for a discussion of the 71st Tony Awards with former guests Roddy Flynn and Kari Ginsburg. And also a special appearance by fan-favorite Bob E Flynn (briefly). Topics include what constitutes set design, the youths, and that Kari & Roddy are going to see NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 without Patrick.

Featured recordings: COME FROM AWAY - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)DEAR EVAN HANSEN - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)GROUNDHOG DAY - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)

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Eliot Johnson / Little Shop of Horrors - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003) May 24, 2017

Avid musical theatre fan Eliot Johnson is here to talk about the “new"(?) Broadway cast recording of this dark comedy classic. Topics include: Alice Ripley, African American trios vs quintets, and the Kardashians.

Featured recordings: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003)LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - The Complete Soundtrack and Score (1986)LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Original Cast Album (1982)

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Intermission: Directing (w/ Bridget Grace Sheaff) May 17, 2017

Bridget and Patrick talk about theatre directing versus film directing versus being an autocratic jerk.

Featured recordings: COMPANY: A MUSICAL COMEDY (2007)

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Patricia Hurley Carpenter / South Pacific - Original Broadway Cast (1949) May 10, 2017

Actor Patricia Hurley Carpenter comes fresh from Olney Theatre productions of MARY POPPINS and SWEENEY TODD to talk about Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning effort. Topics include: racism, hilarity, and the conquering of other countries and peoples based on flags.

Featured recordings: SOUTH PACIFIC - Original Broadway Cast (1949)

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Intermission: Shameless Pandering (in STEREO) May 03, 2017

We’ve moved to a new studio space and it needed testing. So Patrick found a guest wandering about the place and plopped him in front of the mics.

Featured recordings: THE MUSIC MAN - Original Broadway Cast (1957)CABARET - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1972)THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - The Original Cast Recording (1986)INTO THE WOODS - Original Broadway Cast (1987)MATILDA - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2013)SCHOOL OF ROCK - Original Cast Recording (2015)NEWSIES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)NEWSIES - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)

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Charlene V. Smith / Man of La Mancha - The Complete Musical Play (1968) Apr 26, 2017

Despite some initial recording confusion, Patrick and Charlene manage to get into some stuff. They talk women in the arts, dramatic structure, subtext, agency, and occasionally even mention MAN OF LA MANCHA.

Featured recordings: MAN OF LA MANCHA - The Complete Musical Play (1968)

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Intermission: What am "Success?" (w/ Farrell Parker) Apr 19, 2017

During their A CHORUS LINE conversation Farrell and Patrick talked about the theme of “success.” Here is the unedited version of that conversation.

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Susanna Pretzer / Be More Chill - Original Cast Recording (2015) Apr 12, 2017

It's a Zeitler! Dramaturg Susanna Pretzer is here to talk about this Joe Iconis musical based on the YA novel but Patrick keeps bringing up HEATHERS and it's super annoying.

(A “Zeitler” is what Patrick calls episodes about shows he has never heard of.)

Featured recordings: BE MORE CHILL - Original Cast Recording (2015)HEATHERS - World Premiere Cast Recording (2014)

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Intermission: C.S. Lewis (w/ Megan Reichelt) Apr 05, 2017

Megan and Patrick both like C.S. Lewis. A lot. So they talk about C.S. Lewis. A lot.

Like, A LOT a lot.

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Kenny Neal / Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984) Mar 29, 2017

Sound-designer Kenny Neal comes by to talk about what describes as “nobody’s favorite musical.” Topics include: “What?,” “Why?,” “Really?,” “He does?,” “They are?,” and “I don’t get it.”

Featured recordings: STARLIGHT EXPRESS - The Original Cast Recording (1984)

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Intermission: Simply Sondheim (w/ Paul Scanlan) Mar 22, 2017

On the occasion of Stephen Joshua Sondheim's 87th birthday, Paul and Patrick talk about all kinds of Sondheim. Also Sondheim and Sondheim.

Featured recordings: EXPERIMENT - Mandy Patinkin (1994)

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Beth Amann / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Mar 15, 2017

Actual grown-up Beth Amann channels her 13-year-old self and talks about the unstoppable force that is WICKED. Topics include Joel Grey, Norbert Leo Butz, and the immovable objects that are music theatre hipsters.

Featured recordings: WICKED - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)

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Intermission: Come from Away (w/ Sara E. Cohen) Mar 08, 2017

Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s amazing new musical COME FROM AWAY opens on Broadway this Sunday (March 12, 2017). Both Patrick and Sara saw it when it was at Ford’s Theatre on its way to Broadway and they think you should too. Really. Like, right now. Go see it. Now. We’ll wait.

Featured recordings: COME FROM AWAY - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)FUN HOME - A New Broadway Musical (2015)

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Bridget Grace Sheaff / Into the Woods - Original Cast Recording (1987) Mar 01, 2017

Actor/director/writer Bridget Grace Sheaff starts strong and builds from there and Patrick and she discuss her actual favorite Sondheim show, not the one she tells people is her favorite. Topics include: death, destruction, and how, somewhere in Iowa right now, someone is performing THE MUSIC MAN (because it’s the law).

Featured recordings: INTO THE WOODS - Original Cast Recording (1987) Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (2010)

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Intermission: Sgt. Pepper - The Musical (w/ Daisy Eagan) Feb 22, 2017

Tony Award-winner Daisy Eagan and Patrick talk British music, free expression, and drummers.

Featured recordings: TOMMY - The Who (1969)WHO’S NEXT - The Who (1971)

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Farrell Parker / A Chorus Line - Original Broadway Cast (1975) Feb 15, 2017

Actor and Shakespearean scholar-in-training Farrell Parker comes by to talk about an album she adores and a show she does not. And the call is coming from inside the studio! Also T&A, ballet, and the nature and understanding of the concept of success.

Featured recordings: A Chorus Line - Original Broadway Cast (1975)A Chorus Line - The New Cast Recording (2006)

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Intermission: L5Y The Movie (w/ Jon Rubin) Feb 08, 2017

Jon and Patrick dive into the film version of THE LAST FIVE YEARS and then veer into why original cast albums are NOT soundtracks.

Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)The Music Man - Original Soundtrack (1962)The Last Five Years - Original Cast (2002)Songs from a New World - World Premiere Recording (1997)

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Heather Hurley / Chicago - The Musical (1996) Feb 01, 2017

Avid theatre fan Heather Hurley reveals her origin story. Also how Billy & Mama are like Jack & Karen while Velma & Roxie are like Kim & Khloé.

Featured recordings: Chicago - The Musical (1996)

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Intermission: Jukebox the Musical (w/ Lee Liebeskind) Jan 25, 2017

Another free-association with Lee and Patrick. We start with SPRING AWAKENING and get to a movie David Mamet wrote with Shel Silverstein.

Featured recordings: REALLY ROSIE - Carole King (1975)

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Megan Reichelt / The Scarlet Pimpernel - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) Jan 18, 2017

Actor & librarian Megan Reichelt is here to talk about Frank Wildhorn’s sweeping epic musical. But which version? The first? The second? The fourth? And why isn’t Terrence Mann the lead in this show?

Featured recordings: THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)JEKYLL & HYDE - Highlights from (1990)

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Intermission: The Golden Pipes of Rosalind Russell (w/ Kari Ginsburg) Jan 11, 2017

Kari drops some trivia on Rosalind Russell, Patrick drops some trivia on movie musical casting, and we all leave better than we arrived.

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Jensen Clifford / The Book of Mormon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011) Jan 04, 2017

For a musical about the nature of religious belief and musical theatre storytelling, you'll be shocked to discover that Patrick and Jensen talk almost exclusively about the nature of religious belief and musical theatre storytelling.

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Featured recordings: THE BOOK OF MORMON - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011)FROZEN - An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (2013)TURTLENECK & CHAIN - The Lonely Island (2011)

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Live from the Flying V Awesome-A-Thon! Dec 28, 2016

The cast and creative team of the Flying V musical YOU, OR WHATEVER I CAN GET join Patrick on stage at the Flying V Awesome-a-Thon. Doug Wilder, Suzanne Edgar, Farrell Parker, Jason Schlafstein, and Steve Przybylski talk about the show they created and sing their favorite music theatre love songs! Even Jason! YOU, OR WHATEVER I CAN GET cast recording on Bandcamp! Leave a 5 Star Review on iTunes and get 5 seconds on this podcast! Details inside!

Songs: 0:03:23 ”She Loves Me” from SHE LOVES ME (1963) performed by Patrick Flynn music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick 0:20:42 “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (1970) performed by Doug Wilder music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice 0:38:34 “I’ll Cover You” from RENT (1996) performed by Suzanne Edgar music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson 0:55:44 ”Marry Me a Little” cut from COMPANY (1970) performed by Farrell Parker music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim 1:03:21 ”There’s a Fine, Fine Line” from AVENUE Q (2003) performed by Vaughn Irving music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx 1:24:02 “Dammit, Janet” from THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (1973) performed by Jason Schlafstein with Farrell Parker music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien 1:39:22 “30” from YOU, OR WHATEVER I CAN GET (2014) performed by Patrick Flynn & Suzanne Edgar & Farrell Parker & Doug Wilder music and lyrics by Suzanne Edgar & Vaughn Irving & Farrell Parker & Steve Przybylski & Jason Schlafstein & Doug Wilder

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Paul Scanlan / Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) Dec 21, 2016

Sondheim’s second biggest flop is our subject today with actor Paul Scanlan. Topics include: Why does this show run backwards? What is Mary’s deal? And how was this show not the biggest hit of Sondheim’s career?

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Featured recordings: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981)SONDHEIM: A CELEBRATION AT CARNEGIE HALL (1992)

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Daisy Eagan / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) Dec 14, 2016

The youngest actress to ever receive a Tony® Award is here to talk about everyone’s favorite musical based on an album by The Who.

Topics include: Anthony Barrile’s gyrations, why teenagers are so angry, and whether or not Daisy was (briefly in the early 90s) the real-life Sally Simpson of the St. James Theatre.

Daisy can currently be seen at Shakespeare Theatre here in DC in THE SECRET GARDEN, newly extended through January 8!

Featured recordings: THE WHO’S TOMMY - Original Cast Recording (1993)TOMMY - The Who (1969)

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Jenny Donovan / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) Dec 07, 2016

Actor Jenny Donovan is here to talk about one of Patrick’s favorite musicals. Which means she is also here to listen to Patrick talk about one of his favorite musicals. Topics include: the politically correct term for “hunchback,” possibly misused musical terms, and what is Martha’s deal?

Featured recordings: The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)The Baker’s Wife - An Original Cast Recording (1976)Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979)

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Intermission: Party Pieces (w/ Sophie Schulman) Nov 30, 2016

Sophie and Patrick discuss the routines their parents trotted them out to perform for company and how inappropriate they were for kids.

Featured recordings: ELLA FITZGERALD SINGS THE RODGERS AND HART SONGBOOK - Ella Fitzgerald (1956)BABY BELUGA - Raffi (1980)LOST IN THE STARS - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (1949)VOLUME 2 - Woody Allen (1965)

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Jon Rubin / The Last Five Years - Original Cast Recording (2002) Nov 23, 2016

Flying V Theatre’s managing director Jon Rubin is here to talk about one of the most heartbreaking musicals ever written. Topics include: inter-faith relationships, Tu BiShvat, and isn’t Jamie the worst for cheating on Cathy? I mean, oh my God, what he did is completely unforgivable and don’t even get me started on “The Schmuel Song.”

Featured recordings: THE LAST FIVE YEARS - Original Cast Recording (2002)SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD - World Premiere Recording (1997)PARADE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)

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Intermission: Dialogue (w/ John Dellaporta) Nov 16, 2016

Patrick and John discuss the increase in dialogue on original cast albums and solve all the problems. . . Or don’t.

Featured recordings: GUYS AND DOLLS - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1993)NEWSIES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)

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Sara E. Cohen / Pippin - Original Cast Album (1972) Nov 09, 2016

Sara works at Ford’s Theatre here in DC and is an avid music theatre historian and she has come down to the studio to discuss a show steeped in history which both she and Patrick have very mixed feelings about. Topics include rhyming “glow” and “grow,” super-directors, and Fosse vs Schwartz.

Featured recordings: PIPPIN - Original Cast Album (1972) ALL THAT JAZZ - Original Movie Soundtrack (1979) PIPPIN (1982) [DVD]

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Intermission: Finding Nemo - The Musical (w/ Lee Liebeskind) Nov 02, 2016

Patrick and Lee start with SPRING AWAKENING move to AVENUE Q then FINDING NEMO: THE MUSICAL to WINNIE-THE-POOH to Broken Lizard back to SPRING AWAKENING then on to RENT and somehow land on HAIR.

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Featured recordings: AVENUE Q - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) FINDING NEMO - The Musical (2007)

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Amanda Zeitler / Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) Oct 26, 2016

Amanda introduces Patrick to a show he had not only never heard but never heard of. After a thorough plot synopsis things get personal, then philosophical, then pedagogical, then philosophical again, then paleontological.

Featured recordings: STARMITES - Original Cast Members (1999)

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Intermission: Bad Lyrics (w/ Michael J. Bobbitt) Oct 19, 2016

During their ONCE ON THIS ISLAND talk, Michael and Patrick detoured into one of Patrick’s pet peeves: bad lyricism. And it goes there.

Featured recordings: GIRL - Pharrell Williams (2014) FEELING STRANGELY FINE - Semisonic (1998) WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT - Arctic Monkeys (2005) LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) THE LION KING - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1994) WEST SIDE STORY - Original Broadway Cast (1957)

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Kari Ginsburg / Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) Oct 12, 2016

Actor and director Kari Ginsburg is here to talk about one woman’s fall from grace as she facilitates the rise of her daughter from the front of a cow to the greatest stripper in the history of the world.

Featured recordings: GYPSY - The Original Broadway Cast (1959)

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Intermission: The Showtunes Mark Robinson Jumps Over (w/ Sophie Schulman) Oct 05, 2016

Sophie and Patrick go through Playbill writer and theatre blogger Mark Robinson's (@theatreguy22) post "Showtune Shenanigans: The Showtunes I Jump Over" one-by-one and add some of their own suggestions to the list.

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John Dellaporta / Guys and Dolls - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1993) Sep 28, 2016

Actor and grad student John Dellaporta stops by to talk about one of the best revival cast albums out there. Topics include the callback list for the original production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Hal Prince’s ill-fated A DOLL HOUSE musical, and national treasure Faith Prince.

Featured recordings:

GUYS AND DOLLS - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1993)

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING - The 2011 Decca Broadway Cast Recording (2011)

GUYS AND DOLLS - Original Music from the Movie Soundtrack (1955)

SONDHEIM EVENING: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973)

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Intermission: Potpourri Sep 21, 2016

What does Patrick do with all bits either too short or too weird to wind up in an Intermission? Edit them all together in one big episode of course!

00:00 A Coughed Drop (w/ Sophie Schulman)

01:54 Historical Accuracy (w/ Michael J. Bobbitt)

07:48 Forced Staging (w/ Roddy Flynn)

09:10 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (w/ Tracy Lynn Olivera & Megan Westman)

10:17 All the Gin Joints (w/ Evan Casey)

13:35 The Secret Garden (w/ Hannah Hessel Ratner)

18:02 Jesus Christ Superstar (w/ Tracy Lynn Olivera & Megan Westman)

19:50 Jesus Christ Superstar (w/ Liz Maestri)

22:04 "Dog Eat Dog" (w/ Evan Casey)

24:12 Taking Sang to Get His Passport (w/ Michael J. Bobbitt)

28:14 Industrials (w/ Lee Liebeskind)

32:21 "Happiness" (w/ Tracy Lynn Olivera & Megan Westman)

Featured recordings:

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE - Original Broadway Cast (1964)

LES MISÉRABLES - The Complete Symphonic Recording (1990)

THE SECRET GARDEN - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - A Rock Opera (1971)

LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN - The Original Cast Album (1967)

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Sophie Schulman / Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) Sep 14, 2016

Actor Sophie Schulman stops by to talk about the music that makes her dance. Also: Barbra, Barbra, Ellen, and Barbra.

Featured recordings:

FUNNY GIRL - Original Broadway Cast (1964)

FUNNY GIRL - The Original Sound Track Recording (1968)

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Intermission: Meeting Mandy Patinkin, Parts II & III (w/ Liz Maestri and Hannah Hessel Ratner) Sep 07, 2016

The second and third parts in our on-going series of close encounters of the Mandy kind.

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Lee Liebeskind / Spring Awakening - A Decca Broadway Cast Album (2006) Aug 31, 2016

Director/actor Lee Liebeskind talks about a show neither he nor Patrick have seen even though they both know people who did it on Broadway. Topics include: closing numbers, smoky vocals, and whether or not Patrick knows John Gallagher Jr well enough to call him “John.”

Featured recordings:

SPRING AWAKENING - A Decca Broadway Cast Album (2006)

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Intermission: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Tim Rice (w/ Jason Schlafstein) Aug 24, 2016

During their CHESS conversation, Patrick had some points about the quality of Tim Rice’s lyrics. Jason, being himself, had some counterpoints.

Featured recordings:

CHESS - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984)

ALADDIN - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)

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Michael J. Bobbitt / Once on This Island - Original Cast Recording (1990) Aug 17, 2016

Michael J. Bobbitt, artistic director of Adventure Theatre MTC, stops by ostensibly to discuss the 1990 Flaherty & Ahrens musical ONCE ON THIS ISLAND but he and Patrick quickly diverge into discussions of stripped-down theatre, racial appropriation, and what constitutes "children's theatre." It gets real. Get into it.

Featured recording:

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND - Original Cast Recording (1990)

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Intermission: The Welders 2.0 (w/ Hannah Hessel Ratner) Aug 10, 2016

During their FLORA THE RED MENACE conversation, Hannah updated Patrick on her new role in The Welders playwrights collective and what we can expect from The Welders 2.0.

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Hannah Hessel Ratner / Flora the Red Menace - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1965) Aug 03, 2016

Dramaturg, audience enrichment manager at Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Welder 2.0 Hannah Hessel Ratner joins Patrick to talk about Kander & Ebb's first collaboration, Liza Minelli's Broadway debut, and one of George Abbott's last shows: FLORA THE RED MENACE. Patrick and Hannah talk about the tenants of communism, how one sings about communism, and whether communism will save us from making cannon fodder of our youth.

Featured recordings:

FLORA THE RED MENACE - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1965)

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Intermission: Dr Jekyll & Mr Larson (w/ Roddy Flynn) Jul 27, 2016

During their ANYONE CAN WHISTLE conversation, Patrick and Roddy took a detour into two shows that they had strong feelings about in the 90s and still have strong feelings about today.

Featured recordings:

RENT - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996)

JEKYLL & HYDE - The Complete Work (1994)

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Liz Maestri / Les Misérables - Original London Cast Album (1985) Jul 20, 2016

Playwright Liz Maestri stops by to talk about the London cast recording of LES MISÉRABLES. Patrick and Liz discuss the difference between a “leading lady” and a “lady,” roles that are beneath Patti LuPone, and whether woodwinds belong in a marching band.

Featured recordings:

LES MISÉRABLES - Original London Cast Recording (1985)

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - A Rock Opera (1970)

LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)

LES MISÉRABLES - The Complete Symphonic Recording (1990)

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Intermission: Mixtape (w/ Eric Messner) Jul 13, 2016

Coming off their conversation about the glory days of MTV, Patrick & Eric opine the glory days of the mixtape.

Featured recordings:

WHO’S NEXT - The Who (1971)

EMPTY GLASS - Pete Townshend (1980)

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Nick Vargas / Man of La Mancha - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Jul 06, 2016

Nick is artistic director of Field Trip Theatre in Washington, DC and casting director for Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD and is here to talk about the Brian Stokes Mitchell revival recording of MAN OF LA MANCHA. Topics include Connecticut, Mario Lopez, stunt casting, and the fact that the Padre is great character that doesn't get enough respect.

Featured recording:

MAN OF LA MANCHA - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

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Intermission: Sink the Bismarck! (w/ Tracy Lynn Olivera & Megan Westman) Jun 29, 2016

We go back to our first guest for this deleted gem. Tracy stumps Patrick and Megan with a song of which neither of them had heard. And Tracy learns that "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" and ”Snoopy's Christmas" are two different songs.

Featured recordings: SINK THE BISMARCK! - Johnny Horton (1960) SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON - The Royal Guardsman (1966) SNOOPY AND HIS FRIENDS - The Royal Guardsman (1968)

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Roddy Flynn / Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964) Jun 22, 2016

Roddy is the Executive Director for the U.S. House of Representative’s LGBT Caucus. He is also our first guest drawn “from the house” and Patrick’s brother. Roddy and Patrick gab about Angela Lansbury, intermissions, and the unbearable heaviness of this show’s plot.

Featured recording: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)

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Intermission: Cartoon Theme Songs (w/ Jason Schlafstein) Jun 15, 2016

During their CHESS conversation, Patrick and Jason fell into a nostalgia hole about Saturday morning cartoons. A glorious, glorious hole.

Featured recordings:

Garfield and Friends

X-Men

Pokemon

Gummy Bears

Duck Tales

Animaniacs

Tiny Toon Adventures

Freakazoid

Denver the Last Dinosaur

M*A*S*K

He-Man

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IT'S THE 2016 TONYS! Jun 08, 2016

This week we break format for a discussion about the Tony Awards with past guest Don Mike Mendoza and future guest Roddy Flynn. We talk about not only this year's shows but the Tonys as a whole and how award shows make us feel.

Featured recordings:

BRIGHT STAR - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)

HAMILTON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)

SCHOOL OF ROCK - Original Cast Recording (2015)

WAITRESS - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)

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Intermission: The Lady's Got Potential Jun 01, 2016

This week we take a deep-dive into a song's evolution with this number from EVITA. From its debut on the 1976 concept album, its deletion from the stage production, and reinstatement for the film.

Featured recordings:

EVITA - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron 1919-1952 (1976)

EVITA - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1979)

EVITA - The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack (1996)

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Eric Messner / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) May 25, 2016

Actor and two-TV-owner Eric Messner discusses THE WHO’S TOMMY. Topics include: What is the title of this show? British accents? And, of course, the MTV.

Featured recording: THE WHO’S TOMMY - Original Cast Recording (1993)

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Intermission: The MTV (w/ Eric Messner) May 18, 2016

During my conversation with Eric Messner about THE WHO'S TOMMY, we ended up talking about MTV in the early-to-mid 1990s and what a great thing it was. Like, seriously, it was money. So money and you don’t even know it.

Featured recordings: THE WHO’S TOMMY - Original Cast Recording (1993) FLASH: Original Soundtrack Music - Queen (1980) STRONG BAD SINGS AND OTHER TYPE HITS - Homestar Runner (2003) CLOUD 9 - George Harrison (1987) EVEN WORSE - “Weird Al” Yankovic (1988)

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Evan Casey / Les Misérables - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) May 11, 2016

Actor, singer, and Orioles fan Evan Casey talks LES MISÉRABLES. Patrick & Evan talk about Colm Wilkinson, JERSEY BOYS, and whether or not Terrence Mann is the greatest singer in the history of the world.

Featured recording: LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)

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Intermission: Boublil & Schönberg (w/ Evan Casey) May 04, 2016

This week’s intermission comes from next week’s talk with actor Evan Casey. Patrick & Evan discuss the work of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and how difficult it is to follow a mega-hit like LES MISÉRABLES.

Featured recordings: LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) MISS SAIGON - Original London Cast Recording (1990) “Mama Told Me Not to Come” - Three Dog Night

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Jason Schlafstein / Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984) Apr 27, 2016

Jason is the artistic director for the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Flying V. He and Patrick discuss the concept album of CHESS and how it cemented their friendship. Also: singing in restaurants, the glory of synth rock, and the nature of love. Seriously, it gets deep for a minute.

Featured recording: CHESS - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984) http://amzn.to/1Sr0sFE

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Intermission: The Pulitzer Prize for Musicals Apr 20, 2016

This week HAMILTON became the 9th musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Patrick gives a history of the prize and the now 9 musicals that have won the most prestigious award in American theatre.

Featured recordings: OF THEE I SING - Brooklyn Academy of Music (1987)

SOUTH PACIFIC - Original Broadway Cast (1949)

FIORELLO! - Original Broadway Cast (1959)

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1961)

A CHORUS LINE - Original Broadway Cast (1975)

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE - Original Cast Recording (1984)

RENT - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996)

NEXT TO NORMAL - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)

HAMILTON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)

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Don Mike Mendoza / Hot Mikado - Original Cast Recording (1995) Apr 13, 2016

La-Ti-Do performer and producer Don Mike Mendoza talks about that swingin’ adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan: HOT MIKADO. We talk interracial casting, talent crushes, and tap dancing.

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Intermission: Meeting Mandy Patinkin (w/ Evan Casey) Apr 06, 2016

Welcome to The Original Cast’s first Intermission. Every other week in between interviews, we’ll release something that was cut due to time but was just too good to keep to ourselves.

Our first Intermissionee is actor, singer, & teacher Evan Casey. Evan will be back in a few weeks to discuss the original Broadway cast recording of LES MISÉRABLES. Until then, here’s Evan’s story about the time he met Mandy Patinkin.

Evan can currently be seen at Signature Theatre in THE FLICK now through April 17. Tickets are available at http://www.sigtheatre.org/events/2015-16/the-flick/

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Tracy Lynn Olivera / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967) Mar 30, 2016

Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright/filmmaker/professor Patrick Flynn.

Our first guest is actress, singer, & recording artist Tracy Lynn Olivera who stops by to discuss the 1967 original cast album of YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN. We’re also joined by dramaturg Megan Westman as we discuss off-Broadway basement shows, the wrong kind of meta, and how Tracy feels about the 1999 Broadway revival (spoiler: she hates it).

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Welcome to The Original Cast! Mar 16, 2016

Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright-filmmaker-professor Patrick Flynn.

Each week we’ll bring you a discussion with someone you’d find on-stage, backstage, or in the house of a theatre about that most precious of musical theatre accessories: cast albums.

Episodes start March 30 wherever podcasts are sold.

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