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

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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!

Patrick's magic 2024 Tonys YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ESY8dK6cXofKNoexpuGb5RsFG-caI57

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Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris!

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Elegy: Joanna McKee Jun 04, 2024

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Intermission: How You Doin'? Dec 13, 2023

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Let's rap.

FINAL "The Year of Barbra" live stream 12/9 (Thu): The Way We Were (1973) with Robbie Rozelle & Len Rodino

FIRST "The Year of Barbara (Harris)" live stream 12/20 (Wed): Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) with Kari Ginsburg & Beth Amann

48 Hour Film Project: Yes We Cannes - Buy a ticket and vote for WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THE FUTURE

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