The Original Cast

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

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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!

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 Movies!! 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: Ten Favourite Cast Albums Jul 07, 2021

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. . . 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

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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.

Liz Callaway Dot Com

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)

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

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A short fantasia by Katya Stanislavskaya.

Casey Erin Clark

Kevin David Thomas

Marissa Rosen & Marty Thomas

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

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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.

Marissa Rosen Dot Com

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

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Intermission: SUF/SOND Jun 09, 2021

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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)

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

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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.

Billy Recce Dot Com

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)

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

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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

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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)

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Intermission: The First of Sheila May 12, 2021

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

Ways to stream The Last of Sheila.

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)

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