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

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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

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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)

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

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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

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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)

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Elegy: Amy Oestreicher Apr 09, 2021

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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

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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

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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?

Marty Thomas Dot Com

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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

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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

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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

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

In & Of Itself on Hulu

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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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