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

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

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

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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)

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

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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

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

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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

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Was Ratatouille a watershed?

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

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

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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

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

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DO YOU LIKE STEPHEN SONDHEIM? Of course you do. Then you need to join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Stephen Sondheim's films. Big ones like Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods to smaller ones like Camp and The Last of Sheila. You know you want to.

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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)

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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