The Original Cast

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

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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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O YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies!This month is the Village People movie Can't Stop the Music (1980) with Robbie Rozzelle and Robert W. Schneider. And it is ALL the things.

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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 . . .

Listen to Songs from Inside My Locker now!

Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community

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

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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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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies!Right now you can hear Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk about the best mockumnetary ever made This is Spin̈al Tap (1984)!

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

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At Home with Rebecca Luker TONIGHT 8:00pm Eastern

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

https://fundraise.projectals.org/campaign/at-home-with-rebecca-luker/c287372

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

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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)

If you're listening on June 17, 2020: click here to register for Amy's even at Hamden Library.

Info on Amy's 54 Below show, rescheduled for April 23, 2021 at 9:30pm!

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