The Original Cast

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Star Johnson / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) May 13, 2020

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Star is playwright/lyricist/director who brings to us a fun and funny conversation about a still-relevant turning point in the history of American musical theatre that is further from us historically than it is from Oklahoma!.

Topics Include: gender-blind Bobbies, keeping the comedy in musical comedy, being alive, and sliding into her DMs.

Featured Recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • Company - 1995 Broadway Cast Recording (1995) • Experiment - Mandy Patinkin (1994) • Marry Me a Little - Songs by Stephen Sondheim (1980)

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!

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Distantly Social 54: Tuesday with Robbie May 12, 2020

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Conspiracy theories, one-person shows, Ordinary Days, and Tell Me on a Sunday just to name a few.

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MUSIC: "The Cookie Chase" performed by Angela Lansbury from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 53: Kenny Neal May 11, 2020

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Nostalgia is a dangerous drug.

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MUSIC: "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D." performed by Frances Ruffelle from Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe

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Distantly Social 52: Mama's Turn May 10, 2020

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For Mother's Day, I'm counting down my Top 5 Favorite Broadway Mamas that we've covered on this show!

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Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community

Featured Recordings: Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) • Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) • The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) • The Light in the Piazza - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) • Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) • Caroline, or Change - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2004) • Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) • Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) • Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) • The Phantom of the Opera - The Original Cast Recording (1986) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990) • Into the Woods - Original Broadway Cast (1987) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • Les Misérables - Orginal Broadway Cast Recording (1987)

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Distantly Social 51: Eric Messner May 09, 2020

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I should've paid attention in Health class.

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MUSIC: "Soliloquy" performed by John Raitt from Carousel - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1945), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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Distantly Social 50: Bryan Plofsky May 08, 2020

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Bryan from the official Broadwaysted! Podcast (where they're drunk on theatre) is here for some inside baseball and outside dog walking.

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MUSIC: "Hair" performed by James Rado & Gerome Ragni from Hair - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968), music by Galt MacDermot, lyrics by James Rado &Gerome Ragni

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Distantly Social 49: Robyn Rikoon May 07, 2020

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In January, Robyn moved from DC to New Mexico to become the newly minted Artistic Director at the Santa Fe Playhouse!

The Santa Fe Playhouse Donut Button!

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MUSIC: "Santa Fe" performed by Jesse L. Martin from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music by Jonathan Larson, lyrics by Jonathan Larson and Billy Aronson

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Casey Erin Clark / Little Women - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) May 06, 2020

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Actor/singer/coach/multi-hyphenate Casey Erin Clark is here for a Sutton Foster vehicle that brings the sincerity.

Topics Include: snark, corsets, Frank Wildhorn, and that time Casey slid 15' across a stage on her bum.

Featured Recordings: Little Women - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) • Frankenstein - World Premiere Recording (2008) • Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989) • The Song Begins... - Casey Erin Clark (2008)

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Distantly Social 48: A Strange Loop with Robbie Rozelle May 05, 2020

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It's still Tuesday with Robbie but we need to talk about the latest Pulitzer winner!

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MUSIC: "Exile in Gayville," "Intermission Song," and "Today" performed by Larry Owens with L Morgan Lee, James Jackson Jr, John-Michael Lyles, John-Andrew Morrison, Jason Veasey, & Antwayn Harper from A Strange Loop - Original Cast Recording (2019), music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson

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