The Original Cast

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Distantly Social 20: Logan Culwell-Block Apr 03, 2020

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DISCO EVITA!!! (Also mp3 organization.)

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MUSIC: "Buenos Aires" performed by the band Festival from their album Evita (1979), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

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Distantly Social 19: Chil Kong Apr 02, 2020

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Chil is the Artistic Director at Adventure Theatre MTC and is working on ways of keeping his community engaged and entertained.

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MUSIC: "Together Wherever We Go" performed by Ethel Merman with Jack Klugman & Sandra Church from Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Clare Carys O'Connell / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Broadway Musical (1999) Apr 01, 2020

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Clare has appeared in some of the top theatres in DC and Baltimore. Which wouldn't be so remarkable except for the fact that she's nine-years-old!

Topics Include: auditioning, forgetting to breathe, pretending to drive a car, and loving what you're doing.

Featured Recording: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Broadway Musical (1999)

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!

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Distantly Social 18: Tuesday with Robbie Mar 31, 2020

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Okay, your prompt is Lee Remick taking Stephen Sondheim to Studio 54 in 1975. Go!

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MUSIC: "Ah, Paris!" performed by Fifi D'Orsay from Follies - Original Broadway Cast (1971), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social 17: Jenna Duncan & Kevin Place Mar 30, 2020

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Jenna is Associate Artistic Director at Olney Theatre. Kevin is Associate Producer at Theatre J. And they're engaged!

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MUSIC: "With You on My Arm" performed by Gene Barry & George Hearn from La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

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Distantly Social 16: Evan Casey & Tracy Lynn Olivera Mar 29, 2020

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Have some coffee with Evan & Tracy as they keep on keepin' on.

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Stream The Amateurs by Jordan Harrison featuring Evan Casey at OlneyTheatre.org!

Take a class with Tracy Lynn Olivera through Theatre Lab!

MUSIC: "Come Up to My Place" performed by Mandy Patinkin & Judy Blazer from Leonard Bernstein's New York - Nonesuch Records (1996), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green, from On the Town (1944)

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Distantly Social 15: Chris Klimek Mar 28, 2020

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Chris Klimek has been socially distant for six weeks due to knee surgery and not even Twin Peaks makes sense anymore.

Apologies for the audio on this one, both of our internets were acting up.

MUSIC: "I'm Not Finished Yet" performed by Patricia Marand from It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams

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Distantly Social 14: Kevin Jaeger Mar 27, 2020

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Kevin from Broadwaysted! is keeping busy uptown.

MUSIC: "Curtain Call" performed by Ben Fankhauser from Broadwaysted, Actually - Original Cast Album (2019), music by Ben Fankhauser, lyrics by Kevin Jaeger

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Distantly Social 13: Don Mike Mendoza Mar 26, 2020

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Don Mike Mendoza is here from La-Ti-Do talking about Pittsburgh, making money where possible, and #RacismIsAVirus.

MUSIC: "We're Gonna Be Alright" performed by Judy Kuhn & Malcolm Gets from Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel - Judy Kuhn (2015), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)

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Joanna McKee / Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) Mar 25, 2020

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Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor respects the emotional implications of said facts. But, y'know, royalty!

Topics include: Frozen 2, Gleb, Starlight Express, Gleb, eating the rich, Gleb, disregarding history, and seriously what is up with Gleb?

Featured recordings: Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee (this episode) talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).

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