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Distantly Social 12: Tuesday with Robbie Mar 24, 2020

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It's Tuesday and that means Robbie Rozelle and that means DISCO SONDHEIM!

MUSIC: "Megamix: Take Me to the World" performed by Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Joshua Hinck & Scott Wasserman (2020), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, additional music by Leonard Bernstein

Listen on Spotify and/or iTunes!

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Distantly Social 11: Alexandra Silber Mar 23, 2020

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Al Silber wants you to be exactly like her cat.

MUSIC: "Matchmaker" performed by Alexandra Silber with Samantha Massell & Melanie Moore from Fiddler on the Roof - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

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Distantly Social 10: Sondheim90 Mar 22, 2020

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It's Sondheim's 90th birthday!

Thanks to Jonah, Liz, Anna, Roddy, Heather, Bridget, Beth, Serena, Sam, Alex, Katherine, Farrell, Michael, Caroline, Sharon, Theresa, Qoc, Emily, Elisa, & Doug

music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964) :: "Me and My Town" - Angela Lansbury

Assassins - Original Cast Recording (1991) :: "The Ballad of Guiteau" - Jonathan Hadary : "Another National Anthem" - Eddie Korbich

Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) :: "Sorry-Grateful" - Charles Kimbrough, John Cunningham, George Coe, Steve Elmore

Follies - Original Broadway Cast (1971) :: "I'm Still Here" - Yvonne De Carlo

Into the Woods - Original Broadway Cast (1987) :: "Giants in the Sky" - Ben Wright : "Moments in the Woods" - Joanna Gleason : "Children Will Listen" - Bernadette Peters : "No One is Alone" - Chip Zein, Kim Crosby, Ben Wright, Danielle Ferland

A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) :: "A Weekend in the Country" - Victoria Mallory, D. Jamin-Barlett : "The Miller's Son" - D. Jamin-Barlett

Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) :: "Good Thing Going" - Lonny Price : "Opening Doors" - Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, Lonny Price, Sally Klein

Passion - 2013 New York Cast Recording (2013) :: "Loving You" - Judy Kuhn

Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast Recording (1985) :: "Finishing the Hat" - Mandy Patinkin : "Sunday in the Park with George" - Bernadette Peters : "Beautiful" - Mandy Patinkin & Barbara Bryne

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) :: "Kiss Me / Ladies in Their Sensitivities" - Sarah Rice, Victor Garber, Edmund Lyndeck, Jack Eric Williams

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original London Cast Last Night Live (1980) :: "Beggar Woman's Lullaby" - Dylis Watling

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Distantly Social 9: Catscast Mar 21, 2020

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The first and last episode of the podcast Catscast with Kari & Patrick & Roddy.

MUSIC: "The Rum Tum Tugger" performed by Terrence V. Mann from Cats - Original Broadway Cast (1982), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by T. S. Eliot

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Distantly Social 8: Lauren Halvorsen Mar 20, 2020

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Lauren Halvorsen talks cemetery walks and nothing else.

MUSIC: "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" performed by Paul Williams from Bugsy Malone - Original Soundtrack Album (1976), music and lyrics by Paul Williams

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Distantly Social 7: Danielle Mohlman Mar 19, 2020

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Danielle Mohlman is a Seattle-based playwright and one of my favorite people. And she's here with tales of theatres doing the right thing.

MUSIC: "Try It and See" sung by Rita Pavone the B-side of her single "Till Tomorrow" (1969), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

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Alexandra Petri / Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960) Mar 18, 2020

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Columnist, playwright, and the mind behind @KyloR3n is here for one of the most capital-M Musicals ever to grace the Broadway.

Topics include: unintentional weird, songs and book and when they don't meet, the unbearable heaviness of Alan Jay Lerner, and a 70-year-old musical that slaps.

Featured recordings: Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960)

NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 4, 2020 before any gathering restrictions were in place.

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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 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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Distantly Social 6: Robbie Rozelle Mar 17, 2020

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Robbie's here! 3 Act Musicals! Astoria, Queens! Office Trees!

MUSIC: "Try Me" sung by Nicholas Barasch from She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

Distantly Social 5: Farrell Parker Mar 16, 2020

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Farrell Parker talks about New Jersey and tax prep!

MUSIC: "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" sung by Christopher Neil from Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron: 1919-1952 (1976), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

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