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Distantly Social 3: Roddy Flynn Mar 14, 2020

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Roddy is here straight from the room where it* happened!

*Congress, not like, the room where the virus started. That'd be bananas.

MUSIC: "The Room Where It Happened" sung by Leslie Odo m Jr. from Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015), music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Distantly Social 2: Beth Amann Mar 13, 2020

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Beth Amann (Wicked) is the Managing Director of the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Monumental. Their acclaimed production of Head Over Heels has been cut short by recent events. Also cheese boards.

MUSIC: "Mad About You" sung by Andrew Durand from Head Over Heels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018), music and lyrics by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan, Mitchel Young Evans

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Distantly Social 1: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt & Jay Schmidt Mar 13, 2020

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I'm going to try and release 7 episodes a week during this time of social distancing where I talk to people in the theatre about what they're seeing and how they're doing.

First up: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk from uptown Manhattan.

MUSIC: "We Need a Little Christmas" sung by Angela Lansbury from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

Intermission: Movies Made Musical (w/ Jay Schmidt) Mar 11, 2020

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People make movies and then musicals of those movies and some are not great. But some are transcendently good.

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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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Chris Stinson / The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984) Mar 04, 2020

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It's a play this week! No singing, no music, just words. Good words. Tom Stoppard words. And a great guest: Chris Stinson.

Topics include: nihilism, love, Cynthia Nixon doing two Broadway plays at once, and how Jeremy Irons's character may have led to Brexit.

Featured recordings: The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984)

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Intermission: Don't Make Me Sing (w/ Eliza Berkon) Feb 26, 2020

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I give you this guitar but only if you solemnly promise never to bring it to a party without being asked.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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Jenna Duncan / Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) Feb 19, 2020

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Jenna is a director in DC (she directed my adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit) and is also the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at Olney Theatre Center. And she's here for a big hit that we all love and, actually, is a lot more layered than you may think.

Topics include: tradition, love, Thestrals, and the importance of stage presence.

Featured recordings: Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)

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Intermission: The Gardiner-Flynn Flop Test for Flops (w/ James Gardiner) Feb 12, 2020

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Is it possible to mathematically determine whether or not a Broadway show is a flop?

Yes, it is.

We did it.

Yay!

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James Gardiner / Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) Feb 05, 2020

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James is many things to many people. He's a performer, director, publicity director at Signature Theatre in DC, and also the book writer for the musical Glory Days which ran on Broadway for one performance in 2008. And he's here to talk about all those things as well as the best show ever written that doesn't work. Topics include: That Frank, book writing is hard, Glory Days (of course), and how what we lose in the fire we gain in the flood. Read Logan Culwell-Block's full Playbill article "22 Broadway Musicals That Closed on Opening Night" Featured recordings: Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) • Merrily We Roll Along - The New Cast Recording (!994) • Glory Days - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Intermission: POPular Music (w/ Nicole Hertvik) Jan 29, 2020

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Did you know there were other kinds of music besides original cast recordings? Me neither.

Also, we talk about Cats.

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