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Musicals Based on Comics: Live from Flying V Awesome-a-Thon Vol. 3! Nov 27, 2019

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Did you know there were musicals based on comics (besides Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark)? Well, we explore them and their impact in this wonderful live show from Flying V Theatre's Awesome-a-Thon Vol. 3, their annual 24-hour fundraiser.

Featuring Chris Klimek's point of view and the heavenly voices of Kari Ginsburg, Don Mike Mendoza, and Anna Grace Nowalk with Heather Hurley on piano.

Also: Patrick sings and plays guitar and talks and there's a slideshow you can't see because you weren't there but can see but you can follow along with if you go to this LINK!

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Songs:

0:00:00 "Holy Musical, B@man!" from Holy Musical, B@man! · performed by Patrick, Kari, Don Mike, & Anna · music and lyrics by Nick Gage & Scott Lamps

0:08:40 "Pulled" from The Addams Family · performed by Anna · music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa

0:16:15 "The Boy from..." from The Mad Show · performed by Don Mike · music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

0:33:30 "Days" from Fun Home · performed by Kari · music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Lisa Kron

0:49:48 "Magneto and Titanium Man" · performed by Patrick with Kari, Don Mike, & Anna · music and lyrics by Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney

0:56:20 "Just One Night" from Doonesbury · performed by Anna & Don Mike · music by Elizabeth Swados, lyrics by Garry Trudeau

1:03:15 "The Doctor is In" from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown · performed by Kari & Patrick · music and lyrics by Clark Gesner

Recorded live on April 14, 2019 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no. It's Bob Fosse's masterpiece All That Jazz (1979)!

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Intermission: Go See Love Letters! (w/ Christina A. Coakley) Nov 20, 2019

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Have you seen Love Letters? You should see Love Letters. It's a play. And a perfectly cromulent one.

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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?This month it's Chris Klimek (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line) talking about the greatest movie Prince ever made: Purple Rain (1984)!

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Gabriel Barre / Rags - A New American Musical (1991) Nov 13, 2019

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Tony-nominated actor (Starmites) and director (Amazing Grace, Lippa's The Wild Party) Gabriel Barre is our first guest to be in the original Broadway cast of the show we're discussing, and you will soon see why. Rags famously ran for 4 performances on Broadway but nevertheless was nominated for 5 Tony awards and has survived through the years due to staunch advocation by its devoted fans and creators.

Topics include: opening in Boston without a director, learning on the job, John & Jen, and (to the delight of at least one of you) Starmites.

Featured recordings: Rags - A New American Musical (1991) • Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) • John & Jen - Original Cast Recording (1996)

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Intermission: Stro (w/ Courtney Laine Self) Nov 06, 2019

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Courtney worked with Susan Stroman. So we talk about Susan Stroman. A lot! With that good Courtney/Patrick energy!

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Adam Gwon / Das Barbecü - Original Cast Recording (1994) Oct 30, 2019

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Composer/lyricist Adam Gwon is here for a western adaptation of Wagner's The Ring Cycle and to talk about his new musical Scotland, PA which is based on an early-aughts indy film that adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth into a story about competing burger joints in 1970's rural Pennsylvania.

What a sentence!

Topics include: finding your path, changing your path, living that new path, and making guacamole.

Featured recordings: Das Barbecü - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Ordinary Days - Original Cast Recording (2009)

There is also a demo recording of "Byron" from The Waves, music and lyrics by David Bucknam, performed by Raúl Esparza with Matt Aument on piano.

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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 journalist/radio personality Chris Klimek (It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!) and journalist/actress Rachel Manteuffel (Annie, maybe?) talking Prince's first movie: Purple Rain (1984)!

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Intermission: Licence to Play (w/ Garrett Anderson) Oct 23, 2019

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Did I ever tell you about the time I co-produced a production of Grease! and it turned out we didn't have the rights?

By the way, the The Simpsons episode I reference is "Jaws Wired Shut" (s13e09).

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)!

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Nicole Hertvik / Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010) Oct 16, 2019

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DC Metro Theater Arts editor and publisher Nicole Hertvick is here for an emo telling of the 7th President of the United State's rise to power that fully commits to its premise.

Topics include: Emo, Spring Awakening, the Trail of Tears, and (somehow) Cats. We talk about Cats for a minute. And I don't remember how we got there but there it is: Cats.

CONTENT WARNING: Some of the songs in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson employ some of the seven words you cannot say on television and so may not suit your current listening situation.

Featured recordings: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2014) and Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)!

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Intermission: Gypsy, Follies, & Two Gentlemen (w/ Douglas J. Cohen) Oct 09, 2019

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Doug and I do a lot of great musical theatre back-and-forth but really you just need to read this line from Dorothy Rodgers (wife to Richard, mother to Mary) New York Times obituary: "Mrs. Rodgers founded Repairs Inc., an agency that hired craftsmen to repair broken objects, in 1935 and was its head until 1941. In 1945 she patented the Jonny Mop, which was sold by Johnson & Johnson. It was one of several inventions. In 1958 she created the Basically Yours dress pattern for McCall's, and in 1972 she patented the Turn and Learn storybooks, sold by the Ideal Toy Company."

Seriously!

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Caroline Dubberly / Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Broadway Cast Album (2014) Oct 02, 2019

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**TRIGGER WARNING** The episode contains frank discussions of sexual assault and stalker behavior.

Caroline Dubberly is here for a show about the dichotomy of existence, the destructiveness of revenge, the cycle of abuse, and the power of self-love.

Topics include: the origin of love, the power of tattoos, and the hymns that get us through.

Featured recordings: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Broadway Cast Album (2014)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (this episode) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)!

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Intermission: Getting Married on CBS (w/ Alexandra Silber) Sep 25, 2019

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Doubling up on Al Silber with portions of last week's interview that were edited for time. This episode will also dovetail nicely into next week's episode on Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Synergy! Here's a link to the Tonys performance Al mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j661y6KwYA Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

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