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Mike Meaney / Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968) Jul 26, 2023

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Mike is a New York City-based director who loves the Great American Songbook, trivia, collecting LP records, and hot beverages. And he's here for a Kander & Ebb show that's right up there with 70, Girls, 70 and The Happy Time in terms of popularity, influence, and success.

Topics include: getting the plot wrong, death in musicals, Anyone Can Whistle, who would've won the Best Score Tony in 1969 had it existed, Don Walker, and Hal Prince's ethos (or lack thereof).

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Featured recordings: Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968)

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Erika Villalba / Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) Jul 12, 2023

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Erika is a co-host of the great podcast That Aged Well as well as a writer and performer who loves the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Bookshop. And she's here for a show she saw FIVE TIMES on Broadway!

Topics include: songs from the '66 original, is Sally Bowles just Millie Dilmount on drugs, the problem of irony, making Generation X feel better, The Wolf of Wall Street, and what has aged well.

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Featured recordings: Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • Cabaret - The Original Broadway Cast (1966) • Cabaret - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1972)

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Kimberly Cooper Schmidt / Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016) Jun 28, 2023

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Broadwaysted!'s own Kimberly is back (for the 3rd time) to talk about the album that makes us wonder: "Who . . . is Barbra Streisand?"

Topics include: how to headphone like Barbra, doing more Zack than you want, James Brolin self-tapes, Hugh Jackman playing a wolf-man, Barbra as the emcee, what you get with the "Deluxe" Edition, and how much dialogue is too much dialogue?

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Featured recordings: Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016) • The Broadway Album - Barbra Streisand (1985)

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PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 66: The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) Jun 27, 2023

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Confession time. This whole "Year of Barbra" thing has really been a long con to promote a production of the play The Owl and the Pussycat directed by Patrick and starring today's guests: Serena Berman (Hair, tick, tick…BOOM!) and A.J. Ditty (High Fidelity). We open at the Snapple Theatre this fall on the set of Perfect Crimes and are actively looking for investors.

Paul Caiola / Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) Jun 14, 2023

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Paul acts, he writes, he podcasts, he does many things. And he is here to talk about a show that maybe won a lot of Tonys this past Sunday! Or maybe not!! Only way to find out is to listen!!!

Topics include: parents acting like children, children forced to be parents, crying through Act 2, Barnum!, story structure, and how Paul doesn't know music theory, he just feels things.

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Featured recordings: Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015)

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Taylor J. Williams / Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008) May 31, 2023

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Taylor J. Williams is a 2023 Tony Award-nominee in the Best Sound Design of a Play category for Ain't No Mo'. He is also a musician who has worked as an electronic music designer on more than 30 Broadway productions including Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice, Be More Chill, King Kong, Frozen, and Falsettos.

Topics include: pageantry, melodrama, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, napping in a rats' nest of cables, Adam Pascal bootlegs, and what does a programmer . . . do?

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Featured recordings: Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008) • Aida - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000)

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PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 65: Nuts May 27, 2023

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The Year of Barbra Continues!

Rob W. Schneider (Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) join Patrick for yet another bad psychiatrist movie. Now with 5x as much ACTING!

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Dana Spialter / In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) May 17, 2023

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Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she's come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job.

Topics include: getting typecast out of Fiddler, Anthony Newley, what a producer does, RENT, coming home, and musicals based on nothing.

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Featured recordings: In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008)

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Mark-Eugene Garcia / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) May 03, 2023

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Mark's website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music Eight Tales of Pedro (written with Luis D'Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he's here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart.

Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, The Opposite of Sex: The Musical, and fan-boy-ing out.

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Featured recordings: A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

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Rob Weinert-Kendt / The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) Apr 19, 2023

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Rob was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West & is the editor-in-chief of American Theatre magazine. And he's here for the only Off-Broadway show to win a Tony Award.

Topics include: psuedo-Marxist propaganda, in rep with The Fantasticks, Gilbert & Sullivan, Double-LP German recordings, Domar Warehouse, how existence is a female dog and then one perishes, and the vocal stylings of Dame Bea Arthur.

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Featured recordings: The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) • Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill - Hal Willner (1985) • The Threepenny Opera - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Die Dreigroschenoper - Columbia Masterworks (1958) • Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

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