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**The Original Cast**

A podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright Patrick Flynn.

Latest Episodes:

Harrison Smith / Parade - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999) Mar 14, 2018

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Actor Harrison Smith is here for one of the most important and difficult to listen to musicals ever.

Topics include: JRB, Prince, Uhry, Guettel, and the terrifying capacity of James Finley.

Featured recordings:

PARADE - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? February's episode features Natalie Ann Piegari and Amanda Zeitler talking about Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991).

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Intermission: Collaboration (w/ Logan Culwell-Block) Mar 07, 2018

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Logan Culwell-Block is back for this excised conversation about collaboration. Also Barbara Dickson. Also Logan didn't really think ASSASSINScame out in 1976. That was an auditory error.

Featured recordings:

THE SOUND OF MUSIC - An Original Soundtrack Recording (1965)

EVITA - An Opera Based on the Life of Eva Peron, 1919-1952 (1976)

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Elisa Rosman / March of the Falsettos ; Falsettoland - Original Cast (1981 ; 1990) Feb 28, 2018

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Music director and pianist extraordinaire Elisa Rosman is here for two LPs about a single show that was two shows (really three shows) and is now one show but is still good enough for three shows.

Topics include: The great William Finn, the great Chip Zein, and leaving crying after you came laughing.

Featured recordings:

MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS - Original Cast (1981)

FALSETTOLAND - Original Cast (1990)

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? This month's episode features Natalie Ann Piegari and Amanda Zeitler talking about Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991).

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Intermission: Try It and See (w/ Danielle Mohlman) Feb 21, 2018

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Three quick conversations excised from Danielle Mohlman's episode about JESUS CHRIST SUPERTAR including an amazing surprise I'm so excited for you to hear omigod, you guys.

Featured recordings:

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - A Rock Opera (1970)

TILL TOMORROW b/w Try It and See - Rita Pavone (1969)

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Vaughn Irving / Striking 12 - The New GrooveLily Musical (2005) Feb 14, 2018

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Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Playhouse Vaughn Irving is here with another Zeitler!

Topics include: drummers, grooves, and what does an artistic director do anyway?

See It's the Rest of the World That Looks So Small NOW at the Silver Spring Black Box!

Featured recordings:

STRIKING 12 - The New GrooveLily Musical (2005)

THING-A-WEEK THREE - Jonathan Coulton (2006)

THE ORANGE BOX - Original Soundtrack (2007)

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Intermission: Decomposing Billy Joel (w/ Decomposition Podcast) Feb 07, 2018

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I'm on Decomposition Podcast this week defending the honor of Tony Award-winner Billy Joel. This week's intermission is an excerpt from that appearance. The full episode is available over at Decomposition Podcast.

Featured recordings:

52ND STREET - Billy Joel (1978)

STORM FRONT - Billy Joel (1989)

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Intermission: Rent - The Movie (w/ Jimmy Mavrikes) Jan 24, 2018

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Jimmy and Patrick divert into the rich vein that is the major motion picture adaptation of RENT. Lord help us.

Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? This month's episode features Tracy Lynn Olivera and Holly Twyford talking WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971).

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Lauren Halvorsen / The Wild Party - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000) Jan 17, 2018

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The thrilling conclusion to our deep-dive into THE WILD PARTY. We talk the La Chuisa/Wolfe Broadway version, Mandy Patinkin, the philosophy of adaptation, Mandy Patinkin, which we prefer, and Mandy Patinkin in . . . (not a joke, wish it was) blackface.

Poem excerpts read and recorded by Lee Liebeskind.

Featured recordings:

THE WILD PARTY - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000)

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY - Vol. 5: Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act! (1999)

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Lauren Halvorsen / The Wild Party - Original Cast Recording (2000) Jan 10, 2018

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Dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen is here for the first of our epic, two-part dive into both musical versions of THE WILD PARTY. Here we cover not only Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway take on Queenie, Burrs, Black, et al.; we also talk through Joseph Moncure March's novella-length poem upon which both musicals are based.

Poem excerpts read and recorded by Lee Liebeskind.

Featured recording:

THE WILD PARTY - Original Cast Recording (2000)

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Intermission: Which Party is Wilder? (w/ James Finley) Jan 03, 2018

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The next two episodes of this podcast will feature Lauren Halvorsen discussing both Andrew Lippa and Michael John La Chuisa's interpretations of THE WILD PARTY.

So before we dig deep into one of the oddest coincidences in New York theatre history, I'm bringing you this excised bit from James Finley's episode about THE LIFE where James compares the two shows from the perspective of having been in both.

Featured recordings:

THE WILD PARTY - Original Cast Recording (2000)

THE WILD PARTY - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000)

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