The Original Cast

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Daisy Eagan / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) Dec 14, 2016

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The youngest actress to ever receive a Tony® Award is here to talk about everyone's favorite musical based on an album by The Who.

Topics include: Anthony Barrile's gyrations, why teenagers are so angry, and whether or not Daisy was (briefly in the early 90s) the real-life Sally Simpson of the St. James Theatre.

Daisy can currently be seen at Shakespeare Theatre here in DC in THE SECRET GARDEN, newly extended through January 8!

Featured recordings: THE WHO'S TOMMY - Original Cast Recording (1993)TOMMY - The Who (1969)

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Jenny Donovan / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) Dec 07, 2016

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Actor Jenny Donovan is here to talk about one of Patrick's favorite musicals. Which means she is also here to listen to Patrick talk about one of his favorite musicals. Topics include: the politically correct term for "hunchback," possibly misused musical terms, and what is Martha's deal?

Featured recordings: The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)The Baker's Wife - An Original Cast Recording (1976)Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979)

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Intermission: Party Pieces (w/ Sophie Schulman) Nov 30, 2016

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Sophie and Patrick discuss the routines their parents trotted them out to perform for company and how inappropriate they were for kids.

Featured recordings: ELLA FITZGERALD SINGS THE RODGERS AND HART SONGBOOK - Ella Fitzgerald (1956)BABY BELUGA - Raffi (1980)LOST IN THE STARS - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (1949)VOLUME 2 - Woody Allen (1965)

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Jon Rubin / The Last Five Years - Original Cast Recording (2002) Nov 23, 2016

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Flying V Theatre's managing director Jon Rubin is here to talk about one of the most heartbreaking musicals ever written. Topics include: inter-faith relationships, Tu BiShvat, and isn't Jamie the worst for cheating on Cathy? I mean, oh my God, what he did is completely unforgivable and don't even get me started on "The Schmuel Song."

Featured recordings: THE LAST FIVE YEARS - Original Cast Recording (2002)SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD - World Premiere Recording (1997)PARADE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)

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Intermission: Dialogue (w/ John Dellaporta) Nov 16, 2016

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Patrick and John discuss the increase in dialogue on original cast albums and solve all the problems. . . Or don't.

Featured recordings: GUYS AND DOLLS - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1993)NEWSIES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)

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Sara E. Cohen / Pippin - Original Cast Album (1972) Nov 09, 2016

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Sara works at Ford's Theatre here in DC and is an avid music theatre historian and she has come down to the studio to discuss a show steeped in history which both she and Patrick have very mixed feelings about. Topics include rhyming "glow" and "grow," super-directors, and Fosse vs Schwartz.

Featured recordings: PIPPIN - Original Cast Album (1972) ALL THAT JAZZ - Original Movie Soundtrack (1979) PIPPIN (1982) [DVD]

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Intermission: Finding Nemo - The Musical (w/ Lee Liebeskind) Nov 02, 2016

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Patrick and Lee start with SPRING AWAKENING move to AVENUE Q then FINDING NEMO: THE MUSICAL to WINNIE-THE-POOH to Broken Lizard back to SPRING AWAKENING then on to RENT and somehow land on HAIR.

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Featured recordings: AVENUE Q - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) FINDING NEMO - The Musical (2007)

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Amanda Zeitler / Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) Oct 26, 2016

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Amanda introduces Patrick to a show he had not only never heard but never heard of. After a thorough plot synopsis things get personal, then philosophical, then pedagogical, then philosophical again, then paleontological.

Featured recordings: STARMITES - Original Cast Members (1999)

Featured websites: Starmites Official Site The Starmite Story Sharon McNight Official Website Gabriel Barre's Official Website

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Intermission: Bad Lyrics (w/ Michael J. Bobbitt) Oct 19, 2016

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During their ONCE ON THIS ISLAND talk, Michael and Patrick detoured into one of Patrick's pet peeves: bad lyricism. And it goes there.

Featured recordings: GIRL - Pharrell Williams (2014) FEELING STRANGELY FINE - Semisonic (1998) WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT - Arctic Monkeys (2005) LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) THE LION KING - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1994) WEST SIDE STORY - Original Broadway Cast (1957)

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Kari Ginsburg / Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) Oct 12, 2016

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Actor and director Kari Ginsburg is here to talk about one woman's fall from grace as she facilitates the rise of her daughter from the front of a cow to the greatest stripper in the history of the world.

Featured recordings: GYPSY - The Original Broadway Cast (1959)

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