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Intermission: The MTV (w/ Eric Messner) May 18, 2016

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During my conversation with Eric Messner about THE WHO'S TOMMY, we ended up talking about MTV in the early-to-mid 1990s and what a great thing it was. Like, seriously, it was money. So money and you don't even know it.

Featured recordings: THE WHO'S TOMMY - Original Cast Recording (1993) FLASH: Original Soundtrack Music - Queen (1980) STRONG BAD SINGS AND OTHER TYPE HITS - Homestar Runner (2003) CLOUD 9 - George Harrison (1987) EVEN WORSE - "Weird Al" Yankovic (1988)

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Evan Casey / Les Misérables - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) May 11, 2016

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Actor, singer, and Orioles fan Evan Casey talks LES MISÉRABLES. Patrick & Evan talk about Colm Wilkinson, JERSEY BOYS, and whether or not Terrence Mann is the greatest singer in the history of the world.

Featured recording: LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)

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Intermission: Boublil & Schönberg (w/ Evan Casey) May 04, 2016

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This week's intermission comes from next week's talk with actor Evan Casey. Patrick & Evan discuss the work of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and how difficult it is to follow a mega-hit like LES MISÉRABLES.

Featured recordings: LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) MISS SAIGON - Original London Cast Recording (1990) "Mama Told Me Not to Come" - Three Dog Night

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Jason Schlafstein / Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984) Apr 27, 2016

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Jason is the artistic director for the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Flying V. He and Patrick discuss the concept album of CHESS and how it cemented their friendship. Also: singing in restaurants, the glory of synth rock, and the nature of love. Seriously, it gets deep for a minute.

Featured recording: CHESS - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984) http://amzn.to/1Sr0sFE

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Intermission: The Pulitzer Prize for Musicals Apr 20, 2016

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This week HAMILTON became the 9th musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Patrick gives a history of the prize and the now 9 musicals that have won the most prestigious award in American theatre.

Featured recordings: OF THEE I SING - Brooklyn Academy of Music (1987)

SOUTH PACIFIC - Original Broadway Cast (1949)

FIORELLO! - Original Broadway Cast (1959)

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1961)

A CHORUS LINE - Original Broadway Cast (1975)

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE - Original Cast Recording (1984)

RENT - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996)

NEXT TO NORMAL - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)

HAMILTON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)

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Don Mike Mendoza / Hot Mikado - Original Cast Recording (1995) Apr 13, 2016

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La-Ti-Do performer and producer Don Mike Mendoza talks about that swingin’ adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan: HOT MIKADO. We talk interracial casting, talent crushes, and tap dancing.

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Intermission: Meeting Mandy Patinkin (w/ Evan Casey) Apr 06, 2016

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Welcome to The Original Cast’s first Intermission. Every other week in between interviews, we’ll release something that was cut due to time but was just too good to keep to ourselves.

Our first Intermissionee is actor, singer, & teacher Evan Casey. Evan will be back in a few weeks to discuss the original Broadway cast recording of LES MISÉRABLES. Until then, here’s Evan’s story about the time he met Mandy Patinkin.

Evan can currently be seen at Signature Theatre in THE FLICK now through April 17. Tickets are available at http://www.sigtheatre.org/events/2015-16/the-flick/

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Tracy Lynn Olivera / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967) Mar 30, 2016

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Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright/filmmaker/professor Patrick Flynn.

Our first guest is actress, singer, & recording artist Tracy Lynn Olivera who stops by to discuss the 1967 original cast album of YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN. We’re also joined by dramaturg Megan Westman as we discuss off-Broadway basement shows, the wrong kind of meta, and how Tracy feels about the 1999 Broadway revival (spoiler: she hates it).

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Welcome to The Original Cast! Mar 16, 2016

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Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright-filmmaker-professor Patrick Flynn.

Each week we’ll bring you a discussion with someone you’d find on-stage, backstage, or in the house of a theatre about that most precious of musical theatre accessories: cast albums.

Episodes start March 30 wherever podcasts are sold.

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