The Original Cast

Latest Episodes:

Julie Benko / Grease 2 - Original Soundtrack Recording (1982) Nov 16, 2022

Show notes

You can see Julie every Thursday as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the August Wilson but you can listen to her HERE and NOW talking about . . . Grease 2?

Topics include: FYE, open-heart surgery, the insecurity of being Tom Hanks, voice lessons as a kid, and not being recognized by Lin-Manuel in a pharmacy.

Julie Benko Dot Com

Featured recordings: Grease 2 - Original Soundtrack Recording (1982) • Hand in Hand - Julie Benko & Jason Yeager (2022)

ORIGINAL CAST MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Margaret Hall / Assassins - The Broadway Cast Recording (2004) Nov 02, 2022

Show notes

My guest today is an author, performer, and theatre historian. Her book Gemingani is available now from Applause. And she's here about a dark musical about dark times with some bops along the way.

Topics include: Elvis, being a Cerveris evangelist, incel icons, bardic tradition, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

Maragret Dash Hall Dot Com

Order Gemignani Today!

Featured recordings: Assassins - The Broadway Cast Recording (2004)

ORIGINAL CAST MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Paul Salsini / The Golden Apple - Original Cast Recording (1954) Oct 19, 2022

Show notes

Paul was the editor and publisher of the famed Sondheim Review and he's written a book about his relationship with the master entitled Sondheim & Me (which is great and you should buy it and read it)! And he's here with one of the first musicals he saw that engendered a life-long vocation.

Topics include: seeing Do I Hear a Waltz? In its original Broadway run, translating Sondheim lyrics, donating your media, Greek mythology, and the time Stephen Sondheim got SO mad.

Paul's works on Bookshop Dot Org

Featured recordings: The Golden Apple - Original Cast Recording (1954) • Off Broadway - Jerry Orbach (1963)

ORIGINAL CAST MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

A.J. Ditty / High Fidelity - The Record (2007) Oct 05, 2022

Show notes

A.J. is a comedian and co-host of the wonderful The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast and here for a bad show that has one or two moments of music theatre heaven.

Topics include: slime tutorials, 2x4 with googly eyes, "broken clock" moments, the living embodiment of "well, actually," Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and lyrics with a good mouth-feel.

"Inside High Fidelity" background and analysis by Scott Miller

A.J. Ditty Dot Com

The Worst of All Possible Worlds

Featured recordings: High Fidelity - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007) • American Idiot - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010)

ORIGINAL CAST MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Alexandra Bowman / Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Perón: 1919-1952 (1976) Sep 21, 2022

Show notes

Alexandra Bowman is a freelance illustrator, political cartoonist, satirist, and fine artist from Washington, D.C. Her cartoons have appeared in Our Daily Planet, World War Zero, and The Lincoln Project. And she's here to talk about a show SHE'S WRITING A MASTER'S THESIS ABOUT!

Topics include: starting with Cats, Tim Rice says things, being a Cogsworth in a room full of Belles, Hamilton, the definition of satire, and can you ethically produce historical events on stage?

Alexandra Bowman Art Dot Com

Alex on Twitter

Queen of Hearts, the 1972 Eva Peron Thames Documentary narrated by Diana Rigg

Covita by the Lincoln Project

Featured recordings: Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Perón: 1919-1952 (1976)

ORIGINAL CAST MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Dan McCoy / Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) Sep 07, 2022

Show notes

Dan is an Emmy-winning writer and 1/3 of the wonderful podcast The Flop House and he has come here today to talk about the barber, the baker, his wife, and her Toby.

Topics include: HAIR, Josh Groban & Annaleigh Ashford, Johann's agency, Death in the Cathedral, pre-Fletcher Lansbury, and why maybe the Coen Brothers should've made the movie.

Dan McCoy Writer Dot Com

Dank McCoy on Twitter

Featured recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • A Wild and Crazy Guy - Steve Martin (1978)

ORIGINAL CAST MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Marc Bonanni / Drat! The Cat! - Studio Cast Recording (1997) Aug 24, 2022

Show notes

Marc is the host of the popular YouTube channel Broadway by Ghostlight and is here for a show that ran for 8 performances despite Barbra Streisand's best efforts.

Topics include: selling merch at The Drowsy Chaperone, Lee Wilkoff v. Eddie Korbich, shows that should've gone out of town, Anyone Can Whistle, and Blue Pear Records.

Broadway by Ghostlight - Drat! The Cat!: Broadway's Best 8-Performance FLOP

Broadway by Ghostlight - The Outrageous Publicity Stunts Of David Merrick

Featured recordings: Drat! The Cat! - Studio Cast Recording (1997) • My Name Is Barbra, Two... - Barbra Streisand (1965)

MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Adam Feldman / Evita - Premiere American Recording (1979) Aug 10, 2022

Show notes

Adam is the National Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic at TimeOut New York and President of the New York Drama Critics' Circle. And he is here for a big episode about a very big show on a very big, double-LP.

Topics include: Patti, Mandy, Patti's rage, Bob Gunton's accent, Mandy being Mandy all over the second act, comma writing, Mark Syers, the worst lyric in Chess, the "Big Apple," and the agony and the ecstasy of Tim Rice.

Adam at TimeOut

Featured recordings: Evita - Premiere American Recording (1979) • Pacific Overtures - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1976) • Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988)

MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Len Rodino / Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recording (1993) Jul 27, 2022

Show notes

Playbill's Director of Events & Creative Strategy Len Rodino stops by to talk about this BIG musical about BIG drama that had BIG drama around it for 40+ years!

Topics include: taking the bus from PA, Patti LuPone's memoir, 5 "useful" majors, starting as the receptionist, cigarette ads in my Playbill, and And Juliet!

Len's Instagram

Featured recordings: Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recording (1993) • Boulevard! - The Complete Musical Adaptation (2008)

MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) Jul 13, 2022

Show notes

Emmy-winner and former The Daily Show head-writer Elliott Kalan is here for a musical running now about then but really about way back then which seems to have been lost now.

Topics include: losing on Jeopardy!, adding jokes by Larry David, ethical use of a resurrection machine, Frank Loesser, the House Committee on "Shipoopi," Broadway sets of the 50s & 60s, and (of course) is Winthrop Marion's son and does that matter?

Elliott Kalan on Twitter

The Flop House Podcast

The Who Was? Podcast

Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)

MERCH!

Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics!

Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected