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Em Humble / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Original Cast Soundtrack (1968) Jun 29, 2022

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Comedian/filmmaker Em Humble comes to us from the North of England to talk about a film that . . . makes . . . no . . . . . . sense?

Topics include: the Childcatcher, late 60s sexism, Colonialism, songs that make no sense, the Leeds Tealights, and stage freight.

Em Humble Dot Com

Em's viral "Every 'Northern' character in a musical." Video

The IMDb Trivia section for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Featured recordings: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Original Cast Soundtrack (1968)

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Zach Raffio / The Lion King - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) Jun 15, 2022

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Zach is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Broadway Beat, a Broadway/theatre-based satire publication which has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and which Seth Rudetsky called "truly brilliant comic writing."

Topics include: Hans Zimmer, Scar being a creeper, Parade, backstage industrial accidents, folks who don't know what a stage manger is, and The Original Cast BINGO!

Zach Raffio Dot Com

Featured recordings: The Lion King - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

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IT'S THE 2022 TONYS!!!!! Jun 08, 2022

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Broadwaysted's own Kimberly Cooper Schmidt returns to talk about Sunday's TONY AWARDS!

Topics include: Caroline, or Change, Company, Diana, Flying Over Sunset, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Funny Girl, Girl from the North Country, MJ, Mr. Saturday Night, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Music Man, Paradise Square, SIX, and A Strange Loop

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Stephanie Ridgeway Johnson / In the Green - Original Cast Recording (2019) Jun 01, 2022

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Stephanie is an actor, musician, and theatre practitioner who is here for a one-act, five-actor musical telling the true story of a future saint, her friend locked in a church, and her eye, hand, and mouth.

Topics include: anchoresses, nuns, Catholic college, intentional dissonance, wrestling with songs, and staying true to yourself in the midst of it all.

Stephanie Ridgeway Johnson

Featured recordings: In the Green - Original Cast Recording (2019) • Novelty Idols - Stephanie Ridgeway Johnson (2021)

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HaleyJane Rose / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Original Canadian Cast Recording (1992) May 18, 2022

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HaleyJane does many, many, many things (songwriter, performer, comedian, et al.) but listeners of our little show probably know her best from her work on Broadway's answer to The Onion: The Broadway Beat.

Topics include: camping up the camp, genre-blending, the King, how Joseph was kind of a dick, and maybe ALW just NEEDS a narrator?

HaleyJane Rose Dot Com

Featured recordings: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Original Canadian Cast Recording (1992) • "Three First Names" - HaleyJane Rose (2018)

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Sophie Klahr / Parade - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999) May 04, 2022

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Sophie's a poet. And she's aware of the fact that she is one. A poet that is. And she's here for Jason Robert Brown's first Broadway show with a title that is an exclamation point away from a Gwen Verdon/George Abbott joint from the late 50s. But only in the title.

Topics include: someone else's tragedy, staging musicals in your head, having your heartbroken, being "Sophia," and tilting at windmills (because somebody's got to).

Sophie Klahr Dot Org

Sophie's Twitter exchange with Jason Robert Brown

Featured recordings: Parade - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)

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Jesse McAnally / Hello Again - Original Cast Recording (1994) Apr 20, 2022

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Podcaster and filmmaker Jesse McAnally is here for a musical about sexuality based on an early 20th-century play that is NOT Spring Awakening and the movie based on that musical that is also not Spring Awakening but does have Audra McDonald, T.R. Knight, and Martha Plimpton and that's very good. (We do jump between the movie and the stage show a lot.)

Topics include: leitmotif, The Wild Party, Mandy, Marla Singer, "post-coital enlightenment," and do the author(s) of this musical know what this show/movie.

Jesse's profile on the Broadway Podcast Network

Musicals With Cheese episode about the Meat Loaf feud(?)

Featured recordings: Hello Again - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Hello Again - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2018) • The Wild Party - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000)

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Emilio Ramos / Flower Drum Song - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2002) Apr 06, 2022

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Emilio is a Broadway ensemblist featured in the film Ensemble who brings us a show with a very strong ensemble indeed.

Topics include: when an ensemble member takes your eye, the information superhighway, tear-down revivals, East meets West, and DHH.

Watch ENSEMBLE at Broadway On-Demand

"Fan Tan Fannie" choreography

Emilio's Instagram

Featured recordings: Flower Drum Song - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2002)

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David Loud / The Scottsboro Boys - Original Cast Recording (2010) Mar 23, 2022

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David has a unique place in Broadway history. No only has he music directed some of your favorite Broadway shows of the last 20+ years (Ragtime, Company 1995, She Loves Me 1993, to name a few) but he is also the originator of the three roles on the Broadway stage in Master Class, Curtains, and Merrily We Roll Along.

Topics include: Stro's kitchen table, touring with Scott Ellis, wanting to be Paul Gemignani, and the 7-hour version of Curtains.

Get David's memoir Facing the Music

Featured recordings: The Scottsboro Boys - Original Cast Recording (2010) • Curtains - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007)

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Distantly Social 75: Ensemble The Movie (w/ Aaron J. Albano) Mar 11, 2022

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Aaron J. Albano is back to talk more about the short documentary Ensemble that he co-produced and appears in.

Watch ENSEMBLE at Broadway On-Demand

Featured recording: "Opening: I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line - Original Broadway Cast (1975)

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