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Margaret Gleason / Violet - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014) Mar 09, 2022

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Margaret is directing Violet right now at Georgetown University but she never says why she wanted to discuss this album!

Topics include: progress, Donald Margulies, Hedda Gabler, finding the humor in dramas, going too far, the state of modern theatre education, and perception

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Come see Violet! Free performances March 24th-27th, 30th, and April 1st-2nd at Georgetown University

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Featured recording: Violet - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)

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Aaron J. Albano / Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) Feb 23, 2022

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Aaron has been in 9 Broadway shows, is currently on the road with Hamilton, and has produced the film Ensemble which you simply must-see. And he's here for a show that took Northern California by storm in the mid-nineties!

Topics include: "high" concept musicals, things going viral pre-Internet, not being in the best number in the show, and THE GREATEST PLOT SUMMARY IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PODCAST SINCE ANYONE CAN WHISTLE!

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Watch ENSEMBLE at Broadway On-Demand

Featured recordings: Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999)

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Our original Starmites episode with Amanda Zeitler!

Our episode with the Trinkulus of the original Broadway Starmites cast: Gabriel Barre! (A performance for which he was Tony nominated.)

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Distantly Social 74: Funny Lady Kay Medford (w/ Douglas J. Cohen) Feb 16, 2022

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Composer, lyricist, and friend of the show Douglas J. Cohen responds to questions raised during the most recent The Original Cast at the Movies episode about Funny Lady and its lack of Kay Medford.

Kay Medford and Zero Mostel performing "Do You Love Me?" on The Dean Martin Show. [NOTE: There is a low buzz on the left channel of this video so only use the right earbud.]

Info about the Kojak episode Doug references.

Featured recordings: "Who Taught Her Everything?" performed by Kay Medford and Danny Meehan from Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) • "Some People" performed by Kay Medford from Gypsy - Studio Cast (1969)

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Analise Scarpaci / Gypsy - The 2008 Broadway Cast Recording (2008) Feb 09, 2022

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Analise has done 3 Broadway shows before the age of 22 (including Mrs. Doubtfire) and has an EP of original songs out with Broadway Records. She's here with a musical about the harrowing family experience of a couple of child musical performers and their mythological stage mother. . . Don't read too much into that.

Topics include: introverted extroverts, roasting yourself, breaking the mold, Tony Orlando & Dawn, lip-syncing Patti, and marathons (not sprints).

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Pathetic Little Dreamer now available from Broadway Records

Featured recordings: Gypsy - The 2008 Broadway Cast Recording (2008) • Pathetic Little Dreamer - Analise Scarpaci (2021)

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Brooke Muller / Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) Jan 26, 2022

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Brooke is the creator of Call Time Broadway, a theatre-specific social media network and she's here to explain that to an old man while talking about a show based on almost 6% of a Russian novel.

Topics include: Russian FBs, Josh Groban, what to do when you love theatre but can't sing/act/dance, opera, and the private & intimate life of the house.

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Featured recordings: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)

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Duane Richards II / SpongeBob SquarePants - Original Cast Recording (2017) Jan 12, 2022

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Duane is a performer, songwriter, and teacher who is here for an album that can be heard every-other-morning in my car.

Topics include: 90s Kids, DisneyMania, T.I., writing, writing without knowing what you're writing, and writing some more.

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Featured recordings: SpongeBob SquarePants - Original Cast Recording (2017) • "Momentum (Duane's Version)" - Duane Richards II

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Cast Album Cage Match: EVITA vs. Billy Recce Dec 22, 2021

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9 recordings enter. Only 1 can leave. And it shall leave a champion. This is CAST ALBUM CAGE MATCH!

Composer/lyricist Billy Recce joins Patrick to find the best cast album of one of their favorite shows: Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's EVITA!

PLAY-IN ROUND

- 1979 Disco Album v. 1996 Movie Soundtrack

ROUND 1

- Studio Casts: 1976 Concept Album v. Play-In Round Winner

- World Casts: 1980 Australian v. 1989 World Tour

- West End Casts: 1978 v. 2006

- Broadway Casts: 1979 v. 2012

ROUND 2

- Studio Winner v. West End Winner

- Broadway Winner v. World Winner

ROUND 3: The FINALE!!

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A Musical About Star Wars

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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it's the 2016 documentary about the making of Merrily We Roll Along entitled Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened with Kimberly Cooper Schmidt!

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Jimmy Gaspero / Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast (1960) Dec 08, 2021

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Attorney by day & Interview Content Editor for Comic Book Yeti by night, Jimmy is an old friend of Patrick's who is here for a show they did together just after the original production of The Life opened on Broadway.

Topics include: Bring Back Birdie, 16-year-old Harry MacAfees, Paul Lynde, Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, comics, and aging out of Conrad.

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Featured recordings: Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast (1960) • Bring Back Birdie - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981)

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LIVE STREAM RECORDING 12/21/2021 - THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES: BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED (2016) with Kimberly Cooper Schmidt. Go to Patreon Dot Com Slash Original Cast Pod for details!

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Elegy: Stephen Sondheim Nov 27, 2021

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Stephen Joshua Sondheim, 22 March 1930 - 26 November 2021

The Original Cast at the Movies: tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) Nov 24, 2021

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Serena Berman and Robbie Rozelle join Patrick for a discussion of the new Netflix film tick, tick . . . BOOM!. Is it as good as everyone says? Yes. And yes.

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