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)
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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
The Worst of All Possible Worlds
Featured recordings: High Fidelity - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007) • American Idiot - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010)
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!