Taylor J. Williams is a 2023 Tony Award-nominee in the Best Sound Design of a Play category for Ain't No Mo'. He is also a musician who has worked as an electronic music designer on more than 30 Broadway productions including Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice, Be More Chill, King Kong, Frozen, and Falsettos.
Topics include: pageantry, melodrama, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, napping in a rats’ nest of cables, Adam Pascal bootlegs, and what does a programmer . . . do?
Featured recordings: Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008) • Aida - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000)
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The Year of Barbra Continues!
Rob W. Schneider (Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) join Patrick for yet another bad psychiatrist movie. Now with 5x as much ACTING!
Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she’s come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job.
Topics include: getting typecast out of Fiddler, Anthony Newley, what a producer does, RENT, coming home, and musicals based on nothing.
Featured recordings: In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008)
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Mark’s website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music Eight Tales of Pedro (written with Luis D’Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he’s here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart.
Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, The Opposite of Sex: The Musical, and fan-boy-ing out.
Recorded LIVE at the Drama Book Shop!
Featured recordings: A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
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