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’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 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!
Featured recordings: The Lion King - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)
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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 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.
Featured recordings: In the Green - Original Cast Recording (2019) • Novelty Idols - Stephanie Ridgeway Johnson (2021)
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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?
Featured recordings: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Original Canadian Cast Recording (1992) • “Three First Names” - HaleyJane Rose (2018)
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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’s Twitter exchange with Jason Robert Brown
Featured recordings: Parade - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)
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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 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
Featured recordings: Flower Drum Song - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2002)
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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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Aaron J. Albano is back to talk more about the short documentary Ensemble that he co-produced and appears in.
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Featured recording: “Opening: I Hope I Get It” from A Chorus Line - Original Broadway Cast (1975)
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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
Follow Margaret and her work on Instagram and Twitter
Come see Violet! Free performances March 24th-27th, 30th, and April 1st-2nd at Georgetown University
Learn more about Georgetown performing arts
Earth Cover to Cover (Margaret’s travel blog)
Featured recording: Violet - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)
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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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Featured recordings: Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999)
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Our original Starmites episode with Amanda Zeitler!
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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 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).
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 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.
Featured recordings: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)
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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.
Featured recordings: SpongeBob SquarePants - Original Cast Recording (2017) • “Momentum (Duane’s Version)” - Duane Richards II
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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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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!
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.
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!
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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Kevin Winkler, author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical, has a new book out NOW!!
Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune
Featured Songs: “’S Wonderful” from My One and Only - Original Cast Recording (1983) • “We’ll Take a Glass Together” from Grand Hotel - Broadway Cast Recording (1989)
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Composer/lyricist/educator Katya Stanislavskaya takes us back about 20 years for 5 years of pain and beauty and all that.
Topics include: autobiography, tsuris, shiksas, Odessa, writing your first song, and what kind of person would ever say “I could never rescue you?” Seriously?!
”This isn’t Christmas,” music & lyrics by Katya Stanislavskaya, performed by Sarah Corey at 54 Below
Featured recording: The Last Five Years - Original Cast Recording (2002)
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SPECIAL EPISODE LIVE STREAM!
TUESDAY, 11/23/21, 8:30PM EST AT PATREON DOT COM SLASH ORIGINAL CAST POD!
Join Patrick, Serena Berman, and Robbie Rozelle as they discuss the new Lin-Manuel Miranda film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick . . . BOOM!
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Miriam is a performer and writer who has written a new musical about the Brontë Sisters called Glass Town and she’s here for this Brontë musical that is . . . a lot
CW: This episode contains a brief discussion of sexual misconduct and assault.
Topics include: Mr. Bumble, voices across moors, contemporary scores & corsets, Diana (of course), endings are hard, and WHERE DID ALL THE BARITONES GO?
Featured recordings: Jane Eyre - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Glass Town - Live Selections from the February 2021 Workshop (2021)
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LIVE EPISODE STREAM on PATREON of The Original Cast at the Movies. November 11! Check Patreon for details.
Patrick and Beth are back with 6 new episodes covering 6 romantic holiday films from Hallmark, Lifetime, and Netflix!
Watch our first film Journey Back to Christmas for FREE on YouTube!
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