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The Original Cast

A podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright Patrick Flynn.
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Now displaying: March, 2017
Mar 29, 2017

Sound-designer Kenny Neal comes by to talk about what describes as “nobody’s favorite musical.” Topics include: “What?,” “Why?,” “Really?,” “He does?,” “They are?,” and “I don’t get it.”

Featured recordings:
STARLIGHT EXPRESS - The Original Cast Recording (1984)

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Mar 22, 2017

On the occasion of Stephen Joshua Sondheim's 87th birthday, Paul and Patrick talk about all kinds of Sondheim. Also Sondheim and Sondheim.

Featured recordings:
EXPERIMENT - Mandy Patinkin (1994)

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Mar 15, 2017

Actual grown-up Beth Amann channels her 13-year-old self and talks about the unstoppable force that is WICKED. Topics include Joel Grey, Norbert Leo Butz, and the immovable objects that are music theatre hipsters.

Featured recordings:
WICKED - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)

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Mar 8, 2017

Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s amazing new musical COME FROM AWAY opens on Broadway this Sunday (March 12, 2017). Both Patrick and Sara saw it when it was at Ford’s Theatre on its way to Broadway and they think you should too. Really. Like, right now. Go see it. Now. We’ll wait.

Featured recordings:
COME FROM AWAY - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
FUN HOME - A New Broadway Musical (2015)

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Mar 1, 2017

Actor/director/writer Bridget Grace Sheaff starts strong and builds from there and Patrick and she discuss her actual favorite Sondheim show, not the one she tells people is her favorite. Topics include: death, destruction, and how, somewhere in Iowa right now, someone is performing THE MUSIC MAN (because it’s the law).

Featured recordings:
INTO THE WOODS - Original Cast Recording (1987)
Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (2010)

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