Two Guests for the price of one! Chris & Holly from the podcast Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical are here for a show they did at Edinburgh Fringe that bears more than a passing resemblance to said Stephen King musical.
CW: sexual assault.
Topics include: Holly as the lead, singing Wicked during Bat Boy, does Off-West End exist?, bags of wigs, and Carrie (of course).
Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical
Featured recordings: Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) • Bat Boy - Original London Cast Recording (2004)
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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).
A voicemail on Forum and vaccine stuff.
Featured Songs: “Lullaby of Broadway” - Wini Shaw (1935) • “Seeing is Believing” from Aspects of Love - Original Cast Recording (1989)
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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).
NPR’s Glen Weldon is here for the musical that (according to him) made him gay.
Topics include: Herb Alpert (not the dirty one), Charles Emerson Winchester III, Doolittle as a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza’s agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important.
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Featured recordings: My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) • Brigadoon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1947)
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’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).
It’s been a week, but we’re focusing on the positive. Like She is Risen, Vol. II and “Pop Corn!”
Featured Songs: “Pop Corn” from Hot Butter - Hot Butter (1972) • “Summer in Nevada” from Little Black Book - World Premiere Recording (2021)
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’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).
I’ve just learned that amazing friend of the podcast and past guest Amy Oestreicher has passed. Please relisten to her interview about In Trousers and enjoy her beautiful spirit and boundless energy.
ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:
Writer/performer/amazing human Amy Oestreicher comes to us with us to complete the Falsettos trilogy (by going back to Part 1).
Topics Include: Bill Finn calling on the phone, convincing teachers to let you do your own version of the assignment, tap dancing so hard you need surgery, and another in what is booming a series of scrapbooks!
_Featured Recordings: In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) • March of the Falsettos - Original Cast (1981) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990)
A dip back into the archives with Evan Casey and some Miss Saigon talk from the early days.
Featured Songs: “Mama Told Me Not to Come” from It Ain't Easy - Three Dog Night (1970) • “Bui-Doi” from Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989)
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’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).
Broadway vet and cabaret mainstay Marty Thomas is here for a show he first saw on Broadway when he was 11 and thought everyone was just really good friends at Dreamland in Saigon.
Topics include: How one pronounces “Alain Boublil;” Double-tape deck stereos; Branson, MO; changed lyrics; And why cast Jonathan Pryce in the first place?
Chris, what’s haunting you? on Instagram
Featured recordings: Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1990) • My Broadway - Sean McDermott (1999) • Slow Dancing with a Boy - Marty Thomas (2019) • It’s a Holiday Soul Party - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (2015) • The Award Winning Holiday Album - Marty Thomas & Marissa Rosen (2020)
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’s episode has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961).
Seriously. It’s a lot of pigs.
Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical
Studio Tenn Talks Presents The Assassins Reunion Show!
Featured Songs: “Out for Blood” and “I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance” from Carrie - Original Broadway Closing Night Soundboard (1988)
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’s episode has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961).
D.C.’s theatre’s favorite son is here for our first live cast recording from a show that couldn’t be recorded any other way.
Topics include: film composers, meeting Ann Duquesnay at the buffet, Planet of the Apes, one-note cues, Terence Blanchard, Michael Camen, Frank’s first solo show, and Frank’s second solo show.
More info on Frank’s one-person show for 1st Stage Theatre.
Featured recordings: Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk - Original Broadway Cast (1996) • Die Hard - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1988) • Die Hard with a Vengeance - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1995) • Inside Man - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)
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’s episode has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961).
A one-man show/documentary, a voice memo, and something you should all be reading this week.
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Featured Songs: “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin - Original Cast Album (1972) • “Magic to Do” from Pippin - New Broadway Cast Recording (2013) • “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” from Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)
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!! February’s episode has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961).
TL;DR: Go buy Broadway Soul, Vol. 2
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Featured Songs: “New Music,” “What Would I Do If I Could Feel?,” “Some Enchanted Evening / All I Do is Dream of You,” “Falling in Love with Love / Mr. Pitiful,” “Sugar Daddy” from Broadway Soul, Vol. 2 - Kyle Taylor Parker (2021)
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!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).
Emily is the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities at Penn Libraries, as well as Web Manager for Contingent Magazine and the Director of Communications for the National Emerging Museum Professionals Network. So, naturally, we’re talking about Newsies!
Topics Include: does anyone like Dear Evan Hansen?, what Broadway looks like, Octet, sounds made while dancing, and when it’s okay to be snobbish.
Featured Recordings: Newsies - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)
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!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).
A sexually explicit Godspell-esque musical next to Averno’s latest side-by-side by Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures.
Featured Songs: “Ketchup” and “Nova Phone Home” from Over and Out - A New Musical (2020) • “I’m Gay” from Let My People Come - The Original Cast Album (1974)
Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 - Kyle Taylor Parker (2019)
Slow Dancing with a Boy - Marty Thomas (2019)
Marty Thomas on Gay Card Revoked
Behind the Curtain with Nathan Lane
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!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).
Alex is a dramaturg, writer, and arts administrator in the Washington, D.C. area and she’s here for Jonathan Larson’s musical bout turning 30 in 1990 that she discovered when she was 14 after having not been alive in 1990.
Topics Include: Cats (but just for a second), unfair comparisons to Rent, 8th grade, St----- S-------, and is Jon a good guy?
Featured Recordings: tick, tick... BOOM! - Original Cast Recording (2001) • The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019)
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!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).
Was Ratatouille a watershed?
Featured Songs: “El Tango de Roxanne” from Moulin Rouge! - Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film (2001)
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!! January’s episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013).
Music theatre historian and YouTube educator par-excellence, Emily Clark is here for a show so fine! In three-quarter time!
Topics Include: Cats, Frid, Hermione Gingold, Cats, the never-endingness of “Liaisons,” Disco Sondheim, Bob Fosse’s The Phantom of the Opera, and Cats. We talk more about Cats than one might expect.
Emily and her husband singing “You Must Meet My Wife”
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Featured Recordings: A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) • Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (1973) • Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! December closes out our epic covering of all 4 versions of A Star is Born with 2018’s edition starring Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper.
We’re kicking off 2021 with the first Broadway presentation of the new year!
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DO YOU LIKE STEPHEN SONDHEIM? Of course you do. Then you need to join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Stephen Sondheim’s films. Big ones like Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods to smaller ones like Camp and The Last of Sheila. You know you want to.
Songs:
0:02:18 - “The Best Imitation of Myself” - music and lyrics by Ben Folds (1995)
0:07:35 - “Perspective” - music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick from She Loves Me (1963)
0:14:09 - “I’m Happy as Can Be” - music and lyrics by Patrick Flynn, from How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Frog! (2020), sung by Alex De Bard
0:19:47 - “I Wish I Could Go Back to College” - music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx from Avenue Q (2003)
0:24:27 - "America's Next Top 20 Something" - music and lyrics by Michael Finke (2017), sung by Alex De Bard
0:28:46 - "Everybody Says Don't" - music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from Anyone Can Whistle (1962)
0:32:45 - "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" - music and lyrics by Jeff Moss (1986)
Recorded 8/31/2020. Video available on YouTube!
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Rebecca Luker passed today. So here’s the episode I was lucky enough to record with her back in July. Stayed tuned through the end for Rebecca singing one of my favorite Jerome Kern songs from the review The Land Where the Good Songs Go.
ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:
Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a walk through her career and the show Sheldon Harnick calls our “greatest American opera.”
Topics Include: getting an agent out of town, auditioning for Hal Prince, balancing your work and your life, and of course we talk about The Secret Garden and I play “How Could I Ever Know” are you kidding?
Watch At Home with Rebecca Luker: An Evening of Song! All of the proceeds from the virtual benefit performance will go to supporting Prosetin, a promising new drug candidate for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It was in February when Broadway favorite Luker revealed that she had been diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). For more information about this treatment, visit Prosetin2020.org. If you would like to place a donation, click here: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/270277/#!/donation/checkout.
Featured Recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)
A meandering journey from Assassins to The Frogs to Bounce and back again.
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Featured Songs: “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience” from The Frogs from the 2001 studio cast recording • “Addison’s Trip” from Bounce - Original Cast Recording (2004)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November’s movie is the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2007).
Actor/podcaster Jen Bevarelli is here for the semi-autobiographical music about not-Marvin Hamlisch and not-Carole Bayer Sager with a book by actually Neil Simon.
Topics Include: crying backstage, doing what you love, existing out of time, and living your authentic life. Y’know, light stuff.
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Featured Recordings: They're Playing Our Song - The Original Cast Recording (1979)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November’s movie is the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2007).
A voice memo about Amy Adams and a DISCOVERY!
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Featured Songs: “Hello There,” “Manhattan Beggar,” “One Thousand-Year-Old Man,” “Mr. Berger,” “Sheila Franklin,” “So Sing the Children of the Avenue,” “Washing the World,” “Exanaplanatooch,” “Eyes Look Your Last / Sentimental Ending”. from DisinHAIRited - Original Cast Members (1969) • “Temporarily Humbolt County” from Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him - The Firesign Theater (1968)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November’s movie is ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2007).
Creative force of nature Morgan Smith (Averno Township) is here to talk about two of Patrick’s favorite topics: Heathers and the state of theatre in America.
Topics Include: why there is no theatre for teens, Beetlejuice, high school pressure then & now, and founding a multi-media empire in your 20s.
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Featured Recordings: Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014) • Beetlejuice - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November’s movie is the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2005).
Excepting Alice.
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Featured Songs: “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” from Alice’s Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie (1967)
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month we’ve got a dystopian musical about the dark future of 1994 made in 1980. Anything else I type here would make it make less sense. It’s The Apple!