Megan is keeping it upbeat and active and thank God for her.
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MUSIC: "Another Day / Finale B" performed by Daphne Rubin-Vega & the Company, from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson
(Yes, that's two days of Rent in a row.)
Michelle is hosting workouts and walking in the woods. And the animals have come out to feast.
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MUSIC: "We're Okay" performed by Fredi Walker, from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson
It's raining in Texas.
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MUSIC: "The Long Grift" performed by Lena Hall, from Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Broadway Cast Album (2014), music and lyrics by Stephen Trask
Puzzles and dogs and tables and dungeons and dragons.
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MUSIC: "Rose's Turn" performed by Ethel Merman, from Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Jeremy does business business and is here for business business facts to supplement the business business theories I brought up on Tuesday's business.
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MUSIC: "The Company Way" performed by Sammy Smith & Robert Morse, from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1961), music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
Next Wednesday will be our 100th guest! So before that, let's look all the way back to March 2016 and our very first guest: Tracy Lynn Olivera! Which, synergistically, also happens to be the same show our 99th guest chose (though a different recording)!
ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:
Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright/filmmaker/professor Patrick Flynn.
Our first guest is actress, singer, & recording artist Tracy Lynn Olivera who stops by to discuss the 1967 original cast album of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
We’re also joined by dramaturg Megan Westman as we discuss off-Broadway basement shows, the wrong kind of meta, and how Tracy feels about the 1999 Broadway revival (spoiler: she hates it).
Featured Recording: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967)
T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!
Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!
Not feeling it.
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MUSIC: "It's Today" performed by Angela Lansbury, from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
We start in a genuine place of interest and then I get obsessed with the idea of "Conference Conference" and now that's my whole day.
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MUSIC: "Superhero Girl" performed by Liz Larsen, from Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999), music and lyrics by Barry Keating
Jason and Flying V are launching a podcast. I ask: "How dare he?"
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MUSIC: "Opening Ceremony" performed by Björn Skifs, from Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984), music by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, lyrics by Tim Rice
Maybe not the best song for a 10-year-old but we're keeping him level.
Plus I mix up Marcus Lycus and Miles Gloriosus for almost 10 minutes much The Boy's frustration.
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MUSIC: "Lovely (Reprise)" performed on the clarinet by Bobby Flynn, music by Stephen Sondheim, from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; "Everybody Oughta Have a Maid" performed by Lewis J. Stadlen, Nathan Lane, Mark Lin-Baker, & Ernie Sabella, from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Original 1996 Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
DISCO EVITA!!! (Also mp3 organization.)
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MUSIC: "Buenos Aires" performed by the band Festival from their album Evita (1979), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
Chil is the Artistic Director at Adventure Theatre MTC and is working on ways of keeping his community engaged and entertained.
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MUSIC: "Together Wherever We Go" performed by Ethel Merman with Jack Klugman & Sandra Church from Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Clare has appeared in some of the top theatres in DC and Baltimore. Which wouldn't be so remarkable except for the fact that she's nine-years-old!
Topics Include: auditioning, forgetting to breathe, pretending to drive a car, and loving what you're doing.
Featured Recording: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Broadway Musical (1999)
T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!
Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!
Okay, your prompt is Lee Remick taking Stephen Sondheim to Studio 54 in 1975. Go!
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MUSIC: "Ah, Paris!" performed by Fifi D'Orsay from Follies - Original Broadway Cast (1971), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Jenna is Associate Artistic Director at Olney Theatre. Kevin is Associate Producer at Theatre J. And they're engaged!
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MUSIC: "With You on My Arm" performed by Gene Barry & George Hearn from La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
Have some coffee with Evan & Tracy as they keep on keepin' on.
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Stream The Amateurs by Jordan Harrison featuring Evan Casey at OlneyTheatre.org!
Take a class with Tracy Lynn Olivera through Theatre Lab!
MUSIC: "Come Up to My Place" performed by Mandy Patinkin & Judy Blazer from Leonard Bernstein's New York - Nonesuch Records (1996), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green, from On the Town (1944)
Chris Klimek has been socially distant for six weeks due to knee surgery and not even Twin Peaks makes sense anymore.
Apologies for the audio on this one, both of our internets were acting up.
MUSIC: "I'm Not Finished Yet" performed by Patricia Marand from It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams
Kevin from Broadwaysted! is keeping busy uptown.
MUSIC: "Curtain Call" performed by Ben Fankhauser from Broadwaysted, Actually - Original Cast Album (2019), music by Ben Fankhauser, lyrics by Kevin Jaeger
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Don Mike Mendoza is here from La-Ti-Do talking about Pittsburgh, making money where possible, and #RacismIsAVirus.
MUSIC: "We're Gonna Be Alright" performed by Judy Kuhn & Malcolm Gets from Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel - Judy Kuhn (2015), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)
Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor respects the emotional implications of said facts. But, y'know, royalty!
Topics include: Frozen 2, Gleb, Starlight Express, Gleb, eating the rich, Gleb, disregarding history, and seriously what is up with Gleb?
Featured recordings: Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee (this episode) talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
It's Tuesday and that means Robbie Rozelle and that means DISCO SONDHEIM!
MUSIC: "Megamix: Take Me to the World" performed by Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Joshua Hinck & Scott Wasserman (2020), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, additional music by Leonard Bernstein
Al Silber wants you to be exactly like her cat.
MUSIC: "Matchmaker" performed by Alexandra Silber with Samantha Massell & Melanie Moore from Fiddler on the Roof - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
It's Sondheim's 90th birthday!
Thanks to Jonah, Liz, Anna, Roddy, Heather, Bridget, Beth, Serena, Sam, Alex, Katherine, Farrell, Michael, Caroline, Sharon, Theresa, Qoc, Emily, Elisa, & Doug
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964) :: "Me and My Town" - Angela Lansbury
Assassins - Original Cast Recording (1991) :: "The Ballad of Guiteau" - Jonathan Hadary : "Another National Anthem" - Eddie Korbich
Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) :: "Sorry-Grateful" - Charles Kimbrough, John Cunningham, George Coe, Steve Elmore
Follies - Original Broadway Cast (1971) :: "I'm Still Here" - Yvonne De Carlo
Into the Woods - Original Broadway Cast (1987) :: "Giants in the Sky" - Ben Wright : "Moments in the Woods" - Joanna Gleason : "Children Will Listen" - Bernadette Peters : "No One is Alone" - Chip Zein, Kim Crosby, Ben Wright, Danielle Ferland
A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) :: "A Weekend in the Country" - Victoria Mallory, D. Jamin-Barlett : "The Miller's Son" - D. Jamin-Barlett
Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) :: "Good Thing Going" - Lonny Price : "Opening Doors" - Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, Lonny Price, Sally Klein
Passion - 2013 New York Cast Recording (2013) :: "Loving You" - Judy Kuhn
Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast Recording (1985) :: "Finishing the Hat" - Mandy Patinkin : "Sunday in the Park with George" - Bernadette Peters : "Beautiful" - Mandy Patinkin & Barbara Bryne
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) :: "Kiss Me / Ladies in Their Sensitivities" - Sarah Rice, Victor Garber, Edmund Lyndeck, Jack Eric Williams
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original London Cast Last Night Live (1980) :: "Beggar Woman's Lullaby" - Dylis Watling
The first and last episode of the podcast Catscast with Kari & Patrick & Roddy.
MUSIC: "The Rum Tum Tugger" performed by Terrence V. Mann from Cats - Original Broadway Cast (1982), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by T. S. Eliot
Lauren Halvorsen talks cemetery walks and nothing else.
MUSIC: "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" performed by Paul Williams from Bugsy Malone - Original Soundtrack Album (1976), music and lyrics by Paul Williams