Nick is artistic director of Field Trip Theatre in Washington, DC and casting director for Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD and is here to talk about the Brian Stokes Mitchell revival recording of MAN OF LA MANCHA. Topics include Connecticut, Mario Lopez, stunt casting, and the fact that the Padre is great character that doesn't get enough respect.
Featured recording:
MAN OF LA MANCHA - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
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We go back to our first guest for this deleted gem. Tracy stumps Patrick and Megan with a song of which neither of them had heard. And Tracy learns that "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" and ”Snoopy's Christmas" are two different songs.
Featured recordings:
SINK THE BISMARCK! - Johnny Horton (1960)
SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON - The Royal Guardsman (1966)
SNOOPY AND HIS FRIENDS - The Royal Guardsman (1968)
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Roddy is the Executive Director for the U.S. House of Representative’s LGBT Caucus. He is also our first guest drawn “from the house” and Patrick’s brother. Roddy and Patrick gab about Angela Lansbury, intermissions, and the unbearable heaviness of this show’s plot.
Featured recording:
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)
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During their CHESS conversation, Patrick and Jason fell into a nostalgia hole about Saturday morning cartoons. A glorious, glorious hole.
Featured recordings:
Garfield and Friends
X-Men
Pokemon
Gummy Bears
Duck Tales
Animaniacs
Tiny Toon Adventures
Freakazoid
Denver the Last Dinosaur
M*A*S*K
He-Man
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This week we break format for a discussion about the Tony Awards with past guest Don Mike Mendoza and future guest Roddy Flynn. We talk about not only this year's shows but the Tonys as a whole and how award shows make us feel.
Featured recordings:
BRIGHT STAR - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)
HAMILTON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)
SCHOOL OF ROCK - Original Cast Recording (2015)
WAITRESS - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)
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This week we take a deep-dive into a song's evolution with this number from EVITA. From its debut on the 1976 concept album, its deletion from the stage production, and reinstatement for the film.
Featured recordings:
EVITA - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron 1919-1952 (1976)
EVITA - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1979)
EVITA - The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack (1996)
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Actor and two-TV-owner Eric Messner discusses THE WHO’S TOMMY. Topics include: What is the title of this show? British accents? And, of course, the MTV.
Featured recording:
THE WHO’S TOMMY - Original Cast Recording (1993)
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During my conversation with Eric Messner about THE WHO'S TOMMY, we ended up talking about MTV in the early-to-mid 1990s and what a great thing it was. Like, seriously, it was money. So money and you don’t even know it.
Featured recordings:
THE WHO’S TOMMY - Original Cast Recording (1993)
FLASH: Original Soundtrack Music - Queen (1980)
STRONG BAD SINGS AND OTHER TYPE HITS - Homestar Runner (2003)
CLOUD 9 - George Harrison (1987)
EVEN WORSE - “Weird Al” Yankovic (1988)
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Actor, singer, and Orioles fan Evan Casey talks LES MISÉRABLES. Patrick & Evan talk about Colm Wilkinson, JERSEY BOYS, and whether or not Terrence Mann is the greatest singer in the history of the world.
Featured recording:
LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)
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This week’s intermission comes from next week’s talk with actor Evan Casey. Patrick & Evan discuss the work of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and how difficult it is to follow a mega-hit like LES MISÉRABLES.
Featured recordings:
LES
MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)
MISS
SAIGON - Original London Cast Recording (1990)
“Mama
Told Me Not to Come” - Three Dog Night
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Jason is the artistic director for the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Flying V. He and Patrick discuss the concept album of CHESS and how it cemented their friendship. Also: singing in restaurants, the glory of synth rock, and the nature of love. Seriously, it gets deep for a minute.
Featured recording:
CHESS - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984) http://amzn.to/1Sr0sFE
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This week HAMILTON became the 9th musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Patrick gives a history of the prize and the now 9 musicals that have won the most prestigious award in American theatre.
Featured recordings:
OF THEE I SING - Brooklyn Academy of Music (1987)
SOUTH PACIFIC - Original Broadway Cast (1949)
FIORELLO! - Original Broadway Cast (1959)
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1961)
A CHORUS LINE - Original Broadway Cast (1975)
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE - Original Cast Recording (1984)
RENT - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996)
NEXT TO NORMAL - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)
HAMILTON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)
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La-Ti-Do performer and producer Don Mike Mendoza talks about that swingin’ adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan: HOT MIKADO. We talk interracial casting, talent crushes, and tap dancing.
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Welcome to The Original Cast’s first Intermission. Every other week in between interviews, we’ll release something that was cut due to time but was just too good to keep to ourselves.
Our first Intermissionee is actor, singer, & teacher Evan Casey. Evan will be back in a few weeks to discuss the original Broadway cast recording of LES MISÉRABLES. Until then, here’s Evan’s story about the time he met Mandy Patinkin.
Evan can currently be seen at Signature Theatre in THE FLICK now through April 17. Tickets are available at http://www.sigtheatre.org/events/2015-16/the-flick/
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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).
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Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright-filmmaker-professor Patrick Flynn.
Each week we’ll bring you a discussion with someone you’d find on-stage, backstage, or in the house of a theatre about that most precious of musical theatre accessories: cast albums.
Episodes start March 30 wherever podcasts are sold.
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