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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: February, 2020
Feb 26, 2020

I give you this guitar but only if you solemnly promise never to bring it to a party without being asked.

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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Feb 19, 2020

Jenna is a director in DC (she directed my adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit) and is also the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at Olney Theatre Center. And she's here for a big hit that we all love and, actually, is a lot more layered than you may think.

Topics include: tradition, love, Thestrals, and the importance of stage presence.

Featured recordings: Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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Feb 12, 2020

Is it possible to mathematically determine whether or not a Broadway show is a flop?

Yes, it is.

We did it.

Yay!

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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Feb 5, 2020
James is many things to many people. He's a performer, director, publicity director at Signature Theatre in DC, and also the book writer for the musical Glory Days which ran on Broadway for one performance in 2008. And he's here to talk about all those things as well as the best show ever written that doesn't work.
 
 
Topics include: That Frank, book writing is hard, Glory Days (of course), and how what we lose in the fire we gain in the flood.
 
 
Read Logan Culwell-Block's full Playbill article "22 Broadway Musicals That Closed on Opening Night"
 
 
Featured recordings: Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) •  Merrily We Roll Along - The New Cast Recording (!994) •  Glory Days - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)
 
 
Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).
 
 
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