Okay, your prompt is Lee Remick taking Stephen Sondheim to Studio 54 in 1975. Go!
Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community
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!
Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community
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.
Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community
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)
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 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
Danielle Mohlman is a Seattle-based playwright and one of my favorite people. And she's here with tales of theatres doing the right thing.
MUSIC: "Try It and See" sung by Rita Pavone the B-side of her single "Till Tomorrow" (1969), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
Columnist, playwright, and the mind behind @KyloR3n is here for one of the most capital-M Musicals ever to grace the Broadway.
Topics include: unintentional weird, songs and book and when they don't meet, the unbearable heaviness of Alan Jay Lerner, and a 70-year-old musical that slaps.
Featured recordings: Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960)
NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 4, 2020 before any gathering restrictions were in place.
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 we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee 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).
Robbie's here! 3 Act Musicals! Astoria, Queens! Office Trees!
MUSIC: "Try Me" sung by Nicholas Barasch from She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Farrell Parker talks about New Jersey and tax prep!
MUSIC: "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" sung by Christopher Neil from Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron: 1919-1952 (1976), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
It's the Broadway Baby himself: Alex Fossella is here to wildly speculate on what the trailer for the Hamilton movie will be like.
MUSIC: "Broadway Baby" sung by Daisy Eagan from Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Roddy is here straight from the room where it* happened!
*Congress, not like, the room where the virus started. That'd be bananas.
MUSIC: "The Room Where It Happened" sung by Leslie Odo m Jr. from Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015), music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Beth Amann (Wicked) is the Managing Director of the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Monumental. Their acclaimed production of Head Over Heels has been cut short by recent events. Also cheese boards.
MUSIC: "Mad About You" sung by Andrew Durand from Head Over Heels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018), music and lyrics by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan, Mitchel Young Evans
I'm going to try and release 7 episodes a week during this time of social distancing where I talk to people in the theatre about what they're seeing and how they're doing.
First up: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk from uptown Manhattan.
MUSIC: "We Need a Little Christmas" sung by Angela Lansbury from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
People make movies and then musicals of those movies and some are not great. But some are transcendently good.
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 we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee 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 a play this week! No singing, no music, just words. Good words. Tom Stoppard words. And a great guest: Chris Stinson.
Topics include: nihilism, love, Cynthia Nixon doing two Broadway plays at once, and how Jeremy Irons's character may have led to Brexit.
Featured recordings: The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984)
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 we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee 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).