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Now displaying: March, 2020
Mar 31, 2020

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

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Mar 30, 2020

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

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Mar 29, 2020

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)

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Mar 28, 2020

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

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Mar 27, 2020

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

Buy Broadwaysted, Actually on iTunes and support Broadway Bound Kids, a transformative and inclusive community that inspires and empowers young lives through the performing arts.

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Mar 26, 2020

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)

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Mar 25, 2020

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).

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Mar 24, 2020

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

Listen on Spotify and/or iTunes!

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Mar 23, 2020

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

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Mar 22, 2020

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

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Mar 21, 2020

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

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Mar 20, 2020

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

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Mar 19, 2020

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

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Mar 18, 2020

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.

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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 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).

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Mar 17, 2020

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

Mar 16, 2020

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

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Mar 15, 2020

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

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Mar 14, 2020

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

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Mar 13, 2020

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

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Mar 13, 2020

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

Mar 11, 2020

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).

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Mar 4, 2020

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).

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