Garrett works in Acquisitions and Artistic Development at Concord Theatricals where they’re innovating their way through the suck.
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MUSIC: “Stool Boom” performed by Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, & Fred Willard Parker Posey from Red, White & Blaine - Original Cast Album (1996), music and lyrics by Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer
Director/actor/lighting designer Michael Innocenti brings this (now) 19-year-old megahit to the podcast and asks "What am comedy?"
Topics Include: Neil Simon, Catskills, the corner of Jewish and Catholic, and what is Mel Brooks's 2nd-worst film?
Featured Recordings: The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001)
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Robbie started a podcast. How dare he.
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MUSIC: “Hosing the Furniture” performed by Lauren Marcus from the album The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, written for Sitting on the Edge of the Future (1989)
Sorry, it’s a sad one today.
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MUSIC: “Farewell to Stromness” written and performed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies from Farewell to Stromness (2016)
Stephen is missing solitude in public places.
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MUSIC: “You Can Always Count On Me” performed by Randy Graff from City of Angels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1989), music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel
Heather is a costume designer, which is a hard job to do remotely.
Read Heather’s articles on Grounded Reason.
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MUSIC: “Magic Dance” performed by David Bowie, from Labyrinth - From the Original Soundtrack of the Jim Henson Film (1986), music and lyrics by David Bowie
James is here to explain Animal Crossing.
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MUSIC: "Two-Player Game" performed by Will Roland & George Salazar from Be More Chill - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019), music and lyrics by Joe Iconis
Anna wants to go back to college, please.
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MUSIC: "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" performed by John Tartaglia, Peter Linz, Stephanie D'Abruzzo from Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast (2003), music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx
Johnny sings bass in The King's Singers and was almost literally born into this Lloyd Webber/Rice mainstay.
Topics Include: finding oneself part of a six-man vocal ensemble, naming all the colours in Joseph's coat, jacks-of-all-trades/masters-
Featured Recordings: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - London Palladium Cast Recording (1991) • Finding Harmony - The King's Singers (2020) • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Original Broadway Cast (1982)
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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!
Jim Steinman wrote a Batman musical.
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MUSIC: "Simon Zealotes / Poor Jerusalem" performed by Ledisi and Morgan James, from Jesus Christ Superstar - She is Risen: Volume I (2020), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
Rick is teaching drama to 5th-8th grade girls.
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MUSIC: "Do-Re-Mi" performed by Mary Martin, from The Sound of Music - Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Today 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)
Mary's teaching Shakespeare to stuffed animals.
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MUSIC: "Hip Hop Hooray" performed by Naughty by Nature, from 19 Naughty III - Naughty by Nature (1993), music and lyrics by Ronald Isley, Ernie Isley, Rudolph Isley, Chris Jasper, O'Kelly Isley Jr., Marvin Isley, Vincent Brown, Anthony Criss, Keir Gist
Danielle Mohlman's play Nexus is going on a virtual national tour.
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MUSIC: "Opening Night" performed by the company, from The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001), music and lyrics by Mel Brooks
Staying mentally balanced in Harlem.
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MUSIC: "Another Hundred People" performed by Pamela Myers, from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Guest host Kari Ginsburg talks to usual host Patrick Flynn about his rebirth as a music theatre devotee and what he thought the podcast would be versus what it is.
Topics Include: the Queen, Judy Kuhn, long may she reign; oddball Juan Peróns; crying and crying; the eternal struggle of the cast album as artform, commodity, and obsession.
Featured Recordings: Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Original Broadway Cast (1962) • Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) • Fun Home - Original Cast Recording (2014)
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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!
Musical theatre solo albums dos and don'ts and please do dos and please please don't dos.
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MUSIC: "You'll Never Get Away from Me" performed by (the Queen) Judy Kuhn (Long May She Reign), from Just in Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne (1995), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, from Gypsy (1959)
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