9 recordings enter. Only 1 can leave. And it shall leave a champion. This is CAST ALBUM CAGE MATCH!
Composer/lyricist Billy Recce joins Patrick to find the best cast album of one of their favorite shows: Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber’s EVITA!
PLAY-IN ROUND
- 1979 Disco Album v. 1996 Movie Soundtrack
ROUND 1
- Studio Casts: 1976 Concept Album v. Play-In Round Winner
- World Casts: 1980 Australian v. 1989 World Tour
- West End Casts: 1978 v. 2006
- Broadway Casts: 1979 v. 2012
ROUND 2
- Studio Winner v. West End Winner
- Broadway Winner v. World Winner
ROUND 3: The FINALE!!
The Original Cast Merchandise at TeePublic.com
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s the 2016 documentary about the making of Merrily We Roll Along entitled Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened with Kimberly Cooper Schmidt!
Attorney by day & Interview Content Editor for Comic Book Yeti by night, Jimmy is an old friend of Patrick’s who is here for a show they did together just after the original production of The Life opened on Broadway.
Topics include: Bring Back Birdie, 16-year-old Harry MacAfees, Paul Lynde, Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, comics, and aging out of Conrad.
Featured recordings: Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast (1960) • Bring Back Birdie - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981)
The Original Cast Merchandise at TeePublic.com
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Serena Berman and Robbie Rozelle join Patrick for a discussion of the new Netflix film tick, tick . . . BOOM!. Is it as good as everyone says? Yes. And yes.
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Kevin Winkler, author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical, has a new book out NOW!!
Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune
Featured Songs: “’S Wonderful” from My One and Only - Original Cast Recording (1983) • “We’ll Take a Glass Together” from Grand Hotel - Broadway Cast Recording (1989)
The Original Cast Merchandise at TeePublic.com
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Composer/lyricist/educator Katya Stanislavskaya takes us back about 20 years for 5 years of pain and beauty and all that.
Topics include: autobiography, tsuris, shiksas, Odessa, writing your first song, and what kind of person would ever say “I could never rescue you?” Seriously?!
”This isn’t Christmas,” music & lyrics by Katya Stanislavskaya, performed by Sarah Corey at 54 Below
Featured recording: The Last Five Years - Original Cast Recording (2002)
The Original Cast Merchandise at TeePublic.com
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Join Patrick, Serena Berman, and Robbie Rozelle as they discuss the new Lin-Manuel Miranda film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick . . . BOOM!
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Miriam is a performer and writer who has written a new musical about the Brontë Sisters called Glass Town and she’s here for this Brontë musical that is . . . a lot
CW: This episode contains a brief discussion of sexual misconduct and assault.
Topics include: Mr. Bumble, voices across moors, contemporary scores & corsets, Diana (of course), endings are hard, and WHERE DID ALL THE BARITONES GO?
Featured recordings: Jane Eyre - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Glass Town - Live Selections from the February 2021 Workshop (2021)
The Original Cast Merchandise at TeePublic.com
LIVE EPISODE STREAM on PATREON of The Original Cast at the Movies. November 11! Check Patreon for details.
Patrick and Beth are back with 6 new episodes covering 6 romantic holiday films from Hallmark, Lifetime, and Netflix!
Watch our first film Journey Back to Christmas for FREE on YouTube!
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David has been there, done that, gave away the T-shirt, met the Muppets, and now he’s with us to talk about this reassemblage of a Gershwin classic.
Topics include: operettas and 1930s-40s movie musicals, not getting theatre internships, Fynsworth Alley, and DIANA: THE MUSICAL!
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Album Produced By... by Bruce Kimmel
LIVE STREAM The Evolution of (Henry) Mann at American Theater Group
Featured recordings: Girl Crazy - Studio Cast (1990) • Godspell - 2000 Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Girl Crazy - Mary Martin (1951)
The Original Cast Merchandise at TeePublic.com
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s CAMP with Robbie Rozelle and Michael Finke!
Dan is probably most well known to music theatre fans as the book writer of 13 (coming soon to Netflix). But he’s also a lyricist, YA novelist, and an accomplished musician. And he’s here for an amazingly deep, 2-LP collection from the First Lady of Song.
Topics include: discovering Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart’s words, working with JRB and Doug Cohen, knowing what you’re good at, and yes I forgot about The Boys from Syracuse I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry please don’t @ me.
Featured recordings: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book - Ella Fitzgerald (1956) • Once Upon a Summertime - Blossom Dearie (1958) • The Evolution of Mann - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2018)
The Original Cast Merchandise at TeePublic.com
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s CAMP with Robbie Rozelle and Michael Finke!
GO WATCH DIANA: THE MUSICAL ON NETFLIX RIGHT NOW!!
Roddy is here for an anecdote and reminiscence about a cult classic.
Featured Songs: “How Shall I See You Through My Tears” from The Gospel at Colonus - Original Cast Recording (1985) • “Turkey Lurkey Time” from Promises, Promises - Original Broadway Cast Album (1968)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s the 2003 music theatre cult classic CAMP with Robbie Rozelle & Michael Finke!
Performer/writer/raconteur Grace Aki is here for a show that just keeps being the best.
Topics include: parents, podcasts, personalities, the Queen Judy Kuhn (long may she reign), and how Michael Cerveris may be a deity.
Featured recordings: Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • Song & Dance - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1985) • Tell Me on a Sunday - Marti Webb (1980) • Leslie Odom Jr. - Leslie Odom Jr. (2014)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s the 2003 music theatre cult classic CAMP with Robbie Rozelle & Michael Finke!
There’s stuff a-comin’.
To Free a Mockingbird, written and performed by Grace Aki
Featured Songs: “What a Piece of Work is Man / Walking in Space (Reprise)” from Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968) • “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” from Kiss Me, Kate - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1999)
LIVE STREAM: SEPTEMBER 16! The Original Cast at the Movies: Camp (2003) with Michael Finke & Robbie Rozelle steaming live on Patreon! Become a patron at http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod to tune in!
Jeremy comes from away (Seattle) for one of the best musicals of the last decade. Certainly better than the one everyone thought was the best musical — okay I’ll stop.
Topics include: no intermission, The Laramie Project, Bonnie & Bob & Hannah & Kevin & Kevin, and discovering this show on a plane to Hong Kong.
Featured recordings: Come from Away - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
LIVE STREAM: SEPTEMBER 16! The Original Cast at the Movies: Camp (2003) with Michael Finke & Robbie Rozelle steaming live on Patreon! Become a patron at http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod to tune in!
Building others up when you’re feeling down.
"Feeling Good" performed by Nina Simone
This Was a Thing with Ray Hebel and Robert W. Schneider
Featured Songs: “Feeling Good” performed by Gilbert Price from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1965) • “What Kind of Fool Am I?” performed by Anthony Newley from Stop the World – I Want to Get Off - Original Broadway Cast (1962)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s Bette Midler’s 1993 film version of Gypsy!
Actor Ben Schrager is here for a show that has a very special place in his life.
Topics include: the generosity of Billy Finn, teenage A New Brain, the Mary Testa-of-it-all, the Chip Zien-of-it-all, autobiography, and some really lousy days in the Universe.
Featured recordings: A New Brain - Original Cast Recording (1998) • Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Joe's Pub (2001) • A New Brain - 2015 New York Cast Recording (2016)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s Dick Tracy (1990) with Robert W. Schneider (La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle).
Good old fashioned intermission about movie musicals and the perpetually coming Follies.
Featured Songs: “Losing My Mind” performed by Charity Angél Dawson & Joshua Hinck from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020) • “Losing My Mind” from A Perfect Little Death - Eleri Ward (2021)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s Dick Tracy (1990) with Robert W. Schneider (La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle).
Singer/songwriter/actress and genius behind Indie-Folk Sondheim Eleri Ward is here for a musical about self-expression (and indie-folk Sondheim).
Topics include: songs for boys, escalators v. elevators, songs about things, what and how you share yourself, how you see yourself when you’re writing as yourself, and Lil Nas X.
Indie-Folk Sondheim (formerly SUF/SOND)
Featured recordings: Spring Awakening - A Decca Broadway Cast Album (2006) • Friction (EP) - Eleri Ward (2021) • A Perfect Little Death - Eleri Ward (2021)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s Dick Tracy (1990) with Robert W. Schneider (La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle).
Featured Songs: “We Need a Little Christmas” from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1996) • “Twelve Days to Christmas” from She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s Dick Tracy (1990) with Robert W. Schneider (La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle).
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Flying V’s newly minted Theatrical Artistic Lead is here for a musical that maybe no one should do any more?
Topics include: bonding with your parents thru comedy, problematic plot points, meeting people where they are, and Marshall McLuhan.
Featured recordings: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)
Monumental Theatre Co.’s Songs for a New World now STREAMING!
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movies!! This month it’s Dick Tracy (1990) with Robert W. Schneider (La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle).
Two musicals for your enjoyment!
Spandex will debut on Musical Theatre Radio Sunday, August 8th at 1pm and continue for the next four Sundays through September 5th!
1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Opening
Monumental Theatre Co.’s Songs for a New World now STREAMING!
Songs for a New World/Monumental Theatre Co-Related Episodes
• Megan Bunn / The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
• Mary Myers / Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1996)
• Jimmy Mavrikes / Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996)
• Beth Amann / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
Featured Songs: “I'd Give It All for You” from Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1997) • “Old Broken Mirror” and “Spandex” from Spandex: The Musical (2021)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movies!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.
Director and Tudor-nerd Megan Behm is here for a musical of the moment that is more than it initially seems to some of us (by which I mean, me).
Topics include: snootiness, history, and feminism.
Featured recordings: Six - The Album (2018)
Monumental Theatre Co.’s Songs for a New World now STREAMING!
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movies!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.