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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: April, 2021
Apr 28, 2021

A voicemail on Forum and vaccine stuff.

Featured Songs: “Lullaby of Broadway” - Wini Shaw (1935)  • “Seeing is Believing” from Aspects of Love - Original Cast Recording (1989)

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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).

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Apr 21, 2021

NPR’s Glen Weldon is here for the musical that (according to him) made him gay.

Topics include: Herb Alpert (not the dirty one), Charles Emerson Winchester III, Doolittle as a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza’s agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important.

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Playbill’s “The Definitive List of the 43 Best-Selling Cast Recordings of All Time” by Logan Culwell-Block

Featured recordings: My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) Brigadoon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1947)

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’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

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Apr 14, 2021

It’s been a week, but we’re focusing on the positive. Like She is Risen, Vol. II and “Pop Corn!”

Featured Songs: “Pop Corn” from Hot Butter - Hot Butter (1972) • “Summer in Nevada” from Little Black Book - World Premiere Recording (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’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

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Apr 9, 2021

I’ve just learned that amazing friend of the podcast and past guest Amy Oestreicher has passed. Please relisten to her interview about In Trousers and enjoy her beautiful spirit and boundless energy.

ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:

Writer/performer/amazing human Amy Oestreicher comes to us with us to complete the Falsettos trilogy (by going back to Part 1).

Topics Include: Bill Finn calling on the phone, convincing teachers to let you do your own version of the assignment, tap dancing so hard you need surgery, and another in what is booming a series of scrapbooks!

_Featured Recordings: In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) • March of the Falsettos - Original Cast (1981) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990)

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