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The Original Cast

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Now displaying: May, 2021
May 26, 2021

Billy Porter Breaks a 14-Year Silence: “This Is What HIV-Positive Looks Like Now” from The Hollywood Reporter

MisCast21!

Hal Prince on The South Bank Show in 1978

Featured Songs: “In His Eyes” performed by Gavin Creel & Aaron Tveit from Jekyll & Hyde (1996) • “You and Me (But Mostly Me)” performed by Kelly Marie Tran from The Book of Mormon (2013)

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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May 19, 2021

Instagram’s own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written.

Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the “Follies” portion, and moving house with so many CDs.

The Man in the Chair on Instagram

Featured recordings: Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) • Follies - Original London Cast (1987)

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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May 12, 2021

We’ve got voicemails and comments and clips and all you want.

Ways to stream The Last of Sheila.

Featured Songs: “Another Hundred People” from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • “Fanfare” from The Frogs / Evening Primrose - Stephen Sondheim (2001) • “Megamix: Take Me to the World: from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren (2020)

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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May 5, 2021

Two Guests for the price of one! Chris & Holly from the podcast Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical are here for a show they did at Edinburgh Fringe that bears more than a passing resemblance to said Stephen King musical.

CW: sexual assault.

Topics include: Holly as the lead, singing Wicked during Bat Boy, does Off-West End exist?, bags of wigs, and Carrie (of course).

Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical

Big Diva Energy Podcast

Featured recordings: Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) • Bat Boy - Original London Cast Recording (2004)

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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