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).