A snippet from Patrick's conversation with Charlene V. Smith about the London cast album of MAN OF LA MANCHA about what does historical accuracy actually mean?
Also HAMILTON.
Also is GRAVITY a feminist film?
Also HAMILTON.
Also what is identity?
Also HAMILTON.
And RENT.
Roddy, Kari, and Patrick debate the very nature of criticism from all points-of-view in this cut conversation from our 2017 Tonys episode.
In this cut conversation from our NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY episode, Doug and Patrick discuss something they both love and wish was more popular.
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Cuts from our INTO THE WOODS and WICKED episodes both about a show called THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
Maybe you’ve heard of it.
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The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1990)
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This excerpt from our LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (2004) episode starts on the Tonys and then goes places.
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992)
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This excised portion of Tony Award-winner Daisy Eagan’s wonderful visit to our podcast features a candid discussion about being a child star, having a child, and what you learn along the way.
Patrick has THREE shows in the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival this year. You can see them all on September 2, CHEAP AS FREE! Visit UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.
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Charlene and Patrick talk about endings happy, sad, and in between. Also “The Ladies Who Lunch.”
Patrick has THREE shows in the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival this year. You can see them all on September 2, CHEAP AS FREE! Visit UnknownPenguin.com/Live for more information.
Featured recordings:
COMPANY - A Musical Comedy (2006)
COMPANY - Original Broadway Cast (1970)
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We wrap up our three-week ASSASSINS Extravaganza with a discussion of the song added to the show after its 1991 Playwrights Horizons run.
Featured recordings:
ASSASSINS - The Broadway Cast Recording (2004)
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Kenny and Patrick talk some cast album theory about Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber and his bizarre catalog. Plus the 10 longest-running shows in West End history!
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STARLIGHT EXPRESS - Music and Songs From (1987)
STARLIGHT EXPRESS - The Original Cast Recording (1984)
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Lee and Patrick commiserate about the worst aspect of show business from both sides of the table.
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Bridget and Patrick talk about theatre directing versus film directing versus being an autocratic jerk.
Featured recordings:
COMPANY: A MUSICAL COMEDY (2007)
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We’ve moved to a new studio space and it needed testing. So Patrick found a guest wandering about the place and plopped him in front of the mics.
Featured recordings:
THE MUSIC MAN - Original Broadway Cast (1957)
CABARET - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1972)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - The Original Cast Recording (1986)
INTO THE WOODS - Original Broadway Cast (1987)
MATILDA - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2013)
SCHOOL OF ROCK - Original Cast Recording (2015)
NEWSIES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)
NEWSIES - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)
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During their A CHORUS LINE conversation Farrell and Patrick talked about the theme of “success.” Here is the unedited version of that conversation.
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Megan and Patrick both like C.S. Lewis. A lot. So they talk about C.S. Lewis. A lot.
Like, A LOT a lot.
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On the occasion of Stephen Joshua Sondheim's 87th birthday, Paul and Patrick talk about all kinds of Sondheim. Also Sondheim and Sondheim.
Featured recordings:
EXPERIMENT - Mandy Patinkin (1994)
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Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s amazing new musical COME FROM AWAY opens on Broadway this Sunday (March 12, 2017). Both Patrick and Sara saw it when it was at Ford’s Theatre on its way to Broadway and they think you should too. Really. Like, right now. Go see it. Now. We’ll wait.
Featured recordings:
COME FROM AWAY - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
FUN HOME - A New Broadway Musical (2015)
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Tony Award-winner Daisy Eagan and Patrick talk British music, free expression, and drummers.
Featured recordings:
TOMMY - The Who (1969)
WHO’S NEXT - The Who (1971)
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Jon and Patrick dive into the film version of THE LAST FIVE YEARS and then veer into why original cast albums are NOT soundtracks.
Featured recordings:
The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)
The Music Man - Original Soundtrack (1962)
The Last Five Years - Original Cast (2002)
Songs from a New World - World Premiere Recording (1997)
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Another free-association with Lee and Patrick. We start with SPRING AWAKENING and get to a movie David Mamet wrote with Shel Silverstein.
Featured recordings:
REALLY ROSIE - Carole King (1975)
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Kari drops some trivia on Rosalind Russell, Patrick drops some trivia on movie musical casting, and we all leave better than we arrived.
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Sophie and Patrick discuss the routines their parents trotted them out to perform for company and how inappropriate they were for kids.
Featured recordings:
ELLA FITZGERALD SINGS THE RODGERS AND HART SONGBOOK - Ella Fitzgerald (1956)
BABY BELUGA - Raffi (1980)
LOST IN THE STARS - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (1949)
VOLUME 2 - Woody Allen (1965)
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Patrick and John discuss the increase in dialogue on original cast albums and solve all the problems. . . Or don’t.
Featured recordings:
GUYS AND DOLLS - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1993)
NEWSIES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)
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Patrick and Lee start with SPRING AWAKENING move to AVENUE Q then FINDING NEMO: THE MUSICAL to WINNIE-THE-POOH to Broken Lizard back to SPRING AWAKENING then on to RENT and somehow land on HAIR.
Featured recordings:
AVENUE Q - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
FINDING NEMO - The Musical (2007)
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During their ONCE ON THIS ISLAND talk, Michael and Patrick detoured into one of Patrick’s pet peeves: bad lyricism. And it goes there.
Featured recordings:
GIRL - Pharrell Williams (2014)
FEELING STRANGELY FINE - Semisonic (1998)
WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT - Arctic Monkeys (2005)
LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)
THE LION KING - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1994)
WEST SIDE STORY - Original Broadway Cast (1957)
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Sophie and Patrick go through Playbill writer and theatre blogger Mark Robinson's (@theatreguy22) post "Showtune Shenanigans: The Showtunes I Jump Over" one-by-one and add some of their own suggestions to the list.
Featured recordings:
MY FAIR LADY - Original Cast (1958)
GUYS AND DOLLS - A Decca Original Cast Album (1950)
SOUTH PACIFIC - Original Broadway Cast (1949)
HELLO, DOLLY! - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1967)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - The Original Cast Recording (1986)
GODSPELL - A Musical Based Upon the Gospel According to St Matthew (1971)
RENT - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996)
WEST SIDE STORY - Original Broadway Cast (1957)
GYPSY - The Original Broadway Cast (1959)
WICKED - A Decca Original Cast Recording (2003)
FUNNY GIRL - Original Broadway Cast (1964)
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM - Original Broadway Cast (1962)
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING - The 2011 Decca Broadway Cast Recording (2011)
BARNUM - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1980)
LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987)
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET - Original Cast (1979)
HAMILTON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)
THE FANTASTICKS - Original Off-Broadway Cast (1960)
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