Children’s TV host Carly Ciarrocchi is here for a wonderful conversation about how one show can set your whole world in motion.
Topics Include: discount Disney DJ for bar mitzvahs, working together, finding what you’re good at, live children’s TV, and getting rejected in a letter you sent yourself.
Featured Recordings: Godspell - A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1971)
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month is the Judy Garland installment in our A Star is Born series with Roddy Flynn and Kari Ginsburg as we tackle all 4 Stars is Born films this year!
Actor/performer/writer Tori Bouton is here for the last year’s Tony Award-winner for Best Musical.
Topics Include: Amber Gray, tragic endings, Amber Gray, why we sing this song, Amber Gray, Andre DeShields, and Amber Gray.
Featured Recordings: Hadestown - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • Hadestown - Live Original Cast Album (2017)
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month is the Judy Garland installment in our A Star is Born series with Roddy Flynn and Kari Ginsburg as we tackle all 4 Stars is Born films this year!
Actor/music director/podcaster Kevin David Thomas is here for a musical that takes you there and back. On a bus.
Topics Include: Jekyll & Hyde, Lauren Ward over Sutton Foster, M&M’s, why we do what we do, and Kevin & Patrick try to get Jeanine Tesori on their respective podcasts through fawning and begging.
Featured Recordings: Violet - A New Musical (1997) • Violet - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Right now you can hear Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk about the best mockumnetary ever made This is Spin̈al Tap (1984)!
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)
If you’re listening on June 17, 2020: click here to register for Amy’s even at Hamden Library.
Info on Amy's 54 Below show, rescheduled for April 23, 2021 at 9:30pm!
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Right now you can hear Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk about the best mockumnetary ever made This is Spin̈al Tap (1984)!
Director/podcaster Robert W. Schneider is here for a musical whose legacy may be unfairly besmirched by an infamous Tony speech.
Topics Include: George Hearn, staging the overture, cutting the entr’acte, and maybe revoking Rob’s gay card live on the air!
Featured Recording: La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983)
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Right now you can hear Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk about the best mockumentary ever made This is Spin̈al Tap (1984)!
Lara is the host of the podcast Stage Door Stories and has the best “how did this show come into your life?” story ever.
Topics Include: Jeremy Kushnier, Jeremy Kushnier rapping, the Kenny Loggins of it all, and running into Jennifer Laura Thompson on the street.
Featured Recordings: Footloose - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999) • Footloose - Original Soundtrack of the Paramount Motion Picture (1984) • Flashdance - Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1983) • An Officer and a Gentleman - Original Soundtrack (1982) • Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie (1986) • Arthur: The Album - Christopher Cross (1981) • Top Gun - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1986) • Fame - The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1980) • The Woman in Red - Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Right now you can hear Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk about the best mockumentary ever made This is Spin̈al Tap (1984)!
Jake is a director who brings his insightful theatrical mind to the best worst musical of all time that people either love to death or have no strong feelings about either way.
Topics include: Bobby Fischer, the agony of Freddie, the ecstasy of Judy Kuhn, and whether or not the plot is just Tim Rice fan-fiction written by Tim Rice.
Featured Recordings: Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988) • Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!
Star is playwright/lyricist/director who brings to us a fun and funny conversation about a still-relevant turning point in the history of American musical theatre that is further from us historically than it is from Oklahoma!.
Topics Include: gender-blind Bobbies, keeping the comedy in musical comedy, being alive, and sliding into her DMs.
Featured Recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • Company - 1995 Broadway Cast Recording (1995) • Experiment - Mandy Patinkin (1994) • Marry Me a Little - Songs by Stephen Sondheim (1980)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!
Nostalgia is a dangerous drug.
Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17!
Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community
MUSIC: “U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.” performed by Frances Ruffelle from Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
Actor/singer/coach/multi-hyphenate Casey Erin Clark is here for a Sutton Foster vehicle that brings the sincerity.
Topics Include: snark, corsets, Frank Wildhorn, and that time Casey slid 15’ across a stage on her bum.
Featured Recordings: Little Women - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) • Frankenstein - World Premiere Recording (2008) • Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989) • The Song Begins... - Casey Erin Clark (2008)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!
Director/actor/lighting designer Michael Innocenti brings this (now) 19-year-old megahit to the podcast and asks "What am comedy?"
Topics Include: Neil Simon, Catskills, the corner of Jewish and Catholic, and what is Mel Brooks's 2nd-worst film?
Featured Recordings: The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)!
Johnny sings bass in The King's Singers and was almost literally born into this Lloyd Webber/Rice mainstay.
Topics Include: finding oneself part of a six-man vocal ensemble, naming all the colours in Joseph's coat, jacks-of-all-trades/masters-
Featured Recordings: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - London Palladium Cast Recording (1991) • Finding Harmony - The King's Singers (2020) • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Original Broadway Cast (1982)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!
Guest host Kari Ginsburg talks to usual host Patrick Flynn about his rebirth as a music theatre devotee and what he thought the podcast would be versus what it is.
Topics Include: the Queen, Judy Kuhn, long may she reign; oddball Juan Peróns; crying and crying; the eternal struggle of the cast album as artform, commodity, and obsession.
Featured Recordings: Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Original Broadway Cast (1962) • Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) • Fun Home - Original Cast Recording (2014)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!
Clare has appeared in some of the top theatres in DC and Baltimore. Which wouldn't be so remarkable except for the fact that she's nine-years-old!
Topics Include: auditioning, forgetting to breathe, pretending to drive a car, and loving what you're doing.
Featured Recording: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Broadway Musical (1999)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!
Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor respects the emotional implications of said facts. But, y'know, royalty!
Topics include: Frozen 2, Gleb, Starlight Express, Gleb, eating the rich, Gleb, disregarding history, and seriously what is up with Gleb?
Featured recordings: Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee (this episode) talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
Columnist, playwright, and the mind behind @KyloR3n is here for one of the most capital-M Musicals ever to grace the Broadway.
Topics include: unintentional weird, songs and book and when they don't meet, the unbearable heaviness of Alan Jay Lerner, and a 70-year-old musical that slaps.
Featured recordings: Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960)
NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 4, 2020 before any gathering restrictions were in place.
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
It's a play this week! No singing, no music, just words. Good words. Tom Stoppard words. And a great guest: Chris Stinson.
Topics include: nihilism, love, Cynthia Nixon doing two Broadway plays at once, and how Jeremy Irons's character may have led to Brexit.
Featured recordings: The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
Jenna is a director in DC (she directed my adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit) and is also the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at Olney Theatre Center. And she's here for a big hit that we all love and, actually, is a lot more layered than you may think.
Topics include: tradition, love, Thestrals, and the importance of stage presence.
Featured recordings: Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)
Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952).
Playwright/actress Serena Berman has finally brought us the landmark "bookless" musical Hair.
Topics include: free love, the Starbucks-itization of hippies, drugs, the power of revivals for a new generation, and the anxiety of having a good time.
Featured recordings: Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968)
Listen to Serena's play Apocalypse Air BnB on Flying V's Paperless Pulp podcast series!
Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Robbie Rozelle (Mame) talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, accurately entitled: Original Cast Album: Company (1971).
It's a big one to kick off the year! Bryan Plofsky and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt of the official Broadwaysted! podcast (where they're drunk on theatre) are here for a big musical that two of us love and one of us also loves but not as much as the first two which is fine but not really because this is the best musical ever.
Topics include: anti-heroes, shows that hold you at arms-length, Fosse/Verdon, and the Mandy of it all.
Featured recordings: Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast (1985)
Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Robbie Rozelle (Mame) talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, accurately entitled: Original Cast Album: Company (1971).
Jay is a stand-up, actor, co-host of pReview'd, co-host of Broadway Baby and is here for this David Yazbek adaptation of the Academy Award-nominated film about working-class male strippers.
Topics include: overtures, Ithica graduates, hard moments in tech, and the hardest a stranger has ever seen Jay cry.
Featured recordings: The Full Monty - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Jesus Christ Superstar - A Rock Opera (1970)
The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information!
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month it's Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no. It's All That Jazz (1979)!
Kevin is the author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical (now in paperback!) and is here for the first "Fosse" musical.
Topics include: filming dance, grandmom Gwen Verdon, the Church-of-the-Month Club, and finding Fosse in Oklahoma in the '60s.
Featured recording: Sweet Charity - Original Broadway Cast (1966)
The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information!
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month it's Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no. It's All That Jazz (1979)!
Tony-nominated actor (Starmites) and director (Amazing Grace, Lippa's The Wild Party) Gabriel Barre is our first guest to be in the original Broadway cast of the show we're discussing, and you will soon see why. Rags famously ran for 4 performances on Broadway but nevertheless was nominated for 5 Tony awards and has survived through the years due to staunch advocation by its devoted fans and creators.
Topics include: opening in Boston without a director, learning on the job, John & Jen, and (to the delight of at least one of you) Starmites.
Featured recordings: Rags - A New American Musical (1991) • Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) • John & Jen - Original Cast Recording (1996)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month it's Chris Klimek (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line) talking about the greatest movie Prince ever made: Purple Rain (1984)!
Composer/lyricist Adam Gwon is here for a western adaptation of Wagner's The Ring Cycle and to talk about his new musical Scotland, PA which is based on an early-aughts indy film that adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth into a story about competing burger joints in 1970's rural Pennsylvania.
What a sentence!
Topics include: finding your path, changing your path, living that new path, and making guacamole.
Featured recordings: Das Barbecü - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Ordinary Days - Original Cast Recording (2009)
There is also a demo recording of "Byron" from The Waves, music and lyrics by David Bucknam, performed by Raúl Esparza with Matt Aument on piano.
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got journalist/radio personality Chris Klimek (It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!) and journalist/actress Rachel Manteuffel (Annie, maybe?) talking Prince's first movie: Purple Rain (1984)!