SPECIAL DELIVERY! Friends of the show Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane are here to talk about the new cast album for their musical The Big Time which drops on Concord Theatricals TODAY! Starring Tony winners Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte and featuring Jackie Hoffman and Will Swenson, The Big Time is a big musical comedy that you are going to love.
THE BIG TIME - Studio Cast Recording (2023) at Concord Theatricals Recordings
Douglas J. Cohen / Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973)
Douglas Carter Beane / Babes in Arms - 1999 New York Cast Recording (1999)
Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand!
Aaron J. Albano is back to talk more about the short documentary Ensemble that he co-produced and appears in.
Watch ENSEMBLE at Broadway On-Demand
Featured recording: “Opening: I Hope I Get It” from A Chorus Line - Original Broadway Cast (1975)
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Composer, lyricist, and friend of the show Douglas J. Cohen responds to questions raised during the most recent The Original Cast at the Movies episode about Funny Lady and its lack of Kay Medford.
Kay Medford and Zero Mostel performing “Do You Love Me?” on The Dean Martin Show. [NOTE: There is a low buzz on the left channel of this video so only use the right earbud.]
Info about the Kojak episode Doug references.
Featured recordings: "Who Taught Her Everything?" performed by Kay Medford and Danny Meehan from Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) • "Some People" performed by Kay Medford from Gypsy - Studio Cast (1969)
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Kevin Winkler, author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical, has a new book out NOW!!
Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune
Featured Songs: “’S Wonderful” from My One and Only - Original Cast Recording (1983) • “We’ll Take a Glass Together” from Grand Hotel - Broadway Cast Recording (1989)
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Attend a LIVE STREAM RECORDING OF THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES at Patreon Dot Com Slash Original Cast Pod for details!
Best friend of the show Robbie Rozelle has a new live album out called Songs from Inside My Locker and you should buy it and here’s why . . .
Listen to Songs from Inside My Locker now!
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MUSIC: “In Hell’s Kitchen” performed by Robbie Rozelle from his new album Songs from Inside My Locker (2020, Broadway Records), music and lyrics by Michael Finke
Here’s a snippet from Alexandra and me talking from the before times.
recorded March 4, 2020
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MUSIC: “Birdhouse in Your Soul” performed by They Might Be Giants from their album Flood (1990), music and lyrics by John Flansburgh & John Linnell
Distantly Social Theatre presents Have You Been to the New Harris Teeter? a short play written by Patrick Flynn starring Serena Berman & Ava Eisenson, and directed by Jake Beckhard.
Covert art photograph by David Wardrick.
Have You Been to the New Harris Teeter? was originally presented as part of Theatre Alliance’s Hot House Readings series in 2017.
Have You Been to the New Harris Teeter? script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange!
Recording produced by Jake Beckhard and edited by Patrick Flynn.
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A fun edit from my talk with James Gardiner about Merrily We Roll Along.
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MUSIC: “Opening (Doors)” performed by Joshua Hinck & Charity Angél Dawson featuring Chip Zien & Aili Venho from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Tara & Stefania are podcasting from the North!
Listen to the Off2Broadway podcast!
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MUSIC: “Blame Canada” from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999), music and lyrics by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman
Jensen is keeping busy and becoming goo.
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MUSIC: “I Believe” performed by Andrew Rannells from The Book of Mormon - Original Broadway Cast (2011), music and lyrics by Trey Parker & Robert Lopez &Matt Stone
Robbie’s album Songs from Inside My Locker is finally coming out!
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MUSIC: “If You’re Right Right Right” written and performed by The Flynn Twins • “I’m Leaving Texas” performed by Dee Hoty from The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1994), music and lyrics by Carol Hall
Is the world that different for writers?
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MUSIC: “So Far, So Good” performed by Marguerite MacIntyre and Adam Grupper from No Way to Treat a Lady - Original Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen
Distantly Social Theatre presents The Royal Me performed by Anna Grace Nowalk, written by Patrick Flynn.
Covert art photograph by David Wardrick.
The Royal Me script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange!
Recording produced by Anna Grace Nowalk and edited by Patrick Flynn.
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A quick cut from my wonderful conversation with King’s Singer bass Jonathan Howard about “University.”
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MUSIC: “He is an Englishman” performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from H.M.S. Pinafore (1949), music by Arthur Sullivan, lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
It’s my birthday today so I’m reviving one of my favorite interviews of all time with the delightful Kurt Peterson.
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MUSIC: “Too Many Mornings” performed by Kurt Peterson & Victoria Mallory from their album When Everything Was Possible: A Concert (2012), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from Follies (1971)
This is a bad idea.
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MUSIC: “This Plum is Too Ripe” performed by Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson, William Larsen, & Hugh Thomas from The Fantasticks - Original Cast Album (1960), music by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones
Another runaway train of thoughts.
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MUSIC: “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)” performed by Barbra Streisand from A Star is Born - Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson (1976), music and lyrics by Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams
Tomorrow, 5:30pm EDT, Facebook Live!
MUSIC: “Saturday at the Met” performed by Kate Wetherhead from Ordinary Days - Original Cast Recording (2009), music and lyrics by Adam Gwon
Distantly Social Theatre presents No But a short play written by Patrick Flynn starring Angeleaza Anderson, Michelle Polera, and Carl Williams.
Covert art photograph by David Wardrick.
No But was originally presented at Bethesda Play-in-a-Day 2019 with this same cast.
No But script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange!
Recording produced, directed, and edited by Patrick Flynn
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Walking and thinking and walking and watching.
Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17!
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MUSIC: “C.B.” performed by Michael Staniforth with Jeffrey Daniel from Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
Eliza just started a new job in March!
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MUSIC: “Tear Me Down” performed by John Cameron Mitchell from Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Cast Album (1998), music and lyrics by Stephen Trask
Tia and I talk to each other while kids talk to us.
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MUSIC: “I Feel Pretty” performed by Kyle Taylor Parker from his album Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 (2019), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from West Side Story (1957)
Conspiracy theories, one-person shows, Ordinary Days, and Tell Me on a Sunday just to name a few.
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MUSIC: “The Cookie Chase” performed by Angela Lansbury from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
For Mother’s Day, I’m counting down my Top 5 Favorite Broadway Mamas that we’ve covered on this show!
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Featured Recordings: Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) • Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) • The Who’s Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) • The Light in the Piazza - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) • Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) • Caroline, or Change - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2004) • Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) • Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) • Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) • The Phantom of the Opera - The Original Cast Recording (1986) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990) • Into the Woods - Original Broadway Cast (1987) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • Les Misérables - Orginal Broadway Cast Recording (1987)
I should’ve paid attention in Health class.
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MUSIC: “Soliloquy” performed by John Raitt from Carousel - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1945), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II