James is many things to many people. He's a performer, director, publicity director at Signature Theatre in DC, and also the book writer for the musical Glory Days which ran on Broadway for one performance in 2008. And he's here to talk about all those things as well as the best show ever written that doesn't work.
Topics include: That Frank, book writing is hard, Glory Days (of course), and how what we lose in the fire we gain in the flood.
Featured recordings: Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) • Merrily We Roll Along - The New Cast Recording (!994) • Glory Days - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)
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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).