Bryan from the official Broadwaysted! Podcast (where they’re drunk on theatre) is here for some inside baseball and outside dog walking.
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MUSIC: “Hair” performed by James Rado & Gerome Ragni from Hair - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968), music by Galt MacDermot, lyrics by James Rado &Gerome Ragni
In January, Robyn moved from DC to New Mexico to become the newly minted Artistic Director at the Santa Fe Playhouse!
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MUSIC: “Santa Fe” performed by Jesse L. Martin from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music by Jonathan Larson, lyrics by Jonathan Larson and Billy Aronson
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)!
It’s still Tuesday with Robbie but we need to talk about the latest Pulitzer winner!
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MUSIC: “Exile in Gayville,” “Intermission Song,” and “Today” performed by Larry Owens with L Morgan Lee, James Jackson Jr, John-Michael Lyles, John-Andrew Morrison, Jason Veasey, & Antwayn Harper from A Strange Loop - Original Cast Recording (2019), music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Nicole and DC Metro Theater Arts have an interesting problem: what do you write about when there’s no theatre to write about
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MUSIC: “Being Alive” performed by Dean Jones from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Lee works for WILL Interactive and they’re figuring it out just like you and me.
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MUSIC: “Allegro” performed by Norbert Leo Butz & Liz Callaway from Allegro - First Complete Recording (2009), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Laura and I want you to check on your extroverts.
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MUSIC: “Circles in the Sand” performed by Adam Chanler-Berat from Fly By Night - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2014), music and lyrics by Will Connolly & Michael Mitnick & Kim Rosenstock
Two fun cuts from my wonderful conversation with Kimberly & Bryan from the official Broadwaysted! podcast about Sunday in the Park with George.
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MUSIC: “I’ve Got You to Lean On” performed by Angela Lansbury, Gabriel Dell, Arnold Soboloff, & James Frawley from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Garrett works in Acquisitions and Artistic Development at Concord Theatricals where they’re innovating their way through the suck.
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MUSIC: “Stool Boom” performed by Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, & Fred Willard Parker Posey from Red, White & Blaine - Original Cast Album (1996), music and lyrics by Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer
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)
T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!
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)!
Robbie started a podcast. How dare he.
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MUSIC: “Hosing the Furniture” performed by Lauren Marcus from the album The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, written for Sitting on the Edge of the Future (1989)
Sorry, it’s a sad one today.
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MUSIC: “Farewell to Stromness” written and performed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies from Farewell to Stromness (2016)
Stephen is missing solitude in public places.
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MUSIC: “You Can Always Count On Me” performed by Randy Graff from City of Angels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1989), music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel
Heather is a costume designer, which is a hard job to do remotely.
Read Heather’s articles on Grounded Reason.
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MUSIC: “Magic Dance” performed by David Bowie, from Labyrinth - From the Original Soundtrack of the Jim Henson Film (1986), music and lyrics by David Bowie
James is here to explain Animal Crossing.
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MUSIC: "Two-Player Game" performed by Will Roland & George Salazar from Be More Chill - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019), music and lyrics by Joe Iconis
Anna wants to go back to college, please.
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MUSIC: "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" performed by John Tartaglia, Peter Linz, Stephanie D'Abruzzo from Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast (2003), music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx
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!
Jim Steinman wrote a Batman musical.
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MUSIC: "Simon Zealotes / Poor Jerusalem" performed by Ledisi and Morgan James, from Jesus Christ Superstar - She is Risen: Volume I (2020), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
Rick is teaching drama to 5th-8th grade girls.
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MUSIC: "Do-Re-Mi" performed by Mary Martin, from The Sound of Music - Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Today we take a deep-dive into a song's evolution with this number from Evita from its debut on the 1976 concept album, its deletion from the stage production, and reinstatement for the film.
Featured recordings: Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron 1919-1952 (1976) • Evita - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1979) • Evita - The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack (1996)
Mary's teaching Shakespeare to stuffed animals.
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MUSIC: "Hip Hop Hooray" performed by Naughty by Nature, from 19 Naughty III - Naughty by Nature (1993), music and lyrics by Ronald Isley, Ernie Isley, Rudolph Isley, Chris Jasper, O'Kelly Isley Jr., Marvin Isley, Vincent Brown, Anthony Criss, Keir Gist
Danielle Mohlman's play Nexus is going on a virtual national tour.
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MUSIC: "Opening Night" performed by the company, from The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001), music and lyrics by Mel Brooks
Staying mentally balanced in Harlem.
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MUSIC: "Another Hundred People" performed by Pamela Myers, from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
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)
T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store!
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!
Musical theatre solo albums dos and don'ts and please do dos and please please don't dos.
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MUSIC: "You'll Never Get Away from Me" performed by (the Queen) Judy Kuhn (Long May She Reign), from Just in Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne (1995), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, from Gypsy (1959)