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| IT'S THE 2024 TONYS!!!!!! | 12 Jun 2024 | 02:18:07 | |
It's TONYS TIME!! Patrick, Lauren Halvorsen (Nothing for the Group), and Robbie Rozelle (Center Stage Records) break down this incredibly overpacked Tony season. Who will win? Who will lose? Who won't show up? Who wasn't invited? Which version of The Wild Party should've been on Broadway 24 years ago? We cover it all! Patrick's magic 2024 Tonys YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ESY8dK6cXofKNoexpuGb5RsFG-caI57 Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! | |||
| Elegy: Joanna McKee | 04 Jun 2024 | 01:12:42 | |
Friend of the podcast, repeat guest, and genuine ray of sunshine Joanna McKee passed away today and I'm at a loss. Listen to her talk about the musical Anastasia and hear the joy in her heart.
originally released: March 25, 2020 original notes: 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) 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 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). | |||
| Clint McElroy / The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) | 20 Mar 2024 | 01:07:25 | |
Clint is the paterfamilias of the McElroy family of podcasters as well as a comic book author, theatre director, and general enthusiast of all things. And he's here for his favorite original cast album of a show he was IN on BROADWAY (kinda). Topics include: spelling your way to Broadway glory, not making fun of the kids, getting choreo tips from Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Guys and Dolls Jr. (aka Bugsy Malone), and Liev Schreiber's finger acting. Featured recordings: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! | |||
| Justin McElroy / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) | 06 Mar 2024 | 01:02:33 | |
Justin is the oldest brother on the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast but is also a best-selling author, voice actor, and community theatre director. And he's here with a show that rode the early-90s obsession with the late-60s to Tony glory! Topics include: how Tommy is like Joseph from a protagonist standpoint, seeing the original Broadway production of Smokey Joe's Cafe, the jauntiest song about molestation, and (weirdly) the State Farm's Super Bowl commercial. Featured recordings: The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) • Tommy - The Who (1969) • Who's Next - The Who (1971) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! | |||
| Bruce Robert Harris / Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011) | 21 Feb 2024 | 00:51:45 | |
Bruce is (along with his producing partner Jack W. Batman) a two-time Tony Award winning producer of shows such as Pippin, Be More Chill, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, and the very show we're talking about today! Topics include: what a producer does, why shows are so expensive, what a producer should do, being an extra in Fame, and the upcoming revival of The Who's Tommy! Featured recordings: Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! | |||
| Em Whitworth / Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:59:28 | |
Em is an actor in New York and DC who brings us this most classic of musicals as revived St. Ann's Warehouse revival that ****s. There is really no other way to put it. That's how we all remember it. I bleep it every time but that's what we're saying. It's the Oklahoma! that ****s. Topics include: the buttery/flaky crust of nostalgia, Rebecca Naomi Jones doing no wrong, Mary Testa opening numbers, a moment of meta-textualism that brings things to a crashing halt, disappointing revivals, reclaiming Jud, and can one out-sexy Julie Andrews & Robert Goulet? Featured recordings: Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • Oklahoma! - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1943) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! | |||
| Dani Stoller / The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014) | 24 Jan 2024 | 01:09:48 | |
Dani is a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright and actor who brings us this JRB musical by way of a Clint Eastwood movie by way of a 90s romance novel about Kelli O'Hara making out with Laura Benanti's ex-husband. Topics include: wet old men, the dangers of casting Steven Pasquale, complicated women, the high stakes of everyday life. Featured recordings: The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! | |||
| Stephen Beaudoin / Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976) | 10 Jan 2024 | 01:06:03 | |
Stephen is the incoming President & CEO of the Music School of Delaware of which Patrick is an alumnus (but Stephen doesn't know that when we start so keep it under your hat). Topics include: sensitive kids, deceptive simplicity, passing on Rooster, mom's lullabies, George C. Wolfe's Annie, and the teachers who poured themselves into us. Featured recordings: Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! | |||
| The Original Cast at the Movies: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) | 27 Dec 2023 | 01:27:43 | |
Did you know we had a bonus podcast on our PATREON page? Well, we do. Each month, you can listen to The Original Cast at the Movies, a long-form movie discussion podcast with musical theatre implications. Beth Amann and Kari Ginsburg are here to kick off The Original Cast at the Movies's new theme: THE YEAR OF BARBARA (HARRIS)! We'll be covering 13 Barbara Harris films starting with this Academy Award-nominated comedy(?) from Francis Ford Coppola Peggy Sue Got Married featuring Ms Harris in one of her many "mother" roles. The question is: Is Barbara Harris the best part of this movie? PATREON DOT COM SLASH ORIGINAL CAST POD | |||
| Intermission: How You Doin'? | 13 Dec 2023 | 00:09:56 | |
Let's rap. 48 Hour Film Project: Yes We Cannes - Buy a ticket and vote for WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THE FUTURE Buy one of Patrick's plays for audiences young and decidedly not young Murder Crossed Her Mind by Stephen Spotswood OUT NOW! Watch Patrick's previous award-winning 48 Hour Film The Crown Must Go On on YouTube Watch We Need Your Help to Save the Future on YouTube MUSIC: "At Christmas (Joyful Merry Holiday)" by GentleJammers / Pond5 | |||
| Jenny Bilfield / Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001) | 29 Nov 2023 | 01:09:38 | |
Jenny is the President and CEO of Washington Performing Arts and she's here for a trip downtown, across the world, and back in time. Topics include: the Berlin Wall, A Night at the Opera, Leonard Bernstein, being asked to change your name, arts education, the Air Force Band, and what you can accomplish without a building. Washington Performing Arts Dot Org Featured recordings: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001) 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! | |||
| Austin Pendleton / The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970) | 15 Nov 2023 | 01:28:50 | |
It is impossible for me to overstate how special it was to speak with Austin Pendleton. An actor's actor, playwright, director, and a wonderfully kind human being. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do. Topics include: working with jazz artists, Salvador Dalí on the phone at 4:00am, trying to blow off Jerome Robbins (and failing), promises made to Zero Mostel, Barbara Harris & Hunter College, acting with Kermit the Frog, and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Austin Pendleton's Wikipedia page Featured recordings: The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970) • People - Barbra Streisand (1964) 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! | |||
| Eleni Hagen / Sunset Boulevard - World Premiere Recording (1993) | 01 Nov 2023 | 01:20:10 | |
Eleni comes to us from the Kennedy Center's Digital Learning Center to talk about a musical that lives in her very soul and bones. Topics include: preteen sunset, channelling Maria Callas, tired performances, unfinished lyrics, Betty Schaefer's agency, and (of course) a swimming pool named "Andrew." "Who Doesn't Love Opera?" by Eleni Hagen at Kennedy Dash Center Dot Org Around the Sun at the Broadway Podcast Network Featured recordings: Sunset Boulevard - World Premiere Recording (1993) • Sunset Boulevard - Original Niedernhausen Cast (1995) • Sunset Boulevard - American Premiere Recording (1994) 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! | |||
| Stuart Wellington / "Them" - King Diamond (1988) | 18 Oct 2023 | 00:58:32 | |
Stuart is 1/3 of The Flop House podcast (the 3rd third to guest on this show) as well as the proprietor of both Hinterlands and Minnie's Bar in Brooklyn. And he's here with a Danish Heavy Metal concept album that is more well-thought-out than The Who's Tommy. Topics include: deep dives and rabbit holes, allegorical mother draining, being a completist, Queen, showmanship, and Patrick's familiarity with the iconography of the Church of Satan. Featured recordings: "Them" - King Diamond (1988) 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! | |||
| Patrick O'Neill / Swing! - Original Cast Recording (1999) | 04 Oct 2023 | 01:13:39 | |
Patrick and Patrick have been friends for multiple decades and they talk entirely about Swing! and they don't almost immediately diverge into talking about the Harry Connick Jr/Jessie Mueller revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever that Patrick was in and I don't know how these rumors get started. Topics include: the dark corners of Joe Allen's, the concrete floors of Toby's, Anne Hampton Calloway, dinner-theatre CATS, the St. James Theatre (aka: the horseshoe of death), meeting Jessie Mueller, Almost Famous, being "the kiss of death," and Harry Connick Jr's assistant. Ben Brantley's 2011 review of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Featured recordings: Swing! - Original 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! | |||
| Vince Gatton / Nine - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992) | 20 Sep 2023 | 01:05:11 | |
Playwright and actor Vince Gatton is here to talk about an album that is not his favorite show but has a strong hold on him nonetheless. Topics include: unusual ways, first recordings vs best recordings, burning out cassettes, disgustingly wonderful fithiness, and what happens when you can get Elaine Paige instead of Sarah Brightman but not until the weekend. NSFW: Anita Morris - "A Call from the Vatican" REALLY NSFW: Jane Krakowski - "A Call from the Vatican" Featured recordings: Nine - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992) • Nine - Original Cast Album (1982) • Nine - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003) 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! | |||
| Distantly Social 76: The Big Time (w/ Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane) | 08 Sep 2023 | 00:38:52 | |
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! | |||
| Kari Ginsburg / The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) | 06 Sep 2023 | 01:18:00 | |
Kari's back to talk about a musical no one wants to talk about! Well, not NO ONE but not enough people in Patrick's opinion. Topics include: Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, the greatness of Barbara Harris, 3 Act musicals, the glorious comedic timing of Barbara Harris, the genius of Sheldon Harnick, the rhapsodic joy one feels listening to Barbara Harris, Warren Beatty (and how he wronged Barbara Harris), and how much we miss Barbara Harris. Barbara Harris in Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? Barbara Harris performing "Oh to Be a Movie Star" and "Gorgeous" at the Tonys in 1966 Barbara Harris winning her (much deserved) Tony Award Featured recordings: The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) 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! | |||
| Joe Iconis / The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978) | 23 Aug 2023 | 00:54:08 | |
I'm guessing if you listen to a podcast about original cast albums, then you know who Joe Iconis is and you probably also know how thrilled I am to be talking with him this week. Aside from his Tony-nominated score for Be More Chill, Joe's other vast musical credits include the likes of The Black Suits, Punk Rock Girl!, Bloodsong of Love, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love in Hate Nation. He's coming to us from La Jolla Playhouse where he is debuting his newest musical: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical. Topics include: parents with shitty musical tastes, Inner-City Mother Goose, Carol Hall, Elaine Stritch, and Mandy Patinkin auditioning for Back to the Future The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical at La Jolla! Featured recordings: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978) • Free to Be... You and Me - Marlo Thomas and Friends (1972) • Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • Guys and Dolls - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1992) 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! | |||
| Robbie Rozelle / The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1987) | 09 Aug 2023 | 01:49:12 | |
Robbie's back (again) for what is a seminal recording for fans of a certain age. Topics include: single fun aunts, over-acting with masks, jumpers & big collars, natural disasters, Michael Ball, documentaries about Laurie Beechman, vests, and Victoria Clarke Syndrome. Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection + Encore on YOUTUBE! Cast Album Cage Match: EVITA vs. Billy Recce Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music Of Laurie Beechman the cover art for Sarah Brightman Sings the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1992) Featured recordings: The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1987) • Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection Encore (1992) • Gold - Linda Eder (2002) 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! | |||
| Mike Meaney / Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968) | 26 Jul 2023 | 00:56:02 | |
Mike is a New York City-based director who loves the Great American Songbook, trivia, collecting LP records, and hot beverages. And he's here for a Kander & Ebb show that's right up there with 70, Girls, 70 and The Happy Time in terms of popularity, influence, and success. Topics include: getting the plot wrong, death in musicals, Anyone Can Whistle, who would've won the Best Score Tony in 1969 had it existed, Don Walker, and Hal Prince's ethos (or lack thereof). Featured recordings: Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968) 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! | |||
| Erika Villalba / Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) | 12 Jul 2023 | 01:15:08 | |
Erika is a co-host of the great podcast That Aged Well as well as a writer and performer who loves the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Bookshop. And she's here for a show she saw FIVE TIMES on Broadway! Topics include: songs from the '66 original, is Sally Bowles just Millie Dilmount on drugs, the problem of irony, making Generation X feel better, The Wolf of Wall Street, and what has aged well. Emergency Podcast Episode on Diana: The Musical "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" on Wikipedia Featured recordings: Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • Cabaret - The Original Broadway Cast (1966) • Cabaret - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1972) 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! | |||
| Kimberly Cooper Schmidt / Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016) | 28 Jun 2023 | 01:10:54 | |
Broadwaysted!'s own Kimberly is back (for the 3rd time) to talk about the album that makes us wonder: "Who . . . is Barbra Streisand?" Topics include: how to headphone like Barbra, doing more Zack than you want, James Brolin self-tapes, Hugh Jackman playing a wolf-man, Barbra as the emcee, what you get with the "Deluxe" Edition, and how much dialogue is too much dialogue? ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway YouTube Videos Featured recordings: Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016) • The Broadway Album - Barbra Streisand (1985) 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! | |||
| PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 66: The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) | 27 Jun 2023 | 00:17:37 | |
THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/OriginalCastPod Confession time. This whole "Year of Barbra" thing has really been a long con to promote a production of the play The Owl and the Pussycat directed by Patrick and starring today's guests: Serena Berman (Hair, tick, tick…BOOM!) and A.J. Ditty (High Fidelity). We open at the Snapple Theatre this fall on the set of Perfect Crimes and are actively looking for investors. | |||
| Paul Caiola / Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) | 14 Jun 2023 | 01:06:34 | |
Paul acts, he writes, he podcasts, he does many things. And he is here to talk about a show that maybe won a lot of Tonys this past Sunday! Or maybe not!! Only way to find out is to listen!!! Topics include: parents acting like children, children forced to be parents, crying through Act 2, Barnum!, story structure, and how Paul doesn't know music theory, he just feels things. Featured recordings: Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) 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! | |||
| Taylor J. Williams / Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008) | 31 May 2023 | 00:58:55 | |
Taylor J. Williams is a 2023 Tony Award-nominee in the Best Sound Design of a Play category for Ain't No Mo'. He is also a musician who has worked as an electronic music designer on more than 30 Broadway productions including Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice, Be More Chill, King Kong, Frozen, and Falsettos. Topics include: pageantry, melodrama, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, napping in a rats' nest of cables, Adam Pascal bootlegs, and what does a programmer . . . do? Featured recordings: Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008) • Aida - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) 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! | |||
| PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 65: Nuts | 27 May 2023 | 00:20:07 | |
THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/OriginalCastPod The Year of Barbra Continues! Rob W. Schneider (Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) join Patrick for yet another bad psychiatrist movie. Now with 5x as much ACTING! | |||
| Dana Spialter / In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) | 17 May 2023 | 00:52:22 | |
Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she's come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job. Topics include: getting typecast out of Fiddler, Anthony Newley, what a producer does, RENT, coming home, and musicals based on nothing. Featured recordings: In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) 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! | |||
| Mark-Eugene Garcia / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) | 03 May 2023 | 01:06:11 | |
Mark's website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music Eight Tales of Pedro (written with Luis D'Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he's here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart. Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, The Opposite of Sex: The Musical, and fan-boy-ing out. Recorded LIVE at the Drama Book Shop! Featured recordings: A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) 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! | |||
| Rob Weinert-Kendt / The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) | 19 Apr 2023 | 00:56:37 | |
Rob was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West & is the editor-in-chief of American Theatre magazine. And he's here for the only Off-Broadway show to win a Tony Award. Topics include: psuedo-Marxist propaganda, in rep with The Fantasticks, Gilbert & Sullivan, Double-LP German recordings, Domar Warehouse, how existence is a female dog and then one perishes, and the vocal stylings of Dame Bea Arthur. Featured recordings: The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) • Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill - Hal Willner (1985) • The Threepenny Opera - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Die Dreigroschenoper - Columbia Masterworks (1958) • Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) 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! | |||
| Kaiya Lyons / Our First Mistake - Kerrigan-Lowdermilk (2011) | 05 Apr 2023 | 01:01:57 | |
Kaiya is a civil rights lawyer and a lifelong thespian who uses her legal expertise to empower theatre community members to stand up for their rights and create truly safe and equitable spaces. And she is here with a greatest hits/concept/song collection that helped get her through college. Topics include: everything everywhere all at once, Kickstarter, Melancholy of being in your 20s, Amicus Briefs, the ouroboros of law and culture, Shucked, Bad Cinderella (for, like, a while), and being a lawyer with a passion for theatre. YouTube: Are Kerrigan & Lowdermilk Breaking Up?!? | From B | [Bree] Lowdermilk Featured recordings: Our First Mistake - Kerrigan-Lowdermilk (2011) 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! | |||
| Robert W. Schneider / Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992) | 22 Mar 2023 | 01:23:52 | |
It's Steve's birthday! And Rob is back to talk to us about a 30-year-old concert that has the best hair, goofiest sleeves, and ALLLLLLLL the Liza Minnelli you could dream for. Topics include: The Tonics, wearing upholstery, The Tonics's vocal arrangements, the '87 Tonys, The Tonics's full discography, Karen Ziemba killing it, and The Tonics (mostly we just talk about The Tonics). Featured recordings: Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992) • Unsung Sondheim (1993) • Sondheim: A Celebration (1997) 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! | |||
| Liz Wasser / Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001) | 08 Mar 2023 | 01:00:03 | |
Liz is an actor, writer, and musical theatre kid from way back. And she's here with a show that is possibly more relevant now than when it debuted. Topics include: going into the City by yourself when you're 13, Little Sally, Urinetown the place, transferring at Jamaica, Brechtian (in the true sense), and is this show ahead of its time? Featured recordings: Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001) • Songs in the Key of Springfield - The Simpsons (1997) 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! | |||
| Jack Canfora / Guys and Dolls - A Decca Original Cast Album (1950) | 22 Feb 2023 | 00:59:51 | |
Jack is an Award-Winning American playwright, actor, musician, and teacher and he's here with a show that is certainly in the running for the title of THE quintessential American musical. Topics include: Proto-Fonzi, the first time someone treats you like you're cool, thinking of yourself as a musician, Henry V, and failing better. New Normal Rep Dot Org / bonus password "NNR2022" Featured recordings: Guys and Dolls - A Decca Original Cast Album (1950) 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! | |||
| Debra Warren / Mack & Mabel - Original Cast Recording (1974) | 08 Feb 2023 | 01:00:20 | |
Debra is the author of the new biography Robert Preston: Forever the Music Man. And she's here to talk about Preston's most famous flop from the team that brought you Hello, Dolly!. Topics include: working actors, voicemails from Rosemary Harris, journalism, Robert Preston not getting cast in things over and over again, and Christopher Walken. Buy Robert Preston: Forever the Music Man! Featured recordings: Mack & Mabel - Original Cast Recording (1974) • The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) • Mame - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974) 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! | |||
| Sean Patrick Murtagh / The Scarlet Pimpernel - A Romantic Musical Adventure (1992) | 25 Jan 2023 | 01:08:30 | |
Actor/singer Sean Patrick Murtagh, whom you may know from Green Room 42 and/or his new album The Mario 101, is here for the album that he describes as: "the album that made [him] gay." Topics include: moonlight on the bed, Linda Eder as diva, local gays, Linda Eder as instrument, formulas, Linda Eder as gateway drug, the heart and soul of why we do it, Linda Eder's placement, and Linda Eder's vowels. Sean Patrick's album The Mario 101 Featured recordings: The Scarlet Pimpernel - A Romantic Musical Adventure (1992) • Jekyll & Hyde - The Complete Work (1995) • The Scarlet Pimpernel - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) • The Mario 101 - Sean Patrick Murtagh (2022) 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! | |||
| Shoshana Greenberg / Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972) | 11 Jan 2023 | 01:00:45 | |
Shoshana is a dramatist, journalist, and host of the Scene to Song podcast. And she's here to talk about a show that (at one time) was the longest-running show in Broadway history. And it won a surprising number of Tony Awards. Topics include: how Grease is like Cats, Little Mary Sunshine, 98.1FM WOGL, nostalgia, the bad shows we did in high school, and does Sandy cave under societal pressure or simply play with her identity like every teenager should? Featured recordings: Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking BARBRA! ALL YEAR!! BARBRA!!! | |||
| The Original Cast at the Movies: Funny Girl (1968) | 28 Dec 2022 | 01:39:01 | |
Fan-favorites Roddy Flynn and Robbie Rozelle are here to kick off THE YEAR OF BARBRA on The Original Cast at the Movies with her cinematic and Oscar-winning debut! Want to hear more The Original Cast at the Movies? Head over to our Patreon! Any pledge level includes access to our monthly movie podcast, as well as access to our back catalog since 2017! | |||
| Stephen Spotswood / Nick & Nora - Original Broadway Cast (1991) | 14 Dec 2022 | 01:11:16 | |
Stephen is the author of the critically acclaimed Pentecost & Parker mystery series. Book 3 of which is OUT NOW! And he's here for a musical based on another famed murder mystery duo: Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man movie series. And this musical is . . . definitely a musical. Topics include: Arthur Laurents, missing the magic, slime tutorials, Raymond Chandler, not knowing your source material, and veranda finales. Featured recordings: Nick & Nora - Original Broadway Cast (1991) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Mark William / Legs Diamond - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1989) | 30 Nov 2022 | 00:55:19 | |
Mark is a 2-time BroadwayWorld Award-winning singer, actor, dancer, etc. And he's here for a musical that flopped so hard it closed a Broadway theatre. Like, permanently. Topics include: the importance of going out-of-town, the art of the cabaret, writing a musical for yourself to star in, the moon & New York City, and disco ball death scenes. GET TICKETS to Mark William: Technicolor Dream at the Green Room 42 Featured recordings: Legs Diamond - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1989) • Long Live Love - Olivia Newton-John (1974) • The Boy from Oz - A Decca Original Broadway Cast Album (2003) • Making Every Moment Count - Peter Allen (1990) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Julie Benko / Grease 2 - Original Soundtrack Recording (1982) | 16 Nov 2022 | 01:15:14 | |
You can see Julie every Thursday as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the August Wilson but you can listen to her HERE and NOW talking about . . . Grease 2? Topics include: FYE, open-heart surgery, the insecurity of being Tom Hanks, voice lessons as a kid, and not being recognized by Lin-Manuel in a pharmacy. Featured recordings: Grease 2 - Original Soundtrack Recording (1982) • Hand in Hand - Julie Benko & Jason Yeager (2022) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Margaret Hall / Assassins - The Broadway Cast Recording (2004) | 02 Nov 2022 | 01:02:58 | |
My guest today is an author, performer, and theatre historian. Her book Gemingani is available now from Applause. And she's here about a dark musical about dark times with some bops along the way. Topics include: Elvis, being a Cerveris evangelist, incel icons, bardic tradition, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Featured recordings: Assassins - The Broadway Cast Recording (2004) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Paul Salsini / The Golden Apple - Original Cast Recording (1954) | 19 Oct 2022 | 00:58:37 | |
Paul was the editor and publisher of the famed Sondheim Review and he's written a book about his relationship with the master entitled Sondheim & Me (which is great and you should buy it and read it)! And he's here with one of the first musicals he saw that engendered a life-long vocation. Topics include: seeing Do I Hear a Waltz? In its original Broadway run, translating Sondheim lyrics, donating your media, Greek mythology, and the time Stephen Sondheim got SO mad. Paul's works on Bookshop Dot Org Featured recordings: The Golden Apple - Original Cast Recording (1954) • Off Broadway - Jerry Orbach (1963) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| A.J. Ditty / High Fidelity - The Record (2007) | 05 Oct 2022 | 01:15:20 | |
A.J. is a comedian and co-host of the wonderful The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast and here for a bad show that has one or two moments of music theatre heaven. Topics include: slime tutorials, 2x4 with googly eyes, "broken clock" moments, the living embodiment of "well, actually," Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and lyrics with a good mouth-feel. "Inside High Fidelity" background and analysis by Scott Miller The Worst of All Possible Worlds Featured recordings: High Fidelity - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007) • American Idiot - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Alexandra Bowman / Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Perón: 1919-1952 (1976) | 21 Sep 2022 | 01:02:51 | |
Alexandra Bowman is a freelance illustrator, political cartoonist, satirist, and fine artist from Washington, D.C. Her cartoons have appeared in Our Daily Planet, World War Zero, and The Lincoln Project. And she's here to talk about a show SHE'S WRITING A MASTER'S THESIS ABOUT! Topics include: starting with Cats, Tim Rice says things, being a Cogsworth in a room full of Belles, Hamilton, the definition of satire, and can you ethically produce historical events on stage? Queen of Hearts, the 1972 Eva Peron Thames Documentary narrated by Diana Rigg Featured recordings: Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Perón: 1919-1952 (1976) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Dan McCoy / Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) | 07 Sep 2022 | 01:11:04 | |
Dan is an Emmy-winning writer and 1/3 of the wonderful podcast The Flop House and he has come here today to talk about the barber, the baker, his wife, and her Toby. Topics include: HAIR, Josh Groban & Annaleigh Ashford, Johann's agency, Death in the Cathedral, pre-Fletcher Lansbury, and why maybe the Coen Brothers should've made the movie. Featured recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • A Wild and Crazy Guy - Steve Martin (1978) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Marc Bonanni / Drat! The Cat! - Studio Cast Recording (1997) | 24 Aug 2022 | 00:57:59 | |
Marc is the host of the popular YouTube channel Broadway by Ghostlight and is here for a show that ran for 8 performances despite Barbra Streisand's best efforts. Topics include: selling merch at The Drowsy Chaperone, Lee Wilkoff v. Eddie Korbich, shows that should've gone out of town, Anyone Can Whistle, and Blue Pear Records. Broadway by Ghostlight - Drat! The Cat!: Broadway's Best 8-Performance FLOP Broadway by Ghostlight - The Outrageous Publicity Stunts Of David Merrick Featured recordings: Drat! The Cat! - Studio Cast Recording (1997) • My Name Is Barbra, Two... - Barbra Streisand (1965) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Adam Feldman / Evita - Premiere American Recording (1979) | 10 Aug 2022 | 01:34:11 | |
Adam is the National Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic at TimeOut New York and President of the New York Drama Critics' Circle. And he is here for a big episode about a very big show on a very big, double-LP. Topics include: Patti, Mandy, Patti's rage, Bob Gunton's accent, Mandy being Mandy all over the second act, comma writing, Mark Syers, the worst lyric in Chess, the "Big Apple," and the agony and the ecstasy of Tim Rice. Featured recordings: Evita - Premiere American Recording (1979) • Pacific Overtures - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1976) • Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Len Rodino / Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recording (1993) | 27 Jul 2022 | 01:02:45 | |
Playbill's Director of Events & Creative Strategy Len Rodino stops by to talk about this BIG musical about BIG drama that had BIG drama around it for 40+ years! Topics include: taking the bus from PA, Patti LuPone's memoir, 5 "useful" majors, starting as the receptionist, cigarette ads in my Playbill, and And Juliet! Featured recordings: Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recording (1993) • Boulevard! - The Complete Musical Adaptation (2008) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||
| Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) | 13 Jul 2022 | 01:25:14 | |
Emmy-winner and former The Daily Show head-writer Elliott Kalan is here for a musical running now about then but really about way back then which seems to have been lost now. Topics include: losing on Jeopardy!, adding jokes by Larry David, ethical use of a resurrection machine, Frank Loesser, the House Committee on "Shipoopi," Broadway sets of the 50s & 60s, and (of course) is Winthrop Marion's son and does that matter? Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! | |||