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Join Anika and Max as they discuss Immigration to the United States, Booker T. Washington, Evelyn Nesbitt, Emma Goldman, and Act 1 of Ragtime!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Mary Rodgers, the Princess and the Pea, and the Broadway musical, Once Upon a Mattress!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Antun Yusuf Hanna Diyab, The Arabian Nights, and the Broadway musical Aladdin!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss The Frog Prince, Randy Newman, and Disney's The Princess and the Frog!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Broadway Musical, Frozen!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Jonathan Larson, Stephen Sondheim, and the musical tick, tick...BOOM!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Fiorello LaGuardia, his life in politics, and the Broadway musical Fiorello!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Anschluss, the Von Trapp Family, and the Broadway musical The Sound of Music!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the Palais Garnier, Gaston Leroux's novel 'The Phantom of the Opera', and the 1986 Broadway musical "The Phantom of the Opera"!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Alan Menken, the Little Shop of Horrors film from 1986, and the stage production of Little Shop of Horrors!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Stephen King, the Carrie franchise, and Carrie: The Musical!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the Evil Dead franchise, Bruce Campbell, and Evil Dead: The Musical!

Join Anika and Max as they return to the podcast with their first episode of Cult Movie October, The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Join Anika and Max and special guest Jules Waldron as they discuss Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden novel and the Broadway musical The Secret Garden!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Japanese internment camp, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Broadway musical Allegiance.

Join Anika and Max and special guest Julian Waldron on our third Musical Theatre Book Club episode where we discuss Victorian London, Robert Louis Stevenson, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as the Broadway musical, Jekyll & Hyde.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Alexander Hamilton's later life, his legacy, and Act 2 of the Broadway Musical Hamilton!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Alexander Hamilton's early life, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the first act of Hamilton! 

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the United States of America in 1963, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Broadway musical, Caroline, or Change.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, their participation in the Barrow gang, and the Broadway musical, Bonnie and Clyde!

Join Anika, Max, and special guest Julian Waldron in our second Musical Theatre Book Club episode on Fun Home by Alison Bechdel!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the history of the cabaret and concert hall, The Moulin Rouge, the 2001 movie Moulin Rouge! and the 2019 Broadway musical Moulin Rouge!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Jackie Robinson, the 2013 film, 42, and the Broadway musical, The First.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss The London Blitz, Vera Lynn, and the West End musical, Blitz!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss The Beatles and the Broadway musical Beatlemania.

Join Anika, Max, and special guest Julian in their first installment of the Musical Theatre Book Club, as they discuss Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, the Industrial Revolution, and the Broadway musical Oliver!

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Billie Holiday, Audra McDonald, and the Broadway play, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail, Monty Python, and the musical Spamalot.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the sinking of the RMS Titanic, Margaret "Molly" Brown, and the Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, King James I and Treason The Musical. *Stay till the end for a special announcement*

Join Anika and Max as they discuss William Shakespeare, Christian Borle, and the Broadway musical Something Rotten.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Grace O'Malley, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alan Boubil, and the Broadway musical The Pirate Queen.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss WWII in France, George and Ira Gershwin, and the musical An American in Paris.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the Pale of Settlement, Shalom Aleichem, and the musical, Fiddler on the Roof.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss The Oregon Trail, Team Starkid and the musical The Trail to Oregon.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, and their favourite modern day fairytale adaptations.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the origins of the Beauty and the Beast story, Howard Ashman, and Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss Sierra Boggess, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Broadway musical, The Little Mermaid.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the origins of the Cinderella fairytale and the Broadway musical Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss John Adams, The Declaration of Independence, and the Broadway musical 1776.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the last three wives of Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr, and the Broadway musical Six.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the first three wives of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour, and the Broadway musical Six.

Join Anika and Max as they discuss the Broadway musical Billy Elliot, the 1984-85 British Coal Miner's strike, and worker's unions.

In this episode, Anika and Max discuss the Broadway musical Little Women, the American Civil War, and Louisa May Alcott

In this episode Anika and Max discuss the Broadway musical Anastasia, Communist Russia, and the murder of the Romanov family.