The Original Cast – Details, episodes & analysis

originally released: June 10, 2020

Director/podcaster Robert W. Schneider is here for a musical whose legacy may be unfairly besmirched by an infamous Tony speech.

Topics Include: George Hearn, staging the overture, cutting the entr’acte, and maybe revoking Rob’s gay card live on the air!

Featured Recording: La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983)

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originally released: November 29, 2017

Playbill writer (now news editor) Logan Culwell-Block stops by ostensibly to talk about LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS but Patrick and he nerd out pretty fast. Topics include: How should a cast album be produced? Early versions of how Seymour killed the dentist. And why in the name of heavenly glory would you autotune Jerry Orbach?!?

Featured recordings:

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Original Cast Album (1982)

EXPERIMENT - Mandy Patinkin (1994)

COMPANY - Original Broadway Cast (1970)

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originally released: October 12, 2016

Actor and director Kari Ginsburg is here to talk about one woman’s fall from grace as she facilitates the rise of her daughter from the front of a cow to the greatest stripper in the history of the world.

Featured recordings:
GYPSY - The Original Broadway Cast (1959)

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Two musicals for your enjoyment!

Spandex will debut on Musical Theatre Radio Sunday, August 8th at 1pm and continue for the next four Sundays through September 5th!

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1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Opening

Monumental Theatre Co.’s Songs for a New World now STREAMING!

Songs for a New World/Monumental Theatre Co-Related Episodes
• Megan Bunn / The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
• Mary Myers / Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1996)
• Jimmy Mavrikes / Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996)
• Beth Amann / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)

Featured Songs: “I'd Give It All for You” from Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1997) • “Old Broken Mirror” and “Spandex” from Spandex: The Musical (2021)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movies!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.

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Director and Tudor-nerd Megan Behm is here for a musical of the moment that is more than it initially seems to some of us (by which I mean, me).

Topics include: snootiness, history, and feminism.

Megan Dash Behm Dot Com

Featured recordings: Six - The Album (2018)

Monumental Theatre Co.’s Songs for a New World now STREAMING!

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movies!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.

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Featured Songs: “The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square” performed by Steven Sutcliffe & Judy Kaye from Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • “Rich and Happy” from Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) • “Another Hundred People” performed by Pamela Myers from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • “We Do Not Belong Together” performed by Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin from Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast Recording (1984) • “Javert's Soliloquy” performed by Terrence Mann from Les Misérables - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) • “Still Hurting” performed by Sherie Rene Scott from The Last Five Years - Original Cast (2002) • “Raincoat of Love” from Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • “Buenos Aires” performed by Julie Covington from Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron: 1919-1952 (1976) • “Didn't Want Nothin'” from A Strange Loop - Original Cast Recording (2019) • “Feelings” performed by Barbara Harris and “Eve” performed by Alan Alda from The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.

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Tony nominee and favorite of this podcast, Liz Callaway is here for the first show she saw on Broadway at 9, a decade before she’d appear on the same stage in a show by the same creative team.

Topics include: the Mets, reunion concerts, auditioning for Sondheim without knowing it, demos, and luck.

Liz Callaway Dot Com

Featured recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • A Stephen Sondheim Evening - Whitney Museum of American Art Composers' Showcase (1983) • The Essential Liz Callaway - Liz Callaway (2015)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.

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A short fantasia by Katya Stanislavskaya.

Casey Erin Clark

Kevin David Thomas

Marissa Rosen & Marty Thomas

Featured Songs: “The Miller’s Son” performed by D. Jamin-Bartlett from A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) • “The Miller’s Son” performed by Aili Venho from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May’s episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.

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Actress and cabaret star Marissa Rosen comes by to talk about the show she saw dozens of times on Broadway. Dozens.

Topics include: finding family at the stage door, support singers, sexy/sleazy, Marty Thomas, and going to Duane Reade in a full face and lashes.

Marissa Rosen Dot Com

Featured recordings: The Rocky Horror Show - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show - The Skivvies featuring Marissa Rosen (2020)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May’s episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.

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Eleri Ward, Stephen Sondheim, Bill Finn, William Shakespeare.

SUF/SOND

Featured Songs: “Every Day a Little Death” & “Take Me to the World” from A Perfect Little Death - SUF/SOND (2021)

DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May’s episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.

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