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| Intermission: Spandex for a New World | 21 Jul 2021 | 00:16:10 | |
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! 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 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. | |||
| Megan Behm / Six - The Album (2018) | 14 Jul 2021 | 00:52:35 | |
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. 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. | |||
| Intermission: Ten Favourite Cast Albums | 07 Jul 2021 | 00:25:53 | |
. . . I mean, not really but I like lists. 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. | |||
| Liz Callaway / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) | 30 Jun 2021 | 00:58:45 | |
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. 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. | |||
| Intermission: Stephen Sondheim Brings "The Miller's Son" to Music Theatre Writing Class | 23 Jun 2021 | 00:08:48 | |
A short fantasia by Katya Stanislavskaya. 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. | |||
| Marissa Rosen / The Rocky Horror Show - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2000) | 16 Jun 2021 | 01:15:55 | |
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. 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. | |||
| Intermission: SUF/SOND | 09 Jun 2021 | 00:13:12 | |
Eleri Ward, Stephen Sondheim, Bill Finn, William Shakespeare. 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. | |||
| Billy Recce / Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Joe's Pub (2001) | 02 Jun 2021 | 01:05:45 | |
Composer, lyricist, performer Billy Recce (Little Black Book) is here for an evening of Bill Finn and why he wrote a great musical about Heidi Fleiss. Topics include: Tom Lehrer, Wanda Houston, Bill Finn's vocal stylings, and three-dimensionalizing those whom society has two-dimensionalized. Featured recordings: Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Joe's Pub (2001) • The Perks of Being a Snowflake - Billy Recce (2018) • Little Black Book - World Premiere Recording (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. | |||
| Intermission: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? | 26 May 2021 | 00:12:09 | |
Hal Prince on The South Bank Show in 1978 Featured Songs: "In His Eyes" performed by Gavin Creel & Aaron Tveit from Jekyll & Hyde (1996) • "You and Me (But Mostly Me)" performed by Kelly Marie Tran from The Book of Mormon (2013) 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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim's fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966). | |||
| Dom O'Hanlon / Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) | 19 May 2021 | 01:21:42 | |
Instagram's own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written. Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the "Follies" portion, and moving house with so many CDs. The Man in the Chair on Instagram Featured recordings: Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) • Follies - Original London Cast (1987) 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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim's fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966). | |||
| Intermission: The First of Sheila | 12 May 2021 | 00:13:28 | |
We've got voicemails and comments and clips and all you want. Ways to stream The Last of Sheila. Featured Songs: "Another Hundred People" from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • "Fanfare" from The Frogs / Evening Primrose - Stephen Sondheim (2001) • "Megamix: Take Me to the World: from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren (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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim's fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966). | |||
| Chris Adams & Holly Morgan / Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) | 05 May 2021 | 01:09:34 | |
Two Guests for the price of one! Chris & Holly from the podcast Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical are here for a show they did at Edinburgh Fringe that bears more than a passing resemblance to said Stephen King musical. CW: sexual assault. Topics include: Holly as the lead, singing Wicked during Bat Boy, does Off-West End exist?, bags of wigs, and Carrie (of course). Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical Featured recordings: Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) • Bat Boy - Original London Cast Recording (2004) 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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim's fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966). | |||
| Intermission: Pie in the Sky | 28 Apr 2021 | 00:08:53 | |
A voicemail on Forum and vaccine stuff. Featured Songs: "Lullaby of Broadway" - Wini Shaw (1935) • "Seeing is Believing" from Aspects of Love - Original Cast Recording (1989) 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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim's fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966). | |||
| Glen Weldon / My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) | 21 Apr 2021 | 01:20:42 | |
NPR's Glen Weldon is here for the musical that (according to him) made him gay. Topics include: Herb Alpert (not the dirty one), Charles Emerson Winchester III, Doolittle as a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza's agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important. Glen Weldon's Profile on NPR dot org Featured recordings: My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) • Brigadoon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1947) 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's episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). | |||
| Intermission: Heidi Fleiss - The Musical | 14 Apr 2021 | 00:14:49 | |
It's been a week, but we're focusing on the positive. Like She is Risen, Vol. II and "Pop Corn!" Featured Songs: "Pop Corn" from Hot Butter - Hot Butter (1972) • "Summer in Nevada" from Little Black Book - World Premiere Recording (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!! This month's episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). | |||
| Elegy: Amy Oestreicher | 09 Apr 2021 | 01:09:53 | |
I've just learned that amazing friend of the podcast and past guest Amy Oestreicher has passed. Please relisten to her interview about In Trousers and enjoy her beautiful spirit and boundless energy. ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: Writer/performer/amazing human Amy Oestreicher comes to us with us to complete the Falsettos trilogy (by going back to Part 1). Topics Include: Bill Finn calling on the phone, convincing teachers to let you do your own version of the assignment, tap dancing so hard you need surgery, and another in what is booming a series of scrapbooks! _Featured Recordings: In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) • March of the Falsettos - Original Cast (1981) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990) | |||
| Intermission: The Heat is on in Saigon (w/ Evan Casey) | 31 Mar 2021 | 00:14:18 | |
A dip back into the archives with Evan Casey and some Miss Saigon talk from the early days. Featured Songs: "Mama Told Me Not to Come" from It Ain't Easy - Three Dog Night (1970) • "Bui-Doi" from Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989) 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's episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). | |||
| Marty Thomas / Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1990) | 24 Mar 2021 | 01:30:37 | |
Broadway vet and cabaret mainstay Marty Thomas is here for a show he first saw on Broadway when he was 11 and thought everyone was just really good friends at Dreamland in Saigon. Topics include: How one pronounces "Alain Boublil;" Double-tape deck stereos; Branson, MO; changed lyrics; And why cast Jonathan Pryce in the first place? Chris, what's haunting you? on Instagram Featured recordings: Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1990) • My Broadway - Sean McDermott (1999) • Slow Dancing with a Boy - Marty Thomas (2019) • It's a Holiday Soul Party - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (2015) • The Award Winning Holiday Album - Marty Thomas & 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!! This month's episode has Broadwaysted!'s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim's filmography West Side Story (1961). | |||
| Intermission: Out for Blood | 17 Mar 2021 | 00:13:53 | |
Seriously. It's a lot of pigs. Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical Studio Tenn Talks Presents The Assassins Reunion Show! Featured Songs: "Out for Blood" and "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance" from Carrie - Original Broadway Closing Night Soundboard (1988) 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's episode has Broadwaysted!'s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim's filmography West Side Story (1961). | |||
| Frank Britton / Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk - Original Broadway Cast (1996) | 10 Mar 2021 | 00:56:00 | |
D.C.'s theatre's favorite son is here for our first live cast recording from a show that couldn't be recorded any other way. Topics include: film composers, meeting Ann Duquesnay at the buffet, Planet of the Apes, one-note cues, Terence Blanchard, Michael Camen, Frank's first solo show, and Frank's second solo show. More info on Frank's one-person show for 1st Stage Theatre. Featured recordings: Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk - Original Broadway Cast (1996) • Die Hard - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1988) • Die Hard with a Vengeance - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1995) • Inside Man - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006) 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's episode has Broadwaysted!'s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim's filmography West Side Story (1961). | |||
| Intermission: In & Of Itself | 03 Mar 2021 | 00:15:10 | |
A one-man show/documentary, a voice memo, and something you should all be reading this week. Subscribe to "Nothing for the Group" Featured Songs: "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin - Original Cast Album (1972) • "Magic to Do" from Pippin - New Broadway Cast Recording (2013) • "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" from Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (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!! February's episode has Broadwaysted!'s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim's filmography West Side Story (1961). | |||
| Intermission: Broadway Soul, Vol. 2 | 17 Feb 2021 | 00:12:29 | |
TL;DR: Go buy Broadway Soul, Vol. 2 Broadway Soul, Vol. 2 LinkTr.ee Featured Songs: "New Music," "What Would I Do If I Could Feel?," "Some Enchanted Evening / All I Do is Dream of You," "Falling in Love with Love / Mr. Pitiful," "Sugar Daddy" from Broadway Soul, Vol. 2 - Kyle Taylor Parker (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!! January's episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013). | |||
| Emily Esten / Newsies - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012) | 10 Feb 2021 | 01:01:50 | |
Emily is the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities at Penn Libraries, as well as Web Manager for Contingent Magazine and the Director of Communications for the National Emerging Museum Professionals Network. So, naturally, we're talking about Newsies! Topics Include: does anyone like Dear Evan Hansen?, what Broadway looks like, Octet, sounds made while dancing, and when it's okay to be snobbish. Featured Recordings: Newsies - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012) 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!! January's episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013). | |||
| Intermission: Over and Out (Averno II) | 03 Feb 2021 | 00:11:24 | |
A sexually explicit Godspell-esque musical next to Averno's latest side-by-side by Sondheim's Pacific Overtures. Featured Songs: "Ketchup" and "Nova Phone Home" from Over and Out - A New Musical (2020) • "I'm Gay" from Let My People Come - The Original Cast Album (1974) Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 - Kyle Taylor Parker (2019) Slow Dancing with a Boy - Marty Thomas (2019) Marty Thomas on Gay Card Revoked Behind the Curtain with Nathan Lane 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!! January's episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013). | |||
| Alexandra Ley / tick, tick... BOOM! - Original Cast Recording (2001) | 27 Jan 2021 | 01:09:20 | |
Alex is a dramaturg, writer, and arts administrator in the Washington, D.C. area and she's here for Jonathan Larson's musical bout turning 30 in 1990 that she discovered when she was 14 after having not been alive in 1990. Topics Include: Cats (but just for a second), unfair comparisons to Rent, 8th grade, St----- S-------, and is Jon a good guy? Featured Recordings: tick, tick... BOOM! - Original Cast Recording (2001) • The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019) 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!! January's episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013). | |||
| Intermission: The Game Done Changed (Maybe) | 20 Jan 2021 | 00:09:47 | |
Was Ratatouille a watershed? Featured Songs: "El Tango de Roxanne" from Moulin Rouge! - Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film (2001) 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!! January's episode features Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast talking about the documentary Six by Sondheim (2013). | |||
| Emily Clark / A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) | 13 Jan 2021 | 01:26:04 | |
Music theatre historian and YouTube educator par-excellence, Emily Clark is here for a show so fine! In three-quarter time! Topics Include: Cats, Frid, Hermione Gingold, Cats, the never-endingness of "Liaisons," Disco Sondheim, Bob Fosse's The Phantom of the Opera, and Cats. We talk more about Cats than one might expect. Emily and her husband singing "You Must Meet My Wife" Subscribe to What is Love Actually?!! Featured Recordings: A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) • Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (1973) • Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! December closes out our epic covering of all 4 versions of A Star is Born with 2018's edition starring Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper. | |||
| Intermission: Ratatouille (The TikTok Musical) | 06 Jan 2021 | 00:22:27 | |
We're kicking off 2021 with the first Broadway presentation of the new year! Subscribe to What is Love Actually?!! DO YOU LIKE STEPHEN SONDHEIM? Of course you do. Then you need to join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Stephen Sondheim's films. Big ones like Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods to smaller ones like Camp and The Last of Sheila. You know you want to. | |||
| Live at La-Ti-Do! | 30 Dec 2020 | 00:36:45 | |
Songs: 0:02:18 - "The Best Imitation of Myself" - music and lyrics by Ben Folds (1995) 0:07:35 - "Perspective" - music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick from She Loves Me (1963) 0:14:09 - "I'm Happy as Can Be" - music and lyrics by Patrick Flynn, from How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Frog! (2020), sung by Alex De Bard 0:19:47 - "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" - music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx from Avenue Q (2003) 0:24:27 - "America's Next Top 20 Something" - music and lyrics by Michael Finke (2017), sung by Alex De Bard 0:28:46 - "Everybody Says Don't" - music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from Anyone Can Whistle (1962) 0:32:45 - "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" - music and lyrics by Jeff Moss (1986) Recorded 8/31/2020. Video available on YouTube!
Subscribe to What is Love Actually?!! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! December closes out our epic covering of all 4 versions of A Star is Born with 2018's edition starring Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper. | |||
| Elegy: Rebecca Luker | 23 Dec 2020 | 00:49:36 | |
Rebecca Luker passed today. So here's the episode I was lucky enough to record with her back in July. Stayed tuned through the end for Rebecca singing one of my favorite Jerome Kern songs from the review The Land Where the Good Songs Go. ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a walk through her career and the show Sheldon Harnick calls our "greatest American opera." Topics Include: getting an agent out of town, auditioning for Hal Prince, balancing your work and your life, and of course we talk about The Secret Garden and I play "How Could I Ever Know" are you kidding? Watch At Home with Rebecca Luker: An Evening of Song! All of the proceeds from the virtual benefit performance will go to supporting Prosetin, a promising new drug candidate for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It was in February when Broadway favorite Luker revealed that she had been diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). For more information about this treatment, visit Prosetin2020.org. If you would like to place a donation, click here: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/270277/#!/donation/checkout. Featured Recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) | |||
| 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! | |||
| Intermission: Misc. Sondheim (w/ James Gardiner) | 23 Dec 2020 | 00:19:36 | |
A meandering journey from Assassins to The Frogs to Bounce and back again. Subscribe to What is Love Actually?!! Featured Songs: "Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" from The Frogs from the 2001 studio cast recording • "Addison's Trip" from Bounce - Original Cast Recording (2004) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November's movie is the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2007). | |||
| Jen Bevarelli / They're Playing Our Song - The Original Cast Recording (1979) | 16 Dec 2020 | 00:55:20 | |
Actor/podcaster Jen Bevarelli is here for the semi-autobiographical music about not-Marvin Hamlisch and not-Carole Bayer Sager with a book by actually Neil Simon. Topics Include: crying backstage, doing what you love, existing out of time, and living your authentic life. Y'know, light stuff. Subscribe to What is Love Actually?!! Featured Recordings: They're Playing Our Song - The Original Cast Recording (1979) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November's movie is the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2007). | |||
| Intermission: DisinHAIRited (w/ Serena Berman) | 09 Dec 2020 | 00:26:11 | |
A voice memo about Amy Adams and a DISCOVERY! Subscribe to What is Love Actually?!! Featured Songs: "Hello There," "Manhattan Beggar," "One Thousand-Year-Old Man," "Mr. Berger," "Sheila Franklin," "So Sing the Children of the Avenue," "Washing the World," "Exanaplanatooch," "Eyes Look Your Last / Sentimental Ending". from DisinHAIRited - Original Cast Members (1969) • "Temporarily Humbolt County" from Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him - The Firesign Theater (1968) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November's movie is ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2007). | |||
| Morgan Smith / Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014) | 02 Dec 2020 | 01:07:48 | |
Creative force of nature Morgan Smith (Averno Township) is here to talk about two of Patrick's favorite topics: Heathers and the state of theatre in America. Topics Include: why there is no theatre for teens, Beetlejuice, high school pressure then & now, and founding a multi-media empire in your 20s. Buy a Gritty Four Seasons Total Landscaping T-Shirt from Shop Class. From the creator: "I am working directly with Threadless to direct ALL profits to voting rights organizations (reached my max on the Warnock and Ossoff GA Senate donations!) - more details on Twitter at @sawdustbear." Subscribe to What is Love Actually?!! Featured Recordings: Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014) • Beetlejuice - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! November's movie is the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name: Enchanted (2005). | |||
| Five Minutes and Forty-One Seconds of "What is Love Actually?" | 27 Nov 2020 | 00:05:42 | |
| Intermission: Andrew Lloyd Webber Doing the Washing in His Kitchen | 25 Nov 2020 | 00:10:37 | |
Excepting Alice. Subscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!! Featured Songs: "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" from Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie (1967) MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month we've got a dystopian musical about the dark future of 1994 made in 1980. Anything else I type here would make it make less sense. It's The Apple! | |||
| Megan Bunn / The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) | 18 Nov 2020 | 01:00:03 | |
Director/theatre artist Meg Bunn is here for a show that revitalized her theatre exhaustion. Topics Include: the glory of low stakes, the luscious voice of Katrina Lenk, the beauty of simplicity, and it's just a good show. Playbill's "The 17 Most Tony Award-Winning Works of All Time" by Logan Culwell-Block Subscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!! Featured Recordings: The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month we've got a dystopian musical about the dark future of 1994 made in 1980. Anything else I type here would make it make less sense. It's The Apple! | |||
| Intermission: Willow & Averno & Burnt & Joan | 11 Nov 2020 | 00:17:13 | |
Drinking White Russians and holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting. Subscribe to The Neighborhood Listen Subscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!! Featured Songs: "Sweet Willow" and "How to Let Go" from Willow - A New Musical (2020) • "Feelings" from The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) • "Blue Rondo a la Turk" from Time Out - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959) MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month we've got a dystopian musical about the dark future of 1994 made in 1980. Anything else I type here would make it make less sense. It's The Apple! | |||
| Ted Chapin / The Rothschilds - Original Cast Recording (1970) | 04 Nov 2020 | 01:05:13 | |
Ted is President of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, co-founder of Encores!, and many other things. But his biggest claim to fame came while he was in college and got a job as a gopher on the original Broadway production of Follies. He wrote a book about it. It's a great book. You should buy Ted's book. Buy Ted's book about Follies: Everything Was Possible. Topics Include: making a musical about banking, the break-up of Bock & Harnick, out-of-town in Detroit, taking notes for Hal Prince, and caring for the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon. The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization Subscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!! Featured Recordings: The Rothschilds - Original Cast Recording (1970) MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month we've got a dystopian musical about the dark future of 1994 made in 1980. Anything else I type here would make it make less sense. It's The Apple! | |||
| Jeremy O'Keefe / Big - Original Cast Recording (1996) | 21 Oct 2020 | 01:03:52 | |
Filmmaker Jeremy O'Keefe is with us this week to talk about a musical that I disparaged on the show 2 weeks ago. So that's karma for you. Topics Include: Wilmington, Delaware, being afraid of growing up at 16, Tony Randall, sleeping on the sidewalk for Rent tickets, and Big 2 which is my idea and you can't steal it and Jeremy has first look so don't even ask. Featured Recordings: Big - Original Cast Recording (1996) • Sunset Boulevard - American Premiere Recording (1993) Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Out now is the third in our continuing series on the A Star is Born series of films: the 1976 version with Barbra and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra! | |||
| 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! | |||
| Intermission: Einstein's Dreams of Al Silber | 14 Oct 2020 | 00:10:06 | |
We're talking about the new musical Einstein's Dreams and your reaction to the episode on 1776. Featured Songs: "Einstein's Dreams" sung by Alexandra Silber and "High-Speed Motion" sung by Talia Cosentino and the Ensemble from Einstein's Dreams - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2019) Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Out now is the third in our continuing series on the A Star is Born series of films: the 1976 version with Barbra and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra! | |||
| Mikey Bevarelli / Groundhog Day - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) | 07 Oct 2020 | 00:55:29 | |
From the Buried Broadway podcast, actor Mikey Bevarelli is here for a musical by an Aussie based on an American movie by an Aussie based on an American movie. Topics Include: audience expectations, Andy Karl, big Broadway scores, the little things, Let My People Come, and Ned Ryerson. Featured Recordings: Groundhog Day - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) • Let My People Come - The Original Cast Album (1974) • Look at Us - Sonny & Cher (1965) Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Out now is the third in our continuing series on the A Star is Born series of films: the 1976 version with Barbra and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra! | |||
| Intermission: Trimmed Hair (w/ Serena Berman) | 30 Sep 2020 | 00:11:17 | |
I'm away this week so here's some an excised portion from my conversation with Serena Berman about Hair. Mainly deleted because I talk a lot. I had a lot to say about Hair. Featured Song: "Going Down" from Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968) Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Out now is the third in our continuing series on the A Star is Born series of films: the 1976 version with Barbra and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra! | |||
| Theresa Beckhusen / 1776 - Original Broadway Cast (1969) | 23 Sep 2020 | 01:04:33 | |
Journalist Theresa J. Beckhusen is here for a musical adaptation of a half-heard history lesson retold through the lens of "everything's fine!" Topics Include: not-so-bad-for-1969, Thomas Jefferson's views on enslavement, how dumb "The Egg" is, Mr. Feeny, Vietnam, and one song that is actually more relevant now than it even was then. Theresa J. Beckhusen Dot Wordpress Dot Com Featured Recordings: 1776 - Original Broadway Cast (1969) • Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015) Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month is the Don Bluth classic Anastasia (1997) with Casey Erin Clark (Little Women) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You). A movie that is really two movies: the first is a historical fiction romance and the second is a horror-comedy about a dead guy and his talking bat. | |||
| Intermission: Musicals Named After My Kids Decades Before They Were Born | 16 Sep 2020 | 00:11:03 | |
Two big musical discoveries made recently but I'm saving one so here's the other! Featured Songs: "I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way" and "Maggie Flynn" from Maggie Flynn - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968), music and lyrics by Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore & George David Weiss Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month is the Don Bluth classic Anastasia (1997) with Casey Erin Clark (Little Women) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You). A movie that is really two movies: the first is a historical fiction romance and the second is a horror-comedy about a dead guy and his talking bat. | |||
| Dane Figueroa Edidi / Ain't Misbehavin' - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1978) | 09 Sep 2020 | 01:06:28 | |
Performer-singer-mentor and Helen Hayes Award-winning writer Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is here for a Tony-winning revue of 30s music staged in the 80s but that lives forever. Topics Include: songs about weed, Billy Porter, Nell Carter, the black experience through white eyes, art that shouldn't survive, and the good reasons why Lady Dane does not like Hamilton. Featured Recordings: Ain't Misbehavin' - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1978) • "Lush Life" - Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington (1965) Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month is the Don Bluth classic Anastasia (1997) with Casey Erin Clark (Little Women) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You). A movie that is really two movies: the first is a historical fiction romance and the second is a horror-comedy about a dead guy and his talking bat. | |||
| Intermission: Summer Lovin', Had Me a Blast | 02 Sep 2020 | 00:10:32 | |
Intermissions are back! But in a slightly different format! Exclamation! I hate Grease!! Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! Listen to Patrick on the Off2Broadway Podcast this week! Register to watch Patrick's segment of the Helen Hayes Awards Thursday, September 3 - 8:00pm. Featured Songs: "Summer Nights" from Grease! - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972) • "An Element of Magic" from Reporting Live - Hannah Whitney and Jacob Samuels (2011) MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month is the Don Bluth classic Anastasia (1997) with Casey Erin Clark (Little Women) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You). A movie that is really two movies: the first is a historical fiction romance and the second is a horror-comedy about a dead guy and his talking bat. | |||
| Michael Finke / Elegies - A Song Cycle (2003) | 26 Aug 2020 | 01:06:46 | |
Music theatre writer Michael Finke is here for Bill Finn's song cycle about death. . . It's not as much of a bummer as it may sound. Topics Include: Hell's Kitchen, Joe Papp, Jack Eric Williams, 14 Dwight Ave (Natick, MA), how anything can be a musical, and Michael's forthcoming album! Featured Recordings: Elegies - A Song Cycle (2003) • Songs from Inside My Locker - Robbie Rozelle (2020) LTD presents The Original Cast podcast LIVE MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month is the Village People movie Can't Stop the Music (1980) with Robbie Rozelle and Robert W. Schneider. And it is ALL the things. | |||