The "Thank You, Places" Podcast

All the stops are out on the Season 1 Finale!  After a great season of theatre, we look ahead to what Springfield’s biggest companies are putting on in the 2023-2024 season.  Nathaniel pours all his music degree into defining “oratorio,” Noel offers up a new show “Ukulele On The Roof,” and Allison is buying a candy bar for whoever got to our YouTube by searching “ben ben 3.”   Many thanks to the p...

We’re back in Urinetown and getting fully submerged (we promise that’s the only pee joke in this paragraph).  With the show’s 3-week run underway, Nathaniel and Noel tell all from behind the scenes.  Noel talks about her costuming process, from the theoretical to the practical.  Nathaniel talks about taking on the role of Officer Barrel, how the inspiration for the character came about, and what’s...

A musical about paying to pee?  Yes, it exists, and yes both Nathaniel and Noel are involved in a local production of said musical.  It’s the first of our two episodes on Urinetown: The Musical at Springfield Contemporary Theatre, and we are talking with the stage manager, Moe Callahan.  They take us behind the scenes on the work of a stage manager, and how this particular show is panning out for...

We’ve got magic to do on this episode, the magic of costuming a spectacle show!  Today, we talk to Bailey Doran, the lead costume designer for Pippin which played at Springfield Little Theatre in April.  Nathaniel, Noel, and Allison try to make sense of the show’s meta plot, and Bailey talks about how she translated rich themes into dazzling, colorful costumes.  Plus, what happened to the live goo...

On this special edition of the Thank You, Places Podcast, we pay our respects to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most famous work, The Phantom of the Opera, which ended a 35-year run on Broadway this past April.  Our trio geeks out about the history of mask, the dazzling chandelier, the show’s gothic source material, and more!  Plus we see how many times Nathaniel can use the word “iconic” in an hour! Liste...

On this episode of the Thank You, Places Podcast, we’re kicking it back to college days with a Ben Paris, a recent graduate from Evangel University.  Ben tells all on his final college production, Children of Eden, from handling the spiritually controversial material to knocking his “son” right off Noah’s ark!  All the while, we remember the happies and crappies from our shared time in the Evangel...

On this episode of the Thank You, Places Podcast, we welcome our first guest, Jodianne Loyd.  She really does it all: acting, dramaturgy, writing, directing, and more!  She shares teh ups and downs of past productions and gives the scoop on her upcoming experimental Shakespeare project, but on the mainstage, we talk improve and technical theatre as she relives her recently role in Springfield Litt...

Places! Welcome to the first episode of the new Thank You, Places podcast!  Start by meeting the founding members of this creative collective: Nathaniel, Noel, and Allison.  Hear about their backgrounds and how their love for theatre has blossomed over the years in this pilot episode.  They share happies and crappies from college and talk about the recent shift into community theatre following gra...