Bite-Sized Broadway: A Mini-Musical Podcast

Season 2 Episode 3 - Krampus Night - Book, Music, & Lyrics by Gavin Brock. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Bells are ringing, children are singing, and third-grader, Will Huntingdon, is ready for Christmas! That is, until his troublemaking friend, Darius Smith, is cast as the donkey in the school's nativity play and enlists Will's help to seek revenge on Sallyanne, the teac...

Season 2 Episode 1 - Hijinx & Sue: A Mini-Musical - Book by Jessi Pitts, Music by Daniel J.F. Wolfert, and Lyrics by Jessi Pitts and Daniel J.F. Wolfert. Though Hijinx—the bright-eyed A.I. of a spaceship—would much rather be on an adventure with her world-weary captain Sue, it’s inspection day, and between their outdated systems and an inspector with an (im)personal vendetta, this adventure mi...

Season 2 Episode 2 - Double Double - Book by Seth Christenfeld, Music by Eric Grunin, and Lyrics by Seth Christenfeld & A.J. Freeman. Halloween, 1971. Two 13-year-old girlfriends and one 11-year-old little brother meet in Claremont Park in the Bronx to summon a demon. To their surprise, one actually shows up and asks each what they desire, fulfilling each child’s wish – quite literally – in ex...

Season 1 Episode 9 - RansomWHERE? - Book by Eric Grunin, Music by Jonathon Lynch, and Lyrics by Gil Varod. When a virus from a pop-up ad holds Grandma's computer and files for ransom, she calls her grandson Thomas to help her figure things out. After all, computers like him more than they like her! But Thomas must be quick to find the origins of the virus and unfreeze Grandma's computer...

Season 1 Episode 8 - Sheila the Tiny Turtle - Book and Lyrics by Caitlyn Burt, Music by Amir Shoenfeld. In the Australian desert, a family of turtles works hard to find food for their sick mother. Sheila, the cleverest - yet smallest - turtle of the family, is mocked by her brothers for not being able to contribute due to her size. When Sheila hears about a cure located dangerously far across the...

Season 1 Episode 7 - MTA: the Musical - Book, Music, and Lyrics by Peter Saxe, with additional book by Christopher Michaels On a sweltering summer morning on a crowded subway platform, three strangers, each very different from the others, wait for a train that is running on major delay after major delay. The longer they wait, the hotter they get. The hotter they get, the more irritated they become...

Season 1 Episode 6 - The Trial of Bastiano di Bologna - Book, Music, and Lyrics by Aaron Jensen It's the 8th Century in the courts of the Vatican Judiciary. Faithful attendant to the Pope, Bastiano di Bologna, has been summoned to stand trial on several counts, including the attempted murder of His Holiness! Bastiano admits to having sneaked into the holy bed chambers, but insists that his ob...

Season 1 Episode 5 - Toy Box - Book and Lyrics by Teresa Lotz, Music by Will Buck Velveteen, a young and naive stuffed rabbit is thrown into the toy box where he meets Tank, a muscular hard-headed remote-control War-Tank and Horse, an old and grumpy skin horse figurine that is wise and much older than the others. As Velveteen tries to make sense of what has happened to him he learns about The Boy...

Season 1 Episode 4 - The Last Magic Negro (or Chad's Great Awokening ✊🏻) - Book by Jamil Ellis and Andrew Fox, Music and Lyrics by Andrew Fox  June 7th, 2020. As the Black Lives Matter movement thrusts White corporate middle-manager Chad into unknown territory, he seeks wisdom from Jimmy Bagger, the very last “Magic Negro” (a wise Black character who exists solely to help a white protagonis...

Season 1 Episode 3 - A Relative Relationship - Book, Music, and Lyrics by Timothy Huang Rival stepsiblings Simon Pang and Carmen Soledad are in big trouble and when Simon’s overbearing mom and Carmen’s doting dad – recent newlyweds – find out, heads will roll! Villainous Vice Principal Delancy offers a simple suggestion: Instead of punishing them both, they must decide between themselves who shoul...

Season 1 Special Episode - Election Special This special election of Bite-Sized Broadway is a reminder to use your voice and vote! Participating in democracy is one of our most powerful tools to create change in the world. This episode also features a special performance by the SJP’s of their song, “Will You Vote for Joe?” The SJP's, a "solo" girl group by Samantha Joy Pearlman and...

Season 1 Episode 2: Blue Cross Blues   Book by Ed Levy, Music and Lyrics by Neil Radisch Bill and his wife, Michelle, are just a normal American couple who must go up "against the man" to get what they are owed... a check reimbursement for his insurance claim. But as anyone who has had insurance knows, that's anything but easy! In this charming and hilarious satirical send-up of our...

Season 1 Episode 1 - The Getaway - Book and Lyrics by Jared Corak, Music by Joshua Cerdenia Peter is starting his first day as an Uber driver, hoping to someday make enough money so that he and his wife can make the perfect getaway to a place where life and time move slowly. But when a pair of bank robbers lose their getaway driver, they hire Peter and the popular car service to get them safely to...

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