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We start Comfort and Joy with a return to one of our favorite musicals composed by the guy who wrote the Pina Colada song!!! Let's take a brief jaunt back down memory lane to talk about The Mystery of Edwin Drood!! Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback! https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast thanku5pod@gmail.com! 

Welcome back!!! Matt and David had a really rough start to 2026, hence why we haven't been uploading episodes. We're back and we're looking to sit down and talk about more shows but first, we wanted to catch up and talk about shows that we find comforting right now.  Content Warning: there's a long conversation of grief on both of our ends. Both of us have lost family members in the past few month...

We don't have a show to talk about this month, due to family things and holidays but we still wanted to bring you some fun theater talk! We want to wish all of our listeners a happy holiday season and a bright new year! Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback! https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast thanku5pod@gmail.com! 

Act 2 of Kiss of the Spider Woman and we're back with Molina and Valentin. Both are on the recovery from both their torture and their illnesses. Both are dreaming of the outside world and what they will do when they are free. If they get free.  CW: This episode does deal with gender, sexuality, the expression thereof and how that's been expressed and recognized over the years as well as violence c...

It's the 90s but we're in the 50s! Or is it the 80s? It's Brazil! Or is it Argentina? It's the Kiss of the Spider Woman, an early 90s queer revolutionary musical based off a movie based off a novel and that currently has a movie adaptation that for some reason is being released the same month as Wicked For Good. Molina is a queer person imprisoned for being queer. Valentin has just been thrown int...

It's Act 2 and we're back in France! Except when we're not! Join Christine, Matt, and David as we go over versions 1, 2, and 3 of act 2 of The Scarlet Pimpernel!! To find out more about Christine, please check out mynameispurpose on most if not all social media apps. For more Footnoting History, go to https://www.footnotinghistory.com/ or find them on any podcatcher! Remember to leave a five star...

We're talking about the musical about the French Revolution!!! Wait, no, we didn't already do that because Les Mis doesn't take place during the French Revolution! It's Frank Wildhorn's The Scarlet Pimpernel, the musical with almost as many versions as Chess. Based on a novel (and a play and a series of books and a series of movies and ...) by Baroness Orczy at the turn of the century, it had a nu...

Good morning, Starshine! It's time to Be-In and go through Act 2 of Hair! Just make sure you're sitting down cause act 2 is a ride that goes all over the place. So, Let the Sun Shine and join us! Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback! https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast thanku5pod@gmail.com

It's the summer of love and the sexual revolution and Vietnam is happening and there's so much civil unrest! It's time for Hair! So let's pull out our best bell bottoms and prayer beads and get ready to sit in and be in.  Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback! https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast thanku5pod@gmail.com

We don't normally do this but we also don't normally do 3 act musicals!!! The Lady from Lourdes has shown up to investigate the Miracle but who is she? And what is Hopgood up to? And will Cora get all the Cookies back in the Cookie Jar?  Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback! https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast thanku5pod@...

This July, we're talking about Sonheim's second Broadway show he did both the music and lyrics for. Yes, we say it's the first in the show but we're correcting that now! Everyone in a small, poor town is overseen by the ruthless mayor Cora, who's opposed by a nurse at the local mental hospital, Fay Apple. What happens when a natural miracle promises health and curative powers for the citizens? And...

Albin has left the stage, and the Dondins are on their way!! What can Georges and Jean-Michel do to patch this up and get Anne's family to love them? Well, a lot of shenanigans and the realization Jean-Michel is a terrible person. We're finishing up La Cage! Strap on your highest heels and join us! We are what we are!!

It's June and to celebrate Pride, we're going back to La Cage Aux Folles! Come for the drag and stay for the shenanigans!!

One of us just finsihed a show, and the other one of us is on their honey moon so let's talk about the Tony nominees that are out!!!

Wicked: For Good isn't out yet, but we're here to talk about Act 2 of the musical, which, spoiler alert, will be the basis of the second movie!  After Elphaba leaves the Emerald City, things take a dark turn. And then Dorothy drops in. For more Emily Edwards content, please check out https://msemilyedwards.com/ or find her on Bluesky at @msemilyedwards.bsky.social. You can check out F*bois of Lite...

*sung to the tune of Popular* Crossover! We're doing a CROSS OVER! This week is a big week here cause we're doing a crossover with Emily Edwards, author and host of F*ckbois of Literature podacst to talk about Wicked. We talked about the book over there and we're gonna talk about the show over here so go check out Emily's episode based on the book, and if you're joining us from here, welcome and s...

It's Act 2 and we're ready to be tossed off the .. I mean, find out what Urinetown ACTUALLY is! Where is it? Who lives there? What is a metaphor? None of these questions and more will be answered until we have a musical song and snap number.  Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback! https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast thanku...

We continue the year of revolutionary thinking to bring you Urinetown! What is Urinetown? Where is Urinetown? Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for act 2 for this to be revealed in song and dance but until then, we can learn more about this city we live in and the people who inhabit it who have to pay for the privilege to pee. https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We're still wintering in the Hamptons with Big Edie and Little Edie and their army of racoons and cats! It's act 2, which means we're heavy into the documentary territory recreation and out of fantasy land. What caused the rift between the two? Can one have cake AND eat it? What's up with Jerry?  https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We're donning our revolutionary costumes for today and are taking you back in time to discuss Grey Gardens! Act 1 is all about Big Edie overshadowing Little Edie during her engagement announcement to Joe Kennedy Jr and the fallout that happens during all of that. Join us out in the Hamptons during this winter in that summer town!  https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We're talking Pippin today, and we're joined by David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele, historians and authors of books you should read! We're here today to talk about Pippin, the musical about the son of Charlemagne, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson and Bob Fosse, as well as original direction/choreography by Fosse. To round it out, our guests have just released a book t...

We take a holiday break to talk a bit about an intellectual property that includes musical theater and is associated with Christmas in England, but not necessiarly together. We're talking Peter Pan, the history of the IP, what IS a panto, and why this isn't really a thing in the US. 

We're rounding out November with the second act of Mack and Mabel with author and podcaster Emily J. Edwards!  For more Emily, check out https://msemilyedwards.com/ and for Ticklish Business, check out https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/ Leave a five star review and rating!  Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

Today we're joined by Emily Edwards, author and cohost of the Ticklish Business podcast!!! We're talking pre Hayes code Hollywood, or at least the Jerry Herman rose colored glasses version of it in the famous musical flop, Mack and Mabel! Get out your liverwurst on rye and settle in for some mayhem. For more Emily, check out https://msemilyedwards.com/ and for Ticklish Business, check out https://...

We finish off spooky month with the second act of Gentleman's Guide!!! Who's killing the D'Ysquiths? Why didn't this podcast episode come out on time? Will Monty marry Phoebe or Sybella? All of these questions might be answered on this podcast!!!