The Original Cast

It's TONYS TIME!! Patrick, Lauren Halvorsen ( Nothing for the Group ), and Robbie Rozelle ( Center Stage Records ) break down this incredibly overpacked Tony season. Who will win? Who will lose? Who won't show up? Who wasn't invited? Which version of The Wild Party should've been on Broadway 24 years ago? We cover it all! Patrick's magic 2024 Tonys YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlis...

Friend of the podcast, repeat guest, and genuine ray of sunshine Joanna McKee passed away today and I'm at a loss. Listen to her talk about the musical Anastasia and hear the joy in her heart.   originally released: March 25, 2020 original notes:  Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor...

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 Bugs...

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 son...

Bruce is (along with his producing partner Jack W. Batman) a two-time Tony Award winning producer of shows such as Pippin , Be More Chill , Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 , and the very show we're   talking about today! Topics include: what a producer does, why shows are so expensive, what a producer  should do, being an extra in Fame , and the upcoming revival of The Who's Tommy ! Sunn...

Em is an actor in New York and DC who brings us this most classic of musicals as revived St. Ann's Warehouse revival that ****s. There is really no other way to put it. That's how we all remember it. I bleep it every time but that's what we're saying. It's the Oklahoma! that ****s. Topics include: the buttery/flaky crust of nostalgia, Rebecca Naomi Jones doing no wrong, Mary Testa opening numbers,...

Dani is a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright and actor who brings us this JRB musical by way of a Clint Eastwood movie by way of a 90s romance novel about Kelli O'Hara making out with Laura Benanti's ex-husband. Topics include: wet old men, the dangers of casting Steven Pasquale, complicated women, the high stakes of everyday life. Dani Stoller Dot Com Featured recordings: The Bridges of Madison...

Stephen is the incoming President & CEO of the Music School of Delaware of which Patrick is an alumnus (but Stephen doesn't know that when we start so keep it under your hat). Topics include: sensitive kids, deceptive simplicity, passing on Rooster, mom's lullabies, George C. Wolfe's Annie , and the teachers who poured themselves into us. The Music School of Delaware Featured recordings: Annie - O...

Did you know we had a bonus podcast on our PATREON page? Well, we do. Each month, you can listen to The Original Cast at the Movies , a long-form movie discussion podcast with musical theatre implications. Beth Amann and Kari Ginsburg are here to kick off The Original Cast at the Movies 's new theme: THE YEAR OF BARBARA (HARRIS)! We'll be covering 13 Barbara Harris films starting with this Academy...

Let's rap. FINAL "The Year of Barbra" live stream 12/9 (Thu): The Way We Were (1973) with Robbie Rozelle & Len Rodino FIRST "The Year of Barbara (Harris)" live stream 12/20 (Wed): Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) with Kari Ginsburg & Beth Amann 48 Hour Film Project: Yes We Cannes - Buy a ticket and vote for WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THE FUTURE Buy one of Patrick's plays for audiences young and decided...

Jenny is the President and CEO of Washington Performing Arts and she's here for a trip downtown, across the world, and back in time. Topics include: the Berlin Wall,  A Night at the Opera , Leonard Bernstein, being asked to change your name, arts education, the Air Force Band, and what you can accomplish without a building. Washington Performing Arts Dot Org Featured recordings:  Hedwig and the An...

It is impossible for me to overstate how special it was to speak with Austin Pendleton. An actor's actor, playwright, director, and a wonderfully kind human being. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do. Topics include: working with jazz artists, Salvador Dalí on the phone at 4:00am, trying to blow off Jerome Robbins (and failing), promises made to Zero Mostel, Barbara Harris & Hunter Colle...

Eleni comes to us from the Kennedy Center's Digital Learning Center to talk about a musical that lives in her very soul and bones. Topics include: preteen sunset, channelling Maria Callas, tired performances, unfinished lyrics, Betty Schaefer's agency, and (of course) a swimming pool named "Andrew." Kennedy Center Education "Who Doesn't Love Opera?" by Eleni Hagen at Kennedy Dash Center Dot Org Ar...

Stuart is 1/3 of The Flop House podcast (the 3rd third to guest on this show) as well as the proprietor of both Hinterlands and Minnie's Bar in Brooklyn. And he's here with a Danish Heavy Metal concept album that is more well-thought-out than The Who's Tommy . Topics include: deep dives and rabbit holes, allegorical mother draining, being a completist, Queen, showmanship, and Patrick's familiarity...

Patrick and Patrick have been friends for multiple decades and they talk entirely about Swing! and they don't almost immediately diverge into talking about the Harry Connick Jr/Jessie Mueller revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever that Patrick was in and I don't know how these rumors get started. Topics include: the dark corners of Joe Allen's, the concrete floors of Toby's, Anne Hampton Ca...

Playwright and actor Vince Gatton is here to talk about an album that is not his favorite show but has a strong hold on him nonetheless. Topics include: unusual ways, first recordings vs best recordings, burning out cassettes, disgustingly wonderful fithiness, and what happens when you can get Elaine Paige instead of Sarah Brightman but not until the weekend. Vince Gatton Dot Com NSFW:  Anita Morr...

SPECIAL DELIVERY! Friends of the show Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane are here to talk about the new cast album for their musical The Big Time which drops on Concord Theatricals TODAY! Starring Tony winners Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte and featuring Jackie Hoffman and Will Swenson, The Big Time is a big musical comedy that you are going to love. THE BIG TIME - Studio Cast Recording...

Kari's back to talk about a musical no one wants to talk about! Well, not NO ONE but not enough people in Patrick's opinion. Topics include: Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, the greatness of Barbara Harris, 3 Act musicals, the glorious comedic timing of Barbara Harris, the genius of Sheldon Harnick, the rhapsodic joy one feels listening to Barbara Harris, Warren Beatty (and how he wronged Barbara Harris...

I'm guessing if you listen to a podcast about original cast albums, then you know who Joe Iconis is and you probably also know how thrilled I am to be talking with him this week. Aside from his Tony-nominated score for Be More Chill, Joe's other vast musical credits include the likes of The Black Suits , P unk Rock Girl! , Bloodsong of Love , Broadway Bounty Hunter , and Love in Hate Nation .   He...

Robbie's back (again) for what is a seminal recording for fans of a certain age. Topics include: single fun aunts, over-acting with masks, jumpers & big collars, natural disasters, Michael Ball, documentaries about Laurie Beechman, vests, and Victoria Clarke Syndrome. Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection + Encore on YOUTUBE! Cast Album Cage Match: EVITA vs. Billy Recce Listen to Her Heart:...

Mike is a New York City-based director who loves the Great American Songbook, trivia, collecting LP records, and hot beverages. And he's here for a Kander & Ebb show that's right up there with 70, Girls, 70 and The Happy Time in terms of popularity, influence, and success. Topics include: getting the plot wrong, death in musicals,  Anyone Can Whistle , who would've won the Best Score Tony in 1969...

Erika is a co-host of the great podcast That Aged Well as well as a writer and performer who loves the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Bookshop. And she's here for a show she saw FIVE TIMES on Broadway! Topics include: songs from the '66 original, is Sally Bowles just Millie Dilmount on drugs, the problem of irony, making Generation X feel better,  The Wolf of Wall Street , and what has aged w...

Broadwaysted! 's own Kimberly is back (for the 3rd time) to talk about the album that makes us wonder: "Who . . . is Barbra Streisand?" Topics include: how to headphone like Barbra, doing more Zack than you want, James Brolin self-tapes, Hugh Jackman playing a wolf-man, Barbra as the emcee, what you get with the "Deluxe" Edition, and how much dialogue is too much dialogue? ENCORE: Movie Partners S...

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/OriginalCastPod Confession time. This whole "Year of Barbra" thing has really been a long con to promote a production of the play The Owl and the Pussycat directed by Patrick and starring today's guests: Serena Berman ( Hair , tick, tick…BOOM! ) and A.J. Ditty ( High Fidelity ). We open at the Snapple Theatre this fall on the set of Perfec...

Paul acts, he writes, he podcasts, he does many things. And he is here to talk about a show that maybe won a lot of Tonys this past Sunday! Or maybe not!! Only way to find out is to listen!!! Topics include: parents acting like children, children forced to be parents, crying through Act 2,  Barnum! , story structure, and how Paul doesn't know music theory, he just feels things. That Aged Well Dot...