The Original Cast

Danielle Mohlman is a Seattle-based playwright and one of my favorite people. And she's here with tales of theatres doing the right thing. MUSIC: "Try It and See" sung by Rita Pavone the B-side of her single "Till Tomorrow" (1969), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice Patreon  •  Twitter  •  Facebook  •  Email

Columnist, playwright, and the mind behind @KyloR3n is here for one of the most capital-M Musicals ever to grace the Broadway. Topics include: unintentional weird, songs and book and when they don't meet, the unbearable heaviness of Alan Jay Lerner, and a 70-year-old musical that slaps. Featured recordings: Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960) NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 4, 2020 be...

Robbie's here! 3 Act Musicals! Astoria, Queens! Office Trees! MUSIC: "Try Me" sung by Nicholas Barasch from  She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

Farrell Parker talks about New Jersey and tax prep! MUSIC: "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" sung by Christopher Neil from Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron: 1919-1952 (1976), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice Patreon  •  Twitter  •  Facebook  •  Email

It's the Broadway Baby himself: Alex Fossella is here to wildly speculate on what the trailer for the Hamilton movie will be like. MUSIC: "Broadway Baby" sung by Daisy Eagan from  Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Patreon  •  Tw itter  •  Facebook  •  Email  

Roddy is here straight from the room where it* happened! *Congress, not like, the room where the virus started. That'd be bananas. MUSIC : "The Room Where It Happened" sung by Leslie Odo m Jr. from Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015), music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda Patreon  •  Tw itter  •  Facebook  •  Email

Beth Amann ( Wicked ) is the Managing Director of the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Monumental. Their acclaimed production of Head Over Heels has been cut short by recent events. Also cheese boards. MUSIC : "Mad About You" sung by Andrew Durand from Head Over Heels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018), music and lyrics by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan, Mitchel Young Evans Patreon...

I'm going to try and release 7 episodes a week during this time of social distancing where I talk to people in the theatre about what they're seeing and how they're doing. First up: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt ( The Light in the Piazza ) and Jay Schmidt ( The Full Monty ) talk from uptown Manhattan. MUSIC : "We Need a Little Christmas" sung by Angela Lansbury from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966),...

People make movies and then musicals of those movies and some are not great. But some are transcendently good. T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store! Join us on PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   This month we've got Kenny Neal ( Starlight Express , et al.) and Joanna McKee talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Oper...

It's a play this week! No singing, no music, just words. Good words. Tom Stoppard words. And a great guest: Chris Stinson. Topics include: nihilism, love, Cynthia Nixon doing two Broadway plays at once, and how Jeremy Irons's character may have led to Brexit. Featured recordings: The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984) T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store! Join us on...

I give you this guitar but only if you solemnly promise never to bring it to a party without being asked. Join us on PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   This month we've got Sophie Schulman ( Funny Girl ) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling ) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952) . Patreon  •  Twitter  •  Fa...

Jenna is a director in DC (she directed my adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit ) and is also the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at Olney Theatre Center. And she's here for a big hit that we all love and, actually, is a lot more layered than you may think. Topics include: tradition, love, Thestrals, and the importance of stage presence. Featured recordings: Fiddler on the Roof - Th...

Is it possible to mathematically determine whether or not a Broadway show is a flop? Yes, it is. We did it. Yay! Join us on PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   This month we've got Sophie Schulman ( Funny Girl ) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling ) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952) . Patreon  •  Twitter...

James is many things to many people. He's a performer, director, publicity director at Signature Theatre in DC, and also the book writer for the musical Glory Days which ran on Broadway for one performance in 2008. And he's here to talk about all those things as well as the best show ever written that doesn't work.     Topics include: That Frank, book writing is hard, Glory Days (of course), and h...

Did you know there were other kinds of music besides original cast recordings? Me neither. Also, we talk about Cats . Join us on PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   This month we've got Sophie Schulman ( Funny Girl ) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling ) talking about the greatest(?) movie musical ever: Singin' in the Rain (1952) . Patreon  •  Tw...

Playwright/actress Serena Berman has finally brought us the landmark "bookless" musical Hair . Topics include: free love, the Starbucks-itization of hippies, drugs, the power of revivals for a new generation, and the anxiety of having a good time. Featured recordings: Hair  - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968) Listen to Serena's play Apocalypse Air BnB on Flying V's Paperless Pulp podcast...

A snippet from my conversation with composer/lyricist Adam Gwon (Scotland, PA , Ordinary Days ) about the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of theatre. Join us on PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   This month we've got Robbie Rozelle ( Mame ) talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, a...

It's a big one to kick off the year! Bryan Plofsky and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt of the official Broadwaysted! podcast (where they're drunk on theatre) are here for a big musical that two of us love and one of us also loves but not as much as the first two which is fine but not really because this is the best musical ever. Topics include: anti-heroes, shows that hold you at arms-length, Fosse/Verdon...

Here's a silly one to kick-off 2020. The title says it all. Well, not ALL. If it said it ALL then you wouldn't need the 9-minute episode, you'd just need the title. Go to http://bit.ly/ originalcaststore for ORIGINAL CAST MERCHANDISE! Join us on PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   This month we've got Robbie Rozelle ( Mame ) talking about the D.A. Pennebak...

Still don't know whether or not to become a Patreon patron of The Original Cast ? Well, you should. But if you're on the fence, here's Robbie Rozelle and I giving you a sample as we dissect the "Original Cast Album: Co-op" episode of Documentary Now! . This month's patrons-only episode of The Original Cast at the Movies features Robbie & I talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the ma...

It's Saturnalia! So here's the pilot episode of a podcast Beth Amann and I created called What is Love Actually? ! What is Love Actually ? Is it a simple romantic Christmas movie or is it a horrible mistake that actually killed the rom com? Well, that's what Beth Amann and Patrick Flynn are here to find out. We're kicking it off with Solomon Parker III and Josh Simon, two millennials that have nev...

Jay is a stand-up, actor, co-host of pReview'd , co-host of Broadway Baby and is here for this David Yazbek adaptation of the Academy Award-nominated film about working-class male strippers. Topics include: overtures, Ithica graduates, hard moments in tech, and the hardest a stranger has ever seen Jay cry. Featured recordings: The Full Monty - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) •  Jesus Chris...

Saviez-vous qu'il existe de très nombreuses adaptations du roman de Gaston Leroux, Le Fantôme de l'opéra? Eh bien, il y en a. Et nous discutons de certains d'entre eux. (Toutes mes excuses à tous les auditeurs francophones.)   Featured recording: Phantom  - American Premiere Recording (1991)   The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing...

Kevin is the author of  Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical (now in paperback!) and is here for the first "Fosse" musical. Topics include: filming dance, grandmom Gwen Verdon, the Church-of-the-Month Club, and finding Fosse in Oklahoma in the '60s. Featured recording: Sweet Charity - Original Broadway Cast (1966) The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the bo...

Patrick's children have a very important message for you. http://bit.ly/ originalcaststore The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information! Join us on PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies !   This month it's Heather C. Jackson (...