The Original Cast

Did you know there were musicals based on comics (besides Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark )? Well, we explore them and their impact in this wonderful live show from Flying V Theatre's Awesome-a-Thon Vol. 3, their annual 24-hour fundraiser. Featuring Chris Klimek's point of view and the heavenly voices of Kari Ginsburg, Don Mike Mendoza, and Anna Grace Nowalk with Heather Hurley on piano. Also: Patric...

Have you seen Love Letters ? You should see Love Letters . It's a play. And a perfectly cromulent one. THE ORIGINAL CAST MERCH NOW AVAILABLE AT TEE PUBLIC Join us on  PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   This month it's Chris Klimek ( It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman ) and Farrell Parker ( A Chorus Line ) talking about the greatest movie Prince ev...

Tony-nominated actor ( Starmites ) and director ( Amazing Grace , Lippa's The Wild Party ) Gabriel Barre is our first guest to be in the original Broadway cast of the show we're discussing, and you will soon see why. Rags famously ran for 4 performances on Broadway but nevertheless was nominated for 5 Tony awards and has survived through the years due to staunch advocation by its devoted fans and...

Courtney worked with Susan Stroman. So we talk about Susan Stroman. A lot! With that good Courtney/Patrick energy! THE ORIGINAL CAST MERCH NOW AVAILABLE AT TEE PUBLIC Join us on  PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   This month it's Chris Klimek ( It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman ) and Farrell Parker ( A Chorus Line ) talking about the greatest mov...

Composer/lyricist Adam Gwon is here for a western adaptation of Wagner's The Ring Cycle and to talk about his new musical Scotland, PA which is based on an early-aughts indy film that adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth into a story about competing burger joints in 1970's rural Pennsylvania. What a sentence! Topics include: finding your path, changing your path, living that new path, and making guacamole...

Did I ever tell you about the time I co-produced a production of Grease! and it turned out we didn't have the rights? By the way, the The Simpsons episode I reference is "Jaws Wired Shut" (s13e09) . Join us on  PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch ) and Kari Ginsburg ( Gypsy , et al.) weig...

DC Metro Theater Arts editor and publisher Nicole Hertvick is here for an emo telling of the 7th President of the United State's rise to power that fully commits to its premise. Topics include: Emo, Spring Awakening , the Trail of Tears, and (somehow) Cats . We talk about Cats for a minute. And I don't remember how we got there but there it is: Cats . CONTENT WARNING: Some of the songs in Bloody B...

Doug and I do a lot of great musical theatre back-and-forth but really you just need to read this line from Dorothy Rodgers (wife to Richard, mother to Mary) New York Times obituary: "Mrs. Rodgers founded Repairs Inc., an agency that hired craftsmen to repair broken objects, in 1935 and was its head until 1941. In 1945 she patented the Jonny Mop, which was sold by Johnson & Johnson. It was one of...

**TRIGGER WARNING** The episode contains frank discussions of sexual assault and stalker behavior. Caroline Dubberly is here for a show about the dichotomy of existence, the destructiveness of revenge, the cycle of abuse, and the power of self-love. Topics include: the origin of love, the power of tattoos, and the hymns that get us through. Featured recordings: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original...

Doubling up on Al Silber with portions of last week's interview that were edited for time. This episode will also dovetail nicely into next week's episode on Hedwig and the Angry Inch . Synergy!   Here's a link to the Tonys performance Al mentions:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j661y6KwYA   Join us on  PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies?  The latest episod...

Actor and author Alexandra Silber is currently appearing as Fraulein Sally Bowles in Olney Theatre Center's production of Cabaret . But she's here this week to talk about this beautiful Lucy Simon/Marsha Norman musical and so much more. Really, we get deep.__Topics include: living with grief, communing with nature, and the glory of Rebecca Luker. Buy Alexandra's memoir White Hot Grief Parade and h...

How can you have a family and do theatre and be a good parent and not feel guilty? . . . You probably can't. On Saturday, September 14 at the Rockville Town Center, DC Actors for Animals will present Beltway Barks where the theatre and animal rescue communities come together to save lives! They'll have around 40 animals for adoption there that day, as well as awesome pet vendors with toys, treats,...

We all knew this day would come. Director Angie Pirko and Patrick take a long walk off the longest-running Broadway musical to see if there's any there there. Topics include: Christine is a good person, the Cameron Mackintosh of it all, is Raoul an idiot, this show is garbage, and we're here for it anyway. Programming note: This episode was recorded the day before Harold Prince died. Featured reco...

Nicole Hertvik from the incomparable  DC Metro Theatre Arts  interviews Patrick and Michelle Polera about their new show What She Said which can be seen this Friday at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival. WHAT SHE SAID performance details here. Join us on  PATREON  to get our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   August's episode has Married super-cool duo Lee Liebeskin...

Director Christina A. Coakley is here for this beautiful but little-known show from the team that brought you  Ragtime  about a closeted man in 1960s Dublin. Topics include: Roger Rees, Faith Prince,  Fun Home , when Ireland legalized divorce, and if one can buy a T-shirt that says "Benny was right." Featured recording:  A Man of No Importance  - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Have yo...

Heather is a costume designer. So we talked a lot about designing and designers and notes and all that good stuff. Have you checked out our  PATREON ? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   July's episode has James Finley ( The Life ) and Charlene V. Smith ( Man of La Mancha  1968) talking about the 2007 film  Once  which is t...

Actor/teacher Rick Westerkamp is here for the last Best Musical Tony-winner before  Company  based on one of the most Academy Award-winning films ever made starring an actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood. And I bet you've never heard it. Topics include: Seeing  Cabaret  at 9-years-old, Turkey Lurky Time, the joys of the chorus, and whether or not Katharine Hepburn can sing (you be the judge!)...

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Robbie is the A&R Director and in-house designer for Grammy-winning record label Broadway Records . So he has a lot to say about design. Patrick wrote a book about visual literacy . So  he  has a lot to say about design. Here's some of what they said together. This episode was recorded at Broadway Records. Go to  BroadwayRecords.com  to view and shop from their extensive catalog of cast albums, so...

Samuel French literary manager Garrett Anderson is here for this Ryan Scott Oliver song cycle which, coincidentally, is available through Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company . Funny how that works. Topics  include: literary management, management of literature, song cycles vs. cycles of songs, and a really great table.

Good morning, Mr. & Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. FLASH! Journalist Chris Klimek thinks Superman CHEATED! Featured recordings :  Superman: The Movie  - Original Sound Track (1979)  •  Dragnet -  Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987) Have you checked out our  PATREON ? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?   J...

Comedian and the Broadway Baby himself Alex Fossella is here for mainly a talk about Waitress. But we also talk about  Hamilton ,  Rent ,  Sunday in the Park with George ,  Carousel , and other random things that cross the transom of our mutual minds. Topics  include: problematic subplots, over-respect for source material, awkward sex scenes in musicals, and metaphors and the people who use them....

Laura Esti Miller and Patrick talk about seeing the same show 20 years later. Featured recordings : Miss Saigon  - Original London Cast Recording (1989) Have you checked out our  PATREON ? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast  The Original Cast at the Movies ?  June's episode features Eliza Berkon ( Godspell  1973) and Sophie Schulman ( Funny Girl ) discussing...

The Official  Broadwaysted!  Podcast's Bryan Plofsky says what he says and means what he meant. And he likes this musical one thousand percent! Topics include: Eric Idle, being better than you need to be, and who is the host of this podcast, anyway? Featured recordings :  Suessical  - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000)  •  Ragtime  - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) Ready to put the wo...

Anyone who has spent time with myself and Courtney knows that we can talk. And we like to talk about American musical theatre and debate about knows more. (Spoiler alert: I do.) Ready to put the work in artwork? Check out friend of the podcast Danielle Mohlman's online interactive series Crafting Your Artistic Handbook . By the end of this six-week class, you'll have: a set of rituals geared towar...