The Original Cast

Taylor J. Williams is a 2023 Tony Award-nominee in the Best Sound Design of a Play category for Ain't No Mo' . He is also a musician who has worked as an electronic music designer on more than 30 Broadway productions including Moulin Rouge , Beetlejuice , Be More Chill , King Kong , Frozen , and Falsettos . Topics include: pageantry, melodrama, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, nappi...

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO  Patreon.com/OriginalCastPod The Year of Barbra Continues! Rob W. Schneider ( Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall ,  La Cage Aux Folles ) and Roddy Flynn ( Anyone   Can   Whistle , et al.) join Patrick for yet another bad psychiatrist movie. Now with 5x as much ACTING! Watch NUTS  on YouTube (free with ads)

Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she's come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job. Topics include: getting typecast out of  Fiddler , Anthony Newley, what a producer does, RENT , coming home, and musicals based on nothing. SOMA Stage Dot Org SOPA Now Dot Org Featured recordings: In...

Mark's website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music Eight Tales of Pedro (written with Luis D'Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he's here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart. Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, The Opposite of...

Rob was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West & is the editor-in-chief of American Theatre magazine. And he's here for the only Off-Broadway show to win a Tony Award. Topics include: psuedo-Marxist propaganda, in rep with  The Fantasticks , Gilbert & Sullivan, Double-LP German recordings, Domar Warehouse, how existence is a female dog and then one perishes, and the vocal stylings of Dame...

Kaiya is a civil rights lawyer and a lifelong thespian who uses her legal expertise to empower theatre community members to stand up for their rights and create truly safe and equitable spaces. And she is here with a greatest hits/concept/song collection that helped get her through college. Topics include: everything everywhere all at once, Kickstarter, Melancholy of being in your 20s, Amicus Brie...

It's Steve's birthday! And Rob is back to talk to us about a 30-year-old concert that has the best hair, goofiest sleeves, and ALLLLLLLL the Liza Minnelli you could dream for. Topics include: The Tonics, wearing upholstery, The Tonics's vocal arrangements, the '87 Tonys, The Tonics's full discography, Karen Ziemba killing it, and The Tonics (mostly we just talk about The Tonics). Rob W. Schneider...

Liz is an actor, writer, and musical theatre kid from way back. And she's here with a show that is possibly more relevant now than when it debuted. Topics include: going into the City by yourself when you're 13, Little Sally, Urinetown the place, transferring at Jamaica, Brechtian (in the true sense), and is this show ahead of its time? Liz on  Medium Featured recordings: Urinetown the Musica l -...

Jack is an Award-Winning American playwright, actor, musician, and teacher and he's here with a show that is certainly in the running for the title of THE quintessential American musical. Topics include: Proto-Fonzi, the first time someone treats you like you're cool, thinking of yourself as a musician, Henry V , and failing better. New Normal Rep Dot Org  / bonus password "NNR2022" Jack Canfora W...

Debra is the author of the new biography Robert Preston: Forever the Music Man . And she's here to talk about Preston's most famous flop from the team that brought you Hello, Dolly! . Topics include: working actors, voicemails from Rosemary Harris, journalism, Robert Preston not getting cast in things over and over again, and Christopher Walken. Buy Robert Preston: Forever the Music Man ! Featured...

Actor/singer Sean Patrick Murtagh, whom you may know from Green Room 42 and/or his new album The Mario 101, is here for the album that he describes as: "the album that made [him] gay." Topics include: moonlight on the bed, Linda Eder as diva, local gays, Linda Eder as instrument, formulas, Linda Eder as gateway drug, the heart and soul of why we do it, Linda Eder's placement, and Linda Eder's vowe...

Shoshana is a dramatist, journalist, and host of the Scene to Song podcast. And she's here to talk about a show that (at one time) was the longest-running show in Broadway history. And it won a surprising number of Tony Awards. Topics include: how Grease is like Cats , Little Mary Sunshine , 98.1FM WOGL, nostalgia, the bad shows we did in high school, and does Sandy cave under societal pressure or...

Fan-favorites Roddy Flynn and Robbie Rozelle are here to kick off THE YEAR OF BARBRA on T he Original Cast at the Movies with her cinematic and Oscar-winning debut! Want to hear more The Original Cast at the Movies ? Head over to our Patreon ! Any pledge level includes access to our monthly movie podcast, as well as access to our back catalog since 2017! ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Patreon  •  Twitter  •...

Stephen is the author of the critically acclaimed Pentecost & Parker mystery series. Book 3 of which is OUT NOW! And he's here for a musical based on another famed murder mystery duo: Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man movie series. And this musical is . . . definitely a musical. Topics include: Arthur Laurents, missing the magic, slime tutorials, Raymond Chandler, not knowing your source mater...

Mark is a 2-time BroadwayWorld Award-winning singer, actor, dancer, etc. And he's here for a musical that flopped so hard it closed a Broadway theatre. Like, permanently. Topics include: the importance of going out-of-town, the art of the cabaret, writing a musical for yourself to star in, the moon & New York City, and disco ball death scenes. GET TICKETS to Mark William: Technicolor Dream at the...

You can see Julie every Thursday as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the August Wilson but you can listen to her HERE and NOW talking about . . . Grease 2 ? Topics include: FYE, open-heart surgery, the insecurity of being Tom Hanks, voice lessons as a kid, and not being recognized by Lin-Manuel in a pharmacy. Julie Benko Dot Com Featured recordings: Grease 2 - Original Soundtrack Recording (1982) • Ha...

My guest today is an author, performer, and theatre historian. Her book Gemingani is available now from Applause. And she's here about a dark musical about dark times with some bops along the way. Topics include: Elvis, being a Cerveris evangelist, incel icons, bardic tradition, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Maragret Dash Hall Dot Com Order Gemignani Today! Featured recordings: Assassins...

Paul was the editor and publisher of the famed Sondheim Review and he's written a book about his relationship with the master entitled Sondheim & Me (which is great and you should buy it and read it)! And he's here with one of the first musicals he saw that engendered a life-long vocation. Topics include: seeing Do I Hear a Waltz? In its original Broadway run, translating Sondheim lyrics, donating...

A.J. is a comedian and co-host of the wonderful The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast and here for a bad show that has one or two moments of music theatre heaven. Topics include: slime tutorials, 2x4 with googly eyes, "broken clock" moments, the living embodiment of "well, actually," Les Contes d'Hoffmann , and lyrics with a good mouth-feel. "Inside High Fidelity " background and analysis by Sc...

Alexandra Bowman is a freelance illustrator, political cartoonist, satirist, and fine artist from Washington, D.C. Her cartoons have appeared in Our Daily Planet , World War Zero , and The Lincoln Project . And she's here to talk about a show SHE'S WRITING A MASTER'S THESIS ABOUT! Topics include: starting with Cats , Tim Rice says things, being a Cogsworth in a room full of Belles, Hamilton , the...

Dan is an Emmy-winning writer and 1/3 of the wonderful podcast The Flop House and he has come here today to talk about the barber, the baker, his wife, and her Toby. Topics include: HAIR , Josh Groban & Annaleigh Ashford, Johann's agency, Death in the Cathedral , pre-Fletcher Lansbury, and why maybe the Coen Brothers should've made the movie. Dan McCoy Writer Dot Com Dank McCoy on Twitter Featured...

Marc is the host of the popular YouTube channel Broadway by Ghostlight and is here for a show that ran for 8 performances despite Barbra Streisand's best efforts. Topics include: selling merch at The Drowsy Chaperone , Lee Wilkoff v. Eddie Korbich, shows that should've gone out of town, Anyone Can Whistle , and Blue Pear Records. Broadway by Ghostlight - Drat! The Cat!: Broadway's Best 8-Performan...

Adam is the National Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic at TimeOut New York and President of the New York Drama Critics' Circle. And he is here for a big episode about a very big show on a very big, double-LP. Topics include: Patti, Mandy, Patti's rage, Bob Gunton's accent, Mandy being Mandy all over the second act, comma writing, Mark Syers, the worst lyric in Chess , the "Big Appl...

Playbill 's Director of Events & Creative Strategy Len Rodino stops by to talk about this BIG musical about BIG drama that had BIG drama around it for 40+ years! Topics include: taking the bus from PA, Patti LuPone's memoir, 5 "useful" majors, starting as the receptionist, cigarette ads in my Playbill , and And Juliet ! Len's Instagram Featured recordings: Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recordin...

Emmy-winner and former The Daily Show head-writer Elliott Kalan is here for a musical running now about then but really about way back then which seems to have been lost now. Topics include: losing on Jeopardy! , adding jokes by Larry David, ethical use of a resurrection machine, Frank Loesser, the House Committee on "Shipoopi," Broadway sets of the 50s & 60s, and (of course) is Winthrop Marion's...