The Original Cast

David has been there, done that, gave away the T-shirt, met the Muppets, and now he's with us to talk about this reassemblage of a Gershwin classic. Topics include: operettas and 1930s-40s movie musicals, not getting theatre internships, Fynsworth Alley, and DIANA: THE MUSICAL ! David Levy בלעק לײַװס מעטער on Twitter! Album Produced By... by Bruce Kimmel Fynsworth Alley on Discogs LIVE STREAM The...

Dan is probably most well known to music theatre fans as the book writer of 13 (coming soon to Netflix). But he's also a lyricist, YA novelist, and an accomplished musician. And he's here for an amazingly deep, 2-LP collection from the First Lady of Song. Topics include: discovering Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart's words, working with JRB and Doug Cohen, knowing what you're good at, and yes I forgot...

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Roddy is here for an anecdote and reminiscence about a cult classic. Featured Songs: "How Shall I See You Through My Tears" from The Gospel at Colonus - Original Cast Recording (1985) • "Turkey Lurkey Time" from Promises, Promises - Original Broadway Cast Album (1968) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 20...

Performer/writer/raconteur Grace Aki is here for a show that just keeps being the best. Topics include: parents, podcasts, personalities, the Queen Judy Kuhn (long may she reign), and how Michael Cerveris may be a deity. Grace Aki Dot Com Featured recordings: Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • Song & Dance - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1985) • Tell Me on a Sunday - Marti Webb (1980)...

There's stuff a-comin'. To Free a Mockingbird , written and performed by Grace Aki Featured Songs: "What a Piece of Work is Man / Walking in Space (Reprise)" from Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968) • "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" from Kiss Me, Kate - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1999) LIVE STREAM: SEPTEMBER 16! The Original Cast at the Movies: Camp (2003) with Michael Finke & Rob...

Jeremy comes from away (Seattle) for one of the best musicals of the last decade. Certainly better than the one everyone thought was the best musical — okay I'll stop. Topics include: no intermission, The Laramie Project , Bonnie & Bob & Hannah & Kevin & Kevin, and discovering this show on a plane to Hong Kong. Featured recordings: Come from Away - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) LIVE STRE...

Building others up when you're feeling down. "Feeling Good" performed by Nina Simone Jonathan Chisolm Dot Com Uproar Coaching This Was a Thing with Ray Hebel and Robert W. Schneider Featured Songs: "Feeling Good" performed by Gilbert Price from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd   - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1965) • "What Kind of Fool Am I?" performed by Anthony Newle...

Actor Ben Schrager is here for a show that has a very special place in his life. Topics include: the generosity of Billy Finn, teenage A New Brain , the Mary Testa-of-it-all, the Chip Zien-of-it-all, autobiography, and some really lousy days in the Universe. Ben Schrager Dot Com Featured recordings: A New Brain - Original Cast Recording (1998) • Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Jo...

Good old fashioned intermission about movie musicals and the perpetually coming Follies . Featured Songs: "Losing My Mind" performed by Charity Angél Dawson & Joshua Hinck from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020) • "Losing My Mind" from A Perfect Little Death - Eleri Ward (2021) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Ca...

Singer/songwriter/actress and genius behind Indie-Folk Sondheim Eleri Ward is here for a musical about self-expression (and indie-folk Sondheim). Topics include: songs for boys, escalators v. elevators, songs about things, what and how you share yourself, how you see yourself when you're writing as yourself, and Lil Nas X. Eleri Ward Dot Com Indie-Folk Sondheim (formerly SUF/SOND) Featured recordi...

What is Love Actually? Spandex the Musical Homepage Featured Songs: "We Need a Little Christmas" from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1996) • "Twelve Days to Christmas" from She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! Thi...

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Flying V's newly minted Theatrical Artistic Lead is here for a musical that maybe no one should do any more? Topics include: bonding with your parents thru comedy, problematic plot points, meeting people where they are, and Marshall McLuhan. Kelly Colburn Dot Com Featured recordings: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) Monumental Theatre Co.'s Songs for a New World no...

Two musicals for your enjoyment! Spandex will debut on Musical Theatre Radio Sunday, August 8th at 1pm and continue for the next four Sundays through September 5th! Spandex the Musical Homepage 1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Opening Monumental Theatre Co.'s Songs for a New World now STREAMING! Songs for a New World /Monumental Theatre Co-Related Episodes • Megan Bunn / The Band's...

Director and Tudor-nerd Megan Behm is here for a musical of the moment that is more than it initially seems to some of us (by which I mean, me). Topics include: snootiness, history, and feminism. Megan Dash Behm Dot Com Featured recordings: Six - The Album (2018) Monumental Theatre Co.'s Songs for a New World now STREAMING! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our P...

. . . I mean, not really but I like lists. Featured Songs: "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square" performed by Steven Sutcliffe & Judy Kaye from Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • "Rich and Happy" from Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) • "Another Hundred People" performed by Pamela Myers from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • "We Do No...

Tony nominee and favorite of this podcast, Liz Callaway is here for the first show she saw on Broadway at 9, a decade before she'd appear on the same stage in a show by the same creative team. Topics include: the Mets, reunion concerts, auditioning for Sondheim without knowing it, demos, and luck. Liz Callaway Dot Com Featured recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • A Stephen Sondhei...

A short fantasia by Katya Stanislavskaya . Casey Erin Clark Kevin David Thomas Marissa Rosen & Marty Thomas Featured Songs: "The Miller's Son" performed by D. Jamin-Bartlett from A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) • "The Miller's Son" performed by Aili Venho from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will lo...

Actress and cabaret star Marissa Rosen comes by to talk about the show she saw dozens of times on Broadway. Dozens. Topics include: finding family at the stage door, support singers, sexy/sleazy, Marty Thomas, and going to Duane Reade in a full face and lashes. Marissa Rosen Dot Com Featured recordings: The Rocky Horror Show - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show...

Eleri Ward, Stephen Sondheim, Bill Finn, William Shakespeare. SUF/SOND Featured Songs: "Every Day a Little Death" & "Take Me to the World" from A Perfect Little Death - SUF/SOND (2021) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May's episode is the only non-musical scre...

Composer, lyricist, performer Billy Recce ( Little Black Book ) is here for an evening of Bill Finn and why he wrote a great musical about Heidi Fleiss. Topics include: Tom Lehrer, Wanda Houston, Bill Finn's vocal stylings, and three-dimensionalizing those whom society has two-dimensionalized. Billy Recce Dot Com Featured recordings: Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Joe's Pub (200...

Billy Porter Breaks a 14-Year Silence: "This Is What HIV-Positive Looks Like Now" from The Hollywood Reporter MisCast21! Hal Prince on The South Bank Show in 1978 Featured Songs: "In His Eyes" performed by Gavin Creel & Aaron Tveit from Jekyll & Hyde (1996) • "You and Me (But Mostly Me)" performed by Kelly Marie Tran from The Book of Mormon (2013) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM?...

Instagram's own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written. Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the "Follies" portion, and moving house with so many CDs. The Man in the Chair on Instagram Featured recordings: Follies - The Complete Record...

We've got voicemails and comments and clips and all you want. Ways to stream The Last of Sheila . Featured Songs: "Another Hundred People" from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • "Fanfare" from The Frogs / Evening Primrose - Stephen Sondheim (2001) • "Megamix: Take Me to the World: from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brit...