The Original Cast

Director/theatre artist Meg Bunn is here for a show that revitalized her theatre exhaustion. Topics Include: the glory of low stakes, the luscious voice of Katrina Lenk, the beauty of simplicity, and it's just a good show. good to see you Podcast Playbill 's "The 17 Most Tony Award-Winning Works of All Time" by Logan Culwell-Block Subscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!! Fea...

Drinking White Russians and holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting. Averno Township Dot Com Buy Willow ! Subscribe to The Neighborhood Listen Subscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!! Featured Songs: "Sweet Willow" and "How to Let Go" from Willow - A New Musical (2020) • "Feelings" from The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) • "Blue Rondo a la Turk" from T...

Ted is President of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, co-founder of Encores!, and many other things. But his biggest claim to fame came while he was in college and got a job as a gopher on the original Broadway production of Follies . He wrote a book about it. It's a great book. You should buy Ted's book. Buy Ted's book about Follies : Everything Was Possible . Topics Include: making a music...

Filmmaker Jeremy O'Keefe is with us this week to talk about a musical that I disparaged on the show 2 weeks ago. So that's karma for you. Topics Include: Wilmington, Delaware, being afraid of growing up at 16, Tony Randall, sleeping on the sidewalk for Rent tickets, and Big 2 which is my idea and you can't steal it and Jeremy has first look so don't even ask. Follow Jeremy on Instagram! Featured R...

We're talking about the new musical Einstein's Dreams and your reaction to the episode on 1776 . Featured Songs: "Einstein's Dreams" sung by Alexandra Silber and "High-Speed Motion" sung by Talia Cosentino and the Ensemble from Einstein's Dreams - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2019) Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA!...

From the Buried Broadway podcast, actor Mikey Bevarelli is here for a musical by an Aussie based on an American movie by an Aussie based on an American movie. Topics Include: audience expectations, Andy Karl, big Broadway scores, the little things, Let My People Come , and Ned Ryerson. Bevarelli Dot Com Featured Recordings: Groundhog Day - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) •  Let My People C...

I'm away this week so here's some an excised portion from my conversation with Serena Berman about Hair . Mainly deleted because I talk a lot. I had a lot to say about Hair . Serena Berman dot com Featured Song: "Going Down" from Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968) Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIK...

Journalist Theresa J. Beckhusen is here for a musical adaptation of a half-heard history lesson retold through the lens of "everything's fine!" Topics Include: not-so-bad-for-1969, Thomas Jefferson's views on enslavement, how dumb "The Egg" is, Mr. Feeny, Vietnam, and one song that is actually more relevant now than it even was then. Theresa J. Beckhusen Dot Wordpress Dot Com Featured Recordings:...

Two big musical discoveries made recently but I'm saving one so here's the other! Featured Songs: "I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way" and "Maggie Flynn" from Maggie Flynn - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968), music and lyrics by Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore & George David Weiss Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO...

Performer-singer-mentor and Helen Hayes Award-winning writer Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is here for a Tony-winning revue of 30s music staged in the 80s but that lives forever. Topics Include: songs about weed, Billy Porter, Nell Carter, the black experience through white eyes, art that shouldn't survive, and the good reasons why Lady Dane does not like Hamilton . Lady Dane FE dot com Featured Record...

Intermissions are back! But in a slightly different format! Exclamation! I hate Grease! ! Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! Listen to Patrick on the Off2Broadway Podcast this week! Register to watch Patrick's segment of the Helen Hayes Awards Thursday, September 3 - 8:00pm . Featured Songs: "Summer Nights" from Grease! - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972) • "An Element of M...

Music theatre writer Michael Finke is here for Bill Finn's song cycle about death. . . It's not as much of a bummer as it may sound. Topics Include: Hell's Kitchen, Joe Papp, Jack Eric Williams, 14 Dwight Ave (Natick, MA), how anything can be a musical, and Michael's forthcoming album! Michael Finke Music Dot Com Featured Recordings: Elegies - A Song Cycle (2003) • Songs from Inside My Locker - Ro...

Strathmore artist-in-residence singer/songwriter Christian Douglas is here for a musical by another singer/songwriter. Christian's written and recorded an album during our time inside and just got out of the Army. Those things are connected but they're both interesting and true. Topics Include: the Jessie Mueller of it all, Sara v. Ms. Bareilles, life in the singing Army, and stories about ordinar...

Straight back into Toronto and the Off2Broadway podcast, it's Stefania Lounsbury taking us back to the Goodman household and all contained therein. Topics Include: Alice Ripley's eyes, the over-analysis of musical theatre, Pretty Woman , Superboy, the Invisible Girl, and does Billy Elliot actually have a tragic ending? Featured Recordings:  Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)...

Straight outta Toronto and the Off2Broadway podcast, it's Tara Stanton taking us back to Oz not once, not twice, but SEVEN TIMES! Topics Include: Hamilton , projections, the magic, the joy, the love, and living a 2-show life. Featured Recordings: Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON  ...

Five-time Tony Award-nominee Douglas Carter Beane brings us an overlooked Rodgers & Hart classic. Topics Include: putting on shows in barns, woke for 1939, a more talented but more annoying version of Shirley Temple, aircraft on stage pre- Miss Saigon , and how Hollywood turned Lorenz Hart from gay to short for the biopic. Featured Recordings: Babes in Arms - 1999 New York Cast Recording (1999) ME...

Thinking about becoming a patron of The Original Cast but don't know if it's worth it? Well, check out this sample of The Original Cast at the Movies which you get on the 27th of every month with your patronage as Patrick, Robbie Rozelle, and Robert W. Schneider talk about the Village People's 1980 musical biopic(?) Can't Stop the Music . http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod

Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a walk through her career and the show Sheldon Harnick calls our "greatest American opera." Topics Include: getting an agent out of town, auditioning for Hal Prince, balancing your work and your life, and of course we talk about The Secret Garden and I play "How Could I Ever Know" are you kidding? Watch At Home with Rebecca Luker: An Evening of Son...

Tony-winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli ( Newsies , SpongeBob SquarePants , Altar Boyz , The King and I , High Fidelity , et al.) brings our third dive into a show that you either love deeply or have no strong opinion on either way. Topics Include: harrowing at the start, Pouncival, hidden ᗅᗺᗷᗅ references, and what Channing Tatum did not sign up for. Featured Recordings: Chess - Benny Ande...

Children's TV host Carly Ciarrocchi is here for a wonderful conversation about how one show can set your whole world in motion. Topics Include: discount Disney DJ for bar mitzvahs, working together, finding what you're good at, live children's TV, and getting rejected in a letter you sent yourself. Featured Recordings: Godspell - A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1971) MERCH!...

Actor/performer/writer Tori Bouton is here for the last year's Tony Award-winner for Best Musical. Topics Include: Amber Gray, tragic endings, Amber Gray, why we sing this song, Amber Gray, Andre DeShields, and Amber Gray. Featured Recordings: Hadestown - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • Hadestown - Live Original Cast Album (2017) MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA! DO...

Best friend of the show Robbie Rozelle has a new live album out called Songs from Inside My Locker and you should buy it and here's why . . . Listen to Songs from Inside My Locker now! Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: "In Hell's Kitchen" performed by Robbie Rozelle from his new album Songs from Inside My Locker (2020, Broadway Records), music and lyrics b...

Actor/music director/podcaster Kevin David Thomas is here for a musical that takes you there and back. On a bus. Topics Include: Jekyll & Hyde , Lauren Ward over Sutton Foster, M&M's, why we do what we do, and Kevin & Patrick try to get Jeanine Tesori on their respective podcasts through fawning and begging. Featured Recordings: Violet - A New Musical (1997) • Violet - Original Broadway Cast Recor...

At Home with Rebecca Luker TONIGHT 8:00pm Eastern Hosted by Tony-winner Santino Fontana and featuring an interview with Rebecca Luker by Katie Couric. https://fundraise.projectals.org/campaign/at-home-with-rebecca-luker/c287372 All proceeds benefit Prosetin, the first-ever ALS drug candidate developed using cells from ALS patients. MUSIC: "Come to My Garden / Lift Me Up" performed by Rebecca Luker...

Writer/performer/amazing human Amy Oestreicher comes to us with us to complete the Falsettos trilogy (by going back to Part 1). Topics Include: Bill Finn calling on the phone, convincing teachers to let you do your own version of the assignment, tap dancing so hard you need surgery, and another in what is booming a series of scrapbooks! Featured Recordings: In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) • Mar...