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Alexandra Ley / tick, tick... BOOM! - Original Cast Recording (2001)
Alex is a dramaturg, writer, and arts administrator in the Washington, D.C. area and she’s here for Jonathan Larson’s musical bout turning 30 in 1990 that she discovered when she was 14 after having not been alive in 1990.Topics Include: Cats (but just for a second), unfair comparisons to Rent, ...
Intermission: The Game Done Changed (Maybe)
Was Ratatouille a watershed?
Emily Clark / A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973)
Music theatre historian and YouTube educator par-excellence, Emily Clark is here for a show so fine! In three-quarter time!Topics Include: Cats, Frid, Hermione Gingold, Cats, the never-endingness of “Liaisons,” Disco Sondheim, Bob Fosse’s The Phantom of the Opera, and Cats. We talk more about ...
Intermission: Ratatouille (The TikTok Musical)
Ratticle songs for radical rats.
Live at La-Ti-Do!
Recorded in front of a live (at home on their computers) audience!
The Original Cast at the Movies 36: A Star is Born (2018)
From Janet to Judy to Barbra to Gaga! We made it!!
Intermission: Misc. Sondheim (w/ James Gardiner)
A meandering journey from Assassins to The Frogs to Bounce and back again.
Jen Bevarelli / They're Playing Our Song - The Original Cast Recording (1979)
Actor/podcaster Jen Bevarelli is here for the semi-autobiographical music about not-Marvin Hamlisch and not-Carole Bayer Sager with a book by actually Neil Simon.
Intermission: DisinHAIRited (w/ Serena Berman)
A voice memo about Amy Adams and a DISCOVERY!
Morgan Smith / Heathers - World Premiere Recording (2014)
Creative force of nature Morgan Smith (Averno Township) is here to talk about two of Patrick’s favorite topics: Heathers and the state of theatre in America.Topics Include: why there is no theatre for teens, Beetlejuice, high school pressure then & now, and founding a multi-media empire in your 20...
The Original Cast at the Movies 35: Enchanted (2007)
It’s the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name! With Beth Amann (Wicked) and Megan Bunn (The Band’s Visit).
Intermission: Andrew Lloyd Webber Doing the Washing in His Kitchen
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.
Megan Bunn / The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
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 winning 10 Tonys while still feeling underground.
Intermission: Willow & Averno & Burnt & Joan
Drinking White Russians and holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting.Averno Township Dot ComBuy Willow!Subscribe to The Neighborhood ListenSubscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!!
Ted Chapin / The Rothschilds - Original Cast Recording (1970)
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 bu...
The Original Cast at the Movies 34: The Apple (1980)
Mary Myers (Songs for a New World) and Chris Stinson (The Real Thing) are here for a dystopian musical about the dark future of 1994 made in 1980. Anything else I type here would make it make less sense.
Intermission: Time Out
Keepin’ it calm in late 2020.Subscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!!Brubeck playlist on YouTubeBrubeck playlist on SpotifyBuy Stephen Spotswood’s new novel Fortune Favors the Dead
Jeremy O'Keefe / Big - Original Cast Recording (1996)
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...
Intermission: Einstein’s Dreams of Al Silber
We’re talking about the new musical Einstein’s Dreams and your reaction to the episode on 1776.
Mikey Bevarelli / Groundhog Day - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
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.
Intermission: Hair Trimmings (w/ Serena Berman)
I’m away this week so here’s some an excited 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
The Original Cast at the Movies 33: A Star is Born (1976)
Barbra!Fatigue is setting in.Barbra!!Will we make it?Barbra!!!This one really threw us.BARBRA!!!!
Theresa J. Beckhusen / 1776 - Original Broadway Cast (1969)
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 act...
Intermission: Musicals Named After My Kids Decades Before They Were Born
Two big musical discoveries made recently but I’m saving one so here’s the other!
Dane Figueroa Edidi / Ain't Misbehavin' - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1978)
Performer-writer-singer-mentor 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 ...
Intermission: Summer Lovin', Had Me a Blast
Intermissions are back! But in a slightly different format! Exclamation! I hate Grease!!
The Original Cast at the Movies 32: Anastasia (1997)
Casey Erin Clark (Little Women) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You) join us for a movie that is really two movies: the first is a historical fiction romance and the second is a horror comedy about a dead guy and his talking bat.
Michael Finke / Elegies - A Song Cycle (2003)
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!
Christian Douglas / Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016)
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: t...
