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Stefania Lounsbury / Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009)
Straight back into Toronto and the Off2Broadway podcast, it’s Stefania Lounsbury taking 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 ha...
Tara Stanton / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
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.
Douglas Carter Beane / Babes in Arms - 1999 New York Cast Recording (1999)
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 ...
The Original Cast at the Movies 31: Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Robbie Rozelle (Mame, et al.) and Robert W. Schneider (La Cage Aux Folles) are here for a wild one. Where to begin? Valerie Perrine? Steve Guttenberg? THE VILLAGE PEOPLE? BABY JUNE??? Anyway, it was funnier in Angels in America.
Rebecca Luker / Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979)
Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a 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 you life, and of course we talk about The Secret Garden...
Christopher Gattelli / Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984)
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 ᗅᗺ...
Carly Ciarrocchi / Godspell - A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1971)
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 yours...
Tori Boutin / Hadestown - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2019)
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 wing this song, Amber Gray, Andre DeShields, and Amber Gray.
Sales Tax Announcement
Hi everyone,I wanted to give you an update on some changes that we’ll be seeing which may affect some of your pledges. Due to new laws passing in several countries and US states, Patreon will be required to start charging sales tax on some pledges starting July 1st.Less than half of all patrons wi...
The Original Cast at the Movies 30: A Star is Born (1954)
Roddy Flynn & Kari Ginsburg are back for the second A Star is Born which means Judy! Judy! Judy!! JUDY!!!!!
Kevin David Thomas / Violet - A New Musical (1997)
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...
Amy Oestreicher / In Trousers - Original Cast (1979)
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 wh...
Robert W. Schneider / La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983)
Director/podcaster Robert W. Schneider is here for a musical whose legacy may be unfairly besmirched by an infamous Tony speech.Topics Include: George Hearn, staging the overture, cutting the entr’acte, and maybe revoking Rob’s gay card live on the air!
Blackout
Hello, beautiful people.This week, I will be joining the music and dance industry by observing#BlackoutTuesdaytomorrow. I would encourage you all to take the time to listen to the many Black voices out there that are sometimes literally dying to be heard.There will also be no new episode this Wednes...
The Original Cast at the Movies 29: This is Spin̈al Tap (1984)
Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk about the best mockumentary ever made This is Spin̈al Tap (1984)! Also the nature of fame, the paradox of stardom, and a certain amount of jejune reflection on the very apex of childish manhood. And stuff.
Lara Paquette / Footloose - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)
Lara is the host of the podcast Stage Door Stories and has the best “how did this show come into your life?” story ever.Topics include: Jeremy Kushnier, Jeremy Kushnier rapping, Jeremy Kushnier sliding across the stage in a T-shirt while 15-year-old Lara watched from the 2nd row, the Kenny Loggi...
Jake Beckhard / Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988)
Jake is a director who brings his insightful theatrical mind to the best worst musical of all time that people either love to death or have no strong feelings about either way.Topics Include: Bobby Fischer, the agony of Freddie, the ecstasy of Judy Kuhn, and whether or not the plot of Chess is just ...
Star Johnson / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970)
Star is playwright/lyricist/director who brings to us a fun and funny conversation about a still-relevant turning point in the history of American musical theatre that is further from us historically than it is from Oklahoma!.Topics Include: gender-blind Bobbies, keeping the comedy in musical comedy...
Michael Innocenti / The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001)
Director/actor/lighting designer Michael Innocenti brings this (now) 19-year-old megahit to the podcast and asks "What am comedy?"Topics Include: Neil Simon, Catskills, the corner of Jewish and Catholic, and what is Mel Brooks's 2nd-worst film?
The Original Cast at the Movies 28: Lost Horizon (1973)
From the team that brought you Promises! Promises! comes a film with everything: Walking! Coats! Racist make-up! Gowns! Everything except plot, character development, stakes, and/or a consistent tone. Join Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry ...
Jonathan Howard / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - London Palladium Cast Recording (1991)
Johnny sings bass in The King's Singers and was almost literally born into this Lloyd Webber/Rice mainstay.Topics Include: finding oneself part of a six-man vocal ensemble, naming all the colours in Joseph's coat, jacks-of-all-trades/masters-of-none, and Tuffi the elephant who accidentally f...
Patrick Flynn / Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015)
Guest host Kari Ginsburg talks to usual host Patrick Flynn about his rebirth as a music theatre devotee and what he thought the podcast would be versus what it is.Topics Include: the Queen, Judy Kuhn, long may she reign; oddball Juan Peróns; crying and crying; the eternal struggle of the cast album...
Tracy Lynn Olivera / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967) *Flashback*
Next Wednesday will be our 100th guest! So before that, let's look all the way back to March 2016 and our very first guest: Tracy Lynn Olivera! Which, synergistically, also happens to be the same show our 99th guest chose (though a different recording)!Topics include: off-Broadway basement shows...
Clare Carys O'Connell / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Broadway Musical (1999)
Clare has appeared in some of the top theatres in DC and Baltimore. Which wouldn't be so remarkable except for the fact that she's nine-years-old!Topics Include: auditioning, forgetting to breathe, pretending to drive a car, and loving what you're doing.
The Original Cast at the Movies 27: A Star is Born (1937)
This year, Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, TONYS!!!!, et al.), Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, TONYS!!!!, et al.) and I are going to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be!
Joanna McKee / Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor respects the emotional implications of said facts. But, y'know, royalty!Topics include: Frozen 2, Gleb, Starlight Express, Gleb, eat the rich, ...
Sondheim90!
Hello, patrons of the Original Cast!In celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday on Sunday, I'm releasing a special episode full of friends and fans telling us what their favorite Sondheim song is. If you're so inclined, please send an email to originalcastpod@gmail.com with an aud...
Alexandra Petri / Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960)
Columnist, playwright, and the mind behind @KyloR3n is here for one of the most capital-M Musicals ever to grace the Broadway.Topics include: unintentional weird, songs and book and when they don't meet, the unbearable heaviness of Alan Jay Lerner, and a 70-year-old musical that slaps.
Distantly Social 1: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt & Jay Schmidt
I'm going to try and release 7 episodes a week during this time of social distancing where I talk to people in the theatre about what they're seeing and how they're doing.First up: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk from uptown Manhatt...
Intermission: Movies Made Musical (w/ Jay Schmidt)
People make movies and then musicals of those movies and some are not great. But some are transcendently good.
