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In this episode, hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
How he grew up in this industry
School of Rock
Working with Alex Brightman
Trevor on Disney+
Filming a new TV Show in Paris
Sing Street
Becoming an award nominated actor
Broadway Star Project
Actors Tool Kit
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Diego Lucano
Connect with Diego Lucano on Instagram: @diego_lucano
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Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Velkommen, bienvenue! Welcome to the Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club! That's right, we are bring the Kit Kat Club to you as we talk to the cast, creatives, and Broadway's biggest celebrities ahead of the opening night. Hear the behind the scenes inside scoop to a show like never before. From what it was like to bring a production from the UK to the US, reviving an iconic show in such an innovative way, completely redesigning a Broadway theatre and what it's been like to perform in the round, and so much more.
Hear from stars such as Eddie Redmayne, Ato Blankson-Wood, Henry Gottfried, Marty Lauter (Marcia, Marcia, Marcia), BERNADETTE PETERS, Harvey Fierstein, Julie Benko, Julia Lester, Tom Francis, Dylan Mulvaney and more.
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Join us for an extraordinary deep dive inside the most transformative decade on Broadway through gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Sunset Boulevard, Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers - shows that changed the history of the American theater. Host Michael Riedel, author of the best-selling book Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, has created a companion podcast featuring his never-before-heard, taped audio interviews with legendary artists from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Patti LuPone, and so many more.
Michael presents the drama behind the decade’s mega-hits and shocking flops, bringing readers into high-stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on.
Enjoy Singular Sensation: The Podcast everywhere you get your podcasts or use http://bpn.fm/singularsensation to listen and learn more, and be sure to get the book here: https://amzn.to/4cNdfO3.
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OUR WHITE WHALE GUEST! He's here! The only one person in the world who could be our guest for episode 200. Matthew Morrison. He has graced both the screen and stage for many years. He is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Tony Award nominee (among many other award nominations and wins). You know him for playing the role of Mr. Will Schuester in Glee. I know him as "my dad" in Finding Neverland, as host, Eli Tokash, reunites with "Mr. Barrie." Here, it's safe, in this place, above the clouds, that is episode 200!
Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
What took so long
How he grew up in this industry
The constant shifts
Finding Neverland
Mentorship roles
Earning your stripes
How he deals with the media
Glee
Directing while acting
How directing shaped his new process as an actor
Chicago in Japan
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Matthew Morrison
Connect with Matthew Morrison on Instagram: @matthewmorrison
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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After her rise to stardom on social media, Amber Ardolino is proving she has the talent to lead a Broadway Company in A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical. After appearing in the ensembles of Hamilton and Head Over Heels, she understudied Satine in Moulin Rouge where she showed her first glimpse of her triple threat abilities. She then continued to originate roles in Back To The Future and Funny Girl. Now, she's taking her, well deserved, solo bow on Broadway eight times a week in A Beautiful Noise. This episode has it all from vocal tips, bts of her iconic TikTok videos, advice, inside perspective of the industry at all the levels of a performer, and so much more.
Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
How she didn't listen to her teachers (thank god) who told her she wouldn't make it
Making her Broadway Debut
Hamilton Shoulder
Bouncing from show to show
The difference between originating and replacing a role
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE
A Beautiful Noise special bows
The process of her "Show Announcement Videos"
Red Flags
Vocal Tips
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Amber Ardolino
Connect with Amber Ardolino on Instagram: @ambernicoleardolino
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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After her Breakout performance on Broadway by originating the role of Katherine Howard in SIX: The Musical, Samantha Pauly comes to Take A Bow a day before she returns to Broadway at the Broadway Theater in the Great Gatsby. Sam chats with us right before heading to a call time for tech in her opening week of her first show in a brand new musical. This episode has it all from meaningful friendships, fandom, advice, knowledge, and so much more.
Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
How theatre chose her
Audition process of Gatsby
How she heard she got the role (it was by accident)
Returning to Broadway in Great Gatsby
Pre-Broadway run at PaperMill Playhouse
Journey to creating Jordan Baker
How her songs have been cut, re-added, changed, etc. from the show.
Sharing a stage with Jeremy Jordan and Evan Noblezada
Falling in love with Noah J. Ricketts
+ So much more! (including a psa from our host about their school, PPAS)
Curtain up, Sam Pauly
Connect with Sam Pauly on Instagram: @sampauly
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
Growing up auditioning
Touring with Dear Evan Hansen
Having their Broadway moment
Adjusting to eight shows a week
What working with Ben Platt, Jordan Fisher, etc. taught him
Voice Over/Commercial acting
TikTok
Sephora Musical
Advice for performers to gain exposure and allow social media to help you
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Jared Goldsmith
Connect with Jared Goldsmith on Instagram: @jaredbgoldsmith
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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EMMY Award Winner and Broadway star, Mia Sinclair Jenness joins us to Take A Bow and bares all about her journey through growing up in the Entertainment industry. This episode has it all from education, memories, advice, and tons of laughs. From open call to the EMMYs, to reminiscing of growing up on Broadway.
Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
Growing up on Broadway
Normalcy of a Broadway Kid
Sharing stories of her time growing up with Gaten Matarazzo and Joshua Colley
Appropriate on Broadway
Understudying Elle Fanning
Grey House
Les Miz
Broadway Park
Voice Over acting
Meeting celebrities who watch her perform
Matilda
+ So much more! (including a psa from our host about their school, PPAS)
Curtain up, Mia Sinclair Jenness
Connect with Mia Sinclair Jenness on Instagram: @miasinclairjenness
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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GRAMMY Award winner and Broadway star, Adrianna Hicks joins us to Take A Bow for her work in the entertainment industry. Adrianna has a wealth of knowledge from performing around the WORLD. From Germany to Austria, touring the United Stated to Broadway. She's done it all while performing in at least one of your favorite shows! Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
Why being an adventurer can help you as a performer
Aladdin, Sister Act, Dirty Dancing, Legally Blonde and more!
THE COLOR PURPLE
Influences of other performers as a young actor
What performing with Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Holliday, and Heather Headley taught her
Going out on tour
SIX
Living out her Beyonce dreams on a Broadway Stage
What changes were made from London to Broadway
SOME LIKE IT HOT
The GRAMMYs
Becoming a GRAMMY winner
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Adrianna Hicks
Connect with Adrianna Hicks on Instagram: @missadriannahicks
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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The new STARS of Hadestown come to Take A Bow chatting all things HADESTOWN! This episode features the different perspectives of performers in different stage of their career with different relationships with the show. Hear all about how the show began with Ani, to Lola making her debut in this GIANT show fresh off of a hit tv show, to Jordan Fisher cherishing the moment in his life he gets to tell this story.
Ani Di Franco
How HADESTOWN was made
Hadestown as a concept album
Why she decided to make her Broadway debut
Finding the balance of Persephone
Lola Tung
The Summer I Turned Pretty
On set vs on Broadway
Surprising people by showcasing her singing talents
Learning from Jordan Fisher and previous Eurydice such as Solea Pfeiffer and Eva Noblezada
Jordan Fisher
Becoming a Broadway Veteran
What he has learned from playing Orpheus
How he approaches a role
THE GASP
How he relates to all of the characters he's played on Broadway
Fan-girling over the MUSIC
+ So much more from each of them!
Curtain up on Jordan Fisher, Lola Tung, and Ani DiFranco!
Connect with Jordan Fisher on Instagram: @jordanfisher
Connect with Lola Tung on Instagram: @lola.tung
Connect with Ani DiFranco on Instagram: @anidifranco
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Broadway and Tv actor and writer, Nik Walker joins us to Take A Bow for his work in the entertainment industry. Nik is a true student of the art and takes you through his philosophies and ideologies of how to approach text as an actor. Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
What excites him most as an actor
Why are stakes important
How can being an actor, a writer, and a director all at the same time impact your work
How taxing a role can be and how to take care of yourself
Hamilton
Hardest part of performing HAMILTON
Spamalot
Sharing a stage with your best friends (Alex Brightman, Christopher Fitzgerald, Ethan Slater, Leslie Kritzer, James Monroe Iglehart, etc.)
How Motown influenced Broadway
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Nik Walker
Connect with Nik Walker on Instagram: @nikkywalks
Bio: Nik Walker is a Boston native, theme park nerd and proud NYU Tisch alum (Adler, Classical and Stonestreet)- who’s been earning a living in the industry for a decade and counting. He’s been seen on Broadway as Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Otis Williams in Ain’t Too Proud, and as Sir Galahad in the revival of Spamalot; on screen in Blue Bloods, Law and Order SVU, and in the upcoming AppleTV+ film The Instigators, alongside his hometown hero Matt Damon. Cleaners, the animated series that he created and writes with partner Alex Brightman, is in development at Warner Bros. Animation, and his musical, Whiskeyland, is being developed with veteran producers Hunter Arnold and Tina Cocumelli at TBD Theatricals. He is the co-host of the arts/activism show The Chaos Twins, and his movie podcast, Little Justice, is streaming where ever podcasts are imbibed. In the free time between all of this, Nik can either be found writing plays at a coffee shop, teaching incredible NYU students, or annoying his talented wife, Sarah Joyce.
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Mahi Alam is a rising star of the screen who you may know him from Disney +’s American Born Chinese and the new hit movie musical Mean Girls where he plays your favorite character, KEVIN G. Mahi has also appeared in many of your other favorite tv shows such as New Amsterdam, Strangers, and Hungry. Mahi also has an incredible singing voice that he showcases on Tiktok/Instragram. Maybe we'll see him on Broadway one day?
Journey to the big screen
Performing Arts School training
Growing up together
On Set stories
American Born Chinese
Mean Girls Movie
Improvising for Tina Fey
Studying music at NYU
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Mahi Alam
Connect with Mahi Alam on Instagram: @mahialam03
Connect with Sydney Lucas on Instagram: @sydneylucasnyc
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Joining us this week is another back bone of Broadway who is making his Broadway Debut in the OBC of HARMONY. He is carrying the show as he covers 8 different tracks, while also taking on a 9th role as the Social Media Captain.
Journey to Broadway
Touring the world with Bandstand
How he became associated with Harmony
A CRAZY audition story for his first audition with Harmony
Backstage stories with Julie Benko, Sierra Boggess, and Chip Zien!
Broadway newest role "Social Media Captain" (WHAT?!)
How social media has impacted his career/can be a career on Broadway
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Matthew Mucha
Connect with Matthew Mucha on Instagram: @matthewmucha
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Joining us this week is a social media singing star who is currently making his Broadway Debut in the OBC of Kimberly Akimbo. Jim Hogan's journey through the industry is nothing sort of incredible and almost "new-age" like with the rising influence of social media.
Journey to Broadway
Touring the world with Waitress, Spring Awakening, and more.
Going back to school to learn
Creating T.3 group
From singing in subway stations in Philly to performing on AGT, Broadway, and more
Broadway Debut in Kimberly Akimbo
Favorite backstage shenanigans
TONY Award Night
How social media has impacted his career
Tips on using social media (tik tok, instagram, etc.) to share your talents with the world
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Jim Hogan
Connect with Jim Hogan on Instagram: @jimhogan220
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Starting 2024 off right, with the most requested guest in Take A Bow history. The OG Peter Llewlyn Davies comes to Take A Bow.
Journey to Broadway
Mary Poppins
Disney Magic
Booking a Broadway show under the condition of getting voice lessons
Finding Neverland
Creating a show from paper.
Telling Stories you care about
Naomi on CW/ working with Ava DuVernay
On set vs Theatre skillsets
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Aidan Gemme
Connect with Aidan Gemme on Instagram: @a.gemme
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Eli shares his season review and which shows he's most excited about for the upcoming calendar year!
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The future of Broadway in one episode? Yes, please! In this episode, hear all about
Journey to directing
Youth in the industry
Rent
Sunset Boulevard
How directors get attached to a show
An iconic meeting with Stephanie J. Block
What exactly a director does? (Spoiler alert: EVERYTHING!)
How to Dance in Ohio
Making Broadway more accessible for all
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Sammi Cannold
Connect with Sammi Cannold on Instagram: @sammi.cannold
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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In this episode, hear all about:
Waitress
Working the Creative Team compromised with Diane Paulus and Sara Bareilles leading the way
Sara as a scene partner
Filming Waitress live on Broadway
Working as a young performer and "re-meeting" people you performed with on Broadway
Peter Pan Live!
Parade at New York City Center
Girl from the North Country
Establishing chemistry and navigating a scene with scene partners
+ So much more...
Curtain up, Caitlin Houlahan
Connect with Caitlin Houlahan on Instagram: @caithoula
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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