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originally released: March 15, 2017
Actual grown-up Beth Amann channels her 13-year-old self and talks about the unstoppable force that is WICKED. Topics include Joel Grey, Norbert Leo Butz, and the immovable objects that are music theatre hipsters.
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WICKED - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod
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originally released: May 5, 2021
Two Guests for the price of one! Chris & Holly from the podcast Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical are here for a show they did at Edinburgh Fringe that bears more than a passing resemblance to said Stephen King musical.
CW: sexual assault.
Topics include: Holly as the lead, singing Wicked during Bat Boy, does Off-West End exist?, bags of wigs, and Carrie (of course).
Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical
Big Diva Energy Podcast
Featured recordings: Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) • Bat Boy - Original London Cast Recording (2004)
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!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966).
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part 1 originally released: January 10, 2018
Dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen is here for the first of our epic, two-part dive into both musical versions of THE WILD PARTY. Here we cover not only Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway take on Queenie, Burrs, Black, et al.; we also talk through Joseph Moncure March's novella-length poem upon which both musicals are based.
part 2 originally released: January 17, 2018
The thrilling conclusion to our deep-dive into THE WILD PARTY. We talk the La Chuisa/Wolfe Broadway version, Mandy Patinkin, the philosophy of adaptation, Mandy Patinkin, which we prefer, and Mandy Patinkin in . . . (not a joke, wish it was) blackface.
Poem excerpts read and recorded by Lee Liebeskind.
Featured recordings:
THE WILD PARTY - Original Cast Recording (2000)
THE WILD PARTY - A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000)
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY - Vol. 5: Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act! (1999)
PATREON!
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originally released: October 26, 2016
Amanda introduces Patrick to a show he had not only never heard but never heard of. After a thorough plot synopsis things get personal, then philosophical, then pedagogical, then philosophical again, then paleontological.
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STARMITES - Original Cast Members (1999)Featured websites:
Starmites Official Site
The Starmite Story
Sharon McNight Official Website
Gabriel Barre’s Official WebsiteTwitter.com/OriginalCastPod
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originally released: June 28, 2017
Helen Hayes Award-winner Doug Wilder brings us our third Zeitler! A tiny, dark comedy musical about a serial killer and a cop and the woman the cop loves and the mother of the serial killer and also the cop's mother.
Topics include: earnest love, montage theory, and DEATH TO SMOOCHY.
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NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY - Original Cast Recording (1997)Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod
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originally released: September 18, 2019
Actor and author Alexandra Silber is currently appearing as Fraulein Sally Bowles in Olney Theatre Center's production of Cabaret. But she's here this week to talk about this beautiful Lucy Simon/Marsha Norman musical and so much more. Really, we get deep.__Topics include: living with grief, communing with nature, and the glory of Rebecca Luker.
Buy Alexandra's memoir White Hot Grief Parade and her novel After Anatevka. Both titles are also available on Audible read by Al herself!
Featured recordings: The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)
Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? August's episode has Married super-cool duo Lee Liebeskind (Spring Awakening) and Megan Reichelt (The Scarlet Pimpernel) join Patrick and his super-cool ladywife Kelley to talk about The Muppet Movie (1979) the super-coolest movie of all time. Seriously, it's so good you guys.
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originally released: March 29, 2017
Sound designer Kenny Neal comes by to talk about what he describes as “nobody’s favorite musical.”
Topics include: “What?,” “Why?,” “Really?,” “He does?,” “They are?,” and “I don’t get it.”
Featured recordings:
STARLIGHT EXPRESS - The Original Cast Recording (1984)Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod
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originally released: June 10, 2020
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!
Featured Recording: La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983)
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Right now you can hear 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)!
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originally released: November 29, 2017
Playbill writer (now news editor) Logan Culwell-Block stops by ostensibly to talk about LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS but Patrick and he nerd out pretty fast. Topics include: How should a cast album be produced? Early versions of how Seymour killed the dentist. And why in the name of heavenly glory would you autotune Jerry Orbach?!?
Featured recordings:
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Original Cast Album (1982)
EXPERIMENT - Mandy Patinkin (1994)
COMPANY - Original Broadway Cast (1970)
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originally released: July 22, 2020 • updated intro: December 23, 2020
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 Song! All of the proceeds from the virtual benefit performance will go to supporting Prosetin, a promising new drug candidate for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It was in February when Broadway favorite Luker revealed that she had been diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). For more information about this treatment, visit Prosetin2020.org. If you would like to place a donation, click here: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/270277/#!/donation/checkout.
Featured Recordings: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991)
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DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month is the Judy Garland installment in our A Star is Born series with Roddy Flynn and Kari Ginsburg as we tackle all 4 Stars is Born films this year!
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originally released: June 17, 2020 • updated intro: April 9, 2021
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) • March of the Falsettos - Original Cast (1981) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990)
MERCH! T-shirts! Totes bags! BASEBALL SHIRTS! ETCETERA!
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Right now you can hear 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)!
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originally released: May 8, 2019
Composer/lyricist (and former subject of this podcast), Doug Cohen is here for the first-ever Sondheim tribute.
Topics include: cut songs, Ethel Merman, Sondheim's singing voice, the glorious Nancy Walker, and drowning your babies.
Featured recordings: Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973) • Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall - Stephen Sondheim (1992) • Random Access Memories - Daft Punk (2013)
Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? April's episode has perennial favorites Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) talking Yentl (1983), Barbara Streisand's epic story about a woman pretending to be a man so she can study the Talmud and sing alone in the woods with candles.
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originally released: June 30, 2021
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 Sondheim Evening - Whitney Museum of American Art Composers' Showcase (1983) • The Essential Liz Callaway - Liz Callaway (2015)
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!! This month it’s the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make.
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It's TONYS TIME!!
Patrick, Lauren Halvorsen (Nothing for the Group), and Robbie Rozelle (Center Stage Records) break down this incredibly overpacked Tony season.
Who will win? Who will lose? Who won't show up? Who wasn't invited? Which version of The Wild Party should've been on Broadway 24 years ago? We cover it all!
Patrick's magic 2024 Tonys YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ESY8dK6cXofKNoexpuGb5RsFG-caI57
ORIGINAL CAST MERCH!
Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris!
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Friend of the podcast, repeat guest, and genuine ray of sunshine Joanna McKee passed away today and I’m at a loss. Listen to her talk about the musical Anastasia and hear the joy in her heart.
originally released: March 25, 2020
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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, eating the rich, Gleb, disregarding history, and seriously what is up with Gleb?
Featured recordings: Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
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Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Kenny Neal (Starlight Express, et al.) and Joanna McKee (this episode) talking about a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera that has to be seen to be believed (and even then maybe not): Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
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originally released: October 3, 2018
Designer, record producer, performer, and talent-whisperer Robbie Rozelle is here to bring some joy into Patrick's life (he says).
Topics include: Jerry Herman's pros, Jerry Herman's cons, Jerry Herman's women, and the movie version of Mame which is just the worst.
Featured recordings:
Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966)
Mame - Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1974)
Have you checked out our PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? September's episode features Tia Shearer Bassett (Titanic) and James Finley (The Life) talking about that Disney musical experience: Newsies (1992)
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originally released: June 22, 2016
Roddy is the Executive Director for the U.S. House of Representative’s LGBT Caucus. He is also our first guest drawn “from the house” and Patrick’s brother. Roddy and Patrick gab about Angela Lansbury, intermissions, and the unbearable heaviness of this show’s plot.
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ANYONE CAN WHISTLE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964)Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod
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originally released: October 12, 2016
Actor and director Kari Ginsburg is here to talk about one woman’s fall from grace as she facilitates the rise of her daughter from the front of a cow to the greatest stripper in the history of the world.
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GYPSY - The Original Broadway Cast (1959)Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod
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originally released: April 21, 2021
NPR’s Glen Weldon is here for the musical that (according to him) made him gay.
Topics include: Herb Alpert (not the dirty one), Charles Emerson Winchester III, Doolittle as a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza’s agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important.
Glen Weldon’s Profile on NPR dot org
Playbill’s “The Definitive List of the 43 Best-Selling Cast Recordings of All Time” by Logan Culwell-Block
Featured recordings: My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) • Brigadoon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1947)
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!! This month’s episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).
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originally released: July 13, 2022
Emmy-winner and former The Daily Show head-writer Elliott Kalan is here for a musical running now about then but really about way back then which seems to have been lost now.
Topics include: losing on Jeopardy!, adding jokes by Larry David, ethical use of a resurrection machine, Frank Loesser, the House Committee on “Shipoopi,” Broadway sets of the 50s & 60s, and (of course) is Winthrop Marion’s son and does that matter?
Elliott Kalan on Twitter
The Flop House Podcast
The Who Was? Podcast
Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)
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Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we’re talking musical sequels and musical biopics!
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