Joanna McKee (Anastasia) and Chris Klimek (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) are here (or is it the other way ‘round) for the only screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned. A murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.
2021-05-27 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Now: You are THERE! Joanna McKee (Anastasia) and Chris Klimek (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) are here (or is it the other way ‘round) for the only screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned. A murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.
2021-05-27 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hal Prince, Billy Porter, and mis-castings.
2021-05-25 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Now, you ARE there!! Instagram’s own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written.
Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the “Follies” portion, and moving house with so many CDs.
2021-05-19 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Instagram’s own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written.
Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the “Follies” portion, and moving house with so many CDs.
2021-05-18 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve got voicemails and comments and clips and all you want.
Ways to stream The Last of Sheila.
2021-05-11 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Now: You are There!! 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).
2021-05-05 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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).
2021-05-04 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) have come for the great, lost Sondheim mini-musical that maybe isn’t that great . . . or lost . . . but it is short!
2021-04-27 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A voicemail on Forum and vaccine stuff.
2021-04-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Now: you are there! Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) have come for the great, lost Sondheim mini-musical that maybe isn’t that great . . . or lost . . . but it is short!
2021-04-27 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza’s agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important.
2021-04-20 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been a week, but we’re focusing on the positive. Like She is Risen, Vol. II and “Pop Corn!”
2021-04-13 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve just learned that amazing friend of the podcast and past guest Amy Oestreicher has passed. Please relisten to her interview about In Trousers and enjoy her beautiful spirit and boundless energy.
Playwright Danielle Mohlman is back for a discussion about Adam Guettel, Brett Kavanaugh, and why what we say matters.
Topics include: why we can’t separate the art from the artist, how we wrestle with loving things made by less-than-lovable people, self-care, accountability, and a little bit of Floyd Collins.
2021-04-06 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Now you are there!! Playwright Danielle Mohlman is back for a discussion about Adam Guettel, Brett Kavanaugh, and why what we say matters.
Topics include: why we can’t separate the art from the artist, how we wrestle with loving things made by less-than-lovable people, self-care, accountability, and a little bit of Floyd Collins.
2021-04-03 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostA dip back into the archives with Evan Casey and some Miss Saigon talk from the early days.
2021-03-30 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha - 1968) join Patrick for a .... comedy? We think. The song says it is. And there are jokes. But then why do we feel so icky?
2021-03-27 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
3/28/21 - 10:40AM - Should be working now. Please let me know if it isn't.
Now you are there! James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha - 1968) join Patrick for a .... comedy? We think. The song says it is. And there are jokes. But then why do we feel so icky?
2021-03-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Broadway vet and cabaret mainstay Marty Thomas is here for a show he first saw on Broadway when he was 11 and thought everyone was just really good friends at Dreamland in Saigon.
Topics include: How one pronounces “Alain Boublil;” Double-tape deck stereos; Branson, MO; changed lyrics; And why cast Jonathan Pryce in the first place?
2021-03-23 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Exciting news if you are a Mezzanine or Orchestra patron!
2021-03-21 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
D.C.’s theatre’s favorite son is here for our first live cast recording from a show that couldn’t be recorded any other way.
Topics include: film composers, meeting Ann Duquesnay at the buffet, Planet of the Apes, one-note cues, Terence Blanchard, Michael Camen, Frank’s first solo show, and Frank’s second solo show.
2021-03-09 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A one-man show/documentary, a voice memo, and something you should all be reading this week.
2021-03-02 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kenny Neal (Starlight Express) and Bryan Plofsky (Suessical!) join Patrick for what is certainly the most Academy Award-winning film in the Sondheim filmography: 10 Oscars, including “Best Picture” and “Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture” shared by 4 people (none of whom are named Bernstein or Sondheim).
2021-02-27 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jordan is the founding artistic director of 4615 Theatre Company and is here to talk about the Elton John musical with a script by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry that is based on a movie directed by Stephen Daldry with a script by Lee Hall.
Topics include: lesser-known Elton John works, Sugar Bear, hats on hats, Billy Joel (Jordan brings him up), and Lestat.
2021-02-23 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
TL;DR: Go buy Broadway Soul, Vol. 2
2021-02-16 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Emily is the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities at Penn Libraries, as well as Web Manager for Contingent Magazine and the Director of Communications for the National Emerging Museum Professionals Network. So, naturally, we’re talking about Newsies!
Topics Include: does anyone like Dear Evan Hansen?, what Broadway looks like, Octet, sounds made while dancing, and when it’s okay to be snobbish.
2021-02-09 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A sexually explicit Godspell-esque musical next to Averno’s latest side-by-side by Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures.
2021-02-02 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Tara & Stefania from the Off2Broadway podcast are here for James Lapine’s documentary about the life of Stephen Joshua Sondheim with a shaky framing device.
2021-01-27 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post