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, 8th grade, St----- S-------, and is Jon a good guy?
2021-01-26 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Was Ratatouille a watershed?
2021-01-19 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Cats than one might expect.
2021-01-12 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ratticle songs for radical rats.
2021-01-05 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded in front of a live (at home on their computers) audience!
2020-12-29 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
From Janet to Judy to Barbra to Gaga! We made it!!
2020-12-27 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A meandering journey from Assassins to The Frogs to Bounce and back again.
2020-12-22 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-12-15 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A voice memo about Amy Adams and a DISCOVERY!
2020-12-08 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 20s.
2020-12-01 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name! With Beth Amann (Wicked) and Megan Bunn (The Band’s Visit).
2020-11-27 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.
2020-11-24 05:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-11-17 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Drinking White Russians and holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting.
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2020-11-10 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 buy Ted’s book.
Topics Include: making a musical about banking, the break-up of Bock & Harnick, taking notes for Hal Prince, and caring for the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon.
2020-11-03 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-10-27 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Keepin’ it calm in late 2020.
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2020-10-27 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 you can't steal it and Jeremy has first look so don’t even ask.
2020-10-20 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re talking about the new musical Einstein’s Dreams and your reaction to the episode on 1776.
2020-10-13 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-10-06 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-09-29 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Barbra!
Fatigue is setting in.
Barbra!!
Will we make it?
Barbra!!!
This one really threw us.
BARBRA!!!!
2020-09-27 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 actually more relevant now than it even was then.
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2020-09-22 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Two big musical discoveries made recently but I’m saving one so here’s the other!
2020-09-15 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Lady Dane does not like Hamilton.
2020-09-08 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Intermissions are back! But in a slightly different format! Exclamation! I hate Grease!!
2020-09-01 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-08-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
2020-08-25 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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: the Jessie Mueller of it all, Sara v. Ms. Bareilles, life in the singing Army, and stories about ordinary people.
2020-08-18 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post