It's a play this week! No singing, no music, just words. Good words. Tom Stoppard words. And a great guest: Chris Stinson.
Topics include: nihilism, love, Cynthia Nixon doing two Broadway plays at once, and how Jeremy Irons's character may have led to Brexit.
2020-03-03 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Brian DePalma's musical take on The Phantom of the Opera is more like Starlight Express than you might think. Kenny Neal (Starlight Express) and Joanna McKee are here to tell you how.
2020-02-27 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I give you this guitar but only if you solemnly promise never to bring it to a party without being asked.
2020-02-25 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jenna is a director in DC (she directed my adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit) and is also the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at Olney Theatre Center. And she's here for a big hit that we all love and, actually, is a lot more layered than you may think.
Topics include: tradition, love, Thestrals, and the importance of stage presence.
2020-02-18 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Is it possible to mathematically determine whether or not a Broadway show is a flop?
Yes, it is.
We did it.
Yay!
2020-02-11 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
James is many things to many people. He's a performer, director, publicity director at Signature Theatre in DC, and also the book writer for the musical Glory Days which ran on Broadway for one performance in 2008. And he's here to talk about all those things as well as the best show ever written that doesn't work.
Topics include: That Frank, book writing is hard, Glory Days (of course), and how what we lose in the fire we gain in the flood.
2020-02-04 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you know there were other kinds of music besides original cast recordings? Me neither.
Also, we talk about Cats.
2020-01-28 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Stephen Spotswood (Once More with Feeling) are here for the greatest movie musical ever. . . Or is it? #JusticeForLina
2020-01-27 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Playwright/actress Serena Berman has finally brought us the landmark "bookless" musical Hair.\
Topics include: free love, the Starbucks-itization of hippies, drugs, the power of revivals for a new generation, and the anxiety of having a good time.
2020-01-21 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A snippet from my conversation with composer/lyricist Adam Gwon (Scotland, PA, Ordinary Days) about the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of theatre.
2020-01-14 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a big one to kick off the year! Bryan Plofsky and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt of The Broadwaysted! Podcast (where they're drunk on theatre) are here for a big musical that two of us love and one of us also loves but not as much as the first two which is fine but not really because this is the best musical ever.
Topics include: anti-heroes, shows that hold you at arms-length, Fosse/Verdon, and the Mandy of it all.
2020-01-07 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a silly one to kick-off 2020. The title says it all. Well, not ALL. If it said it ALL then you wouldn't need the 9-minute episode, you'd just need the title.
2019-12-31 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This month it's just one guest because he's more than enough. The diva-whisperer Robbie Rozzelle (Mame) is here for this seminal documentary about a seminal musical made by seminal people in a seminal time in a seminal world and I am a seminal girl.
2019-12-27 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Still don't know whether or not to become a Patreon patron of The Original Cast? Well, you should. But if you're on the fence, here's Robbie Rozelle and I giving you a sample as we dissect the " Original Cast Album: Co-op" episode of Documentary Now!.
2019-12-26 05:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Saturnalia! So here's the pilot episode of a podcast Beth Amann and I created call What is Love Actually?!
What is Love Actually? Is it a simple romantic Christmas movie or is it a horrible mistake that actually killed the rom com? Well, that's what Beth Amann and Patrick Flynn are here to find out.
We're kicking it off with Solomon Parker III and Josh Simon, two millennials that have never seen Love Actually before. What will they think? What will they feel? How great were the cheese plates Beth made for the screening? You'll learn the answers to the first two questions during the episode and the third right now: they were amazing.
2019-12-24 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jay is a stand-up, actor, co-host of pReview'd, co-host of Broadway Baby and is here for this David Yazbek adaptation of the Academy Award-nominated film about working-class male strippers.
Topics include: overtures, Ithica graduates, hard moments in tech, and the hardest a stranger has ever seen Jay cry.
2019-12-17 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Saviez-vous qu’il existe de très nombreuses adaptations du roman de Gaston Leroux, Le Fantôme de l’opéra? Eh bien, il y en a. Et nous discutons de certains d'entre eux. (Toutes mes excuses à tous les auditeurs francophones.)
2019-12-10 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Kevin is the author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical (now in paperback!) and is here for the first "Fosse" musical.
Topics include: filming dance, grandmom Gwen Verdon, the Church-of-the-Month Club, and finding Fosse in Oklahoma in the '60s.
2019-12-03 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrick's children have a very important message for you.
http://bit.ly/originalcaststore
2019-11-29 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Heather C. Jackson (She Loves Me) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) are here for a movie that is one of Patrick's favorites but not one of their favorites. Oh no.
2019-11-27 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you know there were musicals based on comics (besides Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark)? Well, we explore them and their impact in this wonderful live show from Flying V Theatre's Awesome-a-Thon Vol. 3 24-hour fundraiser.
Featuring Chris Klimek's point of view and the heavenly voices of Kari Ginsburg, Don Mike Mendoza, and Anna Grace Nowalk with Heather Hurley on piano.
2019-11-26 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Have you seen Love Letters? You should see Love Letters. It's a play. And a perfectly cromulent one.
2019-11-19 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tony-nominated actor (Starmites) and director (Amazing Grace, Lippa's The Wild Party) Gabriel Barre is our first guest to be in the original Broadway cast of the show we're discussing, and you will soon see why. Rags famously ran for 4 performances on Broadway but nevertheless was nominated for 5 Tony awards and has survived through the years due to staunch advocation by its devoted fans and creators.
2019-11-12 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Courtney worked with Susan Stroman. So we talk about Susan Stroman. A lot! With that good Courtney/Patrick energy!
2019-11-05 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Composer/lyricist Adam Gwon is here for a western adaptation of Wagner's The Ring Cycle and to talk about his new musical Scotland, PA which is based on an early-aughts indy film that adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth into a story about competing burger joints in 1970's rural Pennsylvania.
What a sentence!
Topics include: finding your path, changing your path, living that new path, and making guacamole.
2019-10-29 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalist/radio personality Chris Klimek (It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!) and journalist/actress Rachel Manteuffel (Annie, maybe?) are here for Prince's first movie. But not his last. Maybe not even his first, who's to say? It's Purple Rain (1984)!
2019-10-27 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello, PATRONS. (Especially new patrons.)
This is just a quick message to let you know that I'm a little behind on my on-air Patron thank-yous. So if you're new and you haven't been thanked yet, don't worry, they're coming!
Thanks for your patronage!
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2019-10-23 16:40:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Did I ever tell you about the time I co-produced a production of Grease! and it turned out we didn't have the rights?
The The Simpsons episode I reference is "Jaws Wired Shut" (s13e09).
2019-10-22 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a Patrons-only sale on our new merchandise page from today through Sunday (10/20). Go to our store and get yourself some sweet, sweet totes, Tees, and whatnot before your friends even know you can!
2019-10-16 18:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post