Executive Director of the LGBT Equality Caucus for the U.S. House of Representatives Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) and actor/director/person Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) ...
2018-05-27 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's bloody Brigadoon! Actor Emma Jackson is here with the greatest "how did this show come into your life?" answer yet.
Topics include: Delaware, Delawareans, Delaware theatre, people I know in Del...
2018-05-22 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrick and Beth talk about kids, kids producers, then producing, then kids again. It all makes sense.
2018-05-15 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Adventure Theatre MTC's Assistant Production Manager extraordinaire Brittany Truske is here for a good but tough musical. The 3rd in our Pulitzer Prize-winning musical series and the most controversia...
2018-05-08 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When one has a Shakespeare scholar as a guest, one talks about Shakespeare. Especially when the guest and one agree on so much about Shakespeare.
2018-05-01 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Playwright/actor/director/Shakespearean scholar Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha - London) and theatre historian...
2018-04-27 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
La-Ti-Do co-founder Don Mike Mendoza is back! This time we're talking about that most puzzling of musicals, the Sondheim/Rodgers/Laurents collaboration that ended all those friendships.
Topics inclu...
2018-04-24 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The final bit of my December 2016 conversation with Tony Award-winner Daisy Eagan is a nostalgic trip down problematic lane and a hopeful look forward.
2018-04-17 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor/teacher/maker/mama Tia Shearer Bassett is here to talk about the musical about the boat that sank, and Leo & Kate barely come up.
Topics include: Michael Cerveris, Brian D'Arcy James, and ...
2018-04-10 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Don Mike returns in 3 weeks to talk about Do I Hear a Waltz? but before he does, here's a snip from that conversation about Mean Girls which opens this week at the August Wilson.&nbs...
2018-04-03 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang from Decomposition Podcast is here to talk about another Kander & Ebb revival that outran it's original production.
2018-03-27 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Lee Liebeskind (Spring Awakening) and Liz Maestri (Les Misérables OLCR) join Patrick for a deep-dive into this . . . movie? Is it a movie? It certainly wants me to think it is.
2018-03-27 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor Holly Twyford talks about her musical debut as Desiree in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Signature. A daunting undertaking for which she is currently nominated for a Helen Hayes Award.
2018-03-20 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor Harrison Smith is here for one of the most important and difficult to listen to musicals ever.
Topics include: JRB, Prince, Uhry, Guettel, and the terrifying capacity of James Finley.&nb...
2018-03-13 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Logan Culwell-Block is back for this excised conversation about collaboration. Also Barbara Dickson. Also Logan didn't really think ASSASSINS came out in 1976. That was an auditory error.
2018-03-06 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Activist playwrights Natalie Ann Piegari (CATS) and Amanda Zeitler (STARMITES) come on down to talk about Disney's groundbreaking story about a woman who learns to love the man who kidnaps her after s...
2018-02-27 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Music director and pianist extraordinaire Elisa Rosman is here for two LPs about a single show that was two shows (really three shows) and is now one show but is still good enough for three shows.&nbs...
2018-02-27 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Three quick conversations excised from Danielle Mohlman's episode about Jesus Christ Superstar including an amazing surprise I'm so excited for you to hear omigod, you guys.
2018-02-20 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Playhouse Vaughn Irving is here with another Zeitler!
Topics include: drummers, grooves, and w...
2018-02-13 05:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm on Decomposition Podcast this week defending the honor of Tony Award-winner Billy Joel. This week's intermission is an excerpt from that appearance. The full episode is available over at 2018-02-06 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Playwright and teaching artist Thembi Duncan is here to talk about the film version of THE WIZ.
Topics include: Baby Thembi, Can Beyoncé act?, and white man Patrick asking racially sensitive questi...
2018-01-30 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Tracy Lynn Olivera (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) and Holly Twyford (Annie) are with us to talk about the inexplicably dark, weird, and awesome Willy Wonka and the Chocolate ...
2018-01-27 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jimmy and Patrick divert into the rich vein that is the major motion picture adaptation of RENT. Lord help us.
2018-01-24 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Pa...
2018-01-24 00:21:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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, Bla...
2018-01-24 00:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The next two episodes of this podcast will feature Lauren Halvorsen discussing both Andrew Lippa and Michael John La Chuisa's interpretations of The Wild Party.
So before we dig deep i...
Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy), Kenny Neal (2017-12-27 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The pilot for our special Patreon patrons-only podcast. The Original Cast at the Movies is a long-form movie musical discussion podcast. Our pilot episode features Kari Ginsb...
2017-12-26 08:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
All those little bits excised from Patrick and Emily's discussion of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET edited into one "coherent" conversation.
Topics include: the un-standable innocenc...
2017-12-19 08:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Four-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Holly Twyford is here to talk about one of the biggest hit musicals of all time.
Topics include: singing along in the audience, stars who own it, and what is the d...
2017-12-12 08:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post