The Original Cast (Patrick Flynn)
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| 25 May 2016 | Eric Messner / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) | 00:51:47 | |
Actor and two-TV-owner Eric Messner discusses THE WHO’S TOMMY. Topics include: What is the title of this show? British accents? And, of course, the MTV. Featured recording: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod Facebook.com/OriginalCastPod Email: OriginalCastPod@gmail.com | |||
| 04 May 2016 | Intermission: Boublil & Schönberg (w/ Evan Casey) | 00:14:37 | |
This week’s intermission comes from next week’s talk with actor Evan Casey. Patrick & Evan discuss the work of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and how difficult it is to follow a mega-hit like LES MISÉRABLES. Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 09 Apr 2021 | Elegy: Amy Oestreicher | 01:09:53 | |
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. ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: 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) | |||
| 27 Feb 2019 | Rachel Barlaam / Legally Blonde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007) | 01:00:44 | |
Rachel is here for a show about exceeding your expectations that maybe doesn't exceed Patrick's expectations (or does it?). Topics include: Link to the Broadway Backstory podcast episode on Legally Blonde Patrick mentions. Featured recordings: Legally Blonde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007) 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? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado ; Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997). | |||
| 17 Oct 2018 | Robyn Rikoon / Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996) | 01:06:16 | |
You may have seen Robyn on Fringe or Gossip Girl or The Unusuals (my favorite) or as "Moby" in Flying V's Sheila and Moby opening October 27. But today she's here to talk about a show that bears repeating. Topics include: Do we need awards? Do parents just not understand? And is Benny the bad guy? Also remember that Angel kills a dog in this show. Featured recordings: Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996) 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) | |||
| 28 Dec 2022 | The Original Cast at the Movies: Funny Girl (1968) | 01:39:01 | |
Fan-favorites Roddy Flynn and Robbie Rozelle are here to kick off THE YEAR OF BARBRA on The Original Cast at the Movies with her cinematic and Oscar-winning debut! Want to hear more The Original Cast at the Movies? Head over to our Patreon! Any pledge level includes access to our monthly movie podcast, as well as access to our back catalog since 2017! | |||
| 14 Mar 2018 | Harrison Smith / Parade - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999) | 01:00:26 | |
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.
Featured recordings: PARADE - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1999)
Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? February's episode features Natalie Ann Piegari and Amanda Zeitler talking about Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991). | |||
| 15 Jan 2020 | Intermission: What Theatre Can Do (w/ Adam Gwon) | 00:11:10 | |
A snippet from my conversation with composer/lyricist Adam Gwon (Scotland, PA, Ordinary Days) about the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of theatre. Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got Robbie Rozelle (Mame) talking about the D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the making of the Company original cast album, accurately entitled: Original Cast Album: Company (1971).__Patreon • Twitter • Facebook | |||
| 07 Feb 2024 | Em Whitworth / Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) | 00:59:28 | |
Em is an actor in New York and DC who brings us this most classic of musicals as revived St. Ann’s Warehouse revival that ****s. There is really no other way to put it. That’s how we all remember it. I bleep it every time but that’s what we’re saying. It’s the Oklahoma! that ****s. Topics include: the buttery/flaky crust of nostalgia, Rebecca Naomi Jones doing no wrong, Mary Testa opening numbers, a moment of meta-textualism that brings things to a crashing halt, disappointing revivals, reclaiming Jud, and can one out-sexy Julie Andrews & Robert Goulet? Featured recordings: Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • Oklahoma! - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1943) 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! | |||
| 03 Apr 2020 | Distantly Social 20: Logan Culwell-Block | 00:13:33 | |
| 02 May 2020 | Distantly Social 45: Laura Esti Miller | 00:12:06 | |
Laura and I want you to check on your extroverts. Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: “Circles in the Sand” performed by Adam Chanler-Berat from Fly By Night - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2014), music and lyrics by Will Connolly & Michael Mitnick & Kim Rosenstock | |||
| 23 Apr 2020 | Distantly Social 37: Anna Grace Nowalk | 00:12:43 | |
Anna wants to go back to college, please. Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" performed by John Tartaglia, Peter Linz, Stephanie D'Abruzzo from Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast (2003), music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx | |||
| 07 Jul 2021 | Intermission: Ten Favourite Cast Albums | 00:25:53 | |
. . . I mean, not really but I like lists. Featured Songs: “The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square” performed by Steven Sutcliffe & Judy Kaye from Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • “Rich and Happy” from Merrily We Roll Along - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1981) • “Another Hundred People” performed by Pamela Myers from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • “We Do Not Belong Together” performed by Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin from Sunday in the Park with George - Original Cast Recording (1984) • “Javert's Soliloquy” performed by Terrence Mann from Les Misérables - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) • “Still Hurting” performed by Sherie Rene Scott from The Last Five Years - Original Cast (2002) • “Raincoat of Love” from Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • “Buenos Aires” performed by Julie Covington from Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron: 1919-1952 (1976) • “Didn't Want Nothin'” from A Strange Loop - Original Cast Recording (2019) • “Feelings” performed by Barbara Harris and “Eve” performed by Alan Alda from The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) 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. | |||
| 13 Apr 2016 | Don Mike Mendoza / Hot Mikado - Original Cast Recording (1995) | 00:49:04 | |
La-Ti-Do performer and producer Don Mike Mendoza talks about that swingin’ adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan: HOT MIKADO. We talk interracial casting, talent crushes, and tap dancing. Buy HOT MIKADO - Original Cast Recording (1995) on Amazon http://amzn.to/24GIVfL Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 17 Aug 2016 | Michael J. Bobbitt / Once on This Island - Original Cast Recording (1990) | 00:52:06 | |
Michael J. Bobbitt, artistic director of Adventure Theatre MTC, stops by ostensibly to discuss the 1990 Flaherty & Ahrens musical ONCE ON THIS ISLAND but he and Patrick quickly diverge into discussions of stripped-down theatre, racial appropriation, and what constitutes "children's theatre." It gets real. Get into it.
Featured recording: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND - Original Cast Recording (1990)
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| 29 May 2019 | Intermission: 1984! The Musical! (w/ Robyn Rikoon) | 00:12:15 | |
Did you know that Jonathan Larson wrote a musical version of George Orwell's 1984? Neither did Patrick. But Robyn did. Featured recordings: The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019) 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. Get tickets for Tinker Bell by Patrick Flynn now playing at First Stage Milwaukee!! In a digital age where people are being cast based on their social media following and shows are transferring to Broadway after trending and building their audience online, it's time you learned from leading experts how to effectively promote yourself and your show. At Promote U! you'll get practical, hands-on advice from leading experts on a range of topics, including Creating Your Branding Toolkit, How to Use Social Media to Gain Loyal Fans, Creating a Website That Tells & Sells Your Story, and more! The Original Cast fans can use the code ORIGINAL19 to get your ticket to Promote U for $297 (reg. $597)! | |||
| 13 Feb 2019 | Laura Esti Miller / Jekyll & Hyde - The Complete Work (1995) | 01:13:25 | |
We've got a dramaturg to talk about a musical that really could've used a dramaturg. A musical with more concept albums (5) than actual cast albums (1), the last one released fifteen (15) years after it opened on Broadway. A mega(?)- hit from American musical theatre's Saleri: Frank Wildhorn. Topics include: Featured recordings: Jekyll & Hyde - The Complete Work (1995) • Jekyll & Hyde - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - The 1986 Studio Demo Recording (1986) • Chess - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1991) 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? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado : Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997). | |||
| 17 May 2023 | Dana Spialter / In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) | 00:52:22 | |
Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she’s come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job. Topics include: getting typecast out of Fiddler, Anthony Newley, what a producer does, RENT, coming home, and musicals based on nothing. Featured recordings: In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! | |||
| 23 May 2020 | Distantly Social 63: University with Jonathan Howard | 00:10:33 | |
A quick cut from my wonderful conversation with King’s Singer bass Jonathan Howard about “University.” Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: “He is an Englishman” performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from H.M.S. Pinafore (1949), music by Arthur Sullivan, lyrics by W.S. Gilbert | |||
| 08 Aug 2018 | Ashley K. Nicholas / Caroline, or Change - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) | 01:08:37 | |
Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production. Ashley plays a myriad of roles in Tinker Bell (from birds and flowers to all seven Lost Boys) and she's here to talk about this fantastic show about the past that may've been ahead of its time. Topics include: basements, emotions, truth, beauty, the South, and leaving it all on the stage.
Featured recordings: Caroline, or Change - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
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? July's episode features Kenny Neal and Michelle Polera talking about The Beatles' first feature A Hard Day's Night (1964). | |||
| 24 May 2017 | Eliot Johnson / Little Shop of Horrors - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003) | 00:54:50 | |
Avid musical theatre fan Eliot Johnson is here to talk about the “new"(?) Broadway cast recording of this dark comedy classic. Topics include: Alice Ripley, African American trios vs quintets, and the Kardashians. Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 01 Feb 2017 | Heather Hurley / Chicago - The Musical (1996) | 00:48:59 | |
Avid theatre fan Heather Hurley reveals her origin story. Also how Billy & Mama are like Jack & Karen while Velma & Roxie are like Kim & Khloé. Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 14 May 2020 | Distantly Social 55: Tia Shearer Bassett | 00:13:44 | |
Tia and I talk to each other while kids talk to us. Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17! Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: “I Feel Pretty” performed by Kyle Taylor Parker from his album Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 (2019), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from West Side Story (1957) | |||
| 28 Sep 2016 | John Dellaporta / Guys and Dolls - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1993) | 00:43:40 | |
Actor and grad student John Dellaporta stops by to talk about one of the best revival cast albums out there. Topics include the callback list for the original production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Hal Prince’s ill-fated A DOLL HOUSE musical, and national treasure Faith Prince.
Featured recordings: GUYS AND DOLLS - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1993) HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING - The 2011 Decca Broadway Cast Recording (2011) GUYS AND DOLLS - Original Music from the Movie Soundtrack (1955) SONDHEIM EVENING: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973)
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| 31 Aug 2016 | Lee Liebeskind / Spring Awakening - A Decca Broadway Cast Album (2006) | 00:50:54 | |
Director/actor Lee Liebeskind talks about a show neither he nor Patrick have seen even though they both know people who did it on Broadway. Topics include: closing numbers, smoky vocals, and whether or not Patrick knows John Gallagher Jr well enough to call him “John.” Featured recordings: SPRING AWAKENING - A Decca Broadway Cast Album (2006)
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| 10 May 2017 | Patricia Hurley Carpenter / South Pacific - Original Broadway Cast (1949) | 00:52:27 | |
Actor Patricia Hurley Carpenter comes fresh from Olney Theatre productions of MARY POPPINS and SWEENEY TODD to talk about Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning effort. Topics include: racism, hilarity, and the conquering of other countries and peoples based on flags. Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 19 May 2020 | Distantly Social 60: Tuesday with Robbie | 00:13:27 | |
Another runaway train of thoughts. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)” performed by Barbra Streisand from A Star is Born - Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson (1976), music and lyrics by Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams | |||
| 04 Jul 2018 | Michael J. Bobbitt / Once on This Island - Original Cast Recording (1990) *Flashback* | 00:53:13 | |
Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production. So here's a reissue of the episode featuring Adventure Theatre MTC's Artistic Director: Michael J. Bobbitt. ORIGINAL NOTES: Featured recording:
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? June's episode features Emily Zickler and Sophie Schulman talking about the modern Disney Channel classic High School Musical (2006).
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| 14 Nov 2018 | Courtney Laine Self / Crazy for You - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1992) | 01:14:45 | |
Courtney Laine Self is a director/choreographer. She directed Sheila and Moby and wrote her thesis on Crazy for You. She also likes to push Patrick's buttons. And the feeling is very mutual. Topics include: Ken Ludwig (the man, not the poster), the interpretive power of dance, and Susan Stroman.
Featured recording: Crazy for You - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1992)
Tickets to Sheila and Moby by Patrick Flynn, directed by Courtney Laine Self NOW ON SALE! 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? October's episode features Jason Schlafstein (Chess - 1984) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You) talking about the cultiest of cult musicals: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). | |||
| 02 May 2018 | Intermission: Billy the Shake (w/ Charlene V. Smith) | 00:19:20 | |
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. Have you checked out our new 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 (now available) features Charlene V. Smith and Sara E. Cohen talking about Mike Leigh's Gilbert & Sullivan film TOPSY-TURVY (1999). | |||
| 03 May 2017 | Intermission: Shameless Pandering (in STEREO) | 00:10:46 | |
We’ve moved to a new studio space and it needed testing. So Patrick found a guest wandering about the place and plopped him in front of the mics. Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 17 Jul 2019 | Intermission: Superman Cheated (w/ Chris Klimek) | 00:15:16 | |
Good morning, Mr. & Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. FLASH! Journalist Chris Klimek thinks Superman CHEATED! Featured recordings: Superman: The Movie - Original Sound Track (1979) • Dragnet - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987) 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? June's episode features Eliza Berkon (Godspell 1973) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) discussing the Spice Girls' feature film Spice World (1997) just in time for summer! | |||
| 06 Feb 2019 | Intermission: Baby Meets Chess (w/ Broadway Baby Podcast) | 00:09:50 | |
Patrick is a guest this week on the wonderful Broadway Baby Podcast talking about Chess (shocker). Here's a snippet of the episode to whet your appetite. The full episode is available HERE. Enjoy! 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? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado ; Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997). | |||
| 30 Mar 2020 | Distantly Social 17: Jenna Duncan & Kevin Place | 00:08:52 | |
Jenna is Associate Artistic Director at Olney Theatre. Kevin is Associate Producer at Theatre J. And they're engaged! Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: "With You on My Arm" performed by Gene Barry & George Hearn from La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman | |||
| 02 Oct 2024 | Alexandra Silber / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) *FLASHBACK* | 01:03:12 | |
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. | |||
| 13 Apr 2020 | Distantly Social 29: Megan Reichelt | 00:16:14 | |
Megan is keeping it upbeat and active and thank God for her. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: "Another Day / Finale B" performed by Daphne Rubin-Vega & the Company, from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson (Yes, that's two days of Rent in a row.) | |||
| 01 May 2020 | Distantly Social 44: Broadwaysted! | 00:12:16 | |
Two fun cuts from my wonderful conversation with Kimberly & Bryan from the official Broadwaysted! podcast about Sunday in the Park with George. Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: “I’ve Got You to Lean On” performed by Angela Lansbury, Gabriel Dell, Arnold Soboloff, & James Frawley from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | |||
| 17 May 2020 | Distantly Social 58: No But | 00:09:29 | |
Distantly Social Theatre presents No But a short play written by Patrick Flynn starring Angeleaza Anderson, Michelle Polera, and Carl Williams. Covert art photograph by David Wardrick. No But was originally presented at Bethesda Play-in-a-Day 2019 with this same cast. No But script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange! Recording produced, directed, and edited by Patrick Flynn Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community | |||
| 13 Mar 2020 | Distantly Social 2: Beth Amann | 00:12:15 | |
Beth Amann (Wicked) is the Managing Director of the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Monumental. Their acclaimed production of Head Over Heels has been cut short by recent events. Also cheese boards. MUSIC: "Mad About You" sung by Andrew Durand from Head Over Heels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018), music and lyrics by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan, Mitchel Young Evans | |||
| 05 Jun 2019 | IT'S THE 2019 TONYS!!!! | 01:46:06 | |
The Tony Awards are this Sunday! So we've got Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado, Do I Hear a Waltz?, It's the Tonys!) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, It's the Tonys!, It's the Tonys!!, It's the Tonys!!!) and the essence of Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, It's the Tonys!!, It's the Tonys!!!) here to talk about the TONYS!!!! We go through the nominees, talk about this year in theatre, and predict our winners. Topics include: Is it the right year for a musical version of Tootsie? Did the old guard keep Be More Chill out? Was Ben Brantley's King Kong review wonderful or a complete abdication of professional responsibility on the part of The New York Times? How old does Roddy think Cher and Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton are? And does Don Mike need any of this? Featured recording: 2019 Tony Award Season - Broadway Records (2019) Ready to put the work in artwork? Check out friend of the podcast Danielle Mohlman’s online interactive series Crafting Your Artistic Handbook. By the end of this six-week class, you’ll have: a set of rituals geared toward ongoing artistic growth, an accountability process designed to help you reach your goals, and a sustainable documentation method designed to grow and change as you do. Register and learn more at bit.ly/originalcastfriend. Use the code ORIGINAL at checkout for 20% off. 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? May's episode features Eric Messner (The Who's Tommy) and Emily Zickler (Sweeney Todd, et al.) discussing The Monkees' feature film Head (1968) written by Jack Nicholson. Any more details would make no sense. | |||
| 22 Mar 2023 | Robert W. Schneider / Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992) | 01:23:52 | |
It’s Steve’s birthday! And Rob is back to talk to us about a 30-year-old concert that has the best hair, goofiest sleeves, and ALLLLLLLL the Liza Minnelli you could dream for. Topics include: The Tonics, wearing upholstery, The Tonics’s vocal arrangements, the ’87 Tonys, The Tonics’s full discography, Karen Ziemba killing it, and The Tonics (mostly we just talk about The Tonics). Featured recordings: Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992) • Unsung Sondheim (1993) • Sondheim: A Celebration (1997) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! | |||
| 08 Mar 2023 | Liz Wasser / Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001) | 01:00:03 | |
Liz is an actor, writer, and musical theatre kid from way back. And she’s here with a show that is possibly more relevant now than when it debuted. Topics include: going into the City by yourself when you’re 13, Little Sally, Urinetown the place, transferring at Jamaica, Brechtian (in the true sense), and is this show ahead of its time? Featured recordings: Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001) • Songs in the Key of Springfield - The Simpsons (1997) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! | |||
| 18 Apr 2018 | Intermission: Remember the Time (w/ Daisy Eagan) | 00:15:10 | |
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. Have you checked out our new 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 features Charlene V. Smith and Sara E. Cohen talking about Mike Leigh's Gilbert & Sullivan film TOPSY-TURVY (1999). | |||
| 08 Apr 2020 | Tracy Lynn Olivera / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967) *Flashback* | 00:50:12 | |
Next Wednesday will be our 100th guest! So before that, let's look all the way back to March 2016 and our very first guest: Tracy Lynn Olivera! Which, synergistically, also happens to be the same show our 99th guest chose (though a different recording)! ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright/filmmaker/professor Patrick Flynn. Our first guest is actress, singer, & recording artist Tracy Lynn Olivera who stops by to discuss the 1967 original cast album of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. We’re also joined by dramaturg Megan Westman as we discuss off-Broadway basement shows, the wrong kind of meta, and how Tracy feels about the 1999 Broadway revival (spoiler: she hates it). Featured Recording: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967) T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store! Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Roddy Flynn, Kari Ginsburg, and I begin our year-long mission to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at the beginning in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It's not a musical but it will be! | |||
| 18 Aug 2021 | Intermission: Patrick & Kari Solve 'Follies' | 00:16:46 | |
Good old fashioned intermission about movie musicals and the perpetually coming Follies. Featured Songs: “Losing My Mind” performed by Charity Angél Dawson & Joshua Hinck from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020) • “Losing My Mind” from A Perfect Little Death - Eleri Ward (2021) 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 Dick Tracy (1990) with Robert W. Schneider (La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle). | |||
| 16 Sep 2020 | Intermission: Musicals Named After My Kids Decades Before They Were Born | 00:11:03 | |
Two big musical discoveries made recently but I’m saving one so here’s the other! Featured Songs: “I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way” and “Maggie Flynn” from Maggie Flynn - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968), music and lyrics by Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore & George David Weiss Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! 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! This month is the Don Bluth classic Anastasia (1997) with Casey Erin Clark (Little Women) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You). 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. | |||
| 28 Mar 2020 | Distantly Social 15: Chris Klimek | 00:09:32 | |
Chris Klimek has been socially distant for six weeks due to knee surgery and not even Twin Peaks makes sense anymore. Apologies for the audio on this one, both of our internets were acting up. MUSIC: "I'm Not Finished Yet" performed by Patricia Marand from It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams | |||
| 16 Oct 2019 | Nicole Hertvik / Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010) | 00:58:58 | |
DC Metro Theater Arts editor and publisher Nicole Hertvick is here for an emo telling of the 7th President of the United State's rise to power that fully commits to its premise. Topics include: Emo, Spring Awakening, the Trail of Tears, and (somehow) Cats. We talk about Cats for a minute. And I don't remember how we got there but there it is: Cats. CONTENT WARNING: Some of the songs in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson employ some of the seven words you cannot say on television and so may not suit your current listening situation. Featured recordings: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010) Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2014) and Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)! | |||
| 04 Apr 2020 | Distantly Social 21: Everybody Ought to Have a Maid | 00:10:13 | |
Maybe not the best song for a 10-year-old but we're keeping him level. Plus I mix up Marcus Lycus and Miles Gloriosus for almost 10 minutes much The Boy's frustration. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: "Lovely (Reprise)" performed on the clarinet by Bobby Flynn, music by Stephen Sondheim, from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; "Everybody Oughta Have a Maid" performed by Lewis J. Stadlen, Nathan Lane, Mark Lin-Baker, & Ernie Sabella, from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Original 1996 Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | |||
| 28 Aug 2019 | Intermission: What She Said | 00:52:08 | |
Nicole Hertvik from the incomparable DC Metro Theatre Arts interviews Patrick and Michelle Polera about their new show What She Said which can be seen this Friday at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival. WHAT SHE SAID performance details here. 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. | |||
| 13 May 2020 | Star Johnson / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) | 01:00:18 | |
Star is playwright/lyricist/director who brings to us a fun and funny conversation about a still-relevant turning point in the history of American musical theatre that is further from us historically than it is from Oklahoma!. Topics Include: gender-blind Bobbies, keeping the comedy in musical comedy, being alive, and sliding into her DMs. Featured Recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • Company - 1995 Broadway Cast Recording (1995) • Experiment - Mandy Patinkin (1994) • Marry Me a Little - Songs by Stephen Sondheim (1980) T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store! Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors 1982) and Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014) are here for a movie that has to been seen to be believed but cannot be understood, it's Lost Horizon (1973)! | |||
| 25 Mar 2020 | Joanna McKee / Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) | 01:09:48 | |
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) T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store! 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). | |||
| 10 Jun 2020 | Robert W. Schneider / La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983) | 01:05:28 | |
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) 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)! | |||
| 08 Mar 2017 | Intermission: Come from Away (w/ Sara E. Cohen) | 00:20:43 | |
Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s amazing new musical COME FROM AWAY opens on Broadway this Sunday (March 12, 2017). Both Patrick and Sara saw it when it was at Ford’s Theatre on its way to Broadway and they think you should too. Really. Like, right now. Go see it. Now. We’ll wait. Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 21 Aug 2019 | Christina A. Coakley / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) | 01:01:10 | |
Director Christina A. Coakley is here for this beautiful but little-known show from the team that brought you Ragtime about a closeted man in 1960s Dublin. Topics include: Roger Rees, Faith Prince, Fun Home, when Ireland legalized divorce, and if one can buy a T-shirt that says "Benny was right." Featured recording: A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) 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? July's episode has James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha 1968) talking about the 2007 film Once which is the basis for the 2013 Broadway musical Once. Funny how that works. | |||
| 02 Sep 2020 | Intermission: Summer Lovin', Had Me a Blast | 00:10:32 | |
Intermissions are back! But in a slightly different format! Exclamation! I hate Grease!! Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube! Listen to Patrick on the Off2Broadway Podcast this week! Register to watch Patrick’s segment of the Helen Hayes Awards Thursday, September 3 - 8:00pm. Featured Songs: “Summer Nights” from Grease! - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972) • “An Element of Magic” from Reporting Live - Hannah Whitney and Jacob Samuels (2011) 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! This month is the Don Bluth classic Anastasia (1997) with Casey Erin Clark (Little Women) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You). 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. | |||
| 18 Mar 2020 | Alexandra Petri / Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960) | 01:02:36 | |
Columnist, playwright, and the mind behind @KyloR3n is here for one of the most capital-M Musicals ever to grace the Broadway. Topics include: unintentional weird, songs and book and when they don't meet, the unbearable heaviness of Alan Jay Lerner, and a 70-year-old musical that slaps. Featured recordings: Camelot - Original Broadway Cast (1960) NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 4, 2020 before any gathering restrictions were in place. T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store! 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 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). | |||
| 14 Aug 2019 | Intermission: Designs and Designing (w/ Heather C. Jackson) | 00:21:50 | |
Heather is a costume designer. So we talked a lot about designing and designers and notes and all that good stuff. 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? July's episode has James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha 1968) talking about the 2007 film Once which is the basis for the 2013 Broadway musical Once. Funny how that works. | |||
| 16 Mar 2020 | Distantly Social 5: Farrell Parker | 00:13:12 | |
| 21 Apr 2020 | Distantly Social 36: Tuesday with Robbie | 00:13:26 | |
Jim Steinman wrote a Batman musical. LISTEN TO SHE IS RISEN, VOLUME I Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: "Simon Zealotes / Poor Jerusalem" performed by Ledisi and Morgan James, from Jesus Christ Superstar - She is Risen: Volume I (2020), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice | |||
| 03 Apr 2024 | Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) *FLASHBACK* | 01:26:05 | |
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? Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) 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! | |||
| 18 Jan 2017 | Megan Reichelt / The Scarlet Pimpernel - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) | 00:56:52 | |
Actor & librarian Megan Reichelt is here to talk about Frank Wildhorn’s sweeping epic musical. But which version? The first? The second? The fourth? And why isn’t Terrence Mann the lead in this show? Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 04 May 2020 | Distantly Social 47: Nicole Hertvik | 00:12:45 | |
Nicole and DC Metro Theater Arts have an interesting problem: what do you write about when there’s no theatre to write about Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17! Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: “Being Alive” performed by Dean Jones from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | |||
| 04 Mar 2020 | Chris Stinson / The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984) | 00:54:26 | |
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. Featured recordings: The Real Thing - Original Cast Recording (1984) T-shirts and tote-bags and more at the Original Cast Store! 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 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). | |||
| 30 Apr 2020 | Distantly Social 43: Garrett Anderson | 00:14:34 | |
Garrett works in Acquisitions and Artistic Development at Concord Theatricals where they’re innovating their way through the suck. Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: “Stool Boom” performed by Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, & Fred Willard Parker Posey from Red, White & Blaine - Original Cast Album (1996), music and lyrics by Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer | |||
| 19 Apr 2023 | Rob Weinert-Kendt / The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) | 00:56:37 | |
Rob was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West & is the editor-in-chief of American Theatre magazine. And he’s here for the only Off-Broadway show to win a Tony Award. Topics include: psuedo-Marxist propaganda, in rep with The Fantasticks, Gilbert & Sullivan, Double-LP German recordings, Domar Warehouse, how existence is a female dog and then one perishes, and the vocal stylings of Dame Bea Arthur. Featured recordings: The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) • Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill - Hal Willner (1985) • The Threepenny Opera - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Die Dreigroschenoper - Columbia Masterworks (1958) • Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! | |||
| 19 May 2021 | Dom O'Hanlon / Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) | 01:21:42 | |
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. The Man in the Chair on Instagram Featured recordings: Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) • Follies - Original London Cast (1987) 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). | |||
| 10 Aug 2016 | Intermission: The Welders 2.0 (w/ Hannah Hessel Ratner) | 00:18:51 | |
During their FLORA THE RED MENACE conversation, Hannah updated Patrick on her new role in The Welders playwrights collective and what we can expect from The Welders 2.0. Email: OriginalCastPod@gmail.com
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| 30 Mar 2016 | Tracy Lynn Olivera / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Original Cast Album (1967) | 00:49:44 | |
Welcome to The Original Cast, a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright/filmmaker/professor Patrick Flynn. Our first guest is actress, singer, & recording artist Tracy Lynn Olivera who stops by to discuss the 1967 original cast album of YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN. We’re also joined by dramaturg Megan Westman as we discuss off-Broadway basement shows, the wrong kind of meta, and how Tracy feels about the 1999 Broadway revival (spoiler: she hates it). Buy YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN - The Original Cast Album (1967) on Amazon http://amzn.to/1OyfZei Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 24 Mar 2020 | Distantly Social 12: Tuesday with Robbie | 00:15:34 | |
It's Tuesday and that means Robbie Rozelle and that means DISCO SONDHEIM! MUSIC: "Megamix: Take Me to the World" performed by Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Joshua Hinck & Scott Wasserman (2020), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, additional music by Leonard Bernstein | |||
| 20 Apr 2016 | Intermission: The Pulitzer Prize for Musicals | 00:27:50 | |
This week HAMILTON became the 9th musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Patrick gives a history of the prize and the now 9 musicals that have won the most prestigious award in American theatre.
SOUTH PACIFIC - Original Broadway Cast (1949) FIORELLO! - Original Broadway Cast (1959) HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1961) A CHORUS LINE - Original Broadway Cast (1975) SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE - Original Cast Recording (1984) RENT - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996) NEXT TO NORMAL - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) HAMILTON - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)
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| 18 Sep 2019 | Alexandra Silber / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) | 01:03:50 | |
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. | |||
| 28 Feb 2018 | Elisa Rosman / March of the Falsettos ; Falsettoland - Original Cast (1981 ; 1990) | 00:59:56 | |
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. Topics include: The great William Finn, the great Chip Zein, and leaving crying after you came laughing.
Featured recordings: MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS - Original Cast (1981) FALSETTOLAND - Original Cast (1990)
Have you checked out our new PATREON? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast THE ORIGINAL CAST AT THE MOVIES? This month's episode features Natalie Ann Piegari and Amanda Zeitler talking about Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991). | |||
| 29 Nov 2019 | A Message from the Children | 00:01:53 | |
Patrick's children have a very important message for you. http://bit.ly/ The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story by Patrick Flynn, based on the book by Margery Williams, is now playing at Adventure Theatre MTC. CLICK HERE for tickets and performance information! Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! This month it's 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. It's All That Jazz (1979)! | |||
| 12 May 2020 | Distantly Social 54: Tuesday with Robbie | 00:11:21 | |
Conspiracy theories, one-person shows, Ordinary Days, and Tell Me on a Sunday just to name a few. Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17! __aking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community MUSIC: “The Cookie Chase” performed by Angela Lansbury from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | |||
| 30 Jan 2019 | Anna Grace Nowalk / Beauty and the Beast - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1994) | 00:57:48 | |
While our topic is ostensibly the first Disney Broadway musical (and, as of this release, 10th longest running show in Broadway history), Anna and Patrick spend most of this episode on being a young actor and how one gets started in this business at such a young age. Topics include: Social Anxiety in theatre, Young Cossette, and is the Enchantress the real villain of this story? Featured recordings: Beauty and the Beast - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1994) • Beauty and the Beast - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1991) 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? January's episode features Beth Amman (Wicked) and Don Mike Mendoza (Hot Mikado ; Do I Hear a Waltz? 1965) talking about the Disney/Rodgers & Hammerstein TV event starring Whitney Houston and Brandy: Cinderella (1997). | |||
| 27 Jul 2022 | Len Rodino / Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recording (1993) | 01:02:45 | |
Playbill’s Director of Events & Creative Strategy Len Rodino stops by to talk about this BIG musical about BIG drama that had BIG drama around it for 40+ years! Topics include: taking the bus from PA, Patti LuPone’s memoir, 5 “useful” majors, starting as the receptionist, cigarette ads in my Playbill, and And Juliet! Featured recordings: Sunset Blvd. - American Premiere Recording (1993) • Boulevard! - The Complete Musical Adaptation (2008) 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! | |||
| 15 May 2024 | Roddy Flynn / Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964) *FLASHBACK* | 00:48:07 | |
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. Featured recording: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 03 Oct 2021 | Emergency Episode: DIANA THE MUSICAL!! | 00:07:56 | |
GO WATCH DIANA: THE MUSICAL ON NETFLIX RIGHT NOW!! | |||
| 18 Nov 2020 | Megan Bunn / The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) | 01:00:03 | |
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 it's just a good show. Playbill’s “The 17 Most Tony Award-Winning Works of All Time” by Logan Culwell-Block Subscribe to What is Love Actually? all episodes out 11/27/20!! Featured Recordings: The Band's Visit - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) 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! This month we’ve got a dystopian musical about the dark future of 1994 made in 1980. Anything else I type here would make it make less sense. It’s The Apple! | |||
| 14 Jun 2023 | Paul Caiola / Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) | 01:06:34 | |
Paul acts, he writes, he podcasts, he does many things. And he is here to talk about a show that maybe won a lot of Tonys this past Sunday! Or maybe not!! Only way to find out is to listen!!! Topics include: parents acting like children, children forced to be parents, crying through Act 2, Barnum!, story structure, and how Paul doesn’t know music theory, he just feels things. Featured recordings: Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! | |||
| 24 May 2020 | Distantly Social 64: The Royal Me | 00:05:09 | |
Distantly Social Theatre presents The Royal Me performed by Anna Grace Nowalk, written by Patrick Flynn. Covert art photograph by David Wardrick. The Royal Me script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange! Recording produced by Anna Grace Nowalk and edited by Patrick Flynn. Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community | |||
| 16 Oct 2024 | Doug Wilder / No Way to Treat a Lady - Original Cast Recording (1997) *FLASHBACK* | 00:52:45 | |
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. Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 01 Nov 2017 | Intermission: Historical Accuracy (w/ Charlene V. Smith) | 00:16:50 | |
A snippet from Patrick's conversation with Charlene V. Smith about the London cast album of MAN OF LA MANCHA about what does historical accuracy actually mean? Also HAMILTON. Also is GRAVITY a feminist film? Also HAMILTON. Also what is identity? Also HAMILTON. And RENT.
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| 22 Aug 2018 | Jenny Male / Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001) | 00:54:43 | |
Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production.
Multi-hyphenate "ographer" (fight, choreo, et al.) Jenny Male is here to talk about the brilliant play Tinker Bell that she is ography-ing at Adventure Theatre MTC. Also she's here to talk about the Tony-winning musical with self-confessed a "terrible title." Topics include: Brecht, pay toilets, and how much self-referential humor can one show sustain?
Featured recording: Urinetown the Musical - The Original Cast Recording (2001)
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 ? August's episode features Harrison Smith and Bridget Grace Sheaff discussing the most glorious musical Gene Kelly ever appeared in: Xanadu (1980). | |||
| 24 Aug 2022 | Marc Bonanni / Drat! The Cat! - Studio Cast Recording (1997) | 00:57:59 | |
Marc is the host of the popular YouTube channel Broadway by Ghostlight and is here for a show that ran for 8 performances despite Barbra Streisand’s best efforts. Topics include: selling merch at The Drowsy Chaperone, Lee Wilkoff v. Eddie Korbich, shows that should’ve gone out of town, Anyone Can Whistle, and Blue Pear Records. Broadway by Ghostlight - Drat! The Cat!: Broadway's Best 8-Performance FLOP Broadway by Ghostlight - The Outrageous Publicity Stunts Of David Merrick Featured recordings: Drat! The Cat! - Studio Cast Recording (1997) • My Name Is Barbra, Two... - Barbra Streisand (1965) 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! | |||
| 27 Jun 2018 | Peter Boyer / The Fantasticks - Original Cast Album (1960) | 01:12:04 | |
Tinker Bell (by Patrick Flynn) is now running at Adventure Theatre MTC. Throughout the run, all our episodes will be related to the production. This week we've got Capt. Jas. T. Hook himself, Peter Boyer in studio to talk about the (for now) longest-running American musical ever. Topics include: amoral versus immoral, emotional versus physical, and how Mortimer is really the main character of this whole musical no matter what the "writers" might say and/or have written. CONTENT ADVISORY: The Fantasticks contains a song entitled "It Depends on What You Pay" which liberally uses the word "rape." This is addressed frankly.
Featured recordings: The Fantasticks - Original Cast Album (1960) The Fantasticks - The New Off-Broadway Recording (2006)
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? June's episode features Emily Zickler and Sophie Schulman talking about the modern Disney Channel classic High School Musical (2006). | |||
| 12 Aug 2020 | Stefania Lounsbury / Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) | 00:55:18 | |
Straight back into Toronto and the Off2Broadway podcast, it’s Stefania Lounsbury taking us back to the Goodman household and all contained therein. Topics Include: Alice Ripley’s eyes, the over-analysis of musical theatre, Pretty Woman, Superboy, the Invisible Girl, and does Billy Elliot actually have a tragic ending? Featured Recordings: Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) 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! This month is the Village People movie Can’t Stop the Music (1980) with Robbie Rozzelle and Robert W. Schneider. And it is ALL the things. | |||
| 03 Nov 2021 | Miriam Pultro / Jane Eyre - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) | 01:08:57 | |
Miriam is a performer and writer who has written a new musical about the Brontë Sisters called Glass Town and she’s here for this Brontë musical that is . . . a lot CW: This episode contains a brief discussion of sexual misconduct and assault. Topics include: Mr. Bumble, voices across moors, contemporary scores & corsets, Diana (of course), endings are hard, and WHERE DID ALL THE BARITONES GO? Featured recordings: Jane Eyre - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • Glass Town - Live Selections from the February 2021 Workshop (2021) The Original Cast Merchandise at TeePublic.com LIVE EPISODE STREAM on PATREON of The Original Cast at the Movies. November 11! Check Patreon for details. | |||
| 24 Jul 2024 | Amy Oestreicher / In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) *FLASHBACK* | 01:09:53 | |
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)! | |||
| 25 Jan 2023 | Sean Patrick Murtagh / The Scarlet Pimpernel - A Romantic Musical Adventure (1992) | 01:08:30 | |
Actor/singer Sean Patrick Murtagh, whom you may know from Green Room 42 and/or his new album The Mario 101, is here for the album that he describes as: “the album that made [him] gay.” Topics include: moonlight on the bed, Linda Eder as diva, local gays, Linda Eder as instrument, formulas, Linda Eder as gateway drug, the heart and soul of why we do it, Linda Eder’s placement, and Linda Eder’s vowels. Sean Patrick’s album The Mario 101 Featured recordings: The Scarlet Pimpernel - A Romantic Musical Adventure (1992) • Jekyll & Hyde - The Complete Work (1995) • The Scarlet Pimpernel - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) • The Mario 101 - Sean Patrick Murtagh (2022) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! | |||
| 14 Sep 2016 | Sophie Schulman / Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) | 00:43:46 | |
Actor Sophie Schulman stops by to talk about the music that makes her dance. Also: Barbra, Barbra, Ellen, and Barbra.
Featured recordings: FUNNY GIRL - Original Broadway Cast (1964) FUNNY GIRL - The Original Sound Track Recording (1968)
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| 26 Mar 2020 | Distantly Social 13: Don Mike Mendoza | 00:16:09 | |
Don Mike Mendoza is here from La-Ti-Do talking about Pittsburgh, making money where possible, and #RacismIsAVirus. MUSIC: "We're Gonna Be Alright" performed by Judy Kuhn & Malcolm Gets from Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel - Judy Kuhn (2015), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965) | |||
| 24 Mar 2021 | Marty Thomas / Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1990) | 01:30:37 | |
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? Chris, what’s haunting you? on Instagram Featured recordings: Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1990) • My Broadway - Sean McDermott (1999) • Slow Dancing with a Boy - Marty Thomas (2019) • It’s a Holiday Soul Party - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (2015) • The Award Winning Holiday Album - Marty Thomas & Marissa Rosen (2020) 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 has Broadwaysted!’s Bryan Plofsky and fan-favorite Kenny Neal talking about the most Academy Award-winning entry in Sondheim’s filmography West Side Story (1961). | |||
| 26 Jul 2023 | Mike Meaney / Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968) | 00:56:02 | |
Mike is a New York City-based director who loves the Great American Songbook, trivia, collecting LP records, and hot beverages. And he’s here for a Kander & Ebb show that’s right up there with 70, Girls, 70 and The Happy Time in terms of popularity, influence, and success. Topics include: getting the plot wrong, death in musicals, Anyone Can Whistle, who would’ve won the Best Score Tony in 1969 had it existed, Don Walker, and Hal Prince’s ethos (or lack thereof). Featured recordings: Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! | |||
| 03 May 2023 | Mark-Eugene Garcia / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) | 01:06:11 | |
Mark’s website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music Eight Tales of Pedro (written with Luis D’Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he’s here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart. Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, The Opposite of Sex: The Musical, and fan-boy-ing out. Recorded LIVE at the Drama Book Shop! Featured recordings: A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! | |||
| 23 Nov 2016 | Jon Rubin / The Last Five Years - Original Cast Recording (2002) | 00:54:26 | |
Flying V Theatre’s managing director Jon Rubin is here to talk about one of the most heartbreaking musicals ever written. Topics include: inter-faith relationships, Tu BiShvat, and isn’t Jamie the worst for cheating on Cathy? I mean, oh my God, what he did is completely unforgivable and don’t even get me started on “The Schmuel Song.” Featured recordings: Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod | |||
| 12 Jun 2024 | IT'S THE 2024 TONYS!!!!!! | 02:18:07 | |
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 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! | |||
| 06 Nov 2019 | Intermission: Stro (w/ Courtney Laine Self) | 00:33:15 | |
Courtney worked with Susan Stroman. So we talk about Susan Stroman. A lot! With that good Courtney/Patrick energy! THE ORIGINAL CAST MERCH NOW AVAILABLE AT TEE PUBLIC Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month it's Chris Klimek (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) and Farrell Parker (A Chorus Line) talking about the greatest movie Prince ever made: Purple Rain (1984)! | |||
| 24 Nov 2021 | The Original Cast at the Movies: tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) | 01:45:49 | |
Serena Berman and Robbie Rozelle join Patrick for a discussion of the new Netflix film tick, tick . . . BOOM!. Is it as good as everyone says? Yes. And yes. This episode was recorded in a live stream for Patreon Patrons. To learn how you can attend a live stream recording of The Original Cast at the Movies, visit Patreon Dot Com Slash Original Cast Pod! | |||