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A podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright Patrick Flynn.
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originally released: April 21, 2021 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 a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza’s agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important. Glen Weldon’s Profile on NPR dot org Playbill’s “The Definitive List of the 43 Best-Selling Cast Recordings of All Time” by Logan Culwell-Block Featured recordings: My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) • Brigadoon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1947) 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 brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
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? Elliott Kalan on Twitter The Flop House Podcast The Who Was? Podcast Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Clint is the paterfamilias of the McElroy family of podcasters as well as a comic book author, theatre director, and general enthusiast of all things. And he’s here for his favorite original cast album of a show he was IN on BROADWAY (kinda). Topics include: spelling your way to Broadway glory, not making fun of the kids, getting choreo tips from Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Guys and Dolls Jr. (aka Bugsy Malone), and Liev Schreiber’s finger acting. The McElroy Dot Family Featured recordings: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Justin is the oldest brother on the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast but is also a best-selling author, voice actor, and community theatre director. And he’s here with a show that rode the early-90s obsession with the late-60s to Tony glory! Topics include: how Tommy is like Joseph from a protagonist standpoint, seeing the original Broadway production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe, the jauntiest song about molestation, and (weirdly) the State Farm’s Super Bowl commercial. The McElroy Dot Family Featured recordings: The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) • Tommy - The Who (1969) • Who’s Next - The Who (1971) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Bruce is (along with his producing partner Jack W. Batman) a two-time Tony Award winning producer of shows such as Pippin, Be More Chill, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, and the very show we’re talking about today! Topics include: what a producer does, why shows are so expensive, what a producer should do, being an extra in Fame, and the upcoming revival of The Who’s Tommy! SunnySpot Productions Bruce on Instagram Featured recordings: Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
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? Em Whitworth Dot Com Featured recordings: Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • Oklahoma! - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1943) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Dani is a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright and actor who brings us this JRB musical by way of a Clint Eastwood movie by way of a 90s romance novel about Kelli O’Hara making out with Laura Benanti’s ex-husband. Topics include: wet old men, the dangers of casting Steven Pasquale, complicated women, the high stakes of everyday life. Dani Stoller Dot Com Featured recordings: The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Stephen is the incoming President & CEO of the Music School of Delaware of which Patrick is an alumnus (but Stephen doesn’t know that when we start so keep it under your hat). Topics include: sensitive kids, deceptive simplicity, passing on Rooster, mom’s lullabies, George C. Wolfe’s Annie, and the teachers who poured themselves into us. The Music School of Delaware Featured recordings: Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Did you know we had a bonus podcast on our PATREON page? Well, we do. Each month, you can listen to The Original Cast at the Movies, a long-form movie discussion podcast with musical theatre implications. Beth Amann and Kari Ginsburg are here to kick off The Original Cast at the Movies's new theme: THE YEAR OF BARBARA (HARRIS)! We'll be covering 13 Barbara Harris films starting with this Academy Award-nominated comedy(?) from Francis Ford Coppola Peggy Sue Got Married featuring Ms Harris in one of her many "mother" roles. The question is: Is Barbara Harris the best part of this movie? PATREON DOT COM SLASH ORIGINAL CAST POD
Let’s rap. FINAL “The Year of Barbra” live stream 12/9 (Thu): The Way We Were (1973) with Robbie Rozelle & Len Rodino FIRST “The Year of Barbara (Harris)” live stream 12/20 (Wed): Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) with Kari Ginsburg & Beth Amann 48 Hour Film Project: Yes We Cannes - Buy a ticket and vote for WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THE FUTURE Buy one of Patrick’s plays for audiences young and decidedly not young Murder Crossed Her Mind by Stephen Spotswood OUT NOW! ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Watch Patrick’s previous award-winning 48 Hour Film The Crown Must Go On on YouTube Watch We Need Your Help to Save the Future on YouTube MUSIC: ”At Christmas (Joyful Merry Holiday)” by GentleJammers / Pond5 Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Jenny is the President and CEO of Washington Performing Arts and she’s here for a trip downtown, across the world, and back in time. Topics include: the Berlin Wall, A Night at the Opera, Leonard Bernstein, being asked to change your name, arts education, the Air Force Band, and what you can accomplish without a building. Washington Performing Arts Dot Org Featured recordings: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
It is impossible for me to overstate how special it was to speak with Austin Pendleton. An actor’s actor, playwright, director, and a wonderfully kind human being. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do. Topics include: working with jazz artists, Salvador Dalí on the phone at 4:00am, trying to blow off Jerome Robbins (and failing), promises made to Zero Mostel, Barbara Harris & Hunter College, acting with Kermit the Frog, and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Austin Pendleton’s Wikipedia page Featured recordings: The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970) • People - Barbra Streisand (1964) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
1Eleni comes to us from the Kennedy Center’s Digital Learning Center to talk about a musical that lives in her very soul and bones. Topics include: preteen sunset, channelling Maria Callas, tired performances, unfinished lyrics, Betty Schaefer’s agency, and (of course) a swimming pool named “Andrew.” Kennedy Center Education ”Who Doesn’t Love Opera?” by Eleni Hagen at Kennedy Dash Center Dot Org Around the Sun at the Broadway Podcast Network Featured recordings: Sunset Boulevard - World Premiere Recording (1993) • Sunset Boulevard - Original Niedernhausen Cast (1995) • Sunset Boulevard - American Premiere Recording (1994) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Stuart is 1/3 of The Flop House podcast (the 3rd third to guest on this show) as well as the proprietor of both Hinterlands and Minnie’s Bar in Brooklyn. And he’s here with a Danish Heavy Metal concept album that is more well-thought-out than The Who’s Tommy. Topics include: deep dives and rabbit holes, allegorical mother draining, being a completist, Queen, showmanship, and Patrick’s familiarity with the iconography of the Church of Satan. The Flop House Podcast Hinterlands on Instagram Minnie’s Bar on Instagram Featured recordings: “Them” - King Diamond (1988) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Patrick and Patrick have been friends for multiple decades and they talk entirely about Swing! and they don’t almost immediately diverge into talking about the Harry Connick Jr/Jessie Mueller revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever that Patrick was in and I don’t know how these rumors get started. Topics include: the dark corners of Joe Allen’s, the concrete floors of Toby’s, Anne Hampton Calloway, dinner-theatre CATS, the St. James Theatre (aka: the horseshoe of death), meeting Jessie Mueller, Almost Famous, being “the kiss of death,” and Harry Connick Jr’s assistant. Patrick O’Neill Dot Me Ben Brantley’s 2011 review of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Featured recordings: Swing! - Original Cast Recording (1999) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Playwright and actor Vince Gatton is here to talk about an album that is not his favorite show but has a strong hold on him nonetheless. Topics include: unusual ways, first recordings vs best recordings, burning out cassettes, disgustingly wonderful fithiness, and what happens when you can get Elaine Paige instead of Sarah Brightman but not until the weekend. Vince Gatton Dot Com NSFW: Anita Morris - “A Call from the Vatican” REALLY NSFW: Jane Krakowski - “A Call from the Vatican” Featured recordings: Nine - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992) • Nine - Original Cast Album (1982) • Nine - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
SPECIAL DELIVERY! Friends of the show Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane are here to talk about the new cast album for their musical The Big Time which drops on Concord Theatricals TODAY! Starring Tony winners Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte and featuring Jackie Hoffman and Will Swenson, The Big Time is a big musical comedy that you are going to love. THE BIG TIME - Studio Cast Recording (2023) at Concord Theatricals Recordings Douglas J. Cohen / Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973) Douglas Carter Beane / Babes in Arms - 1999 New York Cast Recording (1999) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Kari’s back to talk about a musical no one wants to talk about! Well, not NO ONE but not enough people in Patrick’s opinion. Topics include: Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, the greatness of Barbara Harris, 3 Act musicals, the glorious comedic timing of Barbara Harris, the genius of Sheldon Harnick, the rhapsodic joy one feels listening to Barbara Harris, Warren Beatty (and how he wronged Barbara Harris), and how much we miss Barbara Harris. Kari Ginsburg Dot Com Uproar Coaching! Barbara Harris in Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? Barbara Harris performing “Oh to Be a Movie Star” and “Gorgeous” at the Tonys in 1966 Barbara Harris winning her (much deserved) Tony Award Featured recordings: The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Emai
I’m guessing if you listen to a podcast about original cast albums, then you know who Joe Iconis is and you probably also know how thrilled I am to be talking with him this week. Aside from his Tony-nominated score for Be More Chill, Joe’s other vast musical credits include the likes of The Black Suits, Punk Rock Girl!, Bloodsong of Love, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love in Hate Nation. He’s coming to us from La Jolla Playhouse where he is debuting his newest musical: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical. Topics include: parents with shitty musical tastes, Inner-City Mother Goose, Carol Hall, Elaine Stritch, and Mandy Patinkin auditioning for Back to the Future Mr Joe Iconis Dot Com The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical at La Jolla! Featured recordings: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978) • Free to Be... You and Me - Marlo Thomas and Friends (1972) • Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • Guys and Dolls - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1992) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Robbie’s back (again) for what is a seminal recording for fans of a certain age. Topics include: single fun aunts, over-acting with masks, jumpers & big collars, natural disasters, Michael Ball, documentaries about Laurie Beechman, vests, and Victoria Clarke Syndrome. Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection + Encore on YOUTUBE! Cast Album Cage Match: EVITA vs. Billy Recce Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music Of Laurie Beechman the cover art for Sarah Brightman Sings the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1992) Robbie Rozelle Dot Com Featured recordings: The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1987) • Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection Encore (1992) • Gold - Linda Eder (2002) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! 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! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
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