We're talking about the musical about the French Revolution!!! Wait, no, we didn't already do that because Les Mis doesn't take place during the French Revolution! It's Frank Wildhorn's The Scarlet Pimpernel, the musical with almost as many versions as Chess. Based on a novel (and a play and a series of books and a series of movies and ...) by Baroness Orczy at the turn of the century, it had a number of openings, closing, rewrites, and attempts at Tony awards. Percy Blakeney marries the beautiful French woman Margaueritte only to find she's been instrumental in turning in nobility to the executioners. So, he takes on a disguise to help people escape France, chased by the relentless Chauvelin. Find out what happens in the episode!To find out more about Christine, please check out mynameispurpose on most if not all social media apps.For more Footnoting History, go to https://www.footnotinghistory.com/ or find them on any podcatcher!Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com
Good morning, Starshine! It's time to Be-In and go through Act 2 of Hair! Just make sure you're sitting down cause act 2 is a ride that goes all over the place. So, Let the Sun Shine and join us!Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com
It's the summer of love and the sexual revolution and Vietnam is happening and there's so much civil unrest! It's time for Hair! So let's pull out our best bell bottoms and prayer beads and get ready to sit in and be in. Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com
We don't normally do this but we also don't normally do 3 act musicals!!! The Lady from Lourdes has shown up to investigate the Miracle but who is she? And what is Hopgood up to? And will Cora get all the Cookies back in the Cookie Jar? Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com
This July, we're talking about Sonheim's second Broadway show he did both the music and lyrics for. Yes, we say it's the first in the show but we're correcting that now! Everyone in a small, poor town is overseen by the ruthless mayor Cora, who's opposed by a nurse at the local mental hospital, Fay Apple. What happens when a natural miracle promises health and curative powers for the citizens? And who is this mysterious man who shows up to help out the citizens when they can't tell who's a patient at the hositpal and who's a citizen of the town?Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com
Albin has left the stage, and the Dondins are on their way!! What can Georges and Jean-Michel do to patch this up and get Anne's family to love them? Well, a lot of shenanigans and the realization Jean-Michel is a terrible person. We're finishing up La Cage! Strap on your highest heels and join us! We are what we are!!
It's June and to celebrate Pride, we're going back to La Cage Aux Folles! Come for the drag and stay for the shenanigans!!
One of us just finsihed a show, and the other one of us is on their honey moon so let's talk about the Tony nominees that are out!!!
Wicked: For Good isn't out yet, but we're here to talk about Act 2 of the musical, which, spoiler alert, will be the basis of the second movie! After Elphaba leaves the Emerald City, things take a dark turn. And then Dorothy drops in.For more Emily Edwards content, please check out https://msemilyedwards.com/ or find her on Bluesky at @msemilyedwards.bsky.social. You can check out F*bois of Literature on the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/fuckboisoflit/posts and the Ticklish Business podcast at https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com
*sung to the tune of Popular*Crossover! We're doing a CROSS OVER!This week is a big week here cause we're doing a crossover with Emily Edwards, author and host of F*ckbois of Literature podacst to talk about Wicked. We talked about the book over there and we're gonna talk about the show over here so go check out Emily's episode based on the book, and if you're joining us from here, welcome and strap on your silver shoes and get ready to dance through this blockbuster musical!For more Emily Edwards content, please check out https://msemilyedwards.com/ or find her on Bluesky at @msemilyedwards.bsky.social. You can check out F*bois of Literature on the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/fuckboisoflit/posts and the Ticklish Business podcast at https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com
It's Act 2 and we're ready to be tossed off the .. I mean, find out what Urinetown ACTUALLY is! Where is it? Who lives there? What is a metaphor? None of these questions and more will be answered until we have a musical song and snap number. Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com
We continue the year of revolutionary thinking to bring you Urinetown! What is Urinetown? Where is Urinetown? Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for act 2 for this to be revealed in song and dance but until then, we can learn more about this city we live in and the people who inhabit it who have to pay for the privilege to pee.https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast
We're still wintering in the Hamptons with Big Edie and Little Edie and their army of racoons and cats! It's act 2, which means we're heavy into the documentary territory recreation and out of fantasy land. What caused the rift between the two? Can one have cake AND eat it? What's up with Jerry? https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast
We're donning our revolutionary costumes for today and are taking you back in time to discuss Grey Gardens! Act 1 is all about Big Edie overshadowing Little Edie during her engagement announcement to Joe Kennedy Jr and the fallout that happens during all of that. Join us out in the Hamptons during this winter in that summer town! https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast
We're talking Pippin today, and we're joined by David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele, historians and authors of books you should read! We're here today to talk about Pippin, the musical about the son of Charlemagne, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson and Bob Fosse, as well as original direction/choreography by Fosse. To round it out, our guests have just released a book they wrote on the sons and grandsons of Charlemagne, called Oathbreakers!For more medieval history, check out their newsletter at https://buttondown.com/ModernMedievalDavid M Perry can be found at https://www.davidmperry.com/Both can be found on blusky Matthew Gabriele @profgabriele.com and David M Perry @lollardfish.bsky.socialOathbreakers can be found at your local or online book seller!
We take a holiday break to talk a bit about an intellectual property that includes musical theater and is associated with Christmas in England, but not necessiarly together. We're talking Peter Pan, the history of the IP, what IS a panto, and why this isn't really a thing in the US.
We're rounding out November with the second act of Mack and Mabel with author and podcaster Emily J. Edwards! For more Emily, check out https://msemilyedwards.com/and for Ticklish Business, check out https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Leave a five star review and rating! Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast
Today we're joined by Emily Edwards, author and cohost of the Ticklish Business podcast!!! We're talking pre Hayes code Hollywood, or at least the Jerry Herman rose colored glasses version of it in the famous musical flop, Mack and Mabel! Get out your liverwurst on rye and settle in for some mayhem.For more Emily, check out https://msemilyedwards.com/and for Ticklish Business, check out https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Leave a five star review and rating! Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast
We finish off spooky month with the second act of Gentleman's Guide!!! Who's killing the D'Ysquiths? Why didn't this podcast episode come out on time? Will Monty marry Phoebe or Sybella? All of these questions might be answered on this podcast!!!
This October we're talking about MURDER and DEATH and maybe sorta LOVE. It's The Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder! See how one actor plays 500 different roles like that one TikToker renacting Rock Island from the Music Man! Gush over the legitimate singing! Shudder at the horrific deaths of the D'Ysquith family members!