Theater History and Mysteries
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The deepest dives you can find anywhere into the history and backstory of the great musical productions. Dense content...for people who aren't. And, I’ll never miss an opportunity to pursue any mystery, bizarre coincidence, improbable event, or supernatural suggestion along the way because, in the words of Dirk Gentley, it is all connected.
You can contact me directly at [email protected]
Released every other Tuesday.
Music by Jon Bruschke and Andrew Howat, arranged, performed, and recorded by Andrew Howat.
Check out the interview on Musical Theater Radio, episode 404: https://www.musicaltheatreradio.com/podcast
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Send us Fan Mail Check out our Hamilton Trivia Quizzes! It took 6 steps to get to the version of Chicago that we know today. So far, we have covered the first three. There was the original play in 1927, written by Maurine Watkins, and the silent film that came out within a year the play. Then there was the 1942 movie starring Ginger Rogers, a show by the name of Roxie Hart. And…curiously....even with Ginger Rogers…it is NOT a musical. And from the early 1940s to the la...
Send us Fan Mail Check out our Hamilton Trivia Quizzes! It took 6 steps to get to the version of Chicago that we know today. There was the original play in 1927, written by Maurine Watkins, and the silent film that came out within a year the play. The musical launched in 1975, was revived in the 1990s, and won the Oscars in the film version of 2002. But stuck right in the middle of that is the 1942 movie starring Ginger Rogers, and the name of the show is Roxie Hart. And…are...
Send us Fan Mail Check out our Hamilton Trivia Quizzes! The musical Chicago is based on an actual case. It inspired at least 6 different large-scale entertainment industry productions. You know the broad strokes – Roxy Hart shoots her lover, goes to trial, is backed by an adoring but doormat of a husband, meets other inmates who are equally heartless and all crave fame, as way to win their cases, and gets off when her slick and sleazy lawyer comes up with a fabrication about reach...
Send us Fan Mail Check out our Hamilton Trivia Quizzes! The musical Chicago is based on an actual case. And not in a distant, this trial inspired a story that’s been retold so many times that who knows, kind of way. A real, actual killing that in many details is exactly like the musical, and in fact was covered by a reporter named Maurine Watkins, who interviewed the real-life Roxy Hart in the actual Cook County jail, then covered the trial, and wrote articles about them all the w...
Send us Fan Mail Check out our Hamilton Trivia Quizzes! Chicago the musical is the longest running revival in Broadway history, second only to Phantom as the longest running show ever, winner of the 2002 Oscar, rare crossover of broadway hit and movie hit, is at the century anniversary of its first Broadway run, which was a play and not a musical. Not a lot of shows go on for 100 years. There are two big questions for the show: Is it pro- or anti-crime? Is it rightabout wome...
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