Straight back into Toronto and the Off2Broadway podcast, it’s Stefania Lounsbury taking back to the Goodman household and all contained therein.
Topics Include: Alice Ripley’s eyes, the over-analysis of musical theatre, Pretty Woman<...
2020-08-11 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Straight outta Toronto and the Off2Broadway podcast, it’s Tara Stanton taking us back to Oz not once, not twice, but SEVEN TIMES!
Topics Include: Hamilton, projections, the magic, the joy, the love, and living a 2-show life.
2020-08-04 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Five-time Tony Award-nominee Douglas Carter Beane brings us an overlooked Rodgers & Hart classic.
Topics Include: putting on shows in barns, woke for 1939, a more talented but more annoying version of Shirley Temple, aircraft on stage pr...
2020-07-28 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Robbie Rozelle (Mame, et al.) and Robert W. Schneider (La Cage Aux Folles) are here for a wild one. Where to begin? Valerie Perrine? Steve Guttenberg? THE VILLAGE PEOPLE? BABY JUNE??? Anyway, it was funnier in Angels in Ameri...
2020-07-27 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a a walk through her career and the show Sheldon Harnick calls our “greatest American opera.”
Topics Include: getting an agent out of town, auditioning for Hal Prince, balancing your work...
2020-07-21 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Tony-winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, SpongeBob SquarePants, Altar Boyz, The King and I, High Fidelity, et al.) brings our third dive into a show that you either love deeply...
2020-07-14 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Children’s TV host Carly Ciarrocchi is here for a wonderful conversation about how one show can set your whole world in motion.
Topics Include: discount Disney DJ for bar mitzvahs, working together, finding what you’re good at, live chil...
2020-07-07 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor/performer/writer Tori Bouton is here for the last year’s Tony Award-winner for Best Musical.
Topics Include: Amber Gray, tragic endings, Amber Gray, why we wing this song, Amber Gray, Andre DeShields, and Amber Gray.
2020-06-30 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
I wanted to give you an update on some changes that we’ll be seeing which may affect some of your pledges. Due to new laws passing in several countries and US states, Patreon will be required to start charging sales tax on som...
2020-06-29 12:25:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Roddy Flynn & Kari Ginsburg are back for the second A Star is Born which means Judy! Judy! Judy!! JUDY!!!!!
2020-06-27 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor/music director/podcaster Kevin David Thomas is here for a musical that takes you there and back. On a bus.
Topics Include: Jekyll & Hyde, Lauren Ward over Sutton Foster, M&M’s, why we do what we do, and Kevin & P...
2020-06-23 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 assignm...
2020-06-16 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2020-06-09 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, beautiful people.
This week, I will be joining the music and dance industry by observing #BlackoutTuesday tomorrow. I woul...
2020-06-02 02:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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)! Also the nature of fame, the paradox of stardom, and a certain am...
2020-05-27 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Lara is the host of the podcast Stage Door Stories and has the best “how did this show come into your life?” story ever.
Topics include: Jeremy Kushnier, Jeremy Kushnier rapping, Jeremy Kushnier sliding across the stage in a T-s...
2020-05-26 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake is a director who brings his insightful theatrical mind to the best worst musical of all time that people either love to death or have no strong feelings about either way.
Topics Include: Bobby Fischer, the agony of Freddie, the e...
2020-05-19 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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!...
2020-05-12 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Director/actor/lighting designer Michael Innocenti brings this (now) 19-year-old megahit to the podcast and asks "What am comedy?"
Topics Include: Neil Simon, Catskills, the corner of Jewish and Catholic, and what is Mel Brooks's 2nd-worst f...
2020-04-28 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
From the team that brought you Promises! Promises! comes a film with everything: Walking! Coats! Racist make-up! Gowns! Everything except plot, character development, stakes, and/or a consistent tone. Join Logan Culwell-Block (Little ...
2020-04-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Johnny sings bass in The King's Singers and was almost literally born into this Lloyd Webber/Rice mainstay.
Topics Include: finding oneself part of a six-man vocal ensemble, naming all the colours in Joseph's coat, jacks-of-all-trades/master...
2020-04-21 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest host Kari Ginsburg talks to usual host Patrick Flynn about his rebirth as a music theatre devotee and what he thought the podcast would be versus what it is.
Topics Include: the Queen, Judy Kuhn, long may she reign; oddball Juan Perón...
2020-04-14 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 recor...
2020-04-07 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Clare has appeared in some of the top theatres in DC and Baltimore. Which wouldn't be so remarkable except for the fact that she's nine-years-old!
Topics Include: auditioning, forgetting to breathe, pretending to drive a car, and loving what...
2020-03-31 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This year, Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, TONYS!!!!, et al.), Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, TONYS!!!!, et al.) and I are going to cover all 4 theatrical film versions of A Star is Born. And we start with at t...
2020-03-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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:...
2020-03-24 23:28:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello, patrons of the Original Cast!
In celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday on Sunday, I'm releasing a special episode full of friends and fans telling us what their favorite Sondheim song is. If you're so inclined, please ...
2020-03-20 13:56:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2020-03-17 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm going to try and release 7 episodes a week during this time of social distancing where I talk to people in the theatre about what they're seeing and how they're doing.
First up: Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) ...
2020-03-13 00:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post
People make movies and then musicals of those movies and some are not great. But some are transcendently good.
2020-03-10 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post