Episodes

  • Jeremy O'Keefe / Big - Original Cast Recording (1996)
    Oct 21 2020

    Filmmaker Jeremy O’Keefe is with us this week to talk about a musical that I disparaged on the show 2 weeks ago. So that’s karma for you.

    Topics Include: Wilmington, Delaware, being afraid of growing up at 16, Tony Randall, sleeping on the sidewalk for Rent tickets, and Big 2 which is my idea and you can’t steal it and Jeremy has first look so don’t even ask.

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    Featured Recordings: Big - Original Cast Recording (1996) • Sunset Boulevard - American Premiere Recording (1993)

    Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube!

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    DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Out now is the third in our continuing series on the A Star is Born series of films: the 1976 version with Barbra and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Intermission: Einstein's Dreams of Al Silber
    Oct 14 2020

    We’re talking about the new musical Einstein’s Dreams and your reaction to the episode on 1776.

    Featured Songs: “Einstein’s Dreams” sung by Alexandra Silber and “High-Speed Motion” sung by Talia Cosentino and the Ensemble from Einstein’s Dreams - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2019)

    Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube!

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    DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Out now is the third in our continuing series on the A Star is Born series of films: the 1976 version with Barbra and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra!

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    10 mins
  • Mikey Bevarelli / Groundhog Day - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
    Oct 7 2020

    From the Buried Broadway podcast, actor Mikey Bevarelli is here for a musical by an Aussie based on an American movie by an Aussie based on an American movie.

    Topics Include: audience expectations, Andy Karl, big Broadway scores, the little things, Let My People Come, and Ned Ryerson.

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    Featured Recordings: Groundhog Day - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017) • Let My People Come - The Original Cast Album (1974) • Look at Us - Sonny & Cher (1965)

    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! Out now is the third in our continuing series on the A Star is Born series of films: the 1976 version with Barbra and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra!

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    55 mins
  • Intermission: Trimmed Hair (w/ Serena Berman)
    Sep 30 2020

    I’m away this week so here’s some an excised portion from my conversation with Serena Berman about Hair. Mainly deleted because I talk a lot. I had a lot to say about Hair.

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    Featured Song: “Going Down” from Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968)

    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! Out now is the third in our continuing series on the A Star is Born series of films: the 1976 version with Barbra and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra!

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    11 mins
  • Theresa Beckhusen / 1776 - Original Broadway Cast (1969)
    Sep 23 2020

    Journalist Theresa J. Beckhusen is here for a musical adaptation of a half-heard history lesson retold through the lens of “everything’s fine!”

    Topics Include: not-so-bad-for-1969, Thomas Jefferson’s views on enslavement, how dumb “The Egg” is, Mr. Feeny, Vietnam, and one song that is actually more relevant now than it even was then.

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    Featured Recordings: 1776 - Original Broadway Cast (1969) • Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015)

    Watch the Original Cast Live at La-Ti-Do on YouTube!

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    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.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Intermission: Musicals Named After My Kids Decades Before They Were Born
    Sep 16 2020

    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.

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    11 mins
  • Dane Figueroa Edidi / Ain't Misbehavin' - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1978)
    Sep 9 2020

    Performer-singer-mentor and Helen Hayes Award-winning writer Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is here for a Tony-winning revue of 30s music staged in the 80s but that lives forever.

    Topics Include: songs about weed, Billy Porter, Nell Carter, the black experience through white eyes, art that shouldn’t survive, and the good reasons why Lady Dane does not like Hamilton.

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    Featured Recordings: Ain't Misbehavin' - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1978) • “Lush Life” - Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington (1965)

    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.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Intermission: Summer Lovin', Had Me a Blast
    Sep 2 2020

    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.

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    11 mins