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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, (aka ), and Liev Schreiber’s finger acting. The McElroy Dot Family https://www.themcelroy.family/ Featured recordings: - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! http://bit.ly/originalcaststore Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 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 , the jauntiest song about molestation, and (weirdly) the State Farm’s Super Bowl commercial. The McElroy Dot Family https://www.themcelroy.family/ Featured recordings: - Original Cast Recording (1993) • - The Who (1969) • - The Who (1971) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! http://bit.ly/originalcaststore Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 , , , 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 , and the upcoming revival of ! SunnySpot Productions https://sunnyspotproductions.com/ Bruce on Instagram Featured recordings: - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! http://bit.ly/originalcaststore Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Video Version at http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! http://bit.ly/originalcaststore 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 http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod • Twitter http://twitter.com/originalcastpod • 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 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 https://emwhitworth.com/ Featured recordings: - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1943) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! http://bit.ly/originalcaststore Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 https://www.danistoller.com/ Featured recordings: - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 , and the teachers who poured themselves into us. The Music School of Delaware Featured recordings: - Original Cast Recording (1976) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 , a long-form movie discussion podcast with musical theatre implications. * Beth Amann and Kari Ginsburg are here to kick off '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 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 http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod
Let’s rap. FINAL “The Year of Barbra” live stream 12/9 (Thu): (1973) with Robbie Rozelle & Len Rodino http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod FIRST “The Year of Barbara (Harris)” live stream 12/20 (Wed): (1986) with Kari Ginsburg & Beth Amann http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod 48 Hour Film Project: Yes We Cannes - Buy a ticket and vote for https://vimeo.com/ondemand/yeswecannes2023groupf Buy one of Patrick’s plays for audiences young and decidedly not young https://www.unknownpenguin.com/published-works by Stephen Spotswood OUT NOW! ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! http://bit.ly/originalcaststore Watch Patrick’s previous award-winning 48 Hour Film on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzdWm1Z3OE Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOQxo97tCL4 MUSIC: ”At Christmas (Joyful Merry Holiday)” by GentleJammers / Pond5 Patreon http://www.patreon.com/originalcastpod • Twitter • Facebook http://www.facebook.com/originalcastpod • 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, , 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: - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 . Austin Pendleton’s Wikipedia page Featured recordings: - Original Cast Recording (1970) • - Barbra Streisand (1964) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Eleni 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 at the Broadway Podcast Network Featured recordings: - World Premiere Recording (1993) • - Original Niedernhausen Cast (1995) • - American Premiere Recording (1994) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Stuart is 1/3 of 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 . 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. Podcast Hinterlands on Instagram Minnie’s Bar on Instagram Featured recordings: - King Diamond (1988) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 and they don’t almost immediately diverge into talking about the Harry Connick Jr/Jessie Mueller revival of 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 , the St. James Theatre (aka: the horseshoe of death), meeting Jessie Mueller, , being “the kiss of death,” and Harry Connick Jr’s assistant. Patrick O’Neill Dot Me https://patrickoneill.me/ Ben Brantley’s 2011 review of Featured recordings: - Original Cast Recording (1999) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 https://www.vincegatton.com/ NSFW: Anita Morris - “A Call from the Vatican” REALLY NSFW: Jane Krakowski - “A Call from the Vatican” Featured recordings: - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992) • - Original Cast Album (1982) • - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 https://found.ee/TheBigTime 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 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 https://www.kariginsburg.com/ Uproar Coaching! Barbara Harris in 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: - Original Broadway Cast (1966) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 , P, , , and . He’s coming to us from La Jolla Playhouse where he is debuting his newest musical: . Topics include: parents with shitty musical tastes, , Carol Hall, Elaine Stritch, and Mandy Patinkin auditioning for Mr Joe Iconis Dot Com https://mrjoeiconis.com/ at La Jolla! Featured recordings: - Original Cast (1978) • - Marlo Thomas and Friends (1972) • - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1992) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream 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 the cover art for (1992) Robbie Rozelle Dot Com https://www.robbierozelle.com/ Featured recordings: (1987) • (1992) • - Linda Eder (2002) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Mike is a New York City-based director who loves the Great American Songbook, trivia, collecting LP records, and hot beverages. And he’s here for a Kander & Ebb show that’s right up there with and in terms of popularity, influence, and success. Topics include: getting the plot wrong, death in musicals, , who would’ve won the Best Score Tony in 1969 had it existed, Don Walker, and Hal Prince’s ethos (or lack thereof). Mike’s Instagram Featured recordings: - Original Cast Album (1968) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Erika is a co-host of the great podcast as well as a writer and performer who loves the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Bookshop. And she’s here for a show she saw FIVE TIMES on Broadway! Topics include: songs from the ’66 original, is Sally Bowles just Millie Dilmount on drugs, the problem of irony, making Generation X feel better, , and what has aged well. That Aged Well Dot Com https://www.thatagedwell.com/ Emergency Podcast Episode on ”Tomorrow Belongs to Me” on Wikipedia Featured recordings: - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • - The Original Broadway Cast (1966) • - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1972) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
’s own Kimberly is back (for the 3rd time) to talk about the album that makes us wonder: "Who . . . Barbra Streisand?” Topics include: how to headphone like Barbra, doing more Zack than you want, James Brolin self-tapes, Hugh Jackman playing a wolf-man, Barbra as the emcee, what you get with the “Deluxe” Edition, and how much dialogue is too much dialogue? ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway YouTube Videos Broadwaysted! Featured recordings: - Barbra Streisand (2016) • - Barbra Streisand (1985) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/OriginalCastPod http://www.patreon.com/OriginalCastPod Confession time. This whole “Year of Barbra” thing has really been a long con to promote a production of the play directed by Patrick and starring today’s guests: Serena Berman (, ) and A.J. Ditty ( ). We open at the Snapple Theatre this fall on the set of and are actively looking for investors.
Paul acts, he writes, he podcasts, he does many things. And he is here to talk about a show that maybe won a lot of Tonys this past Sunday! Or maybe not!! Only way to find out is to listen!!! Topics include: parents acting like children, children forced to be parents, crying through Act 2, , story structure, and how Paul doesn’t know music theory, he just feels things. That Aged Well Dot Com https://www.thatagedwell.com/ Featured recordings: - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) • - A New Broadway Musical (2015) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Taylor J. Williams is a 2023 Tony Award-nominee in the Best Sound Design of a Play category for . He is also a musician who has worked as an electronic music designer on more than 30 Broadway productions including , , , , , and . Topics include: pageantry, melodrama, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, napping in a rats’ nest of cables, Adam Pascal bootlegs, and what does a programmer . . . do? Taylor J Williams Dot Com https://taylorjwilliams.com/ Featured recordings: - Original London Cast Recording (2008) • Aida - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/OriginalCastPod The Year of Barbra Continues! Rob W. Schneider (, ) and Roddy Flynn ( , et al.) join Patrick for yet another bad psychiatrist movie. Now with 5x as much ACTING! Watch on YouTube (free with ads) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZqKRL0r8U
Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she’s come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job. Topics include: getting typecast out of , Anthony Newley, what a producer does, , coming home, and musicals based on nothing. SOMA Stage Dot Org SOPA Now Dot Org https://www.sopacnow.org/ Featured recordings: - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Mark’s website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music (written with Luis D’Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he’s here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart. Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, , and fan-boy-ing out. Recorded LIVE at the Drama Book Shop! Mark-Eugene Garcia Dot Com Featured recordings: - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Rob was the founding editor-in-chief of & is the editor-in-chief of magazine. And he’s here for the only Off-Broadway show to win a Tony Award. Topics include: psuedo-Marxist propaganda, in rep with , Gilbert & Sullivan, Double-LP German recordings, Domar Warehouse, how existence is a female dog and then one perishes, and the vocal stylings of Dame Bea Arthur. American Theatre Dot Org Featured recordings: - The Complete Score (1954) • - Hal Willner (1985) • - Original Cast Recording (1994) • - Columbia Masterworks (1958) • - Original Broadway Cast (1966) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
Kaiya is a civil rights lawyer and a lifelong thespian who uses her legal expertise to empower theatre community members to stand up for their rights and create truly safe and equitable spaces. And she is here with a greatest hits/concept/song collection that helped get her through college. Topics include: everything everywhere all at once, Kickstarter, Melancholy of being in your 20s, Amicus Briefs, the ouroboros of law and culture, , (for, like, a while), and being a lawyer with a passion for theatre. Kaiya Lyons Dot Com https://www.kaiyalyons.com/ YouTube: Are Kerrigan & Lowdermilk Breaking Up?!? | From B | [Bree] Lowdermilk Featured recordings: - Kerrigan-Lowdermilk (2011) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
