The Original Cast show

The Original Cast

Summary: A podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright Patrick Flynn.

Podcasts:

 Angela Kay Pirko / The Phantom of the Opera - The Original Cast Recording (1986) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:30:37

We all knew this day would come.

 Intermission: What She Said | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:08

Nicole Hertvik from the incomparable DC Metro Theatre Arts interviews Patrick and Michelle Polera about their new show What She Said which can be seen this Friday at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival.

 Christina A. Coakley / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:10

Director Christina A. Coakley is here for this beautiful but little-known show from the team that brought you Ragtime about a closeted man in 1960s Dublin.

 Intermission: Designs and Designing (w/ Heather C. Jackson) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:50

Heather is a costume designer. So we talked a lot about designing and designers and notes and all that good stuff.

 Rick Westerkamp / Applause - Original Cast Recording (1970) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:50

Actor/teacher Rick Westerkamp is here for the last Best Musical Tony-winner before Company based on one of the most Academy Award-winning films ever made starring an actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood. And I bet you've never heard it.

 Elegy: Hal Prince | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 07:09

Harold Smith Prince, 30 January 1928 - 31 July 2019

 Intermission: Design, Composition, Tension, Balance, Light, & Harmony (w/ Robbie Rozelle) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:35

Robbie is the A&R Director and in-house designer for Grammy-winning record label Broadway Records. So he has a lot to say about design. Patrick wrote a book about visual literacy. So he has a lot to say about design. Here's some of what they said together.

 Garrett Anderson / 35MM - Original Cast Recording (2012) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:34

Samuel French literary manager Garrett Anderson is here for this Ryan Scott Oliver song cycle which, coincidentally, is available through Samuel French. Funny how that works.

 Intermission: Superman Cheated (w/ Chris Klimek) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 15:16

Good morning, Mr. & Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. FLASH! Journalist Chris Klimek thinks Superman CHEATED!

 Alex Fossella / Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:30

Comedian and the Broadway Baby himself Alex Fossella is here for mainly a talk about Waitress. But we also talk about Hamilton, Rent, Sunday in the Park with George, Carousel, and other random things that cross the transom of our mutual minds.

 Intermission: Solo Saxophones and God (w/ Laura Esti Miller) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:29

Laura Esti Miller and Patrick talk about seeing the same show 20 years later.

 Bryan Plofsky / Seussical - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:54

The Official Broadwaysted! Podcast's Bryan Plofsky says what he says and means what he meant. And he likes this musical one thousand percent!

 Intermission: The Evolution of the Canon of the American Musical Theatre, 1928-2011 (w/ Courtney Laine Self) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:50

Anyone who has spent time with myself and Courtney knows that we can talk. And we like to talk about American musical theatre and debate about knows more. (Spoiler alert: I do.)

 Bonnie Milligan / Thoroughly Modern Millie - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2002) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:25

Broadway's Belting Bonnie herself is here to talk about the show that put Sutton Foster on the map in a big way.

 IT'S THE TONYS!!!! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:46:06

We go through the nominees, talk about this year in theatre, and predict our winners.

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