Sophie and Patrick discuss the routines their parents trotted them out to perform for company and how inappropriate they were for kids.

Flying V Theatre’s managing director Jon Rubin is here to talk about one of the most heartbreaking musicals ever written. Topics include: inter-faith relationships, Tu BiShvat, and isn’t Jamie the worst for cheating on Cathy? I mean, oh my God, what he did is completely unforgivable and don’t even get me started on “The Schmuel Song.”

Patrick and John discuss the increase in dialogue on original cast albums and solve all the problems. . . Or don’t.

Sara works at Ford’s Theatre here in DC and is an avid music theatre historian and she has come down to the studio to discuss a show steeped in history which both she and Patrick have very mixed feelings about. Topics include rhyming “glow” and “grow,” super-directors, and Fosse vs Schwartz.

Patrick and Lee start with SPRING AWAKENING move to AVENUE Q then FINDING NEMO: THE MUSICAL to WINNIE-THE-POOH to Broken Lizard back to SPRING AWAKENING then on to RENT and somehow land on HAIR.

Amanda introduces Patrick to a show he had not only never heard but never heard of. After a thorough plot synopsis things get personal, then philosophical, then pedagogical, then philosophical again, then paleontological.

During their ONCE ON THIS ISLAND talk, Michael and Patrick detoured into one of Patrick’s pet peeves: bad lyricism. And it goes there.

Actor and director Kari Ginsburg is here to talk about one woman’s fall from grace as she facilitates the rise of her daughter from the front of a cow to the greatest stripper in the history of the world.

Sophie and Patrick go through Playbill writer and theatre blogger Mark Robinson's (@theatreguy22) post "Showtune Shenanigans: The Showtunes I Jump Over" one-by-one and add some of their own suggestions to the list.

Actor and grad student John Dellaporta stops by to talk about one of the best revival cast albums out there. Topics include the callback list for the original production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Hal Prince’s ill-fated A DOLL HOUSE musical, and national treasure Faith Prince.

What does Patrick do with all bits either too short or too weird to wind up in an Intermission? Edit them all together in one big episode of course!

Actor Sophie Schulman stops by to talk about the music that makes her dance. Also: Barbra, Barbra, Ellen, and Barbra.

The second and third parts in our on-going series of close encounters of the Mandy kind.

Director/actor Lee Liebeskind talks about a show neither he nor Patrick have seen even though they both know people who did it on Broadway. Topics include: closing numbers, smoky vocals, and whether or not Patrick knows John Gallagher Jr well enough to call him “John.”

During their CHESS conversation, Patrick had some points about the quality of Tim Rice’s lyrics. Jason, being himself, had some counterpoints.

Michael J. Bobbitt, artistic director of Adventure Theatre MTC, stops by ostensibly to discuss the 1990 Flaherty & Ahrens musical ONCE ON THIS ISLAND but he and Patrick quickly diverge into discussions of stripped-down theatre, racial appropriation, and what constitutes "children's theatre." It gets real. Get into it.

During their FLORA THE RED MENACE conversation, Hannah updated Patrick on her new role in The Welders playwrights collective and what we can expect from The Welders 2.0.

Dramaturg, audience enrichment manager at Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Welder 2.0 Hannah Hessel Ratner joins Patrick to talk about Kander & Ebb's first collaboration, Liza Minelli's Broadway debut, and one of George Abbott's last shows: FLORA THE RED MENACE. Patrick and Hannah talk about the tenants of communism, how one sings about communism, and whether communism will save us from making cannon fodder of our youth.

During their ANYONE CAN WHISTLE conversation, Patrick and Roddy took a detour into two shows that they had strong feelings about in the 90s and still have strong feelings about today.

Playwright Liz Maestri stops by to talk about the London cast recording of LES MISÉRABLES. Patrick and Liz discuss the difference between a “leading lady” and a “lady,” roles that are beneath Patti LuPone, and whether woodwinds belong in a marching band.