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 book and when they don't meet, the unbearable heaviness of Alan Jay Lerner, and a 70-year-old musical that slaps.

Robbie's here! 3 Act Musicals! Astoria, Queens! Office Trees!

MUSIC: "Try Me" sung by Nicholas Barasch from She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

Farrell Parker talks about New Jersey and tax prep!

MUSIC: "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" sung by Christopher Neil from Evita - An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron: 1919-1952 (1976), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

It's the Broadway Baby himself: Alex Fossella is here to wildly speculate on what the trailer for the Hamilton movie will be like.

MUSIC: "Broadway Baby" sung by Daisy Eagan from Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Roddy is here straight from the room where it* happened!

*Congress, not like, the room where the virus started. That'd be bananas.

MUSIC: "The Room Where It Happened" sung by Leslie Odo m Jr. from Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015), music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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) and Jay Schmidt (The Full Monty) talk from uptown Manhattan.

MUSIC: "We Need a Little Christmas" sung by Angela Lansbury from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

Beth Amann (Wicked) is the Managing Director of the Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre company Monumental. Their acclaimed production of Head Over Heels has been cut short by recent events. Also cheese boards.

MUSIC: "Mad About You" sung by Andrew Durand from Head Over Heels - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018), music and lyrics by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan, Mitchel Young Evans

People make movies and then musicals of those movies and some are not great. But some are transcendently good.

It's a play this week! No singing, no music, just words. Good words. Tom Stoppard words. And a great guest: Chris Stinson.

Topics include: nihilism, love, Cynthia Nixon doing two Broadway plays at once, and how Jeremy Irons's character may have led to Brexit.

I give you this guitar but only if you solemnly promise never to bring it to a party without being asked.

Jenna is a director in DC (she directed my adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit) and is also the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at Olney Theatre Center. And she's here for a big hit that we all love and, actually, is a lot more layered than you may think.

Topics include: tradition, love, Thestrals, and the importance of stage presence.

Is it possible to mathematically determine whether or not a Broadway show is a flop?

Yes, it is.

We did it.

Yay!

James is many things to many people. He's a performer, director, publicity director at Signature Theatre in DC, and also the book writer for the musical Glory Days which ran on Broadway for one performance in 2008. And he's here to talk about all those things as well as the best show ever written that doesn't work.

Topics include: That Frank, book writing is hard, Glory Days (of course), and how what we lose in the fire we gain in the flood.

Did you know there were other kinds of music besides original cast recordings? Me neither.

Also, we talk about Cats.

Playwright/actress Serena Berman has finally brought us the landmark "bookless" musical Hair.

Topics include: free love, the Starbucks-itization of hippies, drugs, the power of revivals for a new generation, and the anxiety of having a good time.

A snippet from my conversation with composer/lyricist Adam Gwon (Scotland, PA, Ordinary Days) about the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of theatre.

It's a big one to kick off the year! Bryan Plofsky and Kimberly Cooper Schmidt of the official Broadwaysted! podcast (where they're drunk on theatre) are here for a big musical that two of us love and one of us also loves but not as much as the first two which is fine but not really because this is the best musical ever.

Topics include: anti-heroes, shows that hold you at arms-length, Fosse/Verdon, and the Mandy of it all.

Here's a silly one to kick-off 2020. The title says it all. Well, not ALL. If it said it ALL then you wouldn't need the 9-minute episode, you'd just need the title.

Still don't know whether or not to become a Patreon patron of The Original Cast? Well, you should. But if you're on the fence, here's Robbie Rozelle and I giving you a sample as we dissect the "Original Cast Album: Co-op" episode of Documentary Now!.

It's Saturnalia! So here's the pilot episode of a podcast Beth Amann and I created called What is Love Actually?!

What is Love Actually? Is it a simple romantic Christmas movie or is it a horrible mistake that actually killed the rom com? Well, that's what Beth Amann and Patrick Flynn are here to find out.

We're kicking it off with Solomon Parker III and Josh Simon, two millennials that have never seen Love Actually before. What will they think? What will they feel? How great were the cheese plates Beth made for the screening? You'll learn the answers to the first two questions during the episode and the third right now: they were amazing.