Named one of Playbill’s
”7 Standout Theatre Podcasts”
a podcast about original cast albums
and the people who love them
Each episode, Patrick interviews someone who’d see on-stage, backstage, or in the house of a theatre about an original cast album they love. Past guests include Rebecca Luker, Joe Iconis, Bonnie Milligan, Julie Benko, Glen Weldon, Liz Callaway, Christopher Gattelli, Alexandra Petri, Douglas Carter Beane, Gabriel Barre, Ken Davenport, Daisy Eagan, Alexandra Silber, Robbie Rozelle, Robert W. Schneider, and so many more!
Distantly Social #24: Tuesday with Robbie
Not feeling it.
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MUSIC: "It's Today" performed by Angela Lansbury, from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
Distantly Social #23: Amanda Zeitler
We start in a genuine place of interest and then I get obsessed with the idea of "Conference Conference" and now that's my whole day.
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MUSIC: "Superhero Girl" performed by Liz Larsen, from Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999), music and lyrics by Barry Keating
Distantly Social #22: Jason Schlafstein
Jason and Flying V are launching a podcast. I ask: "How dare he?"
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MUSIC: "Opening Ceremony" performed by Björn Skifs, from Chess - Benny Andersson | Tim Rice | Björn Ulvaeus (1984), music by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, lyrics by Tim Rice
Distantly Social #21: Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
Maybe not the best song for a 10-year-old but we're keeping him level.
Plus I mix up Marcus Lycus and Miles Gloriosus for almost 10 minutes much The Boy's frustration.
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MUSIC: "Lovely (Reprise)" performed on the clarinet by Bobby Flynn, music by Stephen Sondheim, from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; "Everybody Oughta Have a Maid" performed by Lewis J. Stadlen, Nathan Lane, Mark Lin-Baker, & Ernie Sabella, from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Original 1996 Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Distantly Social #19: Chil Kong
Chil is the Artistic Director at Adventure Theatre MTC and is working on ways of keeping his community engaged and entertained.
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MUSIC: "Together Wherever We Go" performed by Ethel Merman with Jack Klugman & Sandra Church from Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959), music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Clare Carys O'Connell / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Broadway Musical (1999)
Clare has appeared in some of the top theatres in DC and Baltimore. Which wouldn't be so remarkable except for the fact that she's nine-years-old!
Topics Include: auditioning, forgetting to breathe, pretending to drive a car, and loving what you're doing.
Distantly Social #18: Tuesday with Robbie
Okay, your prompt is Lee Remick taking Stephen Sondheim to Studio 54 in 1975. Go!
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MUSIC: "Ah, Paris!" performed by Fifi D'Orsay from Follies - Original Broadway Cast (1971), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Distantly Social #17: Jenna Duncan & Kevin Place
Jenna is Associate Artistic Director at Olney Theatre. Kevin is Associate Producer at Theatre J. And they're engaged!
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MUSIC: "With You on My Arm" performed by Gene Barry & George Hearn from La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
Distantly Social #16: Evan Casey & Tracy Lynn Olivera
Have some coffee with Evan & Tracy as they keep on keepin' on.
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Stream The Amateurs by Jordan Harrison featuring Evan Casey at OlneyTheatre.org!
Take a class with Tracy Lynn Olivera through Theatre Lab!
MUSIC: "Come Up to My Place" performed by Mandy Patinkin & Judy Blazer from Leonard Bernstein's New York - Nonesuch Records (1996), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green, from On the Town (1944)
Distantly Social #15: Chris Klimek
Chris Klimek has been socially distant for six weeks due to knee surgery and not even Twin Peaks makes sense anymore.
Apologies for the audio on this one, both of our internets were acting up.
MUSIC: "I'm Not Finished Yet" performed by Patricia Marand from It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - Original Broadway Cast (1966), music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams
Distantly Social #14: Kevin Jaeger
Kevin from Broadwaysted! is keeping busy uptown.
MUSIC: "Curtain Call" performed by Ben Fankhauser from Broadwaysted, Actually - Original Cast Album (2019), music by Ben Fankhauser, lyrics by Kevin Jaeger
Distantly Social #13: Don Mike Mendoza
Don Mike Mendoza is here from La-Ti-Do talking about Pittsburgh, making money where possible, and #RacismIsAVirus.
MUSIC: "We're Gonna Be Alright" performed by Judy Kuhn & Malcolm Gets from Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel - Judy Kuhn (2015), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)
Joanna McKee / Anastasia - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor respects the emotional implications of said facts. But, y'know, royalty!
Topics include: Frozen 2, Gleb, Starlight Express, Gleb, eating the rich, Gleb, disregarding history, and seriously what is up with Gleb?
Distantly Social #12: Tuesday with Robbie
It's Tuesday and that means Robbie Rozelle and that means DISCO SONDHEIM!
MUSIC: "Megamix: Take Me to the World" performed by Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Joshua Hinck & Scott Wasserman (2020), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, additional music by Leonard Bernstein
Distantly Social #11: Alexandra Silber
Al Silber wants you to be exactly like her cat.
MUSIC: "Matchmaker" performed by Alexandra Silber with Samantha Massell & Melanie Moore from Fiddler on the Roof - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Distantly Social #9: Catscast
The first and last episode of the podcast Catscast with Kari & Patrick & Roddy.
MUSIC: "The Rum Tum Tugger" performed by Terrence V. Mann from Cats - Original Broadway Cast (1982), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by T. S. Eliot
Distantly Social #8: Lauren Halvorsen
Lauren Halvorsen talks cemetery walks and nothing else.
MUSIC: "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" performed by Paul Williams from Bugsy Malone - Original Soundtrack Album (1976), music and lyrics by Paul Williams
Distantly Social #7: Danielle Mohlman
Danielle Mohlman is a Seattle-based playwright and one of my favorite people. And she's here with tales of theatres doing the right thing.
MUSIC: "Try It and See" sung by Rita Pavone the B-side of her single "Till Tomorrow" (1969), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice