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!

Star Johnson / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970)
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Star Johnson / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970)

Star is playwright/lyricist/director who brings to us a fun and funny conversation about a still-relevant turning point in the history of American musical theatre that is further from us historically than it is from Oklahoma!.

Topics Include: gender-blind Bobbies, keeping the comedy in musical comedy, being alive, and sliding into her DMs.

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Distantly Social #52: Mama's Turn
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Distantly Social #52: Mama's Turn

For Mother’s Day, I’m counting down my Top 5 Favorite Broadway Mamas that we’ve covered on this show!

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17!

Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community

Featured Recordings: Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) • Ragtime - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • Fiddler on the Roof - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) • The Who’s Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) • The Light in the Piazza - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) • Waitress - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2016) • Caroline, or Change - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2004) • Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) • Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2009) • Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) • Funny Girl - Original Broadway Cast (1964) • The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) • The Phantom of the Opera - The Original Cast Recording (1986) • Falsettoland - Original Cast (1990) • Into the Woods - Original Broadway Cast (1987) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) • Les Misérables - Orginal Broadway Cast Recording (1987)

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Distantly Social #50: Bryan Plofsky
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Distantly Social #50: Bryan Plofsky

Bryan from the official Broadwaysted! Podcast (where they’re drunk on theatre) is here for some inside baseball and outside dog walking.

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17!

Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community

MUSIC: “Hair” performed by James Rado & Gerome Ragni from Hair - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968), music by Galt MacDermot, lyrics by James Rado &Gerome Ragni

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Distantly Social #49: Robyn Rikoon
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Distantly Social #49: Robyn Rikoon

In January, Robyn moved from DC to New Mexico to become the newly minted Artistic Director at the Santa Fe Playhouse!

The Santa Fe Playhouse Donut Button!

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17!

Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community

MUSIC: “Santa Fe” performed by Jesse L. Martin from Rent - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996), music by Jonathan Larson, lyrics by Jonathan Larson and Billy Aronson

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Distantly Social #48: Tuesday with Robbie
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Distantly Social #48: Tuesday with Robbie

It’s still Tuesday with Robbie but we need to talk about the latest Pulitzer winner!

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour EXTENDED THRU MAY 17!

Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community

MUSIC: “Exile in Gayville,” “Intermission Song,” and “Today” performed by Larry Owens with L Morgan Lee, James Jackson Jr, John-Michael Lyles, John-Andrew Morrison, Jason Veasey, & Antwayn Harper from A Strange Loop - Original Cast Recording (2019), music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson

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Distantly Social #47: Nicole Hertvik
Distantly Social #44: Broadwaysted!
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Distantly Social #44: Broadwaysted!

Two fun cuts from my wonderful conversation with Kimberly & Bryan from the official Broadwaysted! podcast about Sunday in the Park with George.

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3.

Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community

MUSIC: “I’ve Got You to Lean On” performed by Angela Lansbury, Gabriel Dell, Arnold Soboloff, & James Frawley from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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Distantly Social #43: Garrett Anderson
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Distantly Social #43: Garrett Anderson

Garrett works in Acquisitions and Artistic Development at Concord Theatricals where they’re innovating their way through the suck.

Watch Nexus by Danielle Mohlman on its virtual national tour now through May 3.

Taking Care - An Emergency Fund for the Washington Theatre Community

MUSIC: “Stool Boom” performed by Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, & Fred Willard Parker Posey from Red, White & Blaine - Original Cast Album (1996), music and lyrics by Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer

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