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 #58: No But
Distantly Social Theatre presents No But a short play written by Patrick Flynn starring Angeleaza Anderson, Michelle Polera, and Carl Williams.
Covert art photograph by David Wardrick.
No But was originally presented at Bethesda Play-in-a-Day 2019 with this same cast.
No But script available for licensing at the New Play Exchange!
Recording produced, directed, and edited by Patrick Flynn
Distantly Social #57: Joanna McKee
Walking and thinking and walking and watching.
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MUSIC: “C.B.” performed by Michael Staniforth with Jeffrey Daniel from Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
Distantly Social #56: Eliza Berkon
Eliza just started a new job in March!
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MUSIC: “Tear Me Down” performed by John Cameron Mitchell from Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Cast Album (1998), music and lyrics by Stephen Trask
Distantly Social #55: Tia Shearer Bassett
Tia and I talk to each other while kids talk to us.
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MUSIC: “I Feel Pretty” performed by Kyle Taylor Parker from his album Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 (2019), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from West Side Story (1957)
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.
Distantly Social #54: Tuesday with Robbie
Conspiracy theories, one-person shows, Ordinary Days, and Tell Me on a Sunday just to name a few.
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MUSIC: “The Cookie Chase” performed by Angela Lansbury from Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Distantly Social #53: Kenny Neal
Nostalgia is a dangerous drug.
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MUSIC: “U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.” performed by Frances Ruffelle from Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984), music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
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!
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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)
Distantly Social #51: Eric Messner
I should’ve paid attention in Health class.
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MUSIC: “Soliloquy” performed by John Raitt from Carousel - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1945), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
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.
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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
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!
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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
Casey Erin Clark / Little Women - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)
Actor/singer/coach/multi-hyphenate Casey Erin Clark is here for a Sutton Foster vehicle that brings the sincerity.
Topics Include: snark, corsets, Frank Wildhorn, and that time Casey slid 15’ across a stage on her bum.
Distantly Social #48: Tuesday with Robbie
It’s still Tuesday with Robbie but we need to talk about the latest Pulitzer winner!
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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
Distantly Social #47: Nicole Hertvik
Nicole and DC Metro Theater Arts have an interesting problem: what do you write about when there’s no theatre to write about
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MUSIC: “Being Alive” performed by Dean Jones from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Distantly Social #46: Lee Liebeskind
Lee works for WILL Interactive and they’re figuring it out just like you and me.
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MUSIC: “Allegro” performed by Norbert Leo Butz & Liz Callaway from Allegro - First Complete Recording (2009), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Distantly Social #45: Laura Esti Miller
Laura and I want you to check on your extroverts.
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MUSIC: “Circles in the Sand” performed by Adam Chanler-Berat from Fly By Night - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2014), music and lyrics by Will Connolly & Michael Mitnick & Kim Rosenstock
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.
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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
Distantly Social #43: Garrett Anderson
Garrett works in Acquisitions and Artistic Development at Concord Theatricals where they’re innovating their way through the suck.
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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
Michael Innocenti / The Producers - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2001)
Director/actor/lighting designer Michael Innocenti brings this (now) 19-year-old megahit to the podcast and asks "What am comedy?"
Topics Include: Neil Simon, Catskills, the corner of Jewish and Catholic, and what is Mel Brooks's 2nd-worst film?
Distantly Social #42: Tuesday with Robbie
Robbie started a podcast. How dare he.
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MUSIC: “Hosing the Furniture” performed by Lauren Marcus from the album The Jonathan Larson Project - Original Cast (2019), music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, written for Sitting on the Edge of the Future (1989)