Singer/songwriter/actress and genius behind Indie-Folk Sondheim Eleri Ward is here for a musical about self-expression (and indie-folk Sondheim).

Topics include: songs for boys, escalators v. elevators, songs about things, what and how you share yourself, how you see yourself when you’re writing as yourself, and Lil Nas X.

Featured Songs: “We Need a Little Christmas” from Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1996) • “Twelve Days to Christmas” from She Loves Me - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording (2016)

Flying V’s newly minted Theatrical Artistic Lead is here for a musical that maybe no one should do any more?

Topics include: bonding with your parents thru comedy, problematic plot points, meeting people where they are, and Marshall McLuhan.

Two musicals for your enjoyment!

Spandex will debut on Musical Theatre Radio Sunday, August 8th at 1pm and continue for the next four Sundays through September 5th!

Featured Songs: “I'd Give It All for You” from Songs for a New World - World Premiere Recording (1997) • “Old Broken Mirror” and “Spandex” from Spandex: The Musical (2021)

Director and Tudor-nerd Megan Behm is here for a musical of the moment that is more than it initially seems to some of us (by which I mean, me).

Topics include: snootiness, history, and feminism.

. . . I mean, not really but I like lists.

Tony nominee and favorite of this podcast, Liz Callaway is here for the first show she saw on Broadway at 9, a decade before she’d appear on the same stage in a show by the same creative team.

Topics include: the Mets, reunion concerts, auditioning for Sondheim without knowing it, demos, and luck.

A short fantasia by Katya Stanislavskaya.

Casey Erin Clark

Kevin David Thomas

Marissa Rosen & Marty Thomas

Featured Songs: “The Miller’s Son” performed by D. Jamin-Bartlett from A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast (1973) • “The Miller’s Son” performed by Aili Venho from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020)

Actress and cabaret star Marissa Rosen comes by to talk about the show she saw dozens of times on Broadway. Dozens.

Topics include: finding family at the stage door, support singers, sexy/sleazy, Marty Thomas, and going to Duane Reade in a full face and lashes.

Eleri Ward, Stephen Sondheim, Bill Finn, William Shakespeare.

SUF/SOND

Featured Songs: “Every Day a Little Death” & “Take Me to the World” from A Perfect Little Death - SUF/SOND (2021)

Composer, lyricist, performer Billy Recce (Little Black Book) is here for an evening of Bill Finn and why he wrote a great musical about Heidi Fleiss.

Topics include: Tom Lehrer, Wanda Houston, Bill Finn’s vocal stylings, and three-dimensionalizing those whom society has two-dimensionalized.

Featured Songs: “In His Eyes” performed by Gavin Creel & Aaron Tveit from Jekyll & Hyde (1996) • “You and Me (But Mostly Me)” performed by Kelly Marie Tran from The Book of Mormon (2013)

Instagram’s own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written.

Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the “Follies” portion, and moving house with so many CDs.

We’ve got voicemails and comments and clips and all you want.

Featured Songs: “Another Hundred People” from Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • “Fanfare” from The Frogs / Evening Primrose - Stephen Sondheim (2001) • “Megamix: Take Me to the World: from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream - Aili Venho, Joshua Hinck, Alison Luff, Blaine Krauss, Brittnie Price, Aneesa Folds, Charity Angél Dawson & Deonté L. Warren (2020)

Two Guests for the price of one! Chris & Holly from the podcast Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical are here for a show they did at Edinburgh Fringe that bears more than a passing resemblance to said Stephen King musical.

CW: sexual assault.

Topics include: Holly as the lead, singing Wicked during Bat Boy, does Off-West End exist?, bags of wigs, and Carrie (of course).

A voicemail on Forum and vaccine stuff.

Featured Songs: “Lullaby of Broadway” - Wini Shaw (1935) • “Seeing is Believing” from Aspects of Love - Original Cast Recording (1989)

NPR’s Glen Weldon is here for the musical that (according to him) made him gay.

Topics include: Herb Alpert (not the dirty one), Charles Emerson Winchester III, Doolittle as a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza’s agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important.

It’s been a week, but we’re focusing on the positive. Like She is Risen, Vol. II and “Pop Corn!”

Featured Songs: “Pop Corn” from Hot Butter - Hot Butter (1972) • “Summer in Nevada” from Little Black Book - World Premiere Recording (2021)

I’ve just learned that amazing friend of the podcast and past guest Amy Oestreicher has passed. Please relisten to her interview about In Trousers and enjoy her beautiful spirit and boundless energy.

A dip back into the archives with Evan Casey and some Miss Saigon talk from the early days.

Featured Songs: “Mama Told Me Not to Come” from It Ain't Easy - Three Dog Night (1970) • “Bui-Doi” from Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989)