Composer, lyricist, and friend of the show Douglas J. Cohen responds to questions raised during the most recent The Original Cast at the Movies episode about Funny Lady and its lack of Kay Medford.

Analise has done 3 Broadway shows before the age of 22 (including Mrs. Doubtfire) and has an EP of original songs out with Broadway Records. She’s here with a musical about the harrowing family experience of a couple of child musical performers and their mythological stage mother. . . Don’t read too much into that.

Topics include: introverted extroverts, roasting yourself, breaking the mold, Tony Orlando & Dawn, lip-syncing Patti, and marathons (not sprints).

Brooke is the creator of Call Time Broadway, a theatre-specific social media network and she’s here to explain that to an old man while talking about a show based on almost 6% of a Russian novel.

Topics include: Russian FBs, Josh Groban, what to do when you love theatre but can’t sing/act/dance, opera, and the private & intimate life of the house.

Duane is a performer, songwriter, and teacher who is here for an album that can be heard every-other-morning in my car.

Topics include: 90s Kids, DisneyMania, T.I., writing, writing without knowing what you’re writing, and writing some more.

9 recordings enter. Only 1 can leave. And it shall leave a champion. This is CAST ALBUM CAGE MATCH!

Composer/lyricist Billy Recce joins Patrick to find the best cast album of one of their favorite shows: Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber’s EVITA!

Attorney by day & Interview Content Editor for Comic Book Yeti by night, Jimmy is an old friend of Patrick’s who is here for a show they did together just after the original production of The Life opened on Broadway.

Topics include: Bring Back Birdie, 16-year-old Harry MacAfees, Paul Lynde, Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, comics, and aging out of Conrad.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim, 22 March 1930 - 26 November 2021

Serena Berman and Robbie Rozelle join Patrick for a discussion of the new Netflix film tick, tick . . . BOOM!. Is it as good as everyone says? Yes. And yes.

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Kevin Winkler, author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical, has a new book out NOW!!

Composer/lyricist/educator Katya Stanislavskaya takes us back about 20 years for 5 years of pain and beauty and all that.

Topics include: autobiography, tsuris, shiksas, Odessa, writing your first song, and what kind of person would ever say “I could never rescue you?” Seriously?!

Miriam is a performer and writer who has written a new musical about the Brontë Sisters called Glass Town and she’s here for this Brontë musical that is . . . a lot

CW: This episode contains a brief discussion of sexual misconduct and assault.

Topics include: Mr. Bumble, voices across moors, contemporary scores & corsets, Diana (of course), endings are hard, and WHERE DID ALL THE BARITONES GO?

David has been there, done that, gave away the T-shirt, met the Muppets, and now he’s with us to talk about this reassemblage of a Gershwin classic.

Topics include: operettas and 1930s-40s movie musicals, not getting theatre internships, Fynsworth Alley, and DIANA: THE MUSICAL!

Dan is probably most well known to music theatre fans as the book writer of 13 (coming soon to Netflix). But he’s also a lyricist, YA novelist, and an accomplished musician. And he’s here for an amazingly deep, 2-LP collection from the First Lady of Song.

Topics include: discovering Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart’s words, working with JRB and Doug Cohen, knowing what you’re good at, and yes I forgot about The Boys from Syracuse I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry please don’t @ me.

Roddy is here for an anecdote and reminiscence about a cult classic.

Featured Songs: “How Shall I See You Through My Tears” from The Gospel at Colonus - Original Cast Recording (1985) • “Turkey Lurkey Time” from Promises, Promises - Original Broadway Cast Album (1968)

Performer/writer/raconteur Grace Aki is here for a show that just keeps being the best.

Topics include: parents, podcasts, personalities, the Queen Judy Kuhn (long may she reign), and how Michael Cerveris may be a deity.

There’s stuff a-comin’.

Jeremy comes from away (Seattle) for one of the best musicals of the last decade. Certainly better than the one everyone thought was the best musical — okay I’ll stop.

Topics include: no intermission, The Laramie Project, Bonnie & Bob & Hannah & Kevin & Kevin, and discovering this show on a plane to Hong Kong.

Building others up when you’re feeling down.

Actor Ben Schrager is here for a show that has a very special place in his life.

Topics include: the generosity of Billy Finn, teenage A New Brain, the Mary Testa-of-it-all, the Chip Zien-of-it-all, autobiography, and some really lousy days in the Universe.

Good old fashioned intermission about movie musicals and the perpetually coming Follies.

Featured Songs: “Losing My Mind” performed by Charity Angél Dawson & Joshua Hinck from Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream (2020) • “Losing My Mind” from A Perfect Little Death - Eleri Ward (2021)