Paul was the editor and publisher of the famed Sondheim Review and he’s written a book about his relationship with the master entitled Sondheim & Me (which is great and you should buy it and read it)! And he’s here with one of the first musicals he saw that engendered a life-long vocation.

Topics include: seeing Do I Hear a Waltz? In its original Broadway run, translating Sondheim lyrics, donating your media, Greek mythology, and the time Stephen Sondheim got SO mad.

A.J. is a comedian and co-host of the wonderful The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast and here for a bad show that has one or two moments of music theatre heaven.

Topics include: slime tutorials, 2x4 with googly eyes, “broken clock” moments, the living embodiment of “well, actually,” Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and lyrics with a good mouth-feel.

Alexandra Bowman is a freelance illustrator, political cartoonist, satirist, and fine artist from Washington, D.C. Her cartoons have appeared in Our Daily Planet, World War Zero, and The Lincoln Project. And she’s here to talk about a show SHE’S WRITING A MASTER’S THESIS ABOUT!

Topics include: starting with Cats, Tim Rice says things, being a Cogsworth in a room full of Belles, Hamilton, the definition of satire, and can you ethically produce historical events on stage?

Dan is an Emmy-winning writer and 1/3 of the wonderful podcast The Flop House and he has come here today to talk about the barber, the baker, his wife, and her Toby.

Topics include: HAIR, Josh Groban & Annaleigh Ashford, Johann’s agency, Death in the Cathedral, pre-Fletcher Lansbury, and why maybe the Coen Brothers should’ve made the movie.

Marc is the host of the popular YouTube channel Broadway by Ghostlight and is here for a show that ran for 8 performances despite Barbra Streisand’s best efforts.

Topics include: selling merch at The Drowsy Chaperone, Lee Wilkoff v. Eddie Korbich, shows that should’ve gone out of town, Anyone Can Whistle, and Blue Pear Records.

Adam is the National Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic at TimeOut New York and President of the New York Drama Critics' Circle. And he is here for a big episode about a very big show on a very big, double-LP.

Topics include: Patti, Mandy, Patti's rage, Bob Gunton’s accent, Mandy being Mandy all over the second act, comma writing, Mark Syers, the worst lyric in Chess, the “Big Apple,” and the agony and the ecstasy of Tim Rice.

Playbill’s Director of Events & Creative Strategy Len Rodino stops by to talk about this BIG musical about BIG drama that had BIG drama around it for 40+ years!

Topics include: taking the bus from PA, Patti LuPone’s memoir, 5 “useful” majors, starting as the receptionist, cigarette ads in my Playbill, and And Juliet!

Emmy-winner and former The Daily Show head-writer Elliott Kalan is here for a musical running now about then but really about way back then which seems to have been lost now.

Topics include: losing on Jeopardy!, adding jokes by Larry David, ethical use of a resurrection machine, Frank Loesser, the House Committee on “Shipoopi,” Broadway sets of the 50s & 60s, and (of course) is Winthrop Marion’s son and does that matter?

Comedian/filmmaker Em Humble comes to us from the North of England to talk about a film that . . . makes . . . no . . . . . . sense?

Topics include: the Childcatcher, late 60s sexism, Colonialism, songs that make no sense, the Leeds Tealights, and stage freight.

Zach is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Broadway Beat, a Broadway/theatre-based satire publication which has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and which Seth Rudetsky called “truly brilliant comic writing.”

Topics include: Hans Zimmer, Scar being a creeper, Parade, backstage industrial accidents, folks who don’t know what a stage manger is, and The Original Cast BINGO!

Broadwaysted’s own Kimberly Cooper Schmidt returns to talk about Sunday’s TONY AWARDS!

Topics include: Caroline, or Change, Company, Diana, Flying Over Sunset, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Funny Girl, Girl from the North Country, MJ, Mr. Saturday Night, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Music Man, Paradise Square, SIX, and A Strange Loop

Stephanie is an actor, musician, and theatre practitioner who is here for a one-act, five-actor musical telling the true story of a future saint, her friend locked in a church, and her eye, hand, and mouth.

Topics include: anchoresses, nuns, Catholic college, intentional dissonance, wrestling with songs, and staying true to yourself in the midst of it all.

HaleyJane does many, many, many things (songwriter, performer, comedian, et al.) but listeners of our little show probably know her best from her work on Broadway’s answer to The Onion: The Broadway Beat.

Topics include: camping up the camp, genre-blending, the King, how Joseph was kind of a dick, and maybe ALW just NEEDS a narrator?

Sophie’s a poet. And she’s aware of the fact that she is one. A poet that is. And she’s here for Jason Robert Brown’s first Broadway show with a title that is an exclamation point away from a Gwen Verdon/George Abbott joint from the late 50s. But only in the title.

Topics include: someone else’s tragedy, staging musicals in your head, having your heartbroken, being “Sophia,” and tilting at windmills (because somebody’s got to).

Podcaster and filmmaker Jesse McAnally is here for a musical about sexuality based on an early 20th-century play that is NOT Spring Awakening and the movie based on that musical that is also not Spring Awakening but does have Audra McDonald, T.R. Knight, and Martha Plimpton and that’s very good. (We do jump between the movie and the stage show a lot.)

Topics include: leitmotif, The Wild Party, Mandy, Marla Singer,
“post-coital enlightenment,” and do the author(s) of this musical know what this show/movie.

Emilio is a Broadway ensemblist featured in the film Ensemble who brings us a show with a very strong ensemble indeed.

Topics include: when an ensemble member takes your eye, the information superhighway, tear-down revivals, East meets West, and DHH.

David has a unique place in Broadway history. No only has he music directed some of your favorite Broadway shows of the last 20+ years (Ragtime, Company 1995, She Loves Me 1993, to name a few) but he is also the originator of the three roles on the Broadway stage in Master Class, Curtains, and Merrily We Roll Along.

Topics include: Stro’s kitchen table, touring with Scott Ellis, wanting to be Paul Gemignani, and the 7-hour version of Curtains.

Aaron J. Albano is back to talk more about the short documentary Ensemble that he co-produced and appears in.

Margaret is directing Violet right now at Georgetown University but she never says why she wanted to discuss this album!

Topics include: progress, Donald Margulies, Hedda Gabler, finding the humor in dramas, going too far, the state of modern theatre education, and perception

Aaron has been in 9 Broadway shows, is currently on the road with Hamilton, and has produced the film Ensemblewhich you simply must-see. And he’s here for a show that took Northern California by storm in the mid-nineties!

Topics include: “high” concept musicals, things going viral pre-Internet, not being in the best number in the show, and THE GREATEST PLOT SUMMARY IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PODCAST SINCE ANYONE CAN WHISTLE!