Mike is a New York City-based director who loves the Great American Songbook, trivia, collecting LP records, and hot beverages. And he’s here for a Kander & Ebb show that’s right up there with 70, Girls, 70 and The Happy Time in terms of popularity, influence, and success.

Topics include: getting the plot wrong, death in musicals, Anyone Can Whistle, who would’ve won the Best Score Tony in 1969 had it existed, Don Walker, and Hal Prince’s ethos (or lack thereof).

Erika is a co-host of the great podcast That Aged Well as well as a writer and performer who loves the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Bookshop. And she’s here for a show she saw FIVE TIMES on Broadway!

Topics include: songs from the ’66 original, is Sally Bowles just Millie Dilmount on drugs, the problem of irony, making Generation X feel better, The Wolf of Wall Street, and what has aged well.

Broadwaysted!’s own Kimberly is back (for the 3rd time) to talk about the album that makes us wonder: "Who . . . is Barbra Streisand?”

Topics include: how to headphone like Barbra, doing more Zack than you want, James Brolin self-tapes, Hugh Jackman playing a wolf-man, Barbra as the emcee, what you get with the “Deluxe” Edition, and how much dialogue is too much dialogue?

Paul acts, he writes, he podcasts, he does many things. And he is here to talk about a show that maybe won a lot of Tonys this past Sunday! Or maybe not!! Only way to find out is to listen!!!

Topics include: parents acting like children, children forced to be parents, crying through Act 2, Barnum!, story structure, and how Paul doesn’t know music theory, he just feels things.

Taylor J. Williams is a 2023 Tony Award-nominee in the Best Sound Design of a Play category for Ain't No Mo'. He is also a musician who has worked as an electronic music designer on more than 30 Broadway productions including Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice, Be More Chill, King Kong, Frozen, and Falsettos.

Topics include: pageantry, melodrama, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, napping in a rats’ nest of cables, Adam Pascal bootlegs, and what does a programmer . . . do?

Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she’s come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job.

Topics include: getting typecast out of Fiddler, Anthony Newley, what a producer does, RENT, coming home, and musicals based on nothing.

Mark’s website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music Eight Tales of Pedro (written with Luis D’Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he’s here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart.

Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, The Opposite of Sex: The Musical, and fan-boy-ing out.

Rob was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West & is the editor-in-chief of American Theatre magazine. And he’s here for the only Off-Broadway show to win a Tony Award.

Topics include: psuedo-Marxist propaganda, in rep with The Fantasticks, Gilbert & Sullivan, Double-LP German recordings, Domar Warehouse, how existence is a female dog and then one perishes, and the vocal stylings of Dame Bea Arthur.

Kaiya is a civil rights lawyer and a lifelong thespian who uses her legal expertise to empower theatre community members to stand up for their rights and create truly safe and equitable spaces. And she is here with a greatest hits/concept/song collection that helped get her through college.

Topics include: everything everywhere all at once, Kickstarter, Melancholy of being in your 20s, Amicus Briefs, the ouroboros of law and culture, Shucked, Bad Cinderella (for, like, a while), and being a lawyer with a passion for theatre.

It’s Steve’s birthday! And Rob is back to talk to us about a 30-year-old concert that has the best hair, goofiest sleeves, and ALLLLLLLL the Liza Minnelli you could dream for.

Topics include: The Tonics, wearing upholstery, The Tonics’s vocal arrangements, the ’87 Tonys, The Tonics’s full discography, Karen Ziemba killing it, and The Tonics (mostly we just talk about The Tonics).

Liz is an actor, writer, and musical theatre kid from way back. And she’s here with a show that is possibly more relevant now than when it debuted.

Topics include: going into the City by yourself when you’re 13, Little Sally, Urinetown the place, transferring at Jamaica, Brechtian (in the true sense), and is this show ahead of its time?

Jack is an Award-Winning American playwright, actor, musician, and teacher and he’s here with a show that is certainly in the running for the title of THE quintessential American musical.

Topics include: Proto-Fonzi, the first time someone treats you like you’re cool, thinking of yourself as a musician, Henry V, and failing better.

Debra is the author of the new biography Robert Preston: Forever the Music Man. And she’s here to talk about Preston’s most famous flop from the team that brought you Hello, Dolly!.

Topics include: working actors, voicemails from Rosemary Harris, journalism, Robert Preston not getting cast in things over and over again, and Christopher Walken.

Actor/singer Sean Patrick Murtagh, whom you may know from Green Room 42 and/or his new album The Mario 101, is here for the album that he describes as: “the album that made [him] gay.”

Topics include: moonlight on the bed, Linda Eder as diva, local gays, Linda Eder as instrument, formulas, Linda Eder as gateway drug, the heart and soul of why we do it, Linda Eder’s placement, and Linda Eder’s vowels.

Shoshana is a dramatist, journalist, and host of the Scene to Song podcast. And she’s here to talk about a show that (at one time) was the longest-running show in Broadway history. And it won a surprising number of Tony Awards.

Topics include: how Grease is like Cats, Little Mary Sunshine, 98.1FM WOGL, nostalgia, the bad shows we did in high school, and does Sandy cave under societal pressure or simply play with her identity like every teenager should?

Fan-favorites Roddy Flynn and Robbie Rozelle are here to kick off THE YEAR OF BARBRA on The Original Cast at the Movies with her cinematic and Oscar-winning debut!

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Stephen is the author of the critically acclaimed Pentecost & Parker mystery series. Book 3 of which is OUT NOW! And he’s here for a musical based on another famed murder mystery duo: Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man movie series. And this musical is . . . definitely a musical.

Topics include: Arthur Laurents, missing the magic, slime tutorials, Raymond Chandler, not knowing your source material, and veranda finales.

Mark is a 2-time BroadwayWorld Award-winning singer, actor, dancer, etc. And he’s here for a musical that flopped so hard it closed a Broadway theatre. Like, permanently.

Topics include: the importance of going out-of-town, the art of the cabaret, writing a musical for yourself to star in, the moon & New York City, and disco ball death scenes.

You can see Julie every Thursday as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the August Wilson but you can listen to her HERE and NOW talking about <checks notes> . . . Grease 2?

Topics include: FYE, open-heart surgery, the insecurity of being Tom Hanks, voice lessons as a kid, and not being recognized by Lin-Manuel in a pharmacy.

My guest today is an author, performer, and theatre historian. Her book Gemingani is available now from Applause. And she’s here about a dark musical about dark times with some bops along the way.

Topics include: Elvis, being a Cerveris evangelist, incel icons, bardic tradition, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle