Drama Fiends: Recent Episodes
Julianna DeAngelis & Fiona Castro
Two drama queens fiending over dramatic things...and that's everything when you're Julianna and Fiona. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dramafiends/support
We’re officially in the Tonys home stretch! The fiends catch you up on our road to the 2024 Tony Awards. Topics include sipping that me espresso, initial Tony nominations thoughts, dentata, why Shaina Taub is a girl with grit, and a fateful night at the theatre.
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The fiends are once again joined by fam of the pod Joe - so you know we have a lot to discuss. We unpack our theory of the Post-Spring Awakening Teen Angst Musical. Topics include our favorite pop girlies, 2012 X Factor USA, current bops and flops, Wicked: Part 1, and what makes the perfect teen angst musical.
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The fiends have so many thespian activities to catch you up on! Topics include LinkedIn influencers, Glee writer Brad Falchuk’s wife, the Lea Michele Eras Tour, ambulatory theatre, and shows that improve in the second act.
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The fiends are excited to discuss all things How To Dance In Ohio with cast member Cristina Sastre! Topics include Mean Girls The Musical The Movie, being Stannies, Cristina’s journey with How To Dance In Ohio, how this show is different from other experiences, and what the legacy of this show can be for Broadway.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dramafiends/support
The fiends are absolutely swept away by Adrian Blake Enscoe, star of the new Avett Brothers musical Swept Away, which just finished a successful run at Arena Stage. Topics include the importance of composting, authentic storytelling through song, being stranded at sea, and Adrian’s upcoming tour with John Gallagher Jr.!
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The fiends break down the first in a tale of two Gatsbys - The Great Gatsby at Papermill Playhouse. Topics include why 2024 is the year of the Drama Fiend, the drama of being in TECH, Mama Rose being the Hamlet of musical theatre, and how The Great Gatsby musical lives up to its legendary source material.
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The fiends are joined by screenwriter, librettist, and novelist Heather Hach to discuss her new thriller The Trouble with Drowning. Topics include Heather’s iconic past projects including Legally Blonde: The Musical and Freaky Friday, books we’re all fiending for, and the wildly entertaining, unique storytelling of her new novel. Heather even fan-casts the novel and breaks down the intriguing title and cover!
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Oh what a celebration we’ll have today because it’s Wicked’s 20th anniversary! We finally fiend (publicly) for the most magical show on Broadway, and we cannot shut up about it. Topics include which upcoming shows we’re already fiending for, our official endorsements of best Elphies and Glindas, the many hours of Elphaba riff compilations we have clocked, and how this show reminds us all that the future is unlimited.
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The fiends are super excited to be joined by cabaret and theatre performer Ava Nicole Frances ahead of her solo show at 54 Below! She tells us all about her journey as a performer, her cabaret act, and some theatre-related fiending experiences. Topics include some devastating Broadway news, Troye Sivan and James Charles, Ava’s heartwarming introduction to theatre, telling stories through song, and the incredible classic film and theatre costume recreations Ava does with her dads every year.
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For more about Ava, check out her website: https://www.avanicolefrances.com/
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Find out what the fiends have been up to over summer break! Plus, we share our hopes and dreams for the upcoming Broadway season. Topics include some guy named Shakespeare, a tale of two Gatsbys, deinfluencing listeners from a theatre district hot spot, raccoons, and the F-word for (probably) the last time ever. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dramafiends/support
The fiends unpack the phenomenon of the Live TV Musical - the good, the bad, and all the ugly. Topics include Taylor Swift thriving in her single era, the one performance that Aaron Tveit really Tv-ate, and America’s Idol, Chris Daughtry. Plus - our picks for the best Live TV Musical yet and which ones we hope to see next.
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The fiends are so excited to welcome Crissy and Jocelyn, hosts of Breaking the Curtain. We talk about our journeys as theatre podcast hosts and best fiends forever, and then we challenge each other to a game of Battle of the Besties!
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Desireé Rodriguez, fresh off an incredible run as The Unsinkable Molly Brown in Titanique, joins the fiends for one of our most exciting episodes to date! We discuss facing your fears, Celine Dion, theatre that makes you gasp and grab your friends’ hands, and why we are all “fanatiques.”
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The fiends welcome comedians Zach Schiffman and Reid Pope as they spill on their many fiend credentials, including who has them blocked on Twitter, attending the Jimmy Awards live in person, and their upcoming 54 Below show “Comedians Earnestly Singing Musical Theatre.”
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The fiends have been up to many more thespian activities and we had to share them all. Topics include the Glee flopumentary, a humbling lesson about sitting in the balcony of a theatre, musicals that don’t apologize for being musicals, girl bosses slaying, and meeting the cast of Funny Girl.
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WE ARE SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR PATREON!!!!
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Recapping all the things we fiended for in 2022! Topics include going diamond on TikTok, Jennifer Coolidge, the many fiascos and flops of the year, and, of course, our favorite F-word.
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The fiends are back to catch you up on all of their recent thespian behavior. Topics include our real-life bestie Aubrey Plaza, doing things for the Gram, the brand new Museum of Broadway, the Idina Menzel World Tour, our unfiltered opinions on Darren Criss, and why chess is sexy. Also, Fiona randomly gifts a Webkinz to Julianna.
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The fiends take a moment to remember and celebrate the best show on Broadway in the wake of its closing. And also be very sad about it. Topics include the Broadway show closing epidemic, why Bad Cinderella might be genius, yearning for emotional truth, and the 19-hour flight we want to catch to Gander.
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The Fiends realized there were a lot of important things they didn’t cover in the initial Funny Girl episode because they couldn’t stop spewing nonsense. So in this spinoff of episode 10, we answer all of YOUR pressing Funny Girl questions from TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. We truly cover it ALL.
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The moment you’ve been waiting for - the Fiends recap and review Lea Michele’s opening night in Funny Girl on Broadway. We welcome friend of the pod and resident Klainer (derogatory) Becky (who came to the show with us) as we spew. Topics include our personal Rachel Berry moments, the Lea Michele mosh pit, cyberbullying Ryan Murphy, and of COURSE outing ourselves as Gleeks in Variety Magazine.
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Part two of our kiki with Joe. We finally get to the intended subject of this episode - 13 the musical and movie. Topics include MORE girls that have grit, living in fear of Liz Gillies, the nice-washing epidemic, and why we all have a little more homework to do.
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This week, the fiends welcome a very special guest star - Fiona’s brother and king of having a BFA, Joe! Joe physically could not stop dropping hot takes so this is just the FIRST of this very special TWO PART episode! Topics include Lady Gaga being this generation’s Shakespeare, ageism, our personal vendettas, the MCU for some reason, girls that have grit, and us all entering our cancelled eras.
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This week, the fiends discover capitalism. Topics include why Jean Val Jean and Javert should smooch, fraud, a confusing lamp, and an attempt to unpack the unnecessarily convoluted world of Broadway finances.
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This is an EMERGENCY EPISODE!!!! The fiends break down the COMPLETE timeline(s) of the Funny Girl/Lea Michele/Beanie Feldstein hot mess.
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The fiends break down some of the most pressing news of the past few weeks in the first ever Drama Fiends News Network News Hour. Topics include the Tonys (NOT the Tony’s), clout chasers, Joker 2: The Musical, and Lea Michele’s Libby account.
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Two drama queens revisit a core fiending memory - fanfiction. Topics include a very important vocabulary lesson, our OTPs, bonding with people over knowing what the term “mpreg” means, the lasting effects of being in a fandom in the early 2010s, and a nice, relaxing story time.
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The fiends are back and we’re breaking down MCC Theater’s theatre kid manifesto: Which Way To The Stage. Topics include multiple types of hot dogs, Idina Menzel’s greatest hits, theatre mean girls, being absolute menaces at Broadway stage doors in our youth, and wtf it means to be a “woman”.
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The drama fiends make their Broadway Critic Debut with the new play POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. Topics include Patti LuPone eating Cheez-Its, Hillary Clinton’s husband, infographic activism, and “Roar” by Katy Perry.
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Two drama queens just can’t help but fiend over Spring Awakening for a second week - this time focusing on the HBO documentary. Topics include Jonathan Groff’s geography lesson, what “purple summer” means to them, the dawning of the Leaissance, and a jump scare or two.
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Two drama queens fiend over the musical that bonded them - Spring Awakening. Topics include Jonathan Groff’s goat farm, arts & crafts, going on the internet without our parents’ knowledge in middle school, the most anxiety-inducing night of our lives, and, of course, the desk lamp incident.
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