Sister Act: Recent Episodes
Nicola Ferro
Hello and welcome! We're two sisters who enjoy movie musicals and wanted to start a podcast together, so here we are! If you're curious about classic movie musicals, but not curious enough to watch them, you've come to the right place. Join us as we talk through all the details that don't matter and a few of the ones that do. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nicola-ferro/support
Sisters Jackie and Nicola return to the pod after a summer of time well spent together! Enjoy as they discuss the 1953 film adaptation of a musical about a musical adaptation of a play within a play. It's Kiss Me, Kate!
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the Muppets' first venture to the big screen in 1979's The Muppet Movie.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola discuss the 2007 Beatles jukebox movie-musical Across the Universe, directed by Julie Taymour.
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We hope you enjoy this episode more than Jackie and Nicola enjoyed watching the 2023 live action remake of The Little Mermaid!
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola and our very first special guest Stef revisit the 1965 classic The Sound of Music starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
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Enjoy a shorter episode this week as sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the short and sweet 1970 animated film The Aristocats.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola discuss the fascinating 1953 film Calamity Jane starring Doris Day and Howard Keel.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola discuss the 1992 gem that is Newsies. This episode is very long for no reason other than we love Newsies and could talk about it forever!
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the 1952 classic Singin' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola recap and reflect on the 2014 adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola review the film adaptation of a musical adaptation of a movie (the 2004 classic Mean Girls)!
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Happy New Year! Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola recap and discuss the 2023 musical version of The Color Purple, which is inspired by the wonderful 2005 Broadway musical, but mostly a word-for-word remake of the 1985 film.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola discuss Disney's new animated feature Wish.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola discuss the 1954 film Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola discuss the beloved 1991 Disney classic Beauty and the Beast.
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Enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola discuss the 1978 classic The Wiz starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
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Listen as sisters Jackie and Nicola recap a beloved childhood movie musical that didn't quite live up to the nostalgia... the 1997 made-for-TV adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella starring Brandy and Whitney Houston.
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Sisters Jackie and Nicola discuss Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical sort-of movie musical All That Jazz. Hope you enjoy as Nicola goes on a nonsensical, rambling rant about Fosse. Thanks for listening!
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Hello and welcome back! After months away, sisters Jackie and Nicola make their grand return to podcasting with the third and final (for now) installment in the Disney Channel's Descendants series.
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Whoopsie! After long over a month since recording, Nicola has finally gotten around to editing and sharing our Matilda episode. Please enjoy as sisters Jackie and Nicola recap and share their thoughts on this 2022 film adaptation of the musical adaptation of Matilda.
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Sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the new Christmas movie musical starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell only a few weeks after Christmas! Apologies for the poor timing, but we hope you enjoy!
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Almost a full month since recording, Nicola has finally gotten around to editing and uploading our long-awaited Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile episode! Hope you enjoy, we may or may not talk about either of the Enchanted movies soon depending on what we feel like doing. Happy holidays!
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We're back after an unintended break! Listen to sisters Jackie and Nicola stumble through the plot of a movie they watched 3 weeks ago and debate the history of plastic. Thanks for listening!
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In honor of the longest-running Broadway show coming to a close, sisters Jackie and Nicola watch the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera and share their thoughts. Thanks for listening!
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Buckle in folks, we're talking about a whole season of television! Strangely enough, it's the 3rd season, so we'll do our best to catch you up if you've never seen High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Apologies that once again, the audio quality is subpar; Nicola can't catch a break with her technical difficulties, but she spent hours editing this episode to sound as nice as possible, so hope you enjoy regardless! Thanks for listening!
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Hello and welcome! Apologies for the lower quality sound this week; Nicola had some technical difficulties, so we had to use Zoom audio... Thanks for listening, anyway! We love this movie and hope you enjoy listening to us talk about it.
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This week, sisters Jackie and Nicola recap and review the 1982 movie Victor/Victoria starring Julie Andrews. Enjoy and thanks for listening!
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Hello and welcome back! After an unintentionally long hiatus, sisters Jackie and Nicola return to recap and review the new adaptation of the 13 on Netflix. Thanks for listening!
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This week, sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the 2018 musical Disney Channel Original Movie Freaky Friday, with mediocre music written by Pulitzer and Tony-winning composers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. Thanks for listening!
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This week, sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the 1986 film adaptation of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's Little Shop of Horrors and compare it to the current Off-Broadway production they had the pleasure of seeing a few months ago. Thanks for listening!
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Listen as sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the very Marxist and very sexist 1957 adaptation of The Pajama Game!
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This week, sisters Jackie and Nicola are excited to recap an excellent movie musical... the 2002 adaptation of Chicago! Enjoy as we discuss our thoughts on the adaptation and our experiences with the stage show. Thanks for listening!
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Sisters Jackie and Nicola recap The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, and Nicola is confused. Thanks for listening and hopefully next week, we'll watch a better movie!
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We're back! After technical difficulties last week, sisters Jackie and Nicola return to talk about the 1951 film version of Show Boat, a movie about Black people starring exclusively white actors. We didn't know before watching, sorry!
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Happy New Year! Sisters Jackie and Nicola are back to recap Steven Spielberg's recent adaptation of West Side Story in the final episode for 2021. Content warning: discussions of Ansel Elgort and sexual harassment from 22:30-32:18. Thanks for listening!
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Sisters Jackie and Nicola chat about the new movie adaptation of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... Boom! directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and starring Andrew Garfield. Enjoy and have a happy Thanksgiving!
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Barbra Streisand didn't spend decades pitching this movie for Jackie and Nicola to not even cover it! Listen as we recap Yentl, an almost gay movie musical.
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In their 10th episode, sisters Jackie and Nicola return for the second installment of the Disney Channel's Descendants series. Enjoy!
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This week, Jackie and Nicola recap the short-but-sweet 1943 film Stormy Weather, one of the first two movie musicals with an all-black cast.
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In this episode, sisters Jackie and Nicola finally take less than half the length of the movie to recap the 2005 movie-musical adaptation of The Producers!
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Sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the new film adaptation of Everybody's Talking About Jamie. Enjoy!
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It's a long one! Brace yourselves as Jackie and Nicola share their takes on the Ben Platt discourse and talk through the new Dear Evan Hansen movie.
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This week, Jackie and Nicola recap the 1954 film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and get ready cause this movie is wild...
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Sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the terrible new Cinderella movie starring Camila Cabello and share their thoughts. Plus, we hope this is the last week we have to apologize for subpar audio quality, technical difficulties can be a bitch! Enjoy nonetheless.
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Sisters Jackie and Nicola recap the star-studded 1997 animated film Anastasia after watching it for the first time. Apologies if you hear Glee playing in the background at times... roommates!
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Sisters Jackie and Nicola struggle to recap the Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants (Nicola more so than Jackie) after watching it for the first time. Also, please forgive us for the audio quality being subpar; it's episode 2 and Nicola is still making mistakes!
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In the first episode of this movie-musical podcast, two sisters Jackie and Nicola recap Meet Me in St. Louis after watching it for the first time.
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