The Light in the Piazza

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Mean Girls with Melanie Bolovan

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Great Comet with Ori Diskett

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Sweet Charity with Maureen Bowra

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Avenue Q

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Parade with Jess Ham

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Be More Chill with Dani Altamura

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Bat Boy with Alex Smith

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Once again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)!

Here is insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare, and fireworks Big Fish with Morgan Garrity!

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Once again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)!

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Once again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)!

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Once again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)!

Here is insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare and fireworks The Drowsy Chaperone with Aurelie Roque!

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Joel O'Brien about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical thriller; Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street!

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This week we chat with singer/songwriter Alex Smith about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Lin Manuel Miranda, one-act musical - 21 Chump Street!

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Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Chump_Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_American_Life

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/457/what-i-did-for-love

iTunes

https://music.apple.com/us/album/21-chump-street-the-musical-ep/892408890

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/5RGnJGlUaM6ef8CWq1NRyO

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This week your hosts play a lively round of musical scattergories!

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This week we chat with Cam Rollo about which of life's lessons can be learned from the classic Sondhiem musical - Company!

"Creatively, Mr. Sondheim's lyrics are way above the rest of the show; they have a lyric suppleness, sparse, elegant wit, and range from the virtuosity of a patter song to a kind of sweetly laconic cynicism in a modern love song. The music is academically very interesting. Mr. Sondheim must be one of the most sophisticated composers ever to write Broadway musicals, yet the result is slick, clever and eclectic rather than exciting. It is the kind of music that makes me say: "Oh, yeah?" rather than "Gee whiz!" but I readily concede that many people will consider its sheer musical literacy as off setting all other considerations." - By CLIVE BARNES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Furth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrowman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Esparza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patrick_Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie_Craig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Lenk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_(Broadway_song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Prince

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/musicals/company.html

http://www.bustle.com/articles/32147-elaine-stritch-the-ladies-who-lunch-performance-is-the-best-way-to-remember-her-video

http://www.sondheimguide.com/company.html

https://soundcloud.com/american-theatre-wing/episode-134

https://web.archive.org/web/20070204081055/http://www.americantheatrewing.org/downstagecenter/detail/john_doyle

http://companymusical.com/

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/2719

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293475/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352250/

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This week we chat with Matt Young about which of life's lessons can be learned from the classic little-girl musical - Annie!

Say what you will about the current version of “Annie,” which is directed with a slightly tremulous hand by James Lapine and features the virtuosic Katie Finneran as the villainous Miss Hannigan, you can’t fault the timing of its return to Broadway…It would seem that Mr. Lapine is hoping to introduce at least a tincture of psychological shading to a show that is only, and unapologetically, a singing comic strip. In its first incarnation “Annie” was an unstoppable sunshine steamroller. This version, which flirts with shadows, moves more shakily…In 1977 Miss Hannigan was portrayed by Dorothy Loudon as a juicy gargoyle, with equal parts Dickensian villainy and showbiz oomph. Ms. Finneran, a two-time Tony winner, takes a more humanizing approach…As Warbucks...Anthony Warlow also ventures into naturalism, inflecting his songs with unexpected emotional variety...The delicate-featured but indefatigable Ms. Crawford, who is possessed of both a golden glow and a voice of brass, is pretty close to perfect in the title role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_(1982_film)

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/673/annie

https://www.mtishows.com/annie

https://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/annie.htm

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In this episode we chat with Christopher Batkin about which of life's lessons can be learned from the famous young-adult musical - The Lightning Thief the Percy Jackson musical!

Frank Scheck, in reviewing the production for The Hollywood Reporter, wrote that the musical "proves far more enjoyable than the misbegotten 2010 film version or its 2013 sequel" and "also provides an excellent if irreverent introduction to Greek mythology that just might persuade some kids to dig deeper."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lightning_Thief_(musical)

https://www.lightningthiefmusical.com/

https://twitter.com/LTMusical?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lightning_Thief:_The_Percy_Jackson_Musical

https://www.broadway.com/shows/the-lightning-thief/

https://www.instagram.com/ltmusical/?hl=en

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/theater/review-the-lightning-thief-broadway.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Riordan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_gods

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This week we chat with Reindert Toia about which of life's lessons can be learned from the almost-always-controversially-cast-musical - The King and I!

"The New York Times drama critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "This time Messrs. Rodgers and Hammerstein are not breaking any fresh trails, but they are accomplished artists of song and words in the theater, and The King and I is a beautiful and lovable musical play."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9L_lilJKQQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I_(1956_film)

https://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/kingandi.htm

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/836/the-king-and-i

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049408/

http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_k/king_and_i.htm

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This week we talk with Joshua Moore & Lawson from the upcoming production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Phoenix Ensemble about which of life's lessons can be learned from this chocolate confection of a musical!

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Don’t expect a sugar rush from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the new musical that opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Sunday. This latest adaptation of Roald Dahl’s winningly sinister children’s story from 1964 is — thank heaven — no sweeter than the two film adaptations it inspired, starring Gene Wilder (1971) and Johnny Depp (2005).

Then again, this big but tentative show — which features a book by David Greig and songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman — doesn’t burst with flavor of any kind, at least not during its exposition-crammed first act. Only in its second half does the show acquire a distinct taste, and it definitely isn’t confectionary. - By Ben Brantley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_(musical)

https://www.mtishows.com.au/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory

http://charliethemusicalshop.com.au/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Greig_(dramatist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Shaiman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wittman

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This week we chat with Melissa Crabtree all the way from Chicago! About what life lessons there are to be learned from the gun-toting comedy - Annie Get Your Gun!

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John Chapman of the Daily News declared that the production had "good lyrics and tunes by Irving Berlin...[and] the razzle-dazzle atmosphere of a big-time show" but pronounced Merman the best part of the show, stating "She is a better comedienne than she ever was before", stating that "Annie is a good, standard, lavish, big musical and I'm sure it will be a huge success--but it isn't the greatest show in the world".[51]Louis Kronenberger of PM stated that the show was 'in many ways routine", but greatly praised Merman's performance, opining, "For me, Annie is mainly Miss Merman's show, though the rest of it is competent enough of its kind...Irving Berlin's score is musically not exciting--of the real songs, only one or two are tuneful".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Get_Your_Gun_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Get_Your_Gun_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042200/

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/annie_get_your_gun

https://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/anniegetyourgun.htm

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In this episode, we chat to James Shaw of That's Classic Entertainment about which of life's truths can be learned from Jerry Springer the Opera!

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"The BBC is bracing itself for further criticism after it screened Jerry Springer - The Opera on Saturday.

Hundreds of Christian protesters rallied outside BBC buildings before and during the broadcast on BBC Two.

At least 45,000 people contacted the BBC about the show, mainly to complain about swearing and religious themes.

The BBC denied reports that any bosses were in hiding after abusive phone calls, but said unpleasant calls had been received and reported to police.

Director general Mark Thompson defended the decision to screen the programme.

Mr Thompson, himself a practising Christian, said he believed there was nothing blasphemous in the production and was going out after the watershed with "very, very clear" warnings about strong language."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer:_The_Opera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thomas_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Lee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzxUs6P7Vcs

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This week we chat with Grace Clarke about which of life's truths can be learned from the musical that is all-Cher, all-the-time - the Cher Show!

"Choosing to recreate the spirit of the television variety shows that Sonny and Cher — and then Cher sans Sonny — headlined in the ‘70s is a choice that lands as flat as the jokes in Broadway’s latest jukebox bio, “The Cher Show.” Its attempt to celebrate the resilience of its “bad-ass” star and her half-century career of highs and lows rarely rises above that TV series’ taste for cliches, corn and cheese. Despite an icon with attitude, an armful of pop tunes and a can-do cast, the script never quite finds a satisfying style — or a genuine heart — as a winning stage musical. As Cher might say: Broadway’s a bitch.

You know a show’s in trouble when the moments that elicit the biggest applause of the night don’t even feature its title character. There’s a mini-fashion show featuring over-the-top outfits by original Cher designer Bob Mackie — who created the costumes for the musical — that’s a stunner of shameless excess. There’s also a dazzling number choreographed by Christopher Gattelli featuring a knockout dancer (Ashley Blair Fitzgerald) representing “The Dark Lady” of one of Cher’s songs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cher_Show_(musical)

https://thechershowbroadway.com/

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-cher-show-518460

https://www.broadway.com/shows/cher-show/cast/

https://www.facebook.com/TheCherShow/

https://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/cher-show.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Elice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_J._Block

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Got_You_Babe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beat_Goes_On_(Sonny_%26_Cher_song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsys,_Tramps_and_Thieves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Thunderfuck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adore_Delano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Michaels

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In this episode, we chat with Mike Zarate about which of life's lessons can be learned from Boubil and Schonberg's second opus - Miss Saigon!

"THERE may never have been a musical that made more people angry before its Broadway debut than "Miss Saigon."

Here is a show with something for everyone to resent -- in principle, at least. Its imported stars, the English actor Jonathan Pryce and the Filipino actress Lea Salonga, are playing roles that neglected Asian-American performers feel are rightfully theirs. Its top ticket price of $100 is a new Broadway high, sprung by an English producer, if you please, on a recession-straitened American public. More incendiary still is the musical's content. A loose adaptation of "Madama Butterfly" transplanted to the Vietnam War by French authors, the "Les Miserables" team of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, "Miss Saigon" insists on revisiting the most calamitous and morally dubious military adventure in American history and, through an unfortunate accident of timing, arrives in New York even as the jingoistic celebrations of a successful American war are going full blast.

So take your rage with you to the Broadway Theater, where "Miss Saigon" opened last night, and hold on tight. Then see just how long you can cling to the anger when confronted by the work itself. For all that seems galling about "Miss Saigon" -- and for all that is indeed simplistic, derivative and, at odd instances, laughable about it -- this musical is a gripping entertainment of the old school (specifically, the Rodgers and Hammerstein East-meets-West school of "South Pacific" and "The King and I"). Among other pleasures, it offers lush melodies, spectacular performances by Mr. Pryce, Miss Salonga and the American actor Hinton Battle, and a good cry. Nor are its achievements divorced from its traumatic subject, as cynics might suspect. Without imparting one fresh or daring thought about the Vietnam War, the show still manages to plunge the audience back into the quagmire of a generation ago, stirring up feelings of anguish and rage that run even deeper than the controversies that attended "Miss Saigon" before its curtain went up." - By Frank Rich

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/12/theater/review-theater-miss-saigon-arrives-from-the-old-school.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigon

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/1590/miss-saigon

https://www.mtishows.com.au/miss-saigon

https://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/misssaigon.htm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6162808/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/theater/the-battle-of-miss-saigon-yellowface-art-and-opportunity.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Michel_Sch%C3%B6nberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Boublil

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This week we chat with Stacie Hobbs about which of life's truths can be learned from the all-pink, all-feminist musical - Legally Blonde!

Ben Brantley, reviewing the musical in The New York Times, wrote that the show was a "high-energy, empty-calories, and expensive-looking hymn to the glories of girlishness"; he praised Laura Bell Bundy saying, "she sings and dances flawlessly, and she delivers silly lines as if she meant them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally_Blonde_(musical)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125194/

https://www.mtishows.com.au/legally-blonde-the-musical

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/711/legally-blonde

https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/cast.php?showid=5556

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_O%27Keefe_(composer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Benjamin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Hach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally_Blonde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bell_Bundy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Borle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally_Blonde:_The_Musical_%E2%80%93_The_Search_for_Elle_Woods

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Your hosts are all going to pitch you their ideas for an original Christmas musical extravaganza! This episode is a bit chaotic so grab your eggnog and yell at us as we yall at each other!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_the_Halls_(2006_film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790604/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Switch

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8954732/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11199410/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knives_Out

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8946378/

http://thrillingadventurehour.com/

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This week we celebrate Hunnakah with Rex J Ablett and chat about all of the lessons we can learn from the Jewish masterpiece - Fiddler on the Roof!

"Miracle of miracles, indeed: Just when you think you know a classic musical backwards and forwards, along comes director Bartlett Sher to prove otherwise. Just as with his seminal 2008 staging of "South Pacific" (and his less successful, but still laudable version of "The King and I" from earlier this year), Sher's take on "Fiddler on the Roof" feels at once bracingly modern and gloriously old school."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler_on_the_Roof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler_on_the_Roof_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067093/

https://www.mtishows.com.au/fiddler-on-the-roof

https://www.mtishows.com.au/fiddler-on-the-roof-jr

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fiddler_on_the_roof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem_Aleichem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish

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"It's ironic that Forum delivered such a show-stopping standard in the first five minutes since it has been confirmed by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim that his show's songs were meant to give audiences a respite from laughing, as had songs in the theatre of Plautus. While Sondheim is repeatedly critical of Forum's score in his book of annotated lyrics, Finishing the Hat, it has considerable charm, most notably Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, a paean to feminine domestic help, replete with built-in encores."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Funny_Thing_Happened_on_the_Way_to_the_Forum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Funny_Thing_Happened_on_the_Way_to_the_Forum_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060438/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Shevelove

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gelbart

https://www.mtishows.com.au/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_the_forum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Mostel

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This week we chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be learned from the propaganda-parody musical - Reefer Madness!

"Viewed through eyes blurred by no substance stronger than cough syrup, the film is still mildly diverting, with its censorious, bespectacled narrator and its scenes showing wholesome high-school students transformed into monsters by a single puff. It even has a weird, sort of Expressionist power in its mad, jerky party scenes. But its humor, especially for head-movie fans, has always been in its somber, tabloid-style hyperbole."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Murphy_(screenwriter)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness_(2005_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_tale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_J._Gasnier

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This week we chat with Kevin Werner about which life lessons can be learned from the gender-bending, rock musical - Hedwig and the Angry Inch!

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This week we chat with Merilee E about which life lessons can be learned from the story of a story musical - Finding Neverland!

As with many a Broadway musical these days, “Finding Neverland” — which features a book by James Graham and sticky soft-pop power ballads by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy — is based on a popular film. That would be the 2004 biopic about the playwright J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, which starred Johnny Depp and for which Mr. Weinstein was an executive producer.

The stage version of “Finding Neverland” is no replica of the film, though it might have been better if it were. Instead, it heightens the screenplay’s sentimentality, tidy psychologizing and life-affirming messages by thickening their syrup and corn quotients in ways presumably deemed palatable to theatergoing children and their parents. The show brings to mind those supersize sodas sold in movie theaters, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg once quixotically campaigned against.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Neverland_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Neverland_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Knee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Frankel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Korie

https://findingneverlandthemusical.com/

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/8899/finding-neverland

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This week we chat with Astin Astin Hammermeister about which of life's truths can be learned from the thoroughly modern musical - Thoroughly Modern MIllie!

"It will require a strong stomach for overtly racist tropes and tired sexual stereotypes, though; not to mention a penchant for the kind of paint-by-numbers songs that are forgotten before they even reach the resolving chords. There are things to like in the show, but there is so much else that is flat-out offensive, and it takes a brave company to even attempt it. The good news is that the Production Company knows exactly where to pour their resources, and they manage to produce an evening’s entertainment nowhere near as disastrous as it could have been." by TIM BYRNE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroughly_Modern_Millie_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Tesori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroughly_Modern_Millie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Scanlan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Chenoweth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bea_Arthur

https://www.mtishows.com.au/thoroughly-modern-millie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euEtbp3pRGI

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/1458/thoroughly-modern-millie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062362/

https://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/modmil.htm

http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_t/thoroughlymillie.htm

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/10828

http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_c/chrysanthemum.htm

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This week we chat with Kieran Davey about what life truths can be learned from the "historical", fourth-wall-breaking, show within a show - Gutenberg! The Musical!

Gutenberg! The Musical!” is, in a word, zany! zany! zany! Two-character biotuner, in the guise of a backer’s audition, is as thin as a pfannkuchen — pancake, to you — but actors Christopher Fitzgerald and Jeremy Shamos pull off the yuks with aplomb. Theatergoers who don’t relish shucked corn mixed with slices of ham may be advised to stay away; for those in the mood, though, “Gutenberg! The Musical!” is one hell of a goofy evening. - By Steven Suskin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XxQdtiPDfQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_King_(writer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brown_(writer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg!_The_Musical!

https://www.gutenbergthemusical.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upright_Citizens_Brigade_Theatre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Musical_Theatre_Festival

http://www.playbill.com/article/upright-citizens-brigades-anthony-king-brings-gutenberg-the-musical-to-nymf-com-134320

http://www.gutenbergthemusical.com.au/

https://www.gutenbergstravels.com/

https://www.playbill.com/article/15-plays-and-musicals-that-only-need-2-actors

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This week we chat with Alex Woodward about which of life's truths can be found in the 2019 musical - & Juliet!

"From “Wicked” to “Waitress,” female empowerment has been a boon for musical theater. But where those shows veered between sincerely earnest and earnestly sincere, “& Juliet” gleefully goes for broke putting gender on the agenda as it yokes pop milestones from the likes of Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Celine Dion to a girl-power revamp of “Romeo and Juliet.” The hyperactive production is sometimes more enervating than exciting, but doubts are blown out of the water by the lead performances, especially spectacular newcomer Miriam-Teak Lee as Juliet, who doesn’t so much star as set the theater alight."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%26_Juliet

https://www.andjulietthemusical.co.uk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20uAMAhMnKo

https://www.shaftesburytheatre.com/shows/juliet/

https://www.instagram.com/julietmusical/?hl=en

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In this episode, we chat with Shannon Foley about what lessons can be learned from the sea-faring comic opera - HMS Pinafore.

The Era wrote: Seldom indeed have we been in the company of a more joyous audience. ... [Gilbert and Sullivan] have on previous occasions been productive of such legitimate amusement, such novel forms of drollery, such original wit, and unexpected whimsicality, that nothing was more natural than for the audience to anticipate an evening of thorough enjoyment. The expectation was fulfilled completely. Those who believed in the power of Mr Gilbert to tickle the fancy with quaint suggestions and unexpected forms of humour were more than satisfied, and those who appreciate Mr Arthur Sullivan's inexhaustible gift of melody were equally gratified; while that large class of playgoers who are pleased with brilliant dresses and charming stage effects declared themselves delighted. The result, therefore, was "a hit, a palpable hit" ... there were some slight drawbacks [such] as the severe cold that affected Mr. Rutland Barrington [the captain], and almost prevented his singing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Gilbert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490959/

https://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_h/hms_pinafore.htm

https://stageagent.com/shows/operetta/387/hms-pinafore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D%27Oyly_Carte

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This week we chat with Naomi Mole about what lessons can be learned from the political commentary musical - Call Me Madam!

"But for every joke that falls flat, there's a terrific song, including the charming "It's a Lovely Day Today," the beautiful ballad "Marrying for Love," the toe-tapping "The Hostess with the Mostes' On the Ball," and the show's unqualified masterpiece of counterpoint, "You're Just in Love," the last guaranteed to send you out of the theater on a high. The numbers are beautifully sung and gorgeously rendered by the large orchestra using Don Walker's original orchestrations. There are even two musicians performing on ocarinas, which in the show's conceit is the national instrument of Lichtenburg."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Me_Madam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Me_Madam_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045592/

http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_c/call_me_madam.htm

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/call-me-madam-1871

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/1830/call-me-madam

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This week we chat with Timothy Winn about the Spanish play turned musical - Bernarda Alba.

Ben Brantley, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote, "This latest offering from the prolific Mr. LaChiusa, often feels wan and weary...The music, though superbly orchestrated (by Michael Starobin) and played, goes places that singers used to hard-sell Broadway pizazz cannot follow. The punctuating yelps; the wavering sustained notes in minor keys; the labyrinthine interior musical paths; the eruptions into antimelodic harshness — these are all more the stuff of mid-20th-century chamber operas than conventional show tunes...The touchingly game performers, who include musical pros like Daphne Rubin-Vega (a haunting presence as the ugly daughter) and Yolande Bavan (as Bernarda's senile mother), inevitably stumble over such challenges."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernarda_Alba_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_John_LaChiusa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Bernarda_Alba_(play)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca

https://www.origintheatrical.com.au/work/6669

http://www.classictheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-House-of-Bernarda-Alba-Study-Guide.pdf

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This week we chat with Brad Chapman about the Australian cult classic turned musical - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!

Reviews for the Toronto production include praise for the costumes from the Globe and Mail: "The costumes designed by Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, the same team that won an Oscar for the movie, are a fabulous mix of Village People meet Tim Burton culminating in, at the curtain call, a whole crass menagerie of dragged-up koalas and 'roos."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla,_Queen_of_the_Desert_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Priscilla,_Queen_of_the_Desert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Elliott

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Scott_(Scottish_screenwriter)

https://priscillathemusical.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/PriscillaAustralia/

https://www.theatricalrights.com/show/priscilla-queen-of-the-desert/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Priscilla,_Queen_of_the_Desert

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109045/

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/adventures_of_priscilla_queen_of_the_desert

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This week we chat with Beck ho about the Tony Award Winning Musical - The Band's Visit!

The New York Times said it was "one of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by," and also "a Broadway rarity seldom found these days outside of the canon of Stephen Sondheim: an honest-to-God musical for grown-ups." It also praised the adaptation for the bigger stage, due to an "impeccably coordinated creative team." Deadline also gave the musical a positive review. The review's only criticism was that seating at a far distance in the new theater made the sound somewhat muddled and sight lines limited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band%27s_Visit_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band%27s_Visit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yazbek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Moses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72nd_Tony_Awards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Lenk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Shalhoub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari%27el_Stachel

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/theater/the-bands-visit-review-broadway-tony-shalhoub.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/sc-ent-bands-visit-broadway-review-1110-story.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032856/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoXHN-jyoPs

https://www.mtishows.com/the-bands-visit

https://youtu.be/sWlclUJhJx8

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This episode we chat with singer-sensation Asabi Goodman about the super soul musical reimagining of the Wiard of Oz - The Wiz!

In his review of the 1984 revival, Frank Rich wrote: "What made The Wiz surprisingly moving the first time around was that its creators found a connection between Baum's Kansas fantasy and the pride of urban black Americans. When Glinda, the good witch, musically instructed Dorothy to 'believe in herself,' she seemed to be delivering a broader inspirational message. The Wiz was hardly a great musical in 1975, but it had something to say, and it said it with verve and integrity. It's depressing to watch a once-fervent expression of black self-respect and talent be spilled on the stage as if it were a trunkload of marked-down, damaged goods."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Smalls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Brown_(writer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_Live

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(film)

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In this episode we chat we Laura Fois about the the Australian written and produced musical-turned film - Ladies in Black!

ArtsHub indicated that "a comedy of mid-20th century manners, Ladies in Black is a paean to an optimistic future – the future of an uncomplicated gender equality and seamless multiculturalism. But Finn’s canny lyricism transports the play from its late 50s context to a subtle but salient comment on social issues of today."

FURTHER READING:

Camelot (musical)

Camelot (film)

Alan Jay Lerner

Frederick Loewe

The Once and Future King.

Kennedy Administration

Julie Andrews

Richard Burton

Robert Goulet

https://open.spotify.com/album/5Fp6Y3gNufwzUeEBxuOZpo

https://music.apple.com/us/album/camelot-original-1960-broadway-cast-recording/158476378

Camelot: The Musical, A History By Matthew Hannibal Butler

By Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe

A History By Matthew Hannibal Butler

Camelotis an oft forgotten and underrated musical masterpiece by the iconic duo Lerner and Lowe, first premiering with Sir Richard Burton as King Arthur and Dame Julie Andrews as Guinevere, with Robert Goulet as the dashing Sir Lancelot. They did not have these titles when it premiered in 1960 at the Majestic Theatre, but I thought it was a nice touch considering their royal counterparts.

Camelotis inspired by the definitive Arthurian novel The Once and Future King by T.H. White, a four book saga consisting of the iconic Sword in the Stone,The Witch in the Woods, The Ill-Made Knight and finally The Candle in the Wind. The musical mainly focuses on the events of this final instalment detailing with the last weeks of Arthur’s reign, the machinations and ultimately revolts by his son Mordred, Guinevere and Lancelot’s demise, and the tragic king’s final reflections of right and wrong. For all its levity, what I adore about this musical’s story is its choice to focus on one of the greatest tragedies in western folklore: The Fall of Camelot.

As you can tell, I am an Arthurian lore fanatic, and T.H. White’s book, in my opinion, is the best classic interpretation of King Arthur. A tragedy of this musical is, in my opinion, that it did not inspire more interest in White’s marvellous book.

Lerner and Lowe, as well as Camelot’s original director Moss Hart...

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This week we chat with Josh Mulheran who is currently performing in the Australian Tour of Jersey Boys about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the biography musical the started it all - Jersey Boys!

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FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film, The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio

IMDb

iTunes

Spotify

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This week we chat with Eloise Dundas-Taylor about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the classic swashbuckling musical film - The Court Jester!

Time Out says, “Spasmodically effective spoof of Robin Hood-style adventures, with Kaye as the former circus clown joining up with a band of outlaws to overcome a tyrannical usurper king. Whether it's really watchable depends on what you feel about the charmless Kaye, whose vehicle this is from start to finish.”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Court_Jester

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kaye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Lansbury

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/

https://music.apple.com/in/album/the-court-jester-original-soundtrack-1955/730934427

https://open.spotify.com/album/5ONanV69gP5ilbQwECWKAS

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This week we chat with Matthew Caffoe of Mashed Theatre about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Berthold Brecht’s many-times-adapted classic musical/opera - The Threepenny Opera!

According to critic and musicologist Hans Keller, the work is "the weightiest possible lowbrow opera for highbrows and the most full-blooded highbrow musical for lowbrows".

The Weill authority Stephen Hinton notes that "generic ambiguity is a key to the work’s enduring success", and points out the work's deliberate hybrid status:

For Weill [The Threepenny Opera] was not just ‘the most consistent reaction to [Richard] Wagner’; it also marked a positive step towards an operatic reform. By explicitly and implicitly shunning the more earnest traditions of the opera house, Weill created a mixed form which incorporated spoken theatre and popular musical idioms. Parody of operatic convention – of Romantic lyricism and happy endings – constitutes a central device.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Threepenny_Opera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beggar%27s_Opera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_Knife

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Keeps_Mankind_Alive%3F

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021818/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055932/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6846238/

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-threepenny-opera-original-cast/185978358

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This week we chat amongst ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the ship-board musical - Anything Goes!

“If you try to imagine a grown-up Annie, of the musical by that name, you might easily find her to be a lot like Reno Sweeney, the lead character of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” — sassy and brassy, big-hearted and big-voiced. And still with red hair.

It is no surprise, then, that Andrea McArdle, the original Broadway Annie, who won a 1977 Tony nomination for her performance, makes a smashing Reno. The role of the naughty nightclub singer was originated in 1934 by Ethel Merman.

Ms. McArdle is the centerpiece of “Anything Goes” at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, but hardly its only asset. She is surrounded by other outstanding actors, a sparkling nautical set and fine musical accompaniment. Jayme McDaniel, the director, has melded all of the elements into a production filled with joyous energy.” - By Aileen Jacobson

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Wiki - Musical, Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse

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This week we chat with Kieran Davey about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical parody of The Fellowship of the Ring - Fellowship! the Musical Parody!

Kris Noteboom said “J.R.R. Tolkien’s books are ripe for parody. Heavy drama, weird names, weird creatures, an arduous quest with one of the most glaring plot holes in literary history. It’s all there. But, that actually makes creating a good parody difficult.

Thankfully, the authors have succeeded here. First, the songs are actually good and would stand up against anything in a traditional musical. The rock anthem between the awesome scene-stealing Strider (Greg Hullett) and the dynamic Arwen (Kelsey Milbourn), who also plays a great Legolas, is particularly fun.”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellowship!

https://web.archive.org/web/20170610091451/http://www.fellowshipthemusical.com/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_khy4lsFlzTs-DZEN68qWyYsEIz8JKdlnI

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Fellowship_(play)

https://www.amazon.com/Fellowship-Musical-Parody-Ring/dp/B000QQX0BO

http://www.playbill.com/production/fellowship-the-musical-parody-of-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-coms-0000342499

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This week we chat with Laurene Cooper-Fox about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Australian movie classic-turned-musical - Muriel’s Wedding!

The Sydney Morning Herald commented that: "Muriel's Wedding feels like the complete package: a beloved film seamlessly updated; a central character who retains all the ambiguities that made you root for her in the first place; a conspicuously inventive score peppered with classic pop hits, and a mainstage debut that will be talked about for years. Adapting his own screenplay to the stage and into the social media present, PJ Hogan's book amplifies the Cinderella aspects of Muriel's story without sacrificing the satirical and melancholic elements that gave the film its depth and heart."

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https://www.australianstage.com.au/201903268934/reviews/melbourne/muriel-s-wedding-%E2%80%93-the-musical.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110598/

https://music.apple.com/au/album/muriels-wedding-the-musical-the-original-cast-recording/1325404036

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This week we chat with Paige McKay about which of life's truths can be gleaned from woman-led classic - Little Women!

The Village Voice reviewer noted "The show itself, similarly, seems lost in the drafty hugeness of the Virginia, where the often charming family scenes are dwarfed by the high proscenium arch (emphasized by the metal scaffolding that frames Derek McLane's otherwise attractive settings). The pity of it is that, between seizures, so much of Little Women's reality has been established. Allan Knee's script offers long passages of astutely condensed Alcott; Jason Howland's pleasant music, inventively orchestrated by Kim Scharnberg, pulls contemporary shapes out of period waltzes, polkas, and quadrilles, bumpily but gamely supported by Mindi Dickstein's uneven lyrics. And the cast, as always, offers many potential rescuers."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_novel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(2019_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(1994_film)

https://www.mtishows.com/little-women

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/1153/little-women

https://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_l/littlewomen.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3281548/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110367/fullcredits

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/little-women/id1489251504

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This week we chat with Zoe Jeffrey about which of life's truths can be gleaned from not-a-Disney-film turned Broadway show - Anastasia!

The Hollywood Reporter reviewer, David Rooney, wrote "The seamlessness and storytelling economy of that opening sequence is quite impressive, deftly handling the ambiguity surrounding Anastasia's fate, while her family is murdered by revolutionaries. But the long first act gets bogged down, and while Ahrens and Flaherty certainly know how to craft a narrative-driven song, the music is more often serviceable than inspired. McNally's book dutifully follows the Disney-princess model...The second act picks up considerably with the 1927 move to Paris..."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_(1997_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia

https://anastasia-broadway.fandom.com/wiki/Anastasia_Broadway_Wiki

https://anastasiathemusical.com/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118617/

https://music.apple.com/us/album/anastasia-original-broadway-cast-recording/1239977872

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In this special episode, we chat with Michael Grant of the United Kingdom about which of life's truths can be gleaned from his brand-new, ragtime-esque musical - It's Not Really The Apocalypse!

“Apocalypse”‘s 15 tracks work together just as a musical score should but when pulled apart and heard independently, still provide fully fleshed out ideas more than capable of entertaining on their own.”
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This week we chat with Shannon Foley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from philosophical and incredibly not-historical opera/operetta/musical/whatever - Candide!

The tale that Voltaire's classic satire tells is long and winding. And the tale of the Broadway show or (as Bernstein called it) American operetta to its present state as quintessential American opera (or music theater piece) is also long and winding. Over the years the piece got new books, new numbers, additional lyrics and new orchestrations until Bernstein finally conducted the full score in London with narration and a cast of opera stars.

Since then Bernstein's "Candide" has belonged more to the opera house and concert stage than to Broadway. Many things to many people, "Candide" tempts interpreters. A wonderful musical performance by the New York Philharmonic in 2004, which was televised, was subverted by harebrained semi-staging. Two years later, a scandalous, politically way-incorrect opera production in Paris satirized a drunken chorus line of state leaders in skivvies (Bush, Blair, Berlusconi, Putin and Chirac, to be exact).

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Wiki - Candide, ou l'Optimisme,Musical, Leonard Bernstein, Voltaire, Lillian Hellman, Hugh Wheeler, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim, John Mauceri, John Wells, Age of Enlightenment

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This week we chat with Mary Littlejohn about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the screen-spectacular turned stage-spectacular - Moulin Rouge!

Diane Snyder of The Telegraph praised the scenic design, choreography, and costume and wrote that "Moulin Rouge! may not have the depth of some of Broadway’s great musicals... [but] it’s fun, tuneful and entertaining, and that’s exactly what we need right now." Mashable's Erin Strecker said that "This is the best of what a jukebox musical can be; a thrilling burst of color and chorus and nostalgia and bold reimagining." Adam Feldman leaned positive as he called the show "an extravagant Broadway megamix," commenting that it "looks and feels expensive."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge!_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baz_Luhrmann

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203009/

https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/moulin-rouge/id270782779

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the ice-cream loving musical She Loves Me!

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Barbara Cook, Daniel Massey, Barbara Baxley, Jack Cassidy, Ludwig Donath, Rita Moreno, Madeline Kahn, Kelli O'Hara, Josh Radnor, Jane Krakowski, Gavin Creel, Victor Garber, Rory O'Malley, Peter Bartlett, Laura Benanti, Zachary Levi, Michael McGrath, Ruthie Henshall, John Gordon Sinclair

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This week we chat with Doug Hatch about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Beatles’ jukebox musical - Across the Universe!

You can find Doug’s podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/never-showing/id1485591810

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Universe_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Taymor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/

https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/across-the-universe/id544743026

https://open.spotify.com/album/2rHgctQLLQqcebs4jN82z1

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This week we chat with Christopher Batkin about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jason Robert Brown’s masterpiece song cycle - Songs for a New World!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_a_New_World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Robert_Brown

https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-for-a-new-world/165160926

https://open.spotify.com/album/3Kp3aGIQI0MCpep5lhXViz

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This week we chat with Helen Stephens about which of life's truths can be gleaned from sassy, sexy, darkly comedic retro satire that has taken the world by storm - Heathers!

Marilyn Stasio, writing for Variety, wrote "...Seasoned industry pros could pick up a few tips on the Do’s and Don’ts of adapting material from this smartly executed musical treatment of “Heathers.” She praised the lyrics but was not a fan of the music, writing: "Even at their giddiest, the lyrics never dumb down the characters singing them. Wish we could say the same for the music, which is brassy and blah and sounds nothing like the music that made the 80s the 80s."

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Wiki - Musical, Film

IMDb - 1988, 2018 TV Series

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This week we chat with Tully Grimley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that smash hit Disney Musical movie - High School Musical!

Kevin Carr gave the film a score of 3/5, saying, "The filmmakers were just trying to tell a story. Sex, drugs and violence just didn't factor into that equation."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_Musical

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_MusicIMDborg/wiki/Zac_Efron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Hudgens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_High_School_(Utah)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475293/

https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/high-school-musical/id738563311

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2gUMs9PE8XZVQyzCDqaYmW

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This week we chat with Jessica Kate Ryan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the silver screen fable of Mack and Mabel!

According to Kenneth Bloom, Mack & Mabel was "The saddest failure of Jerry Herman's career". It was a "victim of its time, an era when rock musicals were preferred over traditional musical comedy scores. Deep at its core was a simple love story and an exceptionally appropriate score. The urge to turn what could have been a bittersweet drama into a huge musical comedy was fatal."

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This week we chat with Trevor Jones about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the often overlooked musical gem - Snoopy!!!

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This week we chat with Cam Rollo about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical adaptation of the Fantasy classic - Lord of the Rings!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls072068350/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-lord-of-the-rings-original-london-production/274086078

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4S2wUJySdZeD4u5549nE97

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This week we chat with ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of Wildhorn’s biggest flops - Wonderland!

John Fleming of the St. Petersburg Times expressed mixed feelings about the production. He called it "a visual feast, with dazzling costumes, marvelously funky dance and a flashy, high-tech production design," thought it "is loaded with talent onstage," and said the score "boasts one insanely catchy pop song after another." He continued, "But Wonderland also has a problem: It makes almost no sense. The book needs a major rewrite, and not just a tweak here and there. What Wildhorn and his colleagues...or somebody else can do to bring at least a measure of dramatic logic to the musical will ultimately decide its fate." He felt a scene in which Alice meets author Lewis Carroll "appears to be an attempt to give the show emotional depth", but "it is totally out of place, like dropping a scene from one of Wildhorn's Gothic pop operas into Legally Blonde," and the character of the Mad Hatter was a "casualty of the misconceived book" because "the story is so preposterous." He noted "El Gato and the jazzy Caterpillar ... have great solos to introduce Alice to Wonderland, but then have little to do the rest of the show."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wildhorn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland

https://music.apple.com/us/album/wonderland-original-broadway-cast-recording/433522098

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This week we chat with Melanie Bolovan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the smash-hit movie’s, smash-hit musical adaptation - Mean Girls!

Entertainment Weekly's Kristen Baldwin gave the musical a B+, writing: "An ode to self-respect and the benefits of a STEM-based education, Broadway’s Mean Girls is a lively, frequently hilarious adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 high school comedy. Propelled by dazzling set design and several stand-out performances, the musical — written by Fey, with music by Jeff Richmond, and directed by Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon) — gives fans everything they want while bringing the saga of Regina George and the Plastics into the social media age."

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Wiki - Musical, Film, Tina Fey

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This week we chat with ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the new smash musical - The Prom!

Adam Feldman of Time Out Magazine gave the show 4 out of 5 stars, saying "It is cheering to see a musical comedy that engages with modern questions, with a teenage lesbian romance at its center to boot... But while the issues are contemporary, there is a 1980s feel to the character types and the overall style of Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar’s score, which resembles their work in The Wedding Singer; a stronger dose of reality in the lyrics and the book (by Beguelin and Bob Martin) would better justify the show’s eventual turn to sentimental education. But Casey Nicholaw’s peppy direction helps give the show enough momentum to power past its narrative potholes and occasional bumps of heavy-handedness."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prom_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Sklar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Beguelin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Martin_(comedian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prom_(film)

https://theprommusical.com/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10161886/

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-prom-a-new-musical-original-broadway-cast-recording/1439644985

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2B2t1FljSrujv5XywkxFR4

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This week Zane and Julie are away and so Miranda and KB decide to play!!

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This week we chat with Johnny Ware about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the BRAND NEW, Australian Musical - Fangirls!

Visit the website HERE

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Queensland Theatre - http://www.queenslandtheatre.com.au/Shows/19-Fangirls

Belvoir - https://belvoir.com.au/productions/fangirls/

Watch more about the Show on YouTube:

NOBODY (Song)

WAIT AND SEE (Song)

Why are Fangirls scary? Yve Blake at TEDxSydney

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This week we chat with Jackson Macgovern about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jonathan Larson’s Tick… Tick… Boom!

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This week we chat with Laurene Cooper-Fox about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that classic tale of love and unionization - The Pajama Game!

"This is about capital and labour," a character announces at the start. But it's fair to say that the book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell is just as much about the romance that develops between an arrogant superintendent and a shopfloor militant in a midwestern pyjama factory. Refreshing as it is to find a musical in which passion collides with politics, I notice how cannily the show harks back to the past. The fractiousness of the lovers echoes Annie Get Your Gun and, when the workers go on a picnic, I was reminded of the box social in Oklahoma! and the clambake in Carousel. It adds, however, rather than detracts from the pleasure to find an original theme reinforced by a sense of tradition. What really counts in this revival is the brilliance of Stephen Mear's choreography in matching the mood of the songs by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. - Michael Billington, The Guardian

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Wiki - Musical, 7½ Cents, Film

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This week we chat with filmmaker Shane Anderson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the almost-Oscar-winning movie musical - La La Land!

Writing for The Boston Globe in December 2016, Ty Burr summarized the effectiveness of the film to relate to audiences stating: "...the movie traffics in the bittersweet happiness of treasuring things that are vanishing, like the unrealized future imagined in the climatic dance number, or those inky, star-filled dance floors that go on forever in old movies, or Hollywood musicals themselves. Or jazz: Sebastian has an early moment at a nightclub where he passionately sticks up for the music he loves. 'It's dying on the vine,' he says. 'And the world says 'Let it die. It had its time.' Well, not on my watch.' In that scene, he speaks for the director. By the end of 'La La Land,' he's speaking for all of us."

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_Land_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Chazelle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiplash_(2014_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_La_La_Land

IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3783958/

iTunes

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/la-la-land/id1179249419

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/3GU8BzFEAdFSRjc8jZkL3S

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This week we chat with the recently repatriated Grace Clarke about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the creepy comedy show about death - Beetlejuice!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Perfect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse

IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/

iTunes

https://music.apple.com/us/album/beetlejuice-original-broadway-cast-recording/1466050440

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/3Nkueud4hqLWhSzOepKi7p

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This week we chat with Tristan Vanyai about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time - Guys and Dolls!

https://www.savoyards.com.au/oklahoma

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Wiki - Musical, Damon Runyon, 1955 film adaptation

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This week we chat with Ori DIskett about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical interpretation of a Russian classic - Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha,_Pierre_%26_The_Great_Comet_of_1812

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st_Tony_Awards

iTunes

https://music.apple.com/us/album/natasha-pierre-great-comet-1812-original-broadway-cast/1225252826

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/3Ohwm7WsUS6AJd56VnNlJX

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This week we chat with Kym Brown about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Frank Wildhorn spy-cum-super-hero musical - The Scarlet Pimpernel!

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Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wildhorn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084637/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182408/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025748/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051310/

iTunes

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-scarlet-pimpernel/id1041212062

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/4sdRox4FiY3DakCAn2LntS

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This week we chat with Dani Altamura about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the new-age Sci-fi Broadway hit - Be More Chill!

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone Magazine wrote, "The audiences who made this show happen digitally are now making pilgrimages to the Lyceum Theater to see those songs done live by a talented young cast with enough juice to ignite every light on Broadway... By the time Jeremy belts out his final number, 'Voices in My Head,' you’ll be hearing those voices, too, in a wow of a musical that comes on like gangbusters."

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Wiki - Musical, Joe Iconis, Novel

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This week we chat with Bradley Chapman about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the movie turned musical from William Finn - Little Miss Sunshine!

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Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Miss_Sunshine_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Miss_Sunshine

IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449059/

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_mWYgcUzsw&list=RD2_mWYgcUzsw&start_radio=1&t=2

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This week we chat with Alicia Poulter about which of life's truths can be gleaned from watching Dr. Seuss' best-loved characters collide and cavort in the unforgettable musical caper - Seussical!

Somewhere in ''Seussical'' are the vestiges of a charming, unpretentious show, with a blithe, hummable score, about the transforming powers of imagination. With a small protean cast, conjuring characters out of the air in an intimate storybook-theater setting, ''Seussical'' might indeed be a hit, along the lines of the original Off Broadway incarnation of ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'' - BEN BRANTLEY

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Wiki - Musical, Dr Seuss

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This week we chat with Steve Norris about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Romeo and Juliet inspired and Stephen Sondheim’s first lyrical outing - West Side Story!

Walter Kerr wrote in the New York Herald Tribune on September 27, 1957: The radioactive fallout from West Side Story must still be descending on Broadway this morning. Director, choreographer, and idea-man Jerome Robbins has put together, and then blasted apart, the most savage, restless, electrifying dance patterns we've been exposed to in a dozen seasons .... the show rides with a catastrophic roar over the spider-web fire-escapes, the shadowed trestles, and the plain dirt battlegrounds of a big city feud ... there is fresh excitement in the next debacle, and the next. When a gang leader advises his cohorts to play it "Cool", the intolerable tension between an effort at control and the instinctive drives of these potential killers is stingingly graphic. When the knives come out, and bodies begin to fly wildly through space under buttermilk clouds, the sheer visual excitement is breathtaking .... Mr. Bernstein has permitted himself a few moments of graceful, lingering melody: in a yearning "Maria", in the hushed falling line of "Tonight", in the wistful declaration of "I Have a Love". But for the most part he has served the needs of the onstage threshing machine ... When hero Larry Kert is stomping out the visionary insistence of "Something's Coming" both music and tumultuous story are given their due. Otherwise it's the danced narrative that takes urgent precedence ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/

https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/west-side-story/id253021356

https://open.spotify.com/album/3knRTstKrILa8wx8IGGqn6

https://westsidestory.com.au/

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On Boxing Day 2019, we were changed forever when we hosted a screening of the movie adaption Cats. This is a recording of the live discussion we had AFTER we were changed forever…

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This week we finish our holiday programming by talking about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Musical that celebrates MOST holidays - Holiday Inn!

Theodore Strauss of The New York Times described the film as "all very easy and graceful; it never tries too hard to dazzle; even in the rousing and topical Fourth of July number, it never commits a breach of taste by violently waving the flag. Instead, it has skipped back over the year in an affectionate and light-hearted spirit."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Inn_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Inn_(musical)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034862/

https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/holiday-inn/id289557631

https://open.spotify.com/album/5grDvM948urQmDObCaCelT

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This week Julie, Zane with special host, Josh Thia will chat with Shaun Kohlman about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Pop-opera/musical - Bare!

BOOK TICKETS!

www.understudyproductions.com

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

Stage Agent

Spotify

iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Damon Intrabartolo, John Hill, Michael Arden, Jenna Leigh Green, Natalie Joy Johnson, Aaron Lohr, Taylor Trensch, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Gerard Canonico, Missi Pyle,

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This week we chat with Christopher Batkin about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the highschool-zombie-horror-musical Anna and the Apocalypse!

FURTHER READING -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_and_the_Apocalypse

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6433880/

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/anna_and_the_apocalypse

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/anna-and-the-apocalypse/id1441169044

https://open.spotify.com/album/3wL8t2j7GtFhJt1YYlde7M

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane chat take some time out of their busy Christmas schedules to chat about which of life's truths can be gleaned from!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Movie

IMDb

iTunes - Animated Movie, Original London Cast

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin, Bob Martin, Thomas Meehan, Sebastian Arcelus, Amy Spanger, Beth Leavel, Mark Jacoby, George Wendt, Wayne Knight, Jordan Gelber, Leslie Kritzer, Ben Forster, Kimberley Walsh, Jessica Martin, Joe McGann, Jim Parsons, Mark Hamill, Ed Asner, Kate Micucci, Rachael MacFarlane, Gilbert Gottfried, Jay Leno

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This week we chat about Christmas and which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Muppet’s Christmas Carol!

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This week we chat with film maker Charnstar Anderson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the science fiction (and definitely NOT a concept album) musical - War of the Worlds!

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This week Julie, Kristen, and Zane will chat with Samuel Boyd about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Evita!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Wiki - Film, Wiki - Bio

IMDb

evitathemusical.com.au

Part of your world in French

Che yelling "OHHH MY INSECTIDE! at 0:15

Patti "SHE IS A MOVIE KILLER" Lupone

The Singing Politician on Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Tina Arena, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Elaine Paige, Patti LuPone, Colm Wilkinson, Mandy Patinkin, Ricky Martin, Zac Efron,

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This week we chat with Jessica Kate Ryan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the technical-challenge musical to end them all - Titanic!

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This week we chat with Nicole Goulter about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the internet sensation - Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog!!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Wikia, Joss Whedon,

IMDb

iTunes - Musical, Commentary!

Spotify - Musical, Commentary!

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane will chat with Sherryl-Lee Secomb about which of life's truths can be gleaned from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Book, Movie

IMDb

iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Frank Loesser, Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Daniel Radcliffe, John Larroquette, Anderson Cooper, Walter Cronkite, Christopher Hanke, Roger Bart, Ralph Macchio,

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This week we chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that barn-raising classic - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!

Variety wrote: "This is a happy, hand-clapping, foot-stomping, country type of musical with all the slickness of a Broadway show. It offers songs, dances and romancing in such a delightful package that word-of-mouth could talk it into solid business at the boxoffice."

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Wiki - Musical, Film

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iTunes

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This week we chat about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the comic-turned- musical masterpiece - Fun Home!

Ben Brantley of The New York Times spoke of the musical's emotional impact, artistry and universality, calling it a "beautiful heartbreaker of a musical".[53] "Fun Home isn’t just a coming out story or a coming-of-age story. Its universality comes from its awareness of how we never fully know even those closest to us, and of the undercurrent of grown-up secrets, intuited by children, that exists to some degree in every family. Fun Home finds a shining clarity that lights up the night."

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Wiki - Musical, Comic, Jeanine Tesori, Beth Malone, Sydney Lucas

iTunes

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A controversial musical about a controversial character, but one of Zane’s favourite shows! Let’s revisit Bat Boy!

This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Alex Smith about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the off-beat musical Bat Boy!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

iTunes

Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming, Laurence O'Keefe, Deven May, Kaitlin Hopkins, Sean McCourt, Kerry Butler

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This week we chat about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Julie Andrew’s gender-bending musical - Victor/Victoria!

On the verge of starvation in 1930s Paris, erstwhile entertainer Julie Andrews is rescued by gay cabaret performer Robert Preston. What Julie needs to succeed, opines Preston, is a gimmick. So, Andrews becomes a male impersonator, pretending to be a female impersonator, and soon becomes the toast of Paris.

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, 1982 Film, 1933 FIlm

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"Adding Drama to a Musical, Andrews Spurns the Tonys"

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This week we chat with Shannon Foley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from philosophical and incredibly not-historical opera/operetta/musical/whatever - Candide!

The tale that Voltaire's classic satire tells is long and winding. And the tale of the Broadway show or (as Bernstein called it) American operetta to its present state as quintessential American opera (or music theater piece) is also long and winding. Over the years the piece got new books, new numbers, additional lyrics and new orchestrations until Bernstein finally conducted the full score in London with narration and a cast of opera stars.

Since then Bernstein's "Candide" has belonged more to the opera house and concert stage than to Broadway. Many things to many people, "Candide" tempts interpreters. A wonderful musical performance by the New York Philharmonic in 2004, which was televised, was subverted by harebrained semi-staging. Two years later, a scandalous, politically way-incorrect opera production in Paris satirized a drunken chorus line of state leaders in skivvies (Bush, Blair, Berlusconi, Putin and Chirac, to be exact).

Mark Swed
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More podcasts please! Specifically, more podcast musicals. Like 36 Questions!

This week we chat with Tom Hooley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the first-of-its-kind podcast musical - 36 Questions!

“It’s captivating from the get-go, and as the music begins to rise, we’re made immediately aware that this is not some low-budget experiment, a gimmick. The audio vignettes are brief and tense, placing us slowly but firmly in a gripping story. It requires close listening, attention payed: this podcast is not just a background thrum, rather a dedicated listen that requires and deserves our ears. “

Sarah Griffin, Irish Times
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The 36 Questions

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This week we chat amongst ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the ship-board musical - Anything Goes!

“If you try to imagine a grown-up Annie, of the musical by that name, you might easily find her to be a lot like Reno Sweeney, the lead character of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” — sassy and brassy, big-hearted and big-voiced. And still with red hair.

It is no surprise, then, that Andrea McArdle, the original Broadway Annie, who won a 1977 Tony nomination for her performance, makes a smashing Reno. The role of the naughty nightclub singer was originated in 1934 by Ethel Merman.

Ms. McArdle is the centerpiece of “Anything Goes” at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, but hardly its only asset. She is surrounded by other outstanding actors, a sparkling nautical set and fine musical accompaniment. Jayme McDaniel, the director, has melded all of the elements into a production filled with joyous energy.” - By Aileen Jacobson

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Wiki - Musical, Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse

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Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know had our first ever Live show! and we decided to talk about that most famous of Highschool musicals - Grease!

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Wiki - Musical, Film, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing

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It is time to go back to one of KB’s all-time favourite musicals - Jersey Boys!

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This week we chat with Josh Mulheran who is currently performing in the Australian Tour of Jersey Boys about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the biography musical the started it all - Jersey Boys!

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Wiki - Musical, Film, The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio

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Let’s go way back in time, to that crazy shared dream we all had, where we spoke at length about the all-train musical - Starlight Express!

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This week we chat with Melanie Bolovan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the smash-hit movie’s, smash-hit musical adaptation - Mean Girls!

Entertainment Weekly's Kristen Baldwin gave the musical a B+, writing: "An ode to self-respect and the benefits of a STEM-based education, Broadway’s Mean Girls is a lively, frequently hilarious adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 high school comedy. Propelled by dazzling set design and several stand-out performances, the musical — written by Fey, with music by Jeff Richmond, and directed by Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon) — gives fans everything they want while bringing the saga of Regina George and the Plastics into the social media age."

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This week we chat with Jessica Kate Ryan and Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Tim Minchin’s SMASH HIT musical - Matilda!

"I suspect it will delight audiences for years to come ... [Kelly's] script actually improves and deepens Dahl's original ... [Minchin's] smashing score ... combines take-home melodies with delicious lyrical wit in songs that consistently develop both the plot and our understanding of the characters. There is an exuberant sense here of two writers who have clicked together ... [Matilda] so wittily excoriates the cruelty and crassness of our age ... Warchus’s thrilling, warm-hearted production, exuberantly designed by Rob Howell and with pin-sharp choreography by Peter Darling, constantly combines comedy with a sense of wonder. The children [and the adult performances are 'hilarious' (Bailey), 'memorable' (Walker and Kaye) and 'touchingly sweet' (Ward)] ... But the star turn is Bertie Carvel". - Charles Spencer

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Wiki - Musical, Novel, Roald Dahl, Tim Minchin, Royal Shakespeare Company

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This week we chat with Andrew CP about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that ever-optimistic, Dickensian musical - Oliver!!

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Wiki - Musical, Film, Lionel Bart, Charles Dickens

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This week we chat with Johnny Ware about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the BRAND NEW, Australian Musical - Fangirls!

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Queensland Theatre - http://www.queenslandtheatre.com.au/Shows/19-Fangirls

Belvoir - https://belvoir.com.au/productions/fangirls/

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NOBODY (Song)

WAIT AND SEE (Song)

Why are Fangirls scary? Yve Blake at TEDxSydney

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This week we team up with the ladies from our sister podcast Disney Grown Up! to talk about Disney Musicals!

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You can’t go wrong with more Sondheim! so let’s hark back to the best of times, when we spoke about the sometimes-underrated political musical Assassins.

This week Kristen and Zane will chat with Jessica Kate Ryan and Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Sondheim’s most political musical, Assassins!

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Victor Garber, Terrence Mann, Patrick Cassidy, Debra Monk, Greg Germann, Annie Golden, Marc Kudisch, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Cerveris, Denis O'Hare, James Stacy Barbour, Becky Ann Baker, Alexander Gemignani, Mario Cantone, Catherine Tate, Aaron Tveit, Steven Pasquale, Alex Brightman, Cory Michael Smith

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This week we are celebrating over two years of episodes from Musicals Taught Me Everything I know! And what better way to celebrate than finally tackling the impossible Top 5 List - TOP 5 MUSICALS.

!SPOILERS BELOW!

The top 20 list: Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Avenue Q, The Producers, Into the Woods, Heathers, She Loves Me, A Chorus Line, The Wild Party (Lippa), Beauty & the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, H2$, Something Rotten, Les Mis, Dogfight, Kiss Me Kate, Jersey Boys, My Fair Lady, Hadestown, Waitress.

MIRANDA’S LIST: Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, Little Shop of Horrors.

KB’S LIST: Heathers, Jersey Boys, Dogfight, Into The Woods and Beauty and The Beast.

JULIE’S LIST: Little Shop Of Horrors, She Loves Me, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Waitress, Something Rotten.

ZANE’S LIST: Little Shop of Horrors, The Producers, The Wild Party (Lippa), Avenue Q, Hadestown.

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This week we chat with Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the classic musical - My Fair Lady!

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This is an infamous episode, even if only for the rash promises we made in regards to Zane’s dancing. Also, funny and spooky times ahead!

This week Kristen, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Isaac Tibbs about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the little horror-musical that could: Evil Dead! the Musical!

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Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ryan Ward

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This week we chat with Robbie Mitchell about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Lloyd-Webber’s juggernaut of a musical - Jesus Christ Superstar!

Find out more from Robbie at https://hillsmusical.org.au/

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This week we chat with Helen Stephens about which of life's truths can be gleaned from sassy, sexy, darkly comedic retro satire that has taken the world by storm - Heathers!

Marilyn Stasio, writing for Variety, wrote "...Seasoned industry pros could pick up a few tips on the Do’s and Don’ts of adapting material from this smartly executed musical treatment of “Heathers.” She praised the lyrics but was not a fan of the music, writing: "Even at their giddiest, the lyrics never dumb down the characters singing them. Wish we could say the same for the music, which is brassy and blah and sounds nothing like the music that made the 80s the 80s."

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Wiki - Musical, Film

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We admit that Jason Robert Brown has ben underserved by this podcast, so to go a little way towards repairing that let's revisit the time we talked about The Last 5 Years!

This week your hosts chat with Heidi Enchelmeier about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jason Robert Brown’ intimate two person musical - The Last 5 Years!

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Wiki - Musical

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Lauren Kennedy, Norbert Leo Butz, Betsy Wolfe, Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan

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This week we chat with Laura Fois about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the female-saturated musical - Nine!

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This week we chat with Oliver Sampson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Off-Broadway Military musical - Dogfight!

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In this reprise episode we are heading back to when we had one of the touring cast of Jersey Boys in the studio to pepper with questions!

This week we chat with Josh Mulheran who is currently performing in the Australian Tour of Jersey Boys about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the biography musical the started it all - Jersey Boys!

BOOK TICKETS TO SEE THE TOUR - QPAC, jerseyboys.com.au

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Wiki - Musical, Film, The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio

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This week we chat with Xanthe Jones - Assistant Director of this year’s 24 Hour Musical Project - about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic - The Sound of Music!

Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post stated that the show had "strangely gentle charm that is wonderfully endearing. The Sound of Music strives for nothing in the way of smash effects, substituting instead a kind of gracious and unpretentious simplicity."

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This week we chat with Tammy Linde about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the book turned film, turned Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical film, turned stage musical - State Fair!

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Wiki - Film, Musical

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Which musical has appeared on more top 5 lists than any other? Gypsy …probably, we don’t really keep track. But it is a great musical, and possibly on of the greatest! So this reprise session we are taking you back to our discussion about Gypsy with Shannon Foley.

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Wiki - Musical, Memoir

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This week we chat with Taylor Davidson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of the most dance-centric musicals around - A Chorus Line!

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This week we chat with Dani Altamura about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the new-age Sci-fi Broadway hit - Be More Chill!

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone Magazine wrote, "The audiences who made this show happen digitally are now making pilgrimages to the Lyceum Theater to see those songs done live by a talented young cast with enough juice to ignite every light on Broadway... By the time Jeremy belts out his final number, 'Voices in My Head,' you’ll be hearing those voices, too, in a wow of a musical that comes on like gangbusters."

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We always need more Judi Dench in our lives. And in our opinion one of her best performances was in A Little Night Music. So let’s take a look back at our discussion with Sam Boyd about it!

Learn more about Circa!

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WIKI - Musical, Movie, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Smiles of a Summer Night

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Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Ingmar Bergman, Harold Prince, Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down, Diana Rigg, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Judith Kahan, Mark Lambert, Laurence Guittard, Patricia Elliott, Taina Elg, Jill Perryman, Geraldine Turner, Toni Collette, Sigrid Thornton, Anthony Warlow, Angela Lansbury, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bernadette Peters, Elaine Stritch, Judi Dench, Siân Phillips, Joanna Riding, Patricia Hodge, Issy van Randwyck

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This week we chat with Joel O'Brien about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the hippie classic musical - Hair!

Clive Barnes wrote in the New York Times: "What is so likable about Hair ... ? I think it is simply that it is so likable. So new, so fresh, and so unassuming, even in its pretensions."

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This week we chat with Alicia Poulter about which of life's truths can be gleaned from watching Dr. Seuss' best-loved characters collide and cavort in the unforgettable musical caper - Seussical!

Somewhere in ''Seussical'' are the vestiges of a charming, unpretentious show, with a blithe, hummable score, about the transforming powers of imagination. With a small protean cast, conjuring characters out of the air in an intimate storybook-theater setting, ''Seussical'' might indeed be a hit, along the lines of the original Off Broadway incarnation of ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'' - BEN BRANTLEY

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Obscure musical alert! Brad McCaw is a huge musical fan and has a huge appreciation of some obscure musicals, here is the first on he brought to the podcast back in the olden days - Floyd Collins!

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This week we chat with friend-of-the-show Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the rootin-est, tootin-est musicals this side of the mountain - Oklahoma!

In the New York Herald Tribune, Howard Barnes wrote, "Songs, dances, and a story have been triumphantly blended. ... The Richard Rodgers score is one of his best, and that is saying plenty. Oscar Hammerstein 2nd has written a dramatically imaginative libretto and a string of catchy lyrics; Agnes de Mille has worked small miracles in devising original dances to fit the story and the tunes, while Rouben Mamoulian has directed an excellent company with great taste and craftsmanship."

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This week we chat with Jess Ham about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jason Robert Brown’s historical and intensely emotional musical - Parade!

"Southern extended families are prone to telling stories and so are Jewish ones. Mine was both, so I got a double dose. I grew up hearing about the quirks of distant relatives, in-laws, and a whole network of people I didn't know. They all came with stories attached. But nobody mentioned Leo Frank. Some of the family even walked out of the room if the name came up. I found this confusing, because I knew that my Great Uncle Sig had been his employer, and Lucille Frank was my grandmother's friend. Due to this hush-hush policy, I developed a fascination for the case, which has lasted all these years and which led to the idea for Parade." -ALFRED UHRY

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Zane is still unashamed of his love for the under-appreciated musical Zanna Don’t. So it is high time that we revisited this hidden, camp, musical gem!

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This week we chat with Panda Haden and Kaitlyn Maxwell about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the smash hit musical - Wicked!

“Chenoweth received nearly unanimous praise for her performances as Glinda while Menzel received mixed-to-positive reviews for her performance as Elphaba. Both USA Today and Time Magazine gave the Broadway production of Wicked very positive reviews, with Richard Zoglin of Time saying, "If every musical had a brain, a heart and the courage of Wicked, Broadway really would be a magical place." “

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This week we chat with Trevor Jones about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the often overlooked musical gem - Snoopy!!!

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Politics, politics, politics. Let’s talk about politics. but the good kind, the musical kind! Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a musical all about a rather misunderstood period of American Politics!

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Wiki - Show, Politician

Les Freres Corbusier

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www.theatremakers.com.au

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Michael Friedman, Alex Timbers, Sebastian Arcelus, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, River Alexander, Bryce Pinkham, Benjamin Walker,

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This week we chat with Benjamin Tubb-Hearne about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical - Next to Normal!

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This week we chat with Tristan Vanyai about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time - Guys and Dolls!

https://www.savoyards.com.au/oklahoma

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Patrick is one of our favourite people and Groundhog Day is one of his favourite musicals! So let us revisit this episode about TIm Minchin’s latest Broadway work - Groundhog Day!

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Wiki - Musical, Movie, Tim Minchin, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

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Tim Minchin, Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis, Barrett Doss, Andy Karl, Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Tobolowsky

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This week we chat with Brisbane filmmaker Charnstar Anderson about which of life's truths can be learned from the Festival darling, SIlence of the Lambs parody musical - Silence!

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On Vimeo

Pizza Deliverance

L-Plates

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Wiki - Musical, Movie, Jon and Al Kaplan

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Time Magazine’s Top 10 Plays and Musicals of 2011

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This week we chat with the hosts of Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know about everything they have learned from that age-old process - Auditions! They have advice from both in front of the table and behind (and a few embarrassing stories thrown in for good measure.

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Hadestown is headed to Broadway and is a hot ticket for the Tony Awards this year! So there is no better time to revisit our episode with Jo Diskett about this new, jazz-folk musical Hadestown!

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This week we chat with Stephen Hirst about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the troubled political/sport/romance musical - Chess!

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This week we chat with Fiona Buchanan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the tragic Liverpudlian musical - Blood Brothers!

Fiona will soon be appearing in House of Mirrors and Hearts - A new musical

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Kiss me Kate is a Cole Porter classic and (we feel) super underrated! So let’s flashback to the episode we did with a Kate of our own Naomi Mole!

This week Zane and Patrick will chat with Naomi Mole about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Cole Porter's classic musical - Kiss Me, Kate!

BOOK TICKETS TO KISS ME, KATE!

Gold Coast Little Theatre - FACEBOOK, GCLT Kiss Me, Kate!

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Samuel and Bella Spewack, Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Bill Johnson, Adelaide Hall, Julie Wilson, Marin Mazzie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Amy Spanger, Michael Berresse, Lee Wilkof, Ron Holgate, Michael Mulheren, Brent Barrett, Kelli O'Hara, Cole Porter, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, Bob Fosse, Willard Parker, Ron Randell

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This is a very special episode where we list of the Top 10 Shortlist for the 2019 24 Hour Musical Project!

If you want to find out more about the project you can visit www.24hmp.com.

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This week we chat with Izzie Radley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the cheerleading masterpiece - Bring it On!

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Avenue Q is one of our all-time favourite musicals! Zane and Miranda have both worked on the show and hope to in the future. So let’s flash back to relive the time we spoke with another Avenue Q alumni and fan - Jack Kelly!

Find out more about Jack Kelly - YouTube, Facebook

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Wiki - Musical

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This week we chat with Laurene Cooper-Fox about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that classic tale of love and unionization - The Pajama Game!

"This is about capital and labour," a character announces at the start. But it's fair to say that the book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell is just as much about the romance that develops between an arrogant superintendent and a shopfloor militant in a midwestern pyjama factory. Refreshing as it is to find a musical in which passion collides with politics, I notice how cannily the show harks back to the past. The fractiousness of the lovers echoes Annie Get Your Gun and, when the workers go on a picnic, I was reminded of the box social in Oklahoma! and the clambake in Carousel. It adds, however, rather than detracts from the pleasure to find an original theme reinforced by a sense of tradition. What really counts in this revival is the brilliance of Stephen Mear's choreography in matching the mood of the songs by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. - Michael Billington, The Guardian

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This week we chat with Tom Hooley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the first-of-its-kind podcast musical - 36 Questions!

“It’s captivating from the get-go, and as the music begins to rise, we’re made immediately aware that this is not some low-budget experiment, a gimmick. The audio vignettes are brief and tense, placing us slowly but firmly in a gripping story. It requires close listening, attention payed: this podcast is not just a background thrum, rather a dedicated listen that requires and deserves our ears. “

Sarah Griffin, Irish Times
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The 36 Questions

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It is time to go back and re-listen to one of our favourite Disney Broadway shows, Newsies! With one of our favourite Broadway nerds Will Hinz!

“As choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, they keep coming at us in full-speed-ahead phalanxes, fortified by every step in a Broadway-by-the-numbers dance book... Mr. Jordan...is a natural star who has no trouble holding the stage, even without pirouettes... Mr. Feldman’s lyrics are spot-on, while the melody reminds us just how charming a composer Mr. Menken...can be.” - Ben Brantley of The New York Times

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This week we will chat with Kristian Fletcher about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that cult classic - Rocky Horror Picture Show!

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Wiki - Movie, Musical, Wiki

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This week we chat with Dorothy May about which of life's truths can be gleaned from her name-sake musical - The Wizard of Oz!

You can see Dotty performing in the near future! Just click this link:

http://www.sitdowncomedyfringe.com.au/the-treble-makers/

"The star of the show is undoubtedly the set and costume designer, Robert Jones. The Kansas cyclone that whisks Dorothy into a dreamworld is evoked through vorticist projections (the work of Jon Driscoll) that betoken chaos in the cosmos. The Yellow Brick Road is on a tilted revolve from inside which poppyfields and labyrinthine forest emerge. The Emerald City is full of steeply inclined walls suggesting a drunkard's vision of the Chrysler Building lobby. And the Wicked Witch of the West inhabits a rotating dungeon that might be a Piranesi nightmare. ... Of course, there are the songs; it's good to be reminded of such classics as "Over The Rainbow", "We're Off To See The Wizard", and "Follow The Yellow Brick Road". The additions by Lloyd Webber and Rice are also perfectly acceptable. Dorothy is given a good plaintive opening number, and Red Shoes Blues, sung by the Wicked Witch, has a pounding intensity."

- Michael Billington, reviewer at The Guardian

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Wilkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! Sally Bowles is one of Zane’s all-time favourite characters and so we are taking this opportunity to bring back this great episode with that hilarious cabaret-star Tash York! Tash is still living her best life, touring Australia, so check out her website to see what she is up to!

Find Tash and info about her upcoming events online: www.tashyork.com

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Wiki - Musical, Film, Christopher Isherwood.

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John Kander, Fred Ebb, Joe Masteroff, Christopher Isherwood, Jill Haworth, Bert Convy, Lotte Lenya, Joel Grey, Judi Dench, Kevin Colson, Barry Dennen, Jane Horrocks, Adam Godley, Alan Cumming, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Anna Maxwell Martin, Michelle Ryan, Michelle Williams

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This week we chat with James Kehoe about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Crazy For You!

In his review in The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote, "When future historians try to find the exact moment at which Broadway finally rose up to grab the musical back from the British, they just may conclude that the revolution began last night. The shot was fired at the Shubert Theater, where a riotously entertaining show called Crazy for You uncorked the American musical’s classic blend of music, laughter, dancing, sentiment and showmanship with a freshness and confidence rarely seen during the Cats decade . . . Crazy for You scrapes away decades of cabaret and jazz and variety-show interpretations to reclaim the Gershwins’ standards, in all their glorious youth, for the dynamism of the stage."

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This week we chat with Dom about which of life's truths can be gleaned from That classic Gilbert and Sullivan show - The Mikado!

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Who doesn’t want to talk about Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters and all the other Dolly’s of Broadway? We spoke to Grace Clarke - arguably one of the biggest Hello Dolly fans around - about this classic Broadway tale!

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This week we chat with Aurelie Roque about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Disney Masterpiece Beauty and the Beast!

"Born in Hollywood as an animated film, Disney's version of 'Beauty and the Beast' has returned home as an opulent stage musical, a year after its Broadway bow. Both good and bad choices have been made in adapting the 1991 film, but with its outstanding performances, fantastic production values and memorable score, this show should warm the hearts of all but the most curmudgeonly theatergoers." - Tom Jacobs of *Variety*

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Wiki - Folktale, Musical, 1991 Film, 2017 Film, Disney Wiki

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This week we chat with Bradley McCaw about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Steve Martin’s musical foray - Bright Star!

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The next in our Reprise season is How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Sherryl-Lee Secomb!

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Wiki - Musical, Book, Movie

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Frank Loesser, Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Daniel Radcliffe, John Larroquette, Anderson Cooper, Walter Cronkite, Christopher Hanke, Roger Bart, Ralph Macchio,

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This week we chat with Josh Mulheran who is currently performing in the Australian Tour of Jersey Boys about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the biography musical the started it all - Jersey Boys!

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Wiki - Musical, Film, The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio

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This week we chat with Carly Skelton about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Beautiful: A Carol King Musical!

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Wiki - Musical, Carole King

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The next in our Reprise season is Hairspray with Kell Anderson!

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Wiki - Musical, Film (original), Film (2007), Hairspray Live!

IMDb - Hairspray (2007), Hairspray (1988), Hairspray Live!

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Kell's Podcast - Facebook, iTunes

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Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Mark O'Donnell, Thomas Meehan, John Waters, Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Matthew Morrison, Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, Linda Hart, Mary Bond Davis, Corey Reynolds, Dick Latessa, Michael Ball, Mel Smith, Leanne Jones, Jennifer Hudson, Martin Short, Derek Hough, Kristin Chenoweth, Ariana Grande, Sean Hayes, Rosie O’Donnell, Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Amanda Bynes, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken, James Marsden,

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This week we will chat with Maureen Bowra about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Sweet Charity!

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Wiki - Musical, Film, Bob Fosse, Neil Simon, Cy Coleman

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The Guide to Musical Theatre

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This week we chat with Shannon Foley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of the best musicals of ALL TIME - Gypsy!

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Part of our new Reprise Series we are bringing back some of our favourite episodes from the archives.

KB was far away in London when we last spoke about Something Rotten with Patrick Aiken. Perhaps being in such proximity to the Shakespearean stomping-grounds is why she liked this episode so much!

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Wikipedia

Twitter

rottenbroadway.com

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John O'Farrell, Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Brian d'Arcy James, Christian Borle, John Cariani, Heidi Blickenstaff, Brad Oscar, Kate Reinders, Rob McClure, Adam Pascal, Josh Grisetti, Autumn Hurlbert

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Your hosts are taking a small break over the holiday period, but fear not! For we will not leave you without a Musical Theatre fix. Each week in December we will release a special Christmas Top 5 Episode AND re-release our hosts favourite episodes of the year!

This week our host give your their Top 5 Musicals in which Christmas makes an appearance!

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Part of our new Reprise Series we are bringing back some of our favourite episodes from the archives.

Come From Away was one of our favourite Musicals that we featured this week and the Show is coming to Australia in 2019! So it is time to get excited!

"Try, if you must, to resist the gale of goodwill that blows out of 'Come From Away,' the big bearhug of a musical that opened on Sunday night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. But even the most stalwart cynics may have trouble staying dry-eyed during this portrait of heroic hospitality under extraordinary pressure." - Ben Brantley, chief theatre critic for The New York Times

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Wiki - Musical, Beverley Bass

Official Website

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Chad Kimball, Jenn Colella, Rodney Hicks, Kendra Kassebaum, Steffi DiDomenicantonio, Sharon Wheatley

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Your hosts are taking a small break over the holiday period, but fear not! For we will not leave you without a Musical Theatre fix. Each week in December we will release a special Christmas Top 5 Episode AND re-release our hosts favourite episodes of the year!

This week our hosts give your their Top 5 Musical Characters to play Santa!

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Part of our new Reprise Series we are bringing back some of our favourite episodes from the archives.

Miranda loved talking family, love and hats when we spoke to Jonathan about Light in the Piazza and so she wanted to relive those glory days with our listeners again.

This week Julie, Miranda and, Zane will chat with Jonathan Hickey about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the modern classical musical - The Light in the Piazza!

Critic John Simon, in New York magazine, wrote: "Anyone who cares about the rather uncertain future of this truly American genre should — must — see the show, think and worry about it, and reach his or her own conclusions . . . Craig Lucas’s book seems perfectly adequate to me, but the emphasis must be on Adam Guettel’s music and lyrics . . . the music, though fluctuating between the Sondheimesque and offbeat but still Broadwayish and the art-songlike and even operatic, is steadily absorbing, even if only intermittently melodious. One duet, “Let’s Walk,” is an unqualified hit, but the rest, without fully cohering, is also arresting. Ted Sperling and Guettel’s jaunty orchestrations add to the slightly disorienting but wholly fascinating harmonies and instrumentation."

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Elizabeth Spencer, Craig Lucas, Adam Guettel, Victoria Clark, Kelli O'Hara, Matthew Morrison, Michael Berresse, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Aaron Lazar

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For the first time ever the That’s Not Canon Productions team are coming together in a Christmas Crossover Special. Featuring top 5 lists and special segments from seven of the other podcasts on the network. Top 5 Christmas Drinks? Check. Most interesting Christmas Traditions? Check. Top 5 Christmas TV specials? Check!

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Your hosts are taking a small break over the holiday period, but fear not! For we will not leave you without a Musical Theatre fix. Each week in December we will release a special Christmas Top 5 Episode AND re-release our hosts favourite episodes of the year!

This week our hosts give your their Top 5 Christmas Albums!

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Part of our new Reprise Series we are bringing back some of our favourite episodes from the archives.

Julie made no secret of her love for Little Shop of Horrors when we last spoke about it with Lauren Ware and so she wanted to delve into those blood and flower-strewn waters once again.

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Wiki - Musical, Film (1986), Film (1960)

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Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jim Belushi, Levi Stubbs, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, Tisha Campbell, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Frank Oz, Lee Wilkof, Hy Anzell, Ron Taylor, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman

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Your hosts are taking a small break over the holiday period, but fear not! For we will not leave you without a Musical Theatre fix. Each week in December we will release a special Christmas Top 5 Episode AND re-release our hosts favourite episodes of the year!

This week we asked our lovely patrons to submit their Top 5 Movies to watch at Christmas and we has some very creative answers!

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This week your hosts chat with Heidi Enchelmeier about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jason Robert Brown’ intimate two person musical - The Last 5 Years!

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Wiki - Musical

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Lauren Kennedy, Norbert Leo Butz, Betsy Wolfe, Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan

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This week your hosts chat with Georgina Purdie about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the phenomenon of musical theatre that is Hamilton: An American Musical!

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Wiki - Musical, Alexander Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ron Chernow, Ana Nogueira, Phillipa Soo, Michael Luwoye, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Leslie Odom Jr., Anika Noni Rose, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Joshua Henry, Okieriete Onaodowan, Javier Muñoz, Anthony Ramos, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Brian d'Arcy James, Jonathan Groff, Arianna Afsar, Rachelle Ann Go, Joshua Henry, Giles Terera, Alexander Gemignani, Rory O'Malley, Michael Jibson

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This week we chat with Sam Piaggio about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the breakout hit musical, Book of Mormon!

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Wiki - Musical, Religious Text

iTunes

Spotify

Official Website

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Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone, Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad, Nikki M. James, Rory O'Malley, Michael Potts, Lewis Cleale, Brian Tyree Henry, Gavin Creel, Jared Gertner, Alexia Khadime, Stephen Ashfield, Giles Terera, Ben Platt, A. J. Holmes, Linus Wahlgren, Zahra Newman, Syesha Mercado, Rowan Witt, Bert LaBonté

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The whole gang were at Supanova Brisbane and thought they should record some bonus episodes for you all!

(Also, John Barrowman was there and he is just as good-looking as you imagine!)

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This week Kristen, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Isaac Tibbs about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the little horror-musical that could: Evil Dead! the Musical!

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Wiki

IMDb

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Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ryan Ward

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Shane Anderson (from Mighty Motion Picture Rangers) about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the verbatim musical London Road!

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This week Kristen, Julie, and Zane will chat with Jo Diskett about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The new jazz-folk musical Hadestown!

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Wiki

iTunes

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Anaïs Mitchell, Rachel Chavkin, Chris Sullivan, Shaina Taub, Andre De Shields, Reeve Carney, T.V. Carpio, Patrick Page, Amber Gray

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This week Kristen and Zane will chat with Jessica Kate Ryan and Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Sondheim’s most political musical, Assassins!

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Wiki

iTunes

Spotify

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Victor Garber, Terrence Mann, Patrick Cassidy, Debra Monk, Greg Germann, Annie Golden, Marc Kudisch, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Cerveris, Denis O'Hare, James Stacy Barbour, Becky Ann Baker, Alexander Gemignani, Mario Cantone, Catherine Tate, Aaron Tveit, Steven Pasquale, Alex Brightman, Cory Michael Smith

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Alex Smith about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the off-beat musical Bat Boy!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

iTunes

Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming, Laurence O'Keefe, Deven May, Kaitlin Hopkins, Sean McCourt, Kerry Butler

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Taylor Davidson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from In The Heights!

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Wiki

IMDb

iTunes

Spotify

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Mandy Gonzalez, Christopher Jackson, Karen Olivo, Olga Merediz, Carlos Gomez, Priscilla Lopez, Robin de Jesús, Andréa Burns, Janet Dacal, Seth Stewart, Javier Muñoz, Corbin Bleu, Janet Dacal, Jordin Sparks, Justina Machado, Bianca Marroquín, David Del Rio

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This week our hosts will chat with Aerlyn James about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Broadway classic, Chicago!

BOOK TICKETS TO SEE SAVOYARD’S CHICAGO

Ben Brantley, in his review for The New York Times, wrote "'Make love to the audience' was another Fosse dictum. That's exactly what Ms. Reinking and her ensemble do. Chicago can still seem glibly cynical and artificially cold, especially in its weaker second act. But these performers know just how to take off the chill."

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Wiki - Musical, Play, Beulah Annan, Belva Gaertner

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iTunes - Movie, Broadway

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Bob Fosse, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Cecil B. DeMille, Ginger Rogers, Phyllis Haver, Chita Rivera, Jerry Orbach, Barney Martin, Ann Reinking, Ruthie Henshall, Jenny Logan, Bebe Neuwirth, Ute Lemper, Joel Grey, Liza Minnelli, Nancye Hayes, Geraldine Turner, Terence Donovan, Judi Connelli, Michelle Williams, Usher, Brandy, Christopher Sieber, Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know.

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This week in a special sneak peek of the Patreon-only episodes, your hosts Julie, Miranda, and Zane discuss which musical characters deserve their own spin-off musicals!

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Geena Schwartz about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of the longest running musicals of all time - The Phantom of the Opera!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Novel,

IMDb

iTunes

Spotify

www.thephantomoftheopera.com

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Joel Schumacher, Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart. Richard Stilgoe, Gaston Leroux, Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Steve Barton, Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser, John Barrowman, Norm Lewis

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This week Julie Miranda, and Zane chat with Jessica Kate Ryan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Sondheim's infamous flop, Merrily We Roll Along!

"...to be a Stephen Sondheim fan is to have one's heart broken at regular intervals. Usually, the heartbreak comes from Mr. Sondheim's songs -for his music can tear through us with an emotional force as moving as Gershwin's. And sometimes the pain is compounded by another factor - for some of Mr. Sondheim's most powerful work turns up in shows (''Anyone Can Whistle,'' ''Pacific Overtures'') that fail. Suffice it to say that both kinds of pain are abundant in ''Merrily We Roll Along,'' the new Sondheim-Harold Prince-George Furth musical that opened at the Alvin last night. Mr. Sondheim has given this evening a half-dozen songs that are crushing and beautiful - that soar, and linger, and hurt. But the show that contains them is a shambles." - By FRANK RICH, New York Times

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Wiki - Musical, Play

iTunes

Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Stephen Sondheim, George Furth, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Jim Walton, Lonny Price, Ann Morrison, Terry Finn, Jason Alexander, Geoffrey Horne, David Loud, Liz Callaway, Tonya Pinkins, Abby Pogrebin, Giancarlo Esposito, John Rubinstein, Chip Zien, Marin Mazzie, Heather MacRae, Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Burlinson, Tony Sheldon, Peta Toppano, Greg Stone, Gina Riley, Wayne Brady

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the ice-cream loving musical She Loves Me!

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Wiki

IMDb

iTunes

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CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Barbara Cook, Daniel Massey, Barbara Baxley, Jack Cassidy, Ludwig Donath, Rita Moreno, Madeline Kahn, Kelli O'Hara, Josh Radnor, Jane Krakowski, Gavin Creel, Victor Garber, Rory O'Malley, Peter Bartlett, Laura Benanti, Zachary Levi, Michael McGrath, Ruthie Henshall, John Gordon Sinclair

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This week Zane will chat with Harrison Aston, Jordan Malone, and Oliver Lacey about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the confronting rock musical Spring Awakening!

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Wiki - Musical, Play

iTunes

Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater, Frank Wedekind, Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Skylar Astin, John Gallagher Jr, Lauren Pritchard, Lilli Cooper, Gideon Glick, Stephen Spinella, Christine Estabrook, Aneurin Barnard, Iwan Rheon, Lucy May Barker, Jamie Blackley, Richard Cordery, Sian Thomas, Austin P. McKenzie, Daniel N. Durant, Alex Boniello, Krysta Rodriguez, Andy Mientus, Daniel David Stewart, Russell Harvard, Patrick Page, Ali Stroker

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This week Zane will chat with Melbourne cabaret artist Tash York about which of life's truths can be gleaned from classic musical Cabaret!

Find Tash and info about her upcoming events online: www.tashyork.com

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film, Christopher Isherwood.

IMDb

iTunes

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CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

John Kander, Fred Ebb, Joe Masteroff, Christopher Isherwood, Jill Haworth, Bert Convy, Lotte Lenya, Joel Grey, Judi Dench, Kevin Colson, Barry Dennen, Jane Horrocks, Adam Godley, Alan Cumming, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Anna Maxwell Martin, Michelle Ryan, Michelle Williams

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane celebrate the one year anniversary of Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know and chat about some unappreciated shows from the past that ran less than 50 performances on Broadway!

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Benjamin Tubb-Hearne about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Mystery of Edwin Drood!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Novel, Musical, 1993 Film, 2012 Film

IMDb - 1993, 2012

iTunes

Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Charles Dickens, Rupert Holmes, George Rose, Clive Revill, Jim Norton, Betty Buckley, Donna Murphy, Paige O'Hara, Julia Hills, Stephanie J. Block, Patti Cohenour, Betsy Wolfe, Will Chase, Chita Rivera, Wendi Peters, Lulu, Gregg Edelman, Andy Karl, Jessie Mueller, Cleo Laine, Karen Morrow, Loretta Swit, Jean Stapleton

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In honor of Gary Beach's recent passing, we would like to dedicate this episode to his memory.

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This week Kristen and Zane will chat with Mary Littlejohn about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the hilarious semi-improvised musical - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!

MARY'S LINKS

Fabulist Theatre

www.thebroadwaychorus.com

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Wiki

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CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

William Finn, James Lapine, Sarah Saltzberg, Wendy Wasserstein, Julianne Boyd, Dan Fogler, Robb Sapp, Jose Llana, Dashiell Eaves, Derrick Baskin, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lisa Howard, Marina Prior, David Campbell, Magda Szubanski, Lisa McCune, Tyler Coppin, Bert Labonte, Natalie Mendoza, Betsy Wolfe, James Monroe Iglehart

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This week Zane and Patrick will chat with Naomi Mole about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Cole Porter's classic musical - Kiss Me, Kate!

BOOK TICKETS TO KISS ME, KATE!

Gold Coast Little Theatre - FACEBOOK, GCLT Kiss Me, Kate!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film, Cole Porter

IMDb

iTunes

Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Samuel and Bella Spewack, Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Bill Johnson, Adelaide Hall, Julie Wilson, Marin Mazzie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Amy Spanger, Michael Berresse, Lee Wilkof, Ron Holgate, Michael Mulheren, Brent Barrett, Kelli O'Hara, Cole Porter, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, Bob Fosse, Willard Parker, Ron Randell

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This week Zane, Patrick and Jess will chat with Tristan Vanyai about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Mel Brooks' hilarious musical Young Frankenstein!

"Brooks and Stroman pull out every stop. Despite music that's more ho-hum than hummable, Brooks' lyrics are bright and witty. Better yet, the book ... does a great job, with the assistance of co-writer Thomas Meehan, in transferring the original script to the stage." - The New York Post

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Movie, Mel Brooks

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CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan, Gene Wilder, Mary Shelley, Susan Stroman, Brian d'Arcy James, Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster, Roger Bart, Shuler Hensley, Cloris Leachman, Hadley Fraser, Megan Mullally, Andrea Martin, Dianne Pilkington

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This week Julie, Miranda and, Zane will chat with Jonathan Hickey about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the modern classical musical - The Light in the Piazza!

Critic John Simon, in New York magazine, wrote: "Anyone who cares about the rather uncertain future of this truly American genre should — must — see the show, think and worry about it, and reach his or her own conclusions . . . Craig Lucas’s book seems perfectly adequate to me, but the emphasis must be on Adam Guettel’s music and lyrics . . . the music, though fluctuating between the Sondheimesque and offbeat but still Broadwayish and the art-songlike and even operatic, is steadily absorbing, even if only intermittently melodious. One duet, “Let’s Walk,” is an unqualified hit, but the rest, without fully cohering, is also arresting. Ted Sperling and Guettel’s jaunty orchestrations add to the slightly disorienting but wholly fascinating harmonies and instrumentation."

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film, Novella

IMDb

iTunes

Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Elizabeth Spencer, Craig Lucas, Adam Guettel, Victoria Clark, Kelli O'Hara, Matthew Morrison, Michael Berresse, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Aaron Lazar

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This week Julie, Miranda and, Zane will chat with Kutis Laing about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Folk-Musical smash, Once!

Find out more about Kurtis: [un]Featured Articles Podcast, The Good Time Boys

FURTHER READING -

WIKI - Musical, Film

IMDB

oncemusical.com

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

John Carney, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Enda Walsh, Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti, Ronan Keating, Tom Parsons, Keegan Joyce, Laura Dreyfuss, Joanna Christie

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This week Julie, Zane with special host, Josh Thia will chat with Shaun Kohlman about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Pop-opera/musical - Bare!

BOOK TICKETS!

www.understudyproductions.com

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

Stage Agent

Spotify

iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Damon Intrabartolo, John Hill, Michael Arden, Jenna Leigh Green, Natalie Joy Johnson, Aaron Lohr, Taylor Trensch, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Gerard Canonico, Missi Pyle,

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane chat with Stephanie Baxter about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Come From Away!

"Try, if you must, to resist the gale of goodwill that blows out of 'Come From Away,' the big bearhug of a musical that opened on Sunday night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. But even the most stalwart cynics may have trouble staying dry-eyed during this portrait of heroic hospitality under extraordinary pressure." - Ben Brantley, chief theatre critic for The New York Times

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Beverley Bass

Official Website

Spotify

iTunes

Facebook

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Chad Kimball, Jenn Colella, Rodney Hicks, Kendra Kassebaum, Steffi DiDomenicantonio, Sharon Wheatley

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This week Julie and Zane chat with Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party!

"[it] has a jittery, wandering quality, conscientiously shifting styles and tempos as if in search of a lost chord . . . The ballads . . . are of the high-decibel, swooning pop variety made popular by Frank Wildhorn. Mr. Lippa fares better with pastiches of jazz, vaudeville and gospel vintage, although these, too, suffer by comparison to the Kander-Ebb songs for Chicago." The CurtainUp reviewer wrote: "The Wild Party may not be the perfect musical we've all been looking for but it's great fun to watch and puts enough talent on display to have warranted a longer run than it will have." - Ben Brantley of the New York Times

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Poem

Spotify

iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Andrew Lippa, Joseph Moncure March, Kristin Chenoweth, Julia Murney, Brian d'Arcy James, Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel, Leigh Silverman, Sonya Tayeh, Sutton Foster, Steven Pasquale, Brandon Victor Dixon, Miriam Shor

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane have a chat about their latest project AND about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Witches of Eastwick!

Here is the brief history Miranda gave during the 24 Hour Musical Project!

FURTHER READING -

WIKI - Musical, Film, Novel, Quotes

IMDB

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

John Updike, Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, John Dempsey, Dana P. Rowe, Ian McShane, Lucie Arnaz, Joanna Riding, Maria Friedman, Rosemary Ashe, Stephen Tate, Caroline Sheen, Peter Jöback, Paul McDermott, Marina Prior, Sabrina Batshon

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane will chat with actor/producer/thespian extraordinaire Stacie Hobbs about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the fairytale musical Shrek!

FURTHER READING -

WIKI - Musical, Franchise, Film, Book

IMDB

MTI

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Jeanine Tesori, David Lindsay-Abaire, William Steig, Stephen Kramer Glickman, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Christopher Sieber, Brian d'Arcy James, Sutton Foster, Chester Gregory II, John Tartaglia, Daniel Breaker, Nigel Lindsay, Amanda Holden

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with the crew from Pannic Productions about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Rock of Ages!

BOOK TICKETS!

FURTHER READING -

WIKI - Musical, Film, Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Steve Perry, Poison, Europe

IMDb

Stageagent

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Chris Hardwick, James Snyder, Laura Bell Bundy, Dan Finnerty, Kyle Gass, Constantine Maroulis, Justin Burford, Amy Spanger, James Carpinello, Michael Falzon, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Mary J. Blige, Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Morgan Garrity about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Big Fish!

BOOK TICKETS! -
FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Movie, Novel

IMDb

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Daniel Wallace, Andrew Lippa, John August, Norbert Leo Butz, Kate Baldwin, Bobby Steggert, Krystal Joy Brown, Brad Oscar, Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, Danny Elfman

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In this special mid-week episode Zane has a chat with some of the creative minds behind the new musical work - Don't Call Me Ishmael!

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Lauren Ware about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Little Shop of Horrors!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film (1986), Film (1960)

IMDb - 1986, 1960

MTI

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jim Belushi, Levi Stubbs, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, Tisha Campbell, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Frank Oz, Lee Wilkof, Hy Anzell, Ron Taylor, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman

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In a very special bonus episode, the Producer and Director of the 2018 24 Hour Musical Project (Miranda & Zane) give a quick rundown of all 10 musicals that appear on this year's shortlist!

To find out more about the project visit the website, facebook, instagram or twitter

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Will Hinz about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Newsies!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film,

IMDb - 1992, 2017

MTI

Disney Wiki

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall, Jeremy Jordan, Corey Cott, Dan DeLuca, John Dossett, Steve Blanchard, Kara Lindsay, Stephanie Styles, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Ben Cook

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Genevieve Tree about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical murder mystery Curtains!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Curtain, Musical, All The Tropes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Fred Ebb, John Kander, Rupert Holmes, David Hyde Pierce, Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba, Jason Danieley, Edward Hibbert, Megan Sikora

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Zane's not-so-guilty-pleasure Zanna Don't!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

Spotify

iTunes

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Cassie George about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that classic musical tale Singin' in the Rain!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Movie,

IMDb

IBDB

Stage Agent

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Tommy Steele, Don Correia, Adam Cooper, Scarlett Strallen, Sarah Payne

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane will chat with Malcolm Hume about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Into the Woods!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Movie

IMDB

Rotten Tomatoes

Disney Movies Archive

New Yorker 'Why Ínto the Woods Matters'

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Rob Marshall, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Johnny Depp, George Coe, Tom Aldredge, Bernadette Peters, Danielle Ferland, Ellen Foley, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Kim Crosby, Ben Wright, Danielle Ferland, Chuck Wagner, Merle Louise, Tom Aldredge, Robert Westenberg,

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane will chat with Jessica Kate Ryan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Sunday in the Park with George!

This week we are sponsored by the 24 Hour Musical Project! Find out more about this super-exciting and ambitious project online at www.24hourmusical.com.au

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Wiki - Musical, Painting, Georges Seurat

IBDB

iTunes - 1984, 2017

Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Philip Quast, Maria Friedman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Annaleigh Ashford, Zachary Levi

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Jack Kelly about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Avenue Q!

Find out more about Jack Kelly - YouTube, Facebook

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical

iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, Jeff Whitty, Jason Moore, John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Ann Harada, Jordan Gelber, Jennifer Barnhart

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This week instead of our regular show we decided to let you all in on one of the secret PATRON-ONLY Top 5 Episodes. If you were already a patron you would be enjoying one of these special episodes each month! (And we probably won't be releasing any more of these to the regular podcast public)

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane will chat about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Boy From Oz!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Peter Allen, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland,

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Todd McKenney, Hugh Jackman, Olivia Newton-John, Frank Sinatra, Chrissy Amphlett, Mathew Waters, Isabel Keating, Stephanie J. Block

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane will chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical Something Rotten!

FURTHER READING -

Wikipedia

Twitter

rottenbroadway.com

MTI

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

John O'Farrell, Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Brian d'Arcy James, Christian Borle, John Cariani, Heidi Blickenstaff, Brad Oscar, Kate Reinders, Rob McClure, Adam Pascal, Josh Grisetti, Autumn Hurlbert

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane chat with Kell Anderson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Hairspray!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film (original), Film (2007), Hairspray Live!

IMDb - Hairspray (2007), Hairspray (1988), Hairspray Live!

iTunes

Spotify

Kell's Podcast - Facebook, iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Mark O'Donnell, Thomas Meehan, John Waters, Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Matthew Morrison, Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, Linda Hart, Mary Bond Davis, Corey Reynolds, Dick Latessa, Michael Ball, Mel Smith, Leanne Jones, Jennifer Hudson, Martin Short, Derek Hough, Kristin Chenoweth, Ariana Grande, Sean Hayes, Rosie O’Donnell, Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Amanda Bynes, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken, James Marsden,

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This week we are on a holiday! But we will not leave you empty-handed, here is a bonus Christmas-themed Top 5 list!

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This week we are on a holiday! But we will not leave you empty-handed, here is a bonus Christmas-themed Top 5 list!Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon!Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.comVisit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.comOur theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Find out more about him at www.benedictbraxtonsmith.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know.

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This week we are on a holiday! But we will not leave you empty-handed, here is a bonus Christmas-themed Top 5 list!

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane will chat with Sherryl-Lee Secomb about which of life's truths can be gleaned from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Book, Movie

IMDb

iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Frank Loesser, Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Daniel Radcliffe, John Larroquette, Anderson Cooper, Walter Cronkite, Christopher Hanke, Roger Bart, Ralph Macchio,

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This week Julie, Kristen, and Zane will chat with Benedict Braxton-Smith about which of life's truths can be gleaned from A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film, 68th Tony Awards

Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal

Tony Awards Performance

iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Robert L. Freedman, Roy Horniman, Darko Tresnjak, Jefferson Mays, Ken Barnett, Lisa O'Hare, Lauren Worsham, Bryce Pinkham, Kevin Massey, Blake Price, James Taylor Odom

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Groundhog Day!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Movie, Tim Minchin, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

IMDb

iTunes - Musical, Movie

www.groundhogdaymusical.com

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Tim Minchin, Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis, Barrett Doss, Andy Karl, Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Tobolowsky

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Matthew Butler about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Man of La Mancha!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film, Teleplay, Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

IMDb

iTunes

Stage Agent

Matthews Blog

Playlist for the Bearded Crab

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Laurene Cooper-Fox about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Pirates of Penzance!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Film, Gilbert & Sullivan

IMDb

iTunes

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Simon Gallaher, Jon English, Marina Prior, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline

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This week Julie and Zane will chat with Andrew Haden about which of life's truths can be gleaned from American Idiot!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Green Day

Pannic Productions - to buy Rock of Ages Tickets

American Idiot - QPAC April 2018

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Billie Joe Armstrong, Michael Mayer, John Gallagher, Jr., Aaron Sidwell, Matt Caplan, David Larsen, Stark Sands, Michael Esper, Tony Vincent, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Mary Faber, Zac Efron

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This week Julie and Zane will chat with James Gauci about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Show, Politician

Les Freres Corbusier

iTunes

www.theatremakers.com.au

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Michael Friedman, Alex Timbers, Sebastian Arcelus, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, River Alexander, Bryce Pinkham, Benjamin Walker,

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This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jekyll & Hyde!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Novella

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Robert Louis Stevenson, Leslie Bricusse, Frank Wildhorn, Steve Cuden, Colm Wilkinson, Linda Eder, Chuck Wagner, Robert Cuccioli, Christiane Noll, Kelli O'Hara, Anthony Warlow, David Hasselhoff

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This week Miranda and Zane will chat with Aurelie Roque about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Drowsy Caperone!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki

iTunes

Hal Leonard

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Bob Martin, Geoffrey Rush, Lisa Lambert, Elaine Paige, Rhonda Burchmore, Sutton Foster, Christie Whelan, John Partridge, Rohan Browne, Edward Hibbert, Jason Kravits, Bob Saget, John Glover

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This week Julie, Kristen, and Miranda will chat with Kym Brown about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Les Miserables! Controversially, Kym tries to convince us all that Les Mis is overrated! Let us know if she succeeded on any of our social media accounts!

FURTHER READING -

Official Site

Wiki - Musical, Novel, 2012 film, Victor Hugo

IMDb - 2012, 2000, 1998

MTI

Broadway

Original Parallels Article

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Victor Hugo, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Jean-Marc Natel, Colm Wilkinson, Ramin Karimloo, Terrence Mann, Norm Lewis, Patti LuPone, Michael Ball, Gary Beach, Philip Quast, Alfie Boe, Lea Salonga, Jenny Galloway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks, Aaron Tveit, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Colm Wilkinson.

LesDépouillé #whores #kimbrownloveslesmis #inapropriatepopstars

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This week Julie, Kristen, and Miranda will chat with Danika Saal about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Spamalot!

BOOK TICKETS NOW! -
FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Spamalot, Monty Python, Holy Grail

IMDb - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Theatrical Rights

Origin Theatrical

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Tim Curry, John Cleese, Eric Idle, John Du Prez, Sara Ramirez, Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Christian Slater, Christian Borle, Alan Tudyk, Clay Aiken, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

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This week Julie, Kristen, and Miranda will chat with Grace Clarke and Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Producers!

BOOK TICKETS -

https://www.savoyards.com.au/the-producers

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, 1967 film, 2005 film

IMDb - 2005 film, 1967 film

Stage Agent

MTI

Review of Tony Danza as Max

Youtube clip of Jason Alexander and Martin Short

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Mel Brooks, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Gary Beach, Roger Bart, Cady Huffman, Brad Oscar, Hunter Foster, Jason Alexander, Martin Short, David Hasselhoff, Dane Cook, Rebecca Romijn,

goosestepfordays #springtimeforhitler

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This week Julie, Kristen, and Zane will chat with Samuel Boyd about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Evita!

FURTHER READING -

Wiki - Musical, Wiki - Film, Wiki - Bio

IMDb

evitathemusical.com.au

Part of your world in French

Che yelling "OHHH MY INSECTIDE! at 0:15

Patti "SHE IS A MOVIE KILLER" Lupone

The Singing Politician on Spotify

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Tina Arena, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Elaine Paige, Patti LuPone, Colm Wilkinson, Mandy Patinkin, Ricky Martin, Zac Efron,

ialsodidnthatemadonna #itsokpatti #efronforjuan

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This week Julie, Kristen, and Zane will chat with Christopher Thomson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Rent!

- FURTHER READING -

RENT Wiki

Jonathan Larson Wiki

IMDb

MTI

RENT Website

- CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Will Smith, Marwan Kenzari, Mandy Patinkin, Off-Book the Podcast, Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal, Neil Patrick Harris, Will Chase, Christine Anu, Zac Efron, Michael C Hall.

teambenny #ifitsnotonitsnoton #zacefronforpresident #onesongboring #everybodysgotaids #aidsaidsaidsaids #wahwahwah #angstyangst #takingjulietotask #teamjoanne

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This week Julie, Kristen, and Miranda will chat with Alex Woodward about which of life's truths can be gleaned from (title of show)!

SEE THE SHOW! -

Book Tickets

Understudy Productions

FURTHER READING -

Wikipedia

Offical Site

iTunes

Cher sings West Side Story

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Zac Efron, Sutton Foster, Kris Stewart, Skyler Astin, Ben Platt, Neil Patrick-Harris, Nathan Fillion, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Sir Ian McKellan, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick

thekingsfestival #fillinouttheform

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This week Julie, Miranda and Zane will chat with Kristen Barros about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Dear Evan Hansen!

Noone needs to face their problems alone. If you need help please call:

Lifeline Australia - 13 11 14

International Helplines

FURTHER READING -

wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Evan_Hansen

youtube.com

dearevanhansen.com

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Pasek & Paul, Ben Platt, Jennifer Laura Thompson, AND AGAIN, Zac Efron.

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This week Kristen, Miranda and Zane will chat with Julie Eisentrager about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Waitress!- FURTHER READING -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitress_(musical)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitress_(film)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473308/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PTnhJQdhC4https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/waitress-original-broadway/id1117418120?ls=1&app=ituneshttp://waitressthemusical.com/- CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -Sara Bareilles, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jessie Mueller, Drew Gehling, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Sandra Bullock, Kristin ChenowethLike us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon!Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.comVisit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.comOur theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Find out more about him at ww.benedictbraxtonsmith.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know.

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This week Kristen, Julie and Miranda will chat with Zane about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the satirical masterpiece musical; Urinetown!

FURTHER READING -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown

http://www.mtishows.com/urinetown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Christina Hendricks, Bette Midler, Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, Kevin Spacey, Baz Luhrman, Joss Whedon, Taylor Monson, Hunter Foster, Sutton Foster.

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This week Kristen, Julie and Zane will chat with Miranda about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the classic Broadway fable 42nd Street!

FURTHER READING -

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024034

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_(musical)

https://www.facebook.com/42ndstreetLDN/videos/1283718221719088/

CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS -

Leonie Page, Todd McKenney, Nancye Hayes, Toni Lamond, Sutton Foster, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jack Chambers

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