Get with the Program Nora and Laird
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Talking about your favorite musicals from screen and stage — act by act and show by show.
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2 - Phantom of the Opera
This week we're unpacking the longest-running Broadway musical: Phantom of the Opera! Nora and Laird talk about plot (oh my god, so much plot), a sewer horse, and Nora's elementary school fan-fiction. Digressions include Patrick Swayze, Gerard Butler, and Erik with a K.
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Lindsey Ellis' video essay on the 2004 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m5I_5Vnh6A
Wait in the Wings video essay on ALW's use of outsiders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMeKYKSgfbg
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1 - Dear Evan Hansen
Our first episode of Get With the Program, and we're taking on the popular sensation — Dear Evan Hansen! Nora and Laird discuss characters, Bad Decisions (TM) and ... Connor x Evan fan-fiction. Other topics of conversation: "Ghost, The Musical" and Rex Reed, "respectable" theatre critic. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetwiththePod and send us an email: getwiththeprogrampod@gmail.com.
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