Literally Heinous

Lily Maslia

Celebrity drama ✿ Cultural moments ✿ Personal disasters ✿ The fine line between being being both chic and freak. Hosted by Lily Maslia, with the occasional fabulous guest. Tuesdays.

  1. Oct 20

    90. PJ Adzima on Slam Frank: the controversial Anne Frank musical

    Former Book of Mormon star PJ Adzima (nine years as Elder McKinley!) joins the pod to talk about Slam Frank, the off-Broadway musical everyone in New York is debating.  Slam Frank is a play-within-a-play satire of woke politics, inspired by a 2022 tweet asking whether Anne Frank ever acknowledged her white privilege, and PJ is one of the lead producers who took it from a wild internet idea to a sold-out run at the Orpheum Theatre. PJ goes from a fourth-generation farm in Massachusetts to New York at 18, survives a years-long international Book of Mormon tour, lands his Broadway dream job, and then launches Stage Time, his production company for drag, burlesque, circus and comedy. And then signs on to produce Slam Frank. We get into mid-performance walkouts, surprise celebrity guests, what the message of the musical is and what “woke” even means anymore. Plus the big question: has Broadway gotten too polite? In this episode: How Book of Mormon gave PJ the blueprint for a hitGoing from a scrappy downtown run to the OrpheumWalkouts, outrage and wildly different audience reactionsCelebrity sightings in the crowdWhat it takes to produce a musical with no marketing budgetBroadway etiquetteIs Hamilton cringe?Whether musical theater has gotten too safe *This interview was independently organized by me. This is not a partnership, collaboration or endorsement New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe so you don’t miss the next one!

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Celebrity drama ✿ Cultural moments ✿ Personal disasters ✿ The fine line between being being both chic and freak. Hosted by Lily Maslia, with the occasional fabulous guest. Tuesdays.

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