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Updated 07/25/2021

04/21/2021

Glen Weldon / My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958)

NPR's Glen Weldon is here for the musical that (according to him) made him gay. Topics include: Herb Alpert (not the dirty one), Charles Emerson Winchester III, Doolittle as a father, Nathan Lane chewing scenery, Eliza's agency, keeping media fresh, and why album covers are important. Glen Weldon's Profile on NPR dot org Playbill's "The Definitive List of the 43 Best-Selling Cast Recordings of All Time" by Logan Culwell-Block Featured recordings: My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) • My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast (1956) • Brigadoon - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1947) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month's episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
05/19/2021

Dom O'Hanlon / Follies - The Complete Recording (1998)

Instagram's own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written. Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the "Follies" portion, and moving house with so many CDs. The Man in the Chair on Instagram Featured recordings: Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) • Follies - Original London Cast (1987) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim's fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
07/13/2022

Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)

Emmy-winner and former The Daily Show head-writer Elliott Kalan is here for a musical running now about then but really about way back then which seems to have been lost now. Topics include: losing on Jeopardy!, adding jokes by Larry David, ethical use of a resurrection machine, Frank Loesser, the House Committee on "Shipoopi," Broadway sets of the 50s & 60s, and (of course) is Winthrop Marion's son and does that matter? Elliott Kalan on Twitter The Flop House Podcast The Who Was? Podcast Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
07/20/2016

Liz Maestri / Les Misérables - Original London Cast Album (1985)

Playwright Liz Maestri stops by to talk about the London cast recording of LES MISÉRABLES. Patrick and Liz discuss the difference between a "leading lady" and a "lady," roles that are beneath Patti LuPone, and whether woodwinds belong in a marching band. Featured recordings: LES MISÉRABLES - Original London Cast Recording (1985) JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - A Rock Opera (1970) LES MISÉRABLES - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) LES MISÉRABLES - The Complete Symphonic Recording (1990) Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod Facebook.com/OriginalCastPod Email: OriginalCastPod@gmail.com
03/31/2021

Intermission: The Heat is on in Saigon (w/ Evan Casey)

A dip back into the archives with Evan Casey and some Miss Saigon talk from the early days. Featured Songs: "Mama Told Me Not to Come" from It Ain't Easy - Three Dog Night (1970) • "Bui-Doi" from Miss Saigon - Original London Cast Recording (1989) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month's episode brings us James Finley (The Life) and Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email Mandy Patinkin Sings 90s Hits!
01/11/2023

Shoshana Greenberg / Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972)

Shoshana is a dramatist, journalist, and host of the Scene to Song podcast. And she's here to talk about a show that (at one time) was the longest-running show in Broadway history. And it won a surprising number of Tony Awards. Topics include: how Grease is like Cats, Little Mary Sunshine, 98.1FM WOGL, nostalgia, the bad shows we did in high school, and does Sandy cave under societal pressure or simply play with her identity like every teenager should? Shoshana Greenberg Dot Com Featured recordings: Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking BARBRA! ALL YEAR!! BARBRA!!! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
06/16/2021

Marissa Rosen / The Rocky Horror Show - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2000)

Actress and cabaret star Marissa Rosen comes by to talk about the show she saw dozens of times on Broadway. Dozens. Topics include: finding family at the stage door, support singers, sexy/sleazy, Marty Thomas, and going to Duane Reade in a full face and lashes. Marissa Rosen Dot Com Featured recordings: The Rocky Horror Show - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2000) • The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show - The Skivvies featuring Marissa Rosen (2020) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May's episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue. Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
06/30/2021

Liz Callaway / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970)

Tony nominee and favorite of this podcast, Liz Callaway is here for the first show she saw on Broadway at 9, a decade before she'd appear on the same stage in a show by the same creative team. Topics include: the Mets, reunion concerts, auditioning for Sondheim without knowing it, demos, and luck. Liz Callaway Dot Com Featured recordings: Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • A Stephen Sondheim Evening - Whitney Museum of American Art Composers' Showcase (1983) • The Essential Liz Callaway - Liz Callaway (2015) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! This month it's the film version of A Little Night Music (1977), a film that proves good movies are hard to make. Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
02/07/2024

Em Whitworth / Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019)

Em is an actor in New York and DC who brings us this most classic of musicals as revived St. Ann's Warehouse revival that ****s. There is really no other way to put it. That's how we all remember it. I bleep it every time but that's what we're saying. It's the Oklahoma! that ****s. Topics include: the buttery/flaky crust of nostalgia, Rebecca Naomi Jones doing no wrong, Mary Testa opening numbers, a moment of meta-textualism that brings things to a crashing halt, disappointing revivals, reclaiming Jud, and can one out-sexy Julie Andrews & Robert Goulet? Em Whitworth Dot Com Featured recordings: Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019) • Oklahoma! - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1943) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email
11/08/2017

James Finley / The Life - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

Actor James Finley talks about Cy Coleman's last Broadway show that was more successful than Patrick remembers but does have a terrible title. Topics include: tap-dancing bartenders, why baritones are always villains, and how a high school glee club wound up at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre one Sunday in 1997. Featured recordings: THE LIFE - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997) Twitter.com/OriginalCastPod Facebook.com/OriginalCastPod OriginalCastPod@gmail.com

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Glen Weldon / My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958)

Dom O'Hanlon / Follies - The Complete Recording (1998)

Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957)

Liz Maestri / Les Misérables - Original London Cast Album (1985)

Intermission: The Heat is on in Saigon (w/ Evan Casey)

Shoshana Greenberg / Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1972)

Marissa Rosen / The Rocky Horror Show - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2000)

Liz Callaway / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970)

Em Whitworth / Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019)

James Finley / The Life - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1997)

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