16 episodes

Backstage backstories and backsass! Theater queens Will Larche and Caitlin Lee Reid tell the stories of how your favorite musicals were written - and learn that the REAL Andrew Lloyd Webber is the friends they made along the way.

Sunday in the Heights with Dolly‪!‬ Will Larche & Caitlin Lee Reid

    • Comedy
    • 5.0 • 8 Ratings

Backstage backstories and backsass! Theater queens Will Larche and Caitlin Lee Reid tell the stories of how your favorite musicals were written - and learn that the REAL Andrew Lloyd Webber is the friends they made along the way.

    Kiss Me, Kate

    Kiss Me, Kate

    Cole Porter loved riding big ol' stallions, drugs, Venice, and gay, homosexual, buttsecks. Other times he loved Shakespeare and gangsters. We go high brow and low in Padua this week! - Learn all about how Cole Porter and Bella Spewack wrote their backstage-Shakespearean musical Kiss Me, Kate.

    • 1 hr 21 min
    Thoroughly Modern Millie with Dick Scanlan

    Thoroughly Modern Millie with Dick Scanlan

    In this special episode, Broadway librettist Dick Scanlan tells us all about how his monster hit musical Thoroughly Modern Millie was born and what's next for it.

    • 1 hr 9 min
    Hair

    Hair

    “Sally, get that limp d—k out of your mouth and get on stage!!!!” Hair was wild behind the scenes: sex, drugs, dog poo. And this is Broadway, people! - Learn all about how Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Tom O’Horgan, and the original Broadway cast wrote the American tribal love-rock musical Hair.

    • 59 min
    Evita

    Evita

    Will and Caitlin both do the same show. How’d it turn out? Better than Che Guevara’s patent application. - Learn all about how Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote their rock opera Evita, directed by broadway legend Hal Prince.

    • 46 min
    Into the Woods

    Into the Woods

    The 2-headed witch (Will & Caitlin) wants you to remember a balanced breakfast starts with a bowl of Boom Crunch. Now with Rampion! Also, they touch on Frank Rich’s sexuality…… - Learn all about how Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine wrote their epic musical Into the Woods.

    • 45 min
    Pippin

    Pippin

    Oh, Bob! Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just a sexual criminal who got off easy because the patriarchy validated your megalomania? - Learn all about how Stephen Schwartz and Bob Fosse created their medieval musical Pippin.

    • 51 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
8 Ratings

8 Ratings

Glerfy Hogbottom ,

Great stuff!

They made Evita interesting and I didn’t know anyone could do that!

🐻22 ,

HILARIOUS

Great podcast by witty folks!

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