Austin Pendleton / The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970)
Release Date: 11/15/2023
IT'S THE 2024 TONYS!!!!!!
The Original Cast
It's TONYS TIME!! Patrick, Lauren Halvorsen (), and Robbie Rozelle () break down this incredibly overpacked Tony season. Who will win? Who will lose? Who won't show up? Who wasn't invited? Which version of The Wild Party should've been on Broadway 24 years ago? We cover it all! Patrick's magic 2024 Tonys YouTube playlist: Visit our 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! • • •
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Elegy: Joanna McKee
The Original Cast
Friend of the podcast, repeat guest, and genuine ray of sunshine Joanna McKee passed away today and I’m at a loss. Listen to her talk about the musical Anastasia and hear the joy in her heart. originally released: March 25, 2020 original notes: Joanna works in the Education Department at the Kennedy Center and she is here to take us to school about a show that neither has its facts straight nor respects the emotional implications of said facts. But, y'know, royalty! Topics include: Frozen 2, Gleb, Starlight Express, Gleb, eating the rich, Gleb, disregarding history,...
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Robbie Rozelle / Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: October 3, 2018 Designer, record producer, performer, and talent-whisperer is here to bring some joy into Patrick's life (he says). Topics include: Jerry Herman's pros, Jerry Herman's cons, Jerry Herman's women, and the movie version of Mame which is just the worst. Featured recordings: Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) Mame - Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1974) Have you checked out our ? You haven't? Then how are you going to listen to our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? ...
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Roddy Flynn / Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: June 22, 2016 Roddy is the Executive Director for the U.S. House of Representative’s . He is also our first guest drawn “from the house” and Patrick’s brother. Roddy and Patrick gab about Angela Lansbury, intermissions, and the unbearable heaviness of this show’s plot. Featured recording: Email: [email protected]
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Kari Ginsburg / Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: October 12, 2016 Actor and director is here to talk about one woman’s fall from grace as she facilitates the rise of her daughter from the front of a cow to the greatest stripper in the history of the world. Featured recordings: Email:
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Glen Weldon / My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: April 21, 2021 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. 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...
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Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: July 13, 2022 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? Featured recordings: The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) Visit our for access to our...
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Clint McElroy / The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)
The Original Cast
Clint is the paterfamilias of the McElroy family of podcasters as well as a comic book author, theatre director, and general enthusiast of all things. And he’s here for his favorite original cast album of a show he was IN on BROADWAY (kinda). Topics include: spelling your way to Broadway glory, not making fun of the kids, getting choreo tips from Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Guys and Dolls Jr. (aka Bugsy Malone), and Liev Schreiber’s finger acting. Featured recordings: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) Visit our for access to...
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Justin McElroy / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993)
The Original Cast
Justin is the oldest brother on the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast but is also a best-selling author, voice actor, and community theatre director. And he’s here with a show that rode the early-90s obsession with the late-60s to Tony glory! Topics include: how Tommy is like Joseph from a protagonist standpoint, seeing the original Broadway production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe, the jauntiest song about molestation, and (weirdly) the State Farm’s Super Bowl commercial. Featured recordings: The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993) • Tommy - The Who (1969) • Who’s...
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Bruce Robert Harris / Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011)
The Original Cast
Bruce is (along with his producing partner Jack W. Batman) a two-time Tony Award winning producer of shows such as Pippin, Be More Chill, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, and the very show we’re talking about today! Topics include: what a producer does, why shows are so expensive, what a producer should do, being an extra in Fame, and the upcoming revival of The Who’s Tommy! Featured recordings: Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2024 is THE YEAR OF...
info_outlineIt is impossible for me to overstate how special it was to speak with Austin Pendleton. An actor’s actor, playwright, director, and a wonderfully kind human being. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do.
Topics include: working with jazz artists, Salvador Dalí on the phone at 4:00am, trying to blow off Jerome Robbins (and failing), promises made to Zero Mostel, Barbara Harris & Hunter College, acting with Kermit the Frog, and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad.
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Featured recordings: The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970) • People - Barbra Streisand (1964)
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