Nicole Hertvik / Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010)
Release Date: 10/16/2019
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...
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Em Whitworth / Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019)
The Original Cast
Em is an actor in New York and DC who brings us this most classic of musicals as revived 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? Featured recordings: Oklahoma! - Broadway...
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Dani Stoller / The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)
The Original Cast
Dani is a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright and actor who brings us this JRB musical by way of a Clint Eastwood movie by way of a 90s romance novel about Kelli O’Hara making out with Laura Benanti’s ex-husband. Topics include: wet old men, the dangers of casting Steven Pasquale, complicated women, the high stakes of everyday life. Featured recordings: The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014) 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...
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Stephen Beaudoin / Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976)
The Original Cast
Stephen is the incoming President & CEO of the Music School of Delaware of which Patrick is an alumnus (but Stephen doesn’t know that when we start so keep it under your hat). Topics include: sensitive kids, deceptive simplicity, passing on Rooster, mom’s lullabies, George C. Wolfe’s Annie, and the teachers who poured themselves into us. Featured recordings: Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976) 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...
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The Original Cast at the Movies: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
The Original Cast
Did you know we had a bonus podcast on our page? Well, we do. Each month, you can listen to The Original Cast at the Movies, a long-form movie discussion podcast with musical theatre implications. Beth Amann and Kari Ginsburg are here to kick off The Original Cast at the Movies's new theme: THE YEAR OF BARBARA (HARRIS)! We'll be covering 13 Barbara Harris films starting with this Academy Award-nominated comedy(?) from Francis Ford Coppola Peggy Sue Got Married featuring Ms Harris in one of her many "mother" roles. The question is: Is Barbara Harris the best part of this movie?...
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Intermission: How You Doin'?
The Original Cast
Let’s rap. MUSIC: • • •
info_outlineDC Metro Theater Arts editor and publisher Nicole Hertvick is here for an emo telling of the 7th President of the United State's rise to power that fully commits to its premise.
Topics include: Emo, Spring Awakening, the Trail of Tears, and (somehow) Cats. We talk about Cats for a minute. And I don't remember how we got there but there it is: Cats.
CONTENT WARNING: Some of the songs in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson employ some of the seven words you cannot say on television and so may not suit your current listening situation.
Featured recordings: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Original Cast Recording (2010)
Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? The latest episode has Caroline Dubberly (Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2014) and Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) weighing the merits of everyone's favorite mockumentary about a small-town theatre company and their musical about the history of the small town in which they live that may or may not think dreams are stupid. It's Waiting for Guffman (1996)!