Joe Iconis / The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978)
Release Date: 08/23/2023
Cast Album Cage Match: EVITA vs. Billy Recce *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: December 22, 2021 9 recordings enter. Only 1 can leave. And it shall leave a champion. This is CAST ALBUM CAGE MATCH! Composer/lyricist Billy Recce joins Patrick to find the best cast album of one of their favorite shows: Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber’s EVITA! PLAY-IN ROUND - 1979 Disco Album v. 1996 Movie Soundtrack ROUND 1 - Studio Casts: 1976 Concept Album v. Play-In Round Winner - World Casts: 1980 Australian v. 1989 World Tour - West End Casts: 1978 v. 2006 - Broadway Casts: 1979 v. 2012 ROUND 2 - Studio...
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Beth Amann / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: March 15, 2017 Actual grown-up Beth Amann channels her 13-year-old self and talks about the unstoppable force that is WICKED. Topics include Joel Grey, Norbert Leo Butz, and the immovable objects that are music theatre hipsters. Featured recordings: Email:
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Chris Adams & Holly Morgan / Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: May 5, 2021 Two Guests for the price of one! Chris & Holly from the podcast Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical are here for a show they did at Edinburgh Fringe that bears more than a passing resemblance to said Stephen King musical. CW: sexual assault. Topics include: Holly as the lead, singing Wicked during Bat Boy, does Off-West End exist?, bags of wigs, and Carrie (of course). Featured recordings: Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) • Bat Boy - Original London Cast Recording...
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Lauren Halvorsen / The Wild Party - Original Cast Recording | A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
part 1 originally released: January 10, 2018 Dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen is here for the first of our epic, two-part dive into both musical versions of THE WILD PARTY. Here we cover not only Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway take on Queenie, Burrs, Black, et al.; we also talk through Joseph Moncure March's novella-length poem upon which both musicals are based. part 2 originally released: January 17, 2018 The thrilling conclusion to our deep-dive into THE WILD PARTY. We talk the La Chuisa/Wolfe Broadway version, Mandy Patinkin, the philosophy of adaptation, Mandy Patinkin, which we prefer, and Mandy...
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Amanda Zeitler / Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: October 26, 2016 Amanda introduces Patrick to a show he had not only never heard but never heard of. After a thorough plot synopsis things get personal, then philosophical, then pedagogical, then philosophical again, then paleontological. Featured recordings: Featured websites: Email:
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Doug Wilder / No Way to Treat a Lady - Original Cast Recording (1997) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: June 28, 2017 Helen Hayes Award-winner Doug Wilder brings us our third Zeitler! A tiny, dark comedy musical about a serial killer and a cop and the woman the cop loves and the mother of the serial killer and also the cop's mother. Topics include: earnest love, montage theory, and DEATH TO SMOOCHY. Featured recordings: Email:
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Alexandra Silber / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: September 18, 2019 Actor and author is currently appearing as Fraulein Sally Bowles in . But she's here this week to talk about this beautiful Lucy Simon/Marsha Norman musical and so much more. Really, we get deep.__Topics include: living with grief, communing with nature, and the glory of Rebecca Luker. Buy Alexandra's memoir and her novel . Both titles are read by Al herself! Featured recordings: The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) Join us on to get our patrons-only podcast The...
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Kenny Neal / Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: March 29, 2017 Sound designer Kenny Neal comes by to talk about what he describes as “nobody’s favorite musical.” Topics include: “What?,” “Why?,” “Really?,” “He does?,” “They are?,” and “I don’t get it.” Featured recordings: Email:
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Robert W. Schneider / La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: June 10, 2020 Director/podcaster Robert W. Schneider is here for a musical whose legacy may be unfairly besmirched by an infamous Tony speech. Topics Include: George Hearn, staging the overture, cutting the entr’acte, and maybe revoking Rob’s gay card live on the air! Featured Recording: La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? Join us on to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies! Right now you can hear Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (The Light in the Piazza) and Jay Schmidt (The Full...
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Logan Culwell-Block / Little Shop of Horrors - Original Cast Album (1982) *FLASHBACK*
The Original Cast
originally released: November 29, 2017 Playbill writer (now news editor) Logan Culwell-Block stops by ostensibly to talk about LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS but Patrick and he nerd out pretty fast. Topics include: How should a cast album be produced? Early versions of how Seymour killed the dentist. And why in the name of heavenly glory would you autotune Jerry Orbach?!? Featured recordings: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Original Cast Album (1982) EXPERIMENT - Mandy Patinkin (1994) COMPANY - Original Broadway Cast (1970)
info_outlineI’m guessing if you listen to a podcast about original cast albums, then you know who Joe Iconis is and you probably also know how thrilled I am to be talking with him this week. Aside from his Tony-nominated score for Be More Chill, Joe’s other vast musical credits include the likes of The Black Suits, Punk Rock Girl!, Bloodsong of Love, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love in Hate Nation. He’s coming to us from La Jolla Playhouse where he is debuting his newest musical: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical.
Topics include: parents with shitty musical tastes, Inner-City Mother Goose, Carol Hall, Elaine Stritch, and Mandy Patinkin auditioning for Back to the Future
The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical at La Jolla!
Featured recordings: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978) • Free to Be... You and Me - Marlo Thomas and Friends (1972) • Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) • Guys and Dolls - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1992)
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