The Original Cast
A podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright Patrick Flynn.
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Glen Weldon / My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) *FLASHBACK*
04/17/2024
Glen Weldon / My Fair Lady - Original Cast (1958) *FLASHBACK*
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 our 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). • • •
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Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) *FLASHBACK*
04/03/2024
Elliott Kalan / The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast (1957) *FLASHBACK*
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 monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we’re talking musical sequels and musical biopics! • • •
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Clint McElroy / The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)
03/20/2024
Clint McElroy / The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)
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 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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Justin McElroy / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993)
03/06/2024
Justin McElroy / The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording (1993)
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 Next - The Who (1971) 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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Bruce Robert Harris / Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011)
02/21/2024
Bruce Robert Harris / Bonnie & Clyde - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2011)
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 *BARBARA* celebrating the filmography of Tony winner and Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! • • •
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Em Whitworth / Oklahoma! - Broadway Cast Recording (2019)
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 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 Cast Recording (2019) • Oklahoma! - Selections from the Theatre Guild Musical Play (1943) 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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Dani Stoller / The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)
01/24/2024
Dani Stoller / The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2014)
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 Oscar nominee Barbara Harris! • • •
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Stephen Beaudoin / Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976)
01/10/2024
Stephen Beaudoin / Annie - Original Cast Recording (1976)
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 Harris! • • •
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The Original Cast at the Movies: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
12/27/2023
The Original Cast at the Movies: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
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'?
12/13/2023
Intermission: How You Doin'?
Let’s rap. MUSIC: • • •
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Jenny Bilfield / Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001)
11/29/2023
Jenny Bilfield / Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001)
Jenny is the President and CEO of Washington Performing Arts and she’s here for a trip downtown, across the world, and back in time. Topics include: the Berlin Wall, A Night at the Opera, Leonard Bernstein, being asked to change your name, arts education, the Air Force Band, and what you can accomplish without a building. Featured recordings: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2001) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Austin Pendleton / The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970)
11/15/2023
Austin Pendleton / The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970)
It 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. Featured recordings: The Last Sweet Days of Isaac - Original Cast Recording (1970) • People - Barbra Streisand (1964) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Eleni Hagen / Sunset Boulevard - World Premiere Recording (1993)
11/01/2023
Eleni Hagen / Sunset Boulevard - World Premiere Recording (1993)
Eleni comes to us from the Kennedy Center’s Digital Learning Center to talk about a musical that lives in her very soul and bones. Topics include: preteen sunset, channelling Maria Callas, tired performances, unfinished lyrics, Betty Schaefer’s agency, and (of course) a swimming pool named “Andrew.” Featured recordings: Sunset Boulevard - World Premiere Recording (1993) • Sunset Boulevard - Original Niedernhausen Cast (1995) • Sunset Boulevard - American Premiere Recording (1994) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Stuart Wellington / "Them" - King Diamond (1988)
10/18/2023
Stuart Wellington / "Them" - King Diamond (1988)
Stuart is 1/3 of The Flop House podcast (the 3rd third to guest on this show) as well as the proprietor of both Hinterlands and Minnie’s Bar in Brooklyn. And he’s here with a Danish Heavy Metal concept album that is more well-thought-out than The Who’s Tommy. Topics include: deep dives and rabbit holes, allegorical mother draining, being a completist, Queen, showmanship, and Patrick’s familiarity with the iconography of the Church of Satan. Featured recordings: “Them” - King Diamond (1988) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Patrick O'Neill / Swing! - Original Cast Recording (1999)
10/04/2023
Patrick O'Neill / Swing! - Original Cast Recording (1999)
Patrick and Patrick have been friends for multiple decades and they talk entirely about Swing! and they don’t almost immediately diverge into talking about the Harry Connick Jr/Jessie Mueller revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever that Patrick was in and I don’t know how these rumors get started. Topics include: the dark corners of Joe Allen’s, the concrete floors of Toby’s, Anne Hampton Calloway, dinner-theatre CATS, the St. James Theatre (aka: the horseshoe of death), meeting Jessie Mueller, Almost Famous, being “the kiss of death,” and Harry Connick Jr’s assistant. Featured recordings: Swing! - Original Cast Recording (1999) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Vince Gatton / Nine - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992)
09/20/2023
Vince Gatton / Nine - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992)
Playwright and actor Vince Gatton is here to talk about an album that is not his favorite show but has a strong hold on him nonetheless. Topics include: unusual ways, first recordings vs best recordings, burning out cassettes, disgustingly wonderful fithiness, and what happens when you can get Elaine Paige instead of Sarah Brightman but not until the weekend. NSFW: REALLY NSFW: Featured recordings: Nine - The Original London Concert Cast Recording (1992) • Nine - Original Cast Album (1982) • Nine - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Distantly Social 76: The Big Time (w/ Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane)
09/08/2023
Distantly Social 76: The Big Time (w/ Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane)
SPECIAL DELIVERY! Friends of the show Douglas J. Cohen & Douglas Carter Beane are here to talk about the new cast album for their musical The Big Time which drops on Concord Theatricals TODAY! Starring Tony winners Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte and featuring Jackie Hoffman and Will Swenson, The Big Time is a big musical comedy that you are going to love. Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Kari Ginsburg / The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966)
09/06/2023
Kari Ginsburg / The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966)
Kari’s back to talk about a musical no one wants to talk about! Well, not NO ONE but not enough people in Patrick’s opinion. Topics include: Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, the greatness of Barbara Harris, 3 Act musicals, the glorious comedic timing of Barbara Harris, the genius of Sheldon Harnick, the rhapsodic joy one feels listening to Barbara Harris, Warren Beatty (and how he wronged Barbara Harris), and how much we miss Barbara Harris. Featured recordings: The Apple Tree - Original Broadway Cast (1966) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Joe Iconis / The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978)
08/23/2023
Joe Iconis / The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Original Cast (1978)
I’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 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) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Robbie Rozelle / The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1987)
08/09/2023
Robbie Rozelle / The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1987)
Robbie’s back (again) for what is a seminal recording for fans of a certain age. Topics include: single fun aunts, over-acting with masks, jumpers & big collars, natural disasters, Michael Ball, documentaries about Laurie Beechman, vests, and Victoria Clarke Syndrome. Featured recordings: The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1987) • Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection Encore (1992) • Gold - Linda Eder (2002) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Mike Meaney / Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968)
07/26/2023
Mike Meaney / Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968)
Mike is a New York City-based director who loves the Great American Songbook, trivia, collecting LP records, and hot beverages. And he’s here for a Kander & Ebb show that’s right up there with 70, Girls, 70 and The Happy Time in terms of popularity, influence, and success. Topics include: getting the plot wrong, death in musicals, Anyone Can Whistle, who would’ve won the Best Score Tony in 1969 had it existed, Don Walker, and Hal Prince’s ethos (or lack thereof). Featured recordings: Zorba - Original Cast Album (1968) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Erika Villalba / Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998)
07/12/2023
Erika Villalba / Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998)
Erika is a co-host of the great podcast as well as a writer and performer who loves the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Bookshop. And she’s here for a show she saw FIVE TIMES on Broadway! Topics include: songs from the ’66 original, is Sally Bowles just Millie Dilmount on drugs, the problem of irony, making Generation X feel better, The Wolf of Wall Street, and what has aged well. Featured recordings: Cabaret - The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998) • Cabaret - The Original Broadway Cast (1966) • Cabaret - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1972) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Kimberly Cooper Schmidt / Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016)
06/28/2023
Kimberly Cooper Schmidt / Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016)
’s own Kimberly is back (for the 3rd time) to talk about the album that makes us wonder: "Who . . . is Barbra Streisand?” Topics include: how to headphone like Barbra, doing more Zack than you want, James Brolin self-tapes, Hugh Jackman playing a wolf-man, Barbra as the emcee, what you get with the “Deluxe” Edition, and how much dialogue is too much dialogue? Featured recordings: Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand (2016) • The Broadway Album - Barbra Streisand (1985) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 66: The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
06/27/2023
PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 66: The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Confession time. This whole “Year of Barbra” thing has really been a long con to promote a production of the play The Owl and the Pussycat directed by Patrick and starring today’s guests: Serena Berman (Hair, tick, tick…BOOM!) and A.J. Ditty (High Fidelity). We open at the Snapple Theatre this fall on the set of Perfect Crimes and are actively looking for investors.
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Paul Caiola / Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023)
06/14/2023
Paul Caiola / Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023)
Paul acts, he writes, he podcasts, he does many things. And he is here to talk about a show that maybe won a lot of Tonys this past Sunday! Or maybe not!! Only way to find out is to listen!!! Topics include: parents acting like children, children forced to be parents, crying through Act 2, Barnum!, story structure, and how Paul doesn’t know music theory, he just feels things. Featured recordings: Kimberly Akimbo - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2023) • Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical (2015) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Taylor J. Williams / Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008)
05/31/2023
Taylor J. Williams / Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008)
Taylor J. Williams is a 2023 Tony Award-nominee in the Best Sound Design of a Play category for Ain't No Mo'. He is also a musician who has worked as an electronic music designer on more than 30 Broadway productions including Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice, Be More Chill, King Kong, Frozen, and Falsettos. Topics include: pageantry, melodrama, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, Jonathan Deans, napping in a rats’ nest of cables, Adam Pascal bootlegs, and what does a programmer . . . do? Featured recordings: Marguerite - Original London Cast Recording (2008) • Aida - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2000) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 65: Nuts
05/27/2023
PREVIEW - The Original Cast at the Movies 65: Nuts
THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO The Year of Barbra Continues! Rob W. Schneider (Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, La Cage Aux Folles) and Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) join Patrick for yet another bad psychiatrist movie. Now with 5x as much ACTING!
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Dana Spialter / In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008)
05/17/2023
Dana Spialter / In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008)
Dana is the founder and artistic director of SOMA Stage in Maplewood, NJ. And she’s come today to talk about a show that means a lot to her and has interesting thematic connections to her current job. Topics include: getting typecast out of Fiddler, Anthony Newley, what a producer does, RENT, coming home, and musicals based on nothing. Featured recordings: In the Heights - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2008) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Mark-Eugene Garcia / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
05/03/2023
Mark-Eugene Garcia / A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003)
Mark’s website describes him as a writer, an actor, and a storyteller. His play with music (written with Luis D’Elias) is playing NOW and at the Queen Theatre. And he’s here for the Flaherty & Aherns that is small and beautiful and breaks your damn heart. Topics include: writing to Stephen Flaherty, Confession, being a smart 15-year-old dealing with some shit, The Opposite of Sex: The Musical, and fan-boy-ing out. Recorded LIVE at the ! Featured recordings: A Man of No Importance - Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (2003) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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Rob Weinert-Kendt / The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954)
04/19/2023
Rob Weinert-Kendt / The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954)
Rob was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West & is the editor-in-chief of American Theatre magazine. And he’s here for the only Off-Broadway show to win a Tony Award. Topics include: psuedo-Marxist propaganda, in rep with The Fantasticks, Gilbert & Sullivan, Double-LP German recordings, Domar Warehouse, how existence is a female dog and then one perishes, and the vocal stylings of Dame Bea Arthur. Featured recordings: The Threepenny Opera - The Complete Score (1954) • Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill - Hal Willner (1985) • The Threepenny Opera - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Die Dreigroschenoper - Columbia Masterworks (1958) • Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) Visit our for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where 2023 is THE YEAR OF BARBRA celebrating the filmography of Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand! • • •
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