The Original Cast

Dec 24 2024 458 ep. 42 mins 1k
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A podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright Patrick Flynn.

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Cast Album Cage Match: EVITA vs. Billy Recce *FLASHBACK*

Dec 24 2024 85 mins  
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 Alb

Beth Amann / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) *FLASHBACK*

Dec 10 2024 55 mins  
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: WICKED - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003)DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005)

Chris Adams & Holly Morgan / Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) *FLASHBACK*

Nov 26 2024 69 mins  
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

Lauren Halvorsen / The Wild Party - Original Cast Recording | A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000) *FLASHBACK*

Nov 12 2024 132 mins  
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:

Amanda Zeitler / Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) *FLASHBACK*

Oct 29 2024 58 mins  
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: STARMITES - Original Cast Members (1999) Featured websites: Starmites Official Site The Starmite Story

Doug Wilder / No Way to Treat a Lady - Original Cast Recording (1997) *FLASHBACK*

Oct 15 2024 52 mins  
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: NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY - Original Cast Re

Alexandra Silber / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) *FLASHBACK*

Oct 01 2024 63 mins  
originally released: September 18, 2019 Actor and author Alexandra Silber is currently appearing as Fraulein Sally Bowles in Olney Theatre Center's production of Cabaret. 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 Lu

Kenny Neal / Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984) *FLASHBACK*

Sep 17 2024 55 mins  
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: STARLIGHT EXPRESS - The Original Cast Recording (1984) Twitter.com/OriginalCastPodFacebook.com/OriginalCa

Robert W. Schneider / La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983) *FLASHBACK*

Sep 03 2024 65 mins  
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) MERCH! T-shirts! T

Logan Culwell-Block / Little Shop of Horrors - Original Cast Album (1982) *FLASHBACK*

Aug 20 2024 59 mins  
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 record