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A Musical Theatre Podcast

by Jeffrey Scott Parsons

Conversations revealing the cultural and emotional impact of our favorite musicals in theatre history. On each episode of “A Musical Theatre Podcast,” Jeff welcomes a special guest to explore one musical from theatre history. Together they get to the heart of the show’s cultural and emotional impact by looking at its creators, context, and storytelling. Always fun and heartfelt, this is the podcast to celebrate the humanity of our musical theatre art form.

Latest episodes

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GRAND HOTEL with Spencer Glass

Welcome to GRAND HOTEL! During your stay, we hope you'll enjoy the complimentary stories of how this musical took thirty years to premiere on Broadway. Please take advant

Aug 30
1 h 09 min

MEAN GIRLS with Lizzy Tucker

"Get in losers, we're talking about MEAN GIRLS." Never has a such a source of catty (not Cady) humor had such an intentionally wholehearted inspiration. Join the talent

Aug 23
1 h 03 min

BIG with Alex Asp

Today is the day! After a few attempts at the Flop Shoppe, our PATREON! subscribers voted earlier this year to give the musical BIG its own episode on "A Musical Theatre

Aug 17
1 h 15 min

DAMN YANKEES with Chryssie Whitehead

Before we're officially out of July and the 250th anniversary of the United States, we had to create an All-American episode of AMTP celebrating our national pastime, bas

Jul 31
1 h 00 min

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH with Matt Rodin

Happy Pride! It's the perfect time to discuss the listener requested HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, a loud, in-your-face musical experiment that has sparked one of the more p

Jun 28
1 h 09 min

MOULIN ROUGE! with Ryan W. Garcia

Truth Freedom Beauty Love, but maybe most of all... love. Surrender to the kinetic energy and sweeping romance of La Belle Epoque, beware of the tuberculosis, as Jeff an

Jun 14
1 h 04 min

STARLIGHT EXPRESS with Sophie-Rose Middleton

There is one musical that holds the Guiness Book of World Records for "most visitors to a musical in a single theatre." Congratulations on not realizing it's STARLIGHT EX

May 31
1 h 05 min

HERE LIES LOVE with Maria-Christina Oliveras

This week we're celebrating AAPI month and the recent Drama Desk nominations with guest Maria-Christina Oliveras. "MCO" was just nominated for her current performance in

May 13
1 h 01 min

SEUSSICAL with Kevin Chamberlin

Of "all the places you'd go" see SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL, producers had probably hoped it'd been during its initial Broadway outing. Well, as you'll find out in this week's

Apr 19
1 h 01 min

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING with Ryan Scott Oliver and special guest Lindsay Mendez

It's the longest episode title in the history of "A Musical Theatre Podcast," but funny enough, it's not even the longest musical title mentioned in the episode. This we

Apr 6
1 h 18 min

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME with Rodd Cyrus

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME is one of the most popular musicals to never have a Broadway run, but its epic story of Quasimodo and his bell tower home had reached legend s

Mar 15
1 h 13 min

Patreon! Preview: MAKING RENT with Tim Weil

It's time for another glimpse at what you're missing if you're not already a subscriber at PATREON! For only a few dollars each month, subscribers gain access to bonus

Mar 1
17 min

THE FULL MONTY with Misha Brown

The most profound element of the musical THE FULL MONTY is that its nudity is only a symbol of the greater vulnerability the characters express throughout the story. Her

Feb 23
1 h 04 min

SIX with Teale Dvornik and Gianna Yanelli

"God Save the Queen(s)!" This week we're covering not one, but six of the greatest divas currently on Broadway. Join us as we discuss the musical SIX, and the history be

Jan 25
1 h 12 min

THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Tyler Joseph Ellis

Happy New Year, listeners! We're starting off 2026 with one of the most famous musicals of all time, but while everyone has at least heard of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, most don

Jan 4
1 h 24 min

WAR PAINT with Caden Zane Marshall

WAR PAINT was the Broadway follow up to the musical GREY GARDENS, so of course it's the GREY GARDENS follow up on "A Musical Theatre Podcast." This week, actor, interpre

Dec 21 2025
1 h 19 min

GREY GARDENS with Drew Droege

This week we're spending another winter in a summer town as we cover the terrific 2006 musical GREY GARDENS. Here to not only have his cake but chew it and masticate it

Nov 30 2025
1 h 04 min

BONNIE & CLYDE with Ivan Menchell

Today we finish up our fall American Dream Miniseries with a surprise fourth episode dedicated to the listener requested BONNIE & CLYDE. This musical, maybe even more th

Nov 9 2025
52 min

BARNUM with Ryan VanDenBoom

The third entry in our "American Dream" miniseries of listener requests is the 1980 musical BARNUM. Now, that means it is not THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, and please don't come

Oct 27 2025
59 min

1776 with Howard Sherman

The second episode in our "American Dream miniseries" is dedicated to 1776, the listener requested, Best Musical winner of 1969. It's a surprisingly unconventional musica

Oct 8 2025
1 h 11 min

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