The Original Cast

IT'S THE 2024 TONYS!!!!!!

It's TONYS TIME!! Patrick, Lauren Halvorsen (Nothing for the Group), and Robbie Rozelle (Center Stage Records) break down this incredibly overpacked Tony season. Who

Elegy: Joanna McKee

Friend of the podcast, repeat guest, and genuine ray of sunshine Joanna McKee passed away today and I'm at a loss. Listen to her talk about the musical Anastasia and hear

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 h

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 wi

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 Come

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 St. Ann's Warehouse revival that ****s. There is really no other way to put it. T

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

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

The Original Cast at the Movies: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Did you know we had a bonus podcast on our PATREON page? Well, we do. Each month, you can listen to The Original Cast at the Movies, a long-form movie discussion podcast

Intermission: How You Doin'?

Let's rap. FINAL "The Year of Barbra" live stream 12/9 (Thu): The Way We Were (1973) with Robbie Rozelle & Len Rodino FIRST "The Year of Barbara (Harris)" live stream

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

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

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, chann

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 wi

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 Conn

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, f

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 Conc

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,

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 th

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, natura