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11: Duck Soup (1933)
Peter Boyer (The Fantasticks - 1960) and Jenny Male (Urinetown: The Musical) are here to discuss the Marx Brothers' masterpiece. This episode also contains many, many, many clips.
10: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Jason Schlafstein (Chess - 1984) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You) join Patrick and break some podcasting rules for a film that breaks almost every rule. Or does it?
09: Newsies (1992)
James Finley (The Life) and Tia Shearer Bassett (Titanic) join Patrick to talk about one of Disney's biggest flops that became one of Disney's biggest hits (on stage after extensive rewrites)!
08: Xanadu (1980)
Bridget Grace Sheaff (Into the Woods) and Harrison Smith (Parade) join Patrick to talk about a movie made to capitalize on the roller-disco craze . . . apparently. Starring Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly in his final feature film role, and some guy we're supposed to like apparently.
07: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Kenny Neal (Starlight Express) and Michelle Polera (Avenue Q) join Patrick for a Beatlemania extravaganza. Talking clean old men, great sweaters, and Scouseness in a film Roger Ebert described as “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.”
06: High School Musical (2006)
Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) and Emily Zickler (Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street) are here for everyone's favorite Disney Channel original movie! Songs about stuff! Dancing for some reason! And a child songwriting prodigy! Seriously, she's a Sondheim! Mini-Sondheim! In a hat!
05: Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
Executive Director of the LGBT Equality Caucus for the U.S. House of Representatives Roddy Flynn (Anyone Can Whistle, et al.) and actor/director/person Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy, et al.) are here for a talk about this Ulu Grosbard directed, Herb Gardner written, Shel Silverstein songs by film that Patrick first found in the $1 VHS bin at The Wall in the Concord Mall.
04: Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Playwright/actor/director/Shakespearean scholar Charlene V. Smith (Man of La Mancha - London) and theatre historian Sara E. Cohen (Pippin) come down to talk about maybe the best historical film ever made.
And, unlike last month, that is not a sarcastic statement.
03: From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Lee Liebeskind (Spring Awakening) and Liz Maestri (Les Misérables OLCR) join Patrick for a deep-dive into this . . . movie? Is it a movie? It certainly wants me to think it is.
02: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Activist playwrights Natalie Ann Piegari (Cats) and Amanda Zeitler (Starmites) come on down to talk about Disney’s groundbreaking story about a woman who learns to love the man who kidnaps her after spending time with him and his staff of housestaff who are forced to live for a decade as living objects . . . Wait, what?
01: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Tracy Lynn Olivera (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) and Holly Twyford (Annie) are with us to talk about the inexplicably dark, weird, and awesome Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971).
00: Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy), Kenny Neal (Starlight Express), and Emily Zickler (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) join Patrick to discuss Baz Luhrmann's 2001 Academy Award-winning epic love poem.
Topics include: eyebrows, sad Ewens, and acting on your knees.
Kari Ginsburg (Gypsy), Kenny Neal (Starlight Express), and Emily Zickler (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) join Patrick to discuss Baz Luhrmann's 2001 Academy Award-winning epic love poem.
Topics include: eyebrows, sad Ewens, and acting on your knees.