The Original Cast
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The Original Cast
A podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them hosted by playwright Patrick Flynn.
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458 एपिसोडहरूCast Album Cage Match: EVITA vs. Billy Recce *FLASHBACK*
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...
Beth Amann / Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2003) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: March 15, 2017
Actual grown-up Beth Amann channels her 13-year-old self and talks about the unstoppable force that is WICKE...
Chris Adams & Holly Morgan / Bat Boy - Original Cast Recording (2001) *FLASHBACK*
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 Edinbur...
Lauren Halvorsen / The Wild Party - Original Cast Recording | A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (2000) *FLASHBACK*
part 1 originally released: January 10, 2018
Dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen is here for the first of our epic, two-part dive into both musical versi...
Amanda Zeitler / Starmites - Original Cast Members (1999) *FLASHBACK*
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...
Doug Wilder / No Way to Treat a Lady - Original Cast Recording (1997) *FLASHBACK*
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 lo...
Alexandra Silber / The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway Cast Album (1991) *FLASHBACK*
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...
Kenny Neal / Starlight Express - The Original Cast Recording (1984) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: March 29, 2017
Sound designer Kenny Neal comes by to talk about what he describes as “nobody’s favorite musical.”
Top...
Robert W. Schneider / La Cage Aux Folles - Original Cast Recording (1983) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: June 10, 2020
Director/podcaster Robert W. Schneider is here for a musical whose legacy may be unfairly besmirched by an in...
Logan Culwell-Block / Little Shop of Horrors - Original Cast Album (1982) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: November 29, 2017
Playbill writer (now news editor) Logan Culwell-Block stops by ostensibly to talk about LITTLE SHOP OF HO...
Rebecca Luker / Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Original Cast (1979) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: July 22, 2020 • updated intro: December 23, 2020
Three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker is here for a walk through her caree...
Amy Oestreicher / In Trousers - Original Cast (1979) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: June 17, 2020 • updated intro: April 9, 2021
Writer/performer/amazing human Amy Oestreicher comes to us with us to complete...
Douglas J. Cohen / Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: May 8, 2019
Composer/lyricist (and former subject of this podcast), Doug Cohen is here for the first-ever Sondheim tribute....
Liz Callaway / Company - Original Broadway Cast (1970) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: June 30, 2021
Tony nominee and favorite of this podcast, Liz Callaway is here for the first show she saw on Broadway at 9,...
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 overpa...
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 musica...
Robbie Rozelle / Mame - Original Broadway Cast (1966) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: October 3, 2018
Designer, record producer, performer, and talent-whisperer Robbie Rozelle is here to bring some joy into Pa...
Roddy Flynn / Anyone Can Whistle - Original Broadway Cast (1964) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: June 22, 2016
Roddy is the Executive Director for the U.S. House of Representative’s LGBT Caucus. He is also our first gues...
Kari Ginsburg / Gypsy - The Original Broadway Cast (1959) *FLASHBACK*
originally released: October 12, 2016
Actor and director Kari Ginsburg is here to talk about one woman’s fall from grace as she facilitates the...
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 A...
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...
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....
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 direct...
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, Pie...
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 ot...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 incl...
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...
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 includ...
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 Brookl...
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...
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...
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...
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: Bar...
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...
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, jumpe...
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 Ka...