Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know
262 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 23 ratingsA podcast by musical-lovers for musical-lovers. Together our hosts will mine their musical libraries in order to learn whatever it is that musicals have to teach!
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REPRISE - The Light in the Piazza
July 01, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBThe Light in the Piazza Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
REPRISE - Mean Girls with Melanie Bolovan
June 24, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBMean Girls with Melanie Bolovan Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
REPRISE - Great Comet with Ori Diskett
June 17, 2021 19:00 - 45 minutes - 31.9 MBGreat Comet with Ori Diskett Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
REPRISE - Sweet Charity with Maureen Bowra
June 10, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBSweet Charity with Maureen Bowra Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
REPRISE - Avenue Q
June 03, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBAvenue Q Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
REPRISE - Parade with Jess Ham
May 27, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBParade with Jess Ham Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
REPRISE - Be More Chill with Dani Altamura
May 20, 2021 19:00 - 47 minutes - 46 MBBe More Chill with Dani Altamura Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
REPRISE - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
May 13, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBThe Mystery of Edwin Drood Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
REPRISE - The Wild Party (Lippa)
May 06, 2021 14:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBLike us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
REPRISE - Bat Boy with Alex Smith
April 29, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBBat Boy with Alex Smith Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
REPRISE - Big Fish with Morgan Garrity
April 22, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBOnce again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)! Here is *insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare, and fireworks* Big Fish with Morgan Garrity! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith...
REPRISE - The Pirates of Penzance with Laurene Cooper-Fox
April 15, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBOnce again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)! Here is *insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare, and fireworks* The Pirates of Penzance with Laurene Cooper-Fox! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Ben...
REPRISE - Jersey Boys with Josh Mulheran
April 08, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 89 MBOnce again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)! Here is *insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare, and fireworks* Jersey Boys with Josh Mulheran! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smi...
REPRISE - The Drowsy Chaperone with Aurelie Roque
April 01, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBOnce again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)! Here is *insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare and fireworks* The Drowsy Chaperone with Aurelie Roque! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Bra...
REPRISE - Sweeney Todd with Joel O'Brien
March 25, 2021 19:05 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBThis week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Joel O'Brien about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical thriller; Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street! - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Sweeney Todd, Musical, Film Sweeney Wikia IMDB - 1936, 1982, 2006, 2007 - CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS - Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Len Cariou, George Hearn, Denis Quilley, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Cerveris, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Imelda Staunton, Emma Thompson, Michael Bal...
REPRISE - 21 Chump Street with Alex Smith
March 18, 2021 19:23 - 28 minutes - 21.8 MBThis week we chat with singer/songwriter Alex Smith about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Lin Manuel Miranda, one-act musical - 21 Chump Street! https://www.origintheatrical.com.au/work/9462 Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Chump_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_American_Life https://www.thisamericanlife.org/457/what-i-did-for-love iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/21-chump-street-the-musical-ep/89240...
Musical Scattergories
March 11, 2021 19:00 - 13 minutes - 9.41 MBThis week your hosts play a lively round of musical scattergories! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Aca...
Company with Cam Rollo
March 04, 2021 19:00 - 55 minutes - 49 MBThis week we chat with Cam Rollo about which of life's lessons can be learned from the classic Sondhiem musical - Company! "Creatively, Mr. Sondheim's lyrics are way above the rest of the show; they have a lyric suppleness, sparse, elegant wit, and range from the virtuosity of a patter song to a kind of sweetly laconic cynicism in a modern love song. The music is academically very interesting. Mr. Sondheim must be one of the most sophisticated composers ever to write Broadway musicals, yet ...
Annie with Matt Young
February 25, 2021 14:00 - 51 minutes - 46.3 MBThis week we chat with Matt Young about which of life's lessons can be learned from the classic little-girl musical - Annie! Say what you will about the current version of “Annie,” which is directed with a slightly tremulous hand by James Lapine and features the virtuosic Katie Finneran as the villainous Miss Hannigan, you can’t fault the timing of its return to Broadway…It would seem that Mr. Lapine is hoping to introduce at least a tincture of psychological shading to a show that is only,...
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical with Christopher Batkin
February 18, 2021 19:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBIn this episode we chat with Christopher Batkin about which of life's lessons can be learned from the famous young-adult musical - The Lightning Thief the Percy Jackson musical! Frank Scheck, in reviewing the production for The Hollywood Reporter, wrote that the musical "proves far more enjoyable than the misbegotten 2010 film version or its 2013 sequel" and "also provides an excellent if irreverent introduction to Greek mythology that just might persuade some kids to dig deeper." https://...
The King & I with Reindert Toia
February 11, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBThis week we chat with Reindert Toia about which of life's lessons can be learned from the almost-always-controversially-cast-musical - The King and I! "The New York Times drama critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "This time Messrs. Rodgers and Hammerstein are not breaking any fresh trails, but they are accomplished artists of song and words in the theater, and The King and I is a beautiful and lovable musical play." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Joshua Moore & Lawson
February 04, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBThis week we talk with Joshua Moore & Lawson from the upcoming production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Phoenix Ensemble about which of life's lessons can be learned from this chocolate confection of a musical! BOOK TICKETS TO THE SHOW: https://phoenixensemble.com.au/portfolio-items/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory/ Don’t expect a sugar rush from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the new musical that opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Sunday. This latest adaptation of Roa...
Annie Get Your Gun with Melissa Crabtree
January 28, 2021 19:00 - 56 minutes - 39.6 MBThis week we chat with Melissa Crabtree all the way from Chicago! About what life lessons there are to be learned from the gun-toting comedy - Annie Get Your Gun! You can find more from melissa and her adorable stationery at www.anactorplans.com John Chapman of the Daily News declared that the production had "good lyrics and tunes by Irving Berlin...[and] the razzle-dazzle atmosphere of a big-time show" but pronounced Merman the best part of the show, stating "She is a better comedienne th...
Jerry Springer the Opera with James Shaw
January 21, 2021 19:00 - 51 minutes - 36.8 MBIn this episode, we chat to James Shaw of That's Classic Entertainment about which of life's truths can be learned from Jerry Springer the Opera! You can find more from James and his compatriots at https://www.facebook.com/thatsclassicau/, and you can find his podcast here: https://podfollow.com/1534285490 "The BBC is bracing itself for further criticism after it screened Jerry Springer - The Opera on Saturday. Hundreds of Christian protesters rallied outside BBC buildings before and dur...
The Cher Show with Grace Clarke
January 14, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBThis week we chat with Grace Clarke about which of life's truths can be learned from the musical that is all-Cher, all-the-time - the Cher Show! "Choosing to recreate the spirit of the television variety shows that Sonny and Cher — and then Cher sans Sonny — headlined in the ‘70s is a choice that lands as flat as the jokes in Broadway’s latest jukebox bio, “The Cher Show.” Its attempt to celebrate the resilience of its “bad-ass” star and her half-century career of highs and lows rarely rise...
Miss Saigon with Mike Zarate
January 07, 2021 19:00 - 56 minutes - 50.5 MBIn this episode, we chat with Mike Zarate about which of life's lessons can be learned from Boubil and Schonberg's second opus - Miss Saigon! "THERE may never have been a musical that made more people angry before its Broadway debut than "Miss Saigon." Here is a show with something for everyone to resent -- in principle, at least. Its imported stars, the English actor Jonathan Pryce and the Filipino actress Lea Salonga, are playing roles that neglected Asian-American performers feel are ri...
Legally Blonde with Stacie Hobbs
December 31, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBThis week we chat with Stacie Hobbs about which of life's truths can be learned from the all-pink, all-feminist musical - Legally Blonde! Ben Brantley, reviewing the musical in The New York Times, wrote that the show was a "high-energy, empty-calories, and expensive-looking hymn to the glories of girlishness"; he praised Laura Bell Bundy saying, "she sings and dances flawlessly, and she delivers silly lines as if she meant them." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally_Blonde_(musical) http...
Christmas Musical Pitches Special!
December 24, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutes - 26.6 MBYour hosts are all going to pitch you their ideas for an original Christmas musical extravaganza! This episode is a bit chaotic so grab your eggnog and yell at us as we yall at each other! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_the_Halls_(2006_film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790604/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Switch https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8954732/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11199410/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knives_Out https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8946378/...
Fiddler on the Roof with Rex J Ablett
December 17, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBThis week we celebrate Hunnakah with Rex J Ablett and chat about all of the lessons we can learn from the Jewish masterpiece - Fiddler on the Roof! "Miracle of miracles, indeed: Just when you think you know a classic musical backwards and forwards, along comes director Bartlett Sher to prove otherwise. Just as with his seminal 2008 staging of "South Pacific" (and his less successful, but still laudable version of "The King and I" from earlier this year), Sher's take on "Fiddler on the Roof"...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Melissa Crabtree
December 10, 2020 19:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MB"It's ironic that Forum delivered such a show-stopping standard in the first five minutes since it has been confirmed by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim that his show's songs were meant to give audiences a respite from laughing, as had songs in the theatre of Plautus. While Sondheim is repeatedly critical of Forum's score in his book of annotated lyrics, Finishing the Hat, it has considerable charm, most notably Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, a paean to feminine domestic help, replete wi...
Reefer Madness with Patrick Aiken
December 03, 2020 19:00 - 46 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week we chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be learned from the propaganda-parody musical - Reefer Madness! "Viewed through eyes blurred by no substance stronger than cough syrup, the film is still mildly diverting, with its censorious, bespectacled narrator and its scenes showing wholesome high-school students transformed into monsters by a single puff. It even has a weird, sort of Expressionist power in its mad, jerky party scenes. But its humor, especially for h...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Kevin Werner
November 26, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThis week we chat with Kevin Werner about which life lessons can be learned from the gender-bending, rock musical - Hedwig and the Angry Inch! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Support this show http...
Finding Neverland with Merilee Ettia
November 19, 2020 19:00 - 54 minutes - 41.5 MBThis week we chat with Merrilee Ettia about which life lessons can be learned from the story of a story musical - Finding Neverland! As with many a Broadway musical these days, “Finding Neverland” — which features a book by James Graham and sticky soft-pop power ballads by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy — is based on a popular film. That would be the 2004 biopic about the playwright J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, which starred Johnny Depp and for which Mr. Weinstein was an executive...
Finding Neverland with Merilee E
November 19, 2020 19:00 - 54 minutes - 41.5 MBThis week we chat with Merilee E about which life lessons can be learned from the story of a story musical - Finding Neverland! As with many a Broadway musical these days, “Finding Neverland” — which features a book by James Graham and sticky soft-pop power ballads by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy — is based on a popular film. That would be the 2004 biopic about the playwright J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, which starred Johnny Depp and for which Mr. Weinstein was an executive prod...
Thoroughly Modern Millie with Astin Hammermeister
November 12, 2020 19:00 - 45 minutes - 29.4 MBThis week we chat with Astin Astin Hammermeister about which of life's truths can be learned from the thoroughly modern musical - Thoroughly Modern MIllie! "It will require a strong stomach for overtly racist tropes and tired sexual stereotypes, though; not to mention a penchant for the kind of paint-by-numbers songs that are forgotten before they even reach the resolving chords. There are things to like in the show, but there is so much else that is flat-out offensive, and it takes a brave...
Gutenberg! The Musical! with Kieran Davey
November 05, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutes - 24.6 MBThis week we chat with Kieran Davey about what life truths can be learned from the "historical", fourth-wall-breaking, show within a show - Gutenberg! The Musical! Gutenberg! The Musical!” is, in a word, zany! zany! zany! Two-character biotuner, in the guise of a backer’s audition, is as thin as a pfannkuchen — pancake, to you — but actors Christopher Fitzgerald and Jeremy Shamos pull off the yuks with aplomb. Theatergoers who don’t relish shucked corn mixed with slices of ham may be advise...
& Juliet with Alex Woodward
October 29, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutes - 27.9 MBThis week we chat with Alex Woodward about which of life's truths can be found in the 2019 musical - & Juliet! "From “Wicked” to “Waitress,” female empowerment has been a boon for musical theater. But where those shows veered between sincerely earnest and earnestly sincere, “& Juliet” gleefully goes for broke putting gender on the agenda as it yokes pop milestones from the likes of Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Celine Dion to a girl-power revamp of “Romeo and Juliet.” The hyperactive produ...
HMS Pinafore with Shannon Foley
October 22, 2020 19:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBIn this episode, we chat with Shannon Foley about what lessons can be learned from the sea-faring comic opera - HMS Pinafore. The Era wrote: Seldom indeed have we been in the company of a more joyous audience. ... [Gilbert and Sullivan] have on previous occasions been productive of such legitimate amusement, such novel forms of drollery, such original wit, and unexpected whimsicality, that nothing was more natural than for the audience to anticipate an evening of thorough enjoyment. The exp...
Call Me Madam with Naomi Mole
October 15, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week we chat with Naomi Mole about what lessons can be learned from the political commentary musical - Call Me Madam! "But for every joke that falls flat, there's a terrific song, including the charming "It's a Lovely Day Today," the beautiful ballad "Marrying for Love," the toe-tapping "The Hostess with the Mostes' On the Ball," and the show's unqualified masterpiece of counterpoint, "You're Just in Love," the last guaranteed to send you out of the theater on a high. The numbers are b...
Bernarda Alba with Timothy Winn
October 08, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week we chat with Timothy Winn about the Spanish play turned musical - Bernarda Alba. Ben Brantley, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote, "This latest offering from the prolific Mr. LaChiusa, often feels wan and weary...The music, though superbly orchestrated (by Michael Starobin) and played, goes places that singers used to hard-sell Broadway pizazz cannot follow. The punctuating yelps; the wavering sustained notes in minor keys; the labyrinthine interior musical paths; the eruptio...
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with Brad Chapman
October 01, 2020 19:00 - 46 minutes - 31.1 MBThis week we chat with Brad Chapman about the Australian cult classic turned musical - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! Reviews for the Toronto production include praise for the costumes from the Globe and Mail: "The costumes designed by Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, the same team that won an Oscar for the movie, are a fabulous mix of Village People meet Tim Burton culminating in, at the curtain call, a whole crass menagerie of dragged-up koalas and 'roos." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
The Band's Visit with Becky Ho
September 24, 2020 19:00 - 50 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week we chat with Beck ho about the Tony Award Winning Musical - The Band's Visit! The New York Times said it was "one of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by," and also "a Broadway rarity seldom found these days outside of the canon of Stephen Sondheim: an honest-to-God musical for grown-ups." It also praised the adaptation for the bigger stage, due to an "impeccably coordinated creative team." Deadline also gave the musical a positive review. The review's only crit...
The Wiz with Asabi Goodman
September 17, 2020 19:00 - 56 minutes - 39.9 MBThis episode we chat with singer-sensation Asabi Goodman about the super soul musical reimagining of the Wiard of Oz - The Wiz! In his review of the 1984 revival, Frank Rich wrote: "What made The Wiz surprisingly moving the first time around was that its creators found a connection between Baum's Kansas fantasy and the pride of urban black Americans. When Glinda, the good witch, musically instructed Dorothy to 'believe in herself,' she seemed to be delivering a broader inspirational message...
Ladies in Black with Laura Fois
September 10, 2020 19:00 - 49 minutes - 34.7 MBIn this episode we chat we Laura Fois about the the Australian written and produced musical-turned film - Ladies in Black! ArtsHub indicated that "a comedy of mid-20th century manners, Ladies in Black is a paean to an optimistic future – the future of an uncomplicated gender equality and seamless multiculturalism. But Finn’s canny lyricism transports the play from its late 50s context to a subtle but salient comment on social issues of today." FURTHER READING: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
December Songs with Hayley Marsh
September 03, 2020 19:00 - 53 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this episode we chat with Hayley Marsh about one of the very first musical teatre song cycles - December Songs! FURTHER READING: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_Songs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Yeston https://open.spotify.com/artist/0RSFYUQQWpZg5bOne6OuzD http://www.mauryyeston.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterreise Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsn...
Six with Taylor Davidson
August 27, 2020 19:00 - 45 minutes - 30.3 MBThis week we are chatting with Taylor Davidson about one of the biggest new musicals of the last year - Six According to Rachel Weinberg of Broadway World, "Six carries out [a] joyful and anachronistic takedown of the patriarchy" through the performances of a "brilliant" cast and a book and score with an inventive and sensational compositional method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_(musical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wives_of_King_Henry_VIII https://sixthemusical.fandom.co...
Ordinary Days with Elizabeth Best
August 20, 2020 19:00 - 41 minutes - 27.9 MBIn this episode we chat with Elizabeth Best about the New York 4 hander musical - Ordinary Days "If life really were more like a musical, you’d be contented if that life percolated as vibrantly as does “Ordinary Days,” Adam Gwon’s sweet, fleet and tender survey of four youngish New Yorkers, fighting through the emotional noise and dramatic traffic to arrive at a clearer sense of who they are and what they want to be." - https://www.washingtonpost.com Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia....
Memphis with Tim Dashwood
August 13, 2020 19:00 - 43 minutes - 35.3 MBIn this episode we chat with Tim Dashwood about the 1950's music based musical - Memphis! Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News gave the show three and a half out of five stars and said, "It's nice to know a new musical can actually surprise you! Though it starts on a familiar note and sparks deja vu at other points, Memphis eventually finds its own voice and beat, and wins you over with its sheer enthusiasm and exuberant performances." Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l...
Reprise: War of the Worlds with Charnstar Anderson
August 10, 2020 19:06 - 52 minutes - 41.4 MBThis week we chat with film maker Charnstar Anderson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the science fiction (and definitely NOT a concept album) musical - War of the Worlds! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Find out more about him at www.benedictbraxtonsmith.c...
South Pacific with Vivien Wood
August 06, 2020 19:55 - 52 minutes - 45.1 MBThis week we are chatting with Vivien Wood about one of the biggest musicals of all time that is named after an ocean - South Pacific! The New York Herald Tribune wrote: The new and much-heralded musical, South Pacific, is a show of rare enchantment. It is novel in texture and treatment, rich in dramatic substance, and eloquent in song, a musical play to be cherished. Under Logan's superb direction, the action shifts with constant fluency. ... [He] has kept the book cumulatively arresting a...