Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical

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Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical

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Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

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A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater 1st Edition

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Bob Fosse: The Life and Legacy of America’s Most Decorated Choreographer

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Sondheim in Our Time and His

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The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built

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Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim

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The History of the Musical

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Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George

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Everything Was Possible (Updated Edition): The Birth of the Musical Follies

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Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim

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Gays on Broadway

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The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage

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Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence

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The History of Theatre

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Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather

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All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago

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Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway

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Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir

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Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater

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Sense of Occasion

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Little Known Facts: Patti LuPone

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Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History

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Extended interview with Stephen Sondheim

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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

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Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way

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Rewrites A Memoir

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Broadway Bound

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Unmasked: A Memoir

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Act One: from the Autobiography by Moss Hart

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

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Birth of The Endless Summer: A Surf Odyssey

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Is this Anything?

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Here We Go Again: My Life In Television

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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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The Art of Racing in the Rain

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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The Power of Myth

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Hamlet: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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The Science of Storytelling

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Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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Dracula (dramatic reading)

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The Way I Heard It

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Last Words: A Memoir

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Save the Cat!

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Pure Drivel

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Julius Caesar: A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre

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Everywhere An Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years In Hollywood

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A Life in Parts

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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

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The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

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#412 - The Line (A Chorus Line - feat. Francine Espiritu): A Chorus Line changed everything. It’s a statement theatre lovers have heard time and again. But until this exploration into the proliferation of the line as a theatrical device in musical theatre, I never really understood the depth of what A Chorus Line changed. For the layman, it was the first time in years that a Broadway musical reached the greater cultural conversation. Musical theatre had drifted from the zeitgeist after decades of leading the entertainment industry, but here it was back and in charge. For the theatre aficionados, it was the first Broadway musical to run longer than a decade. For comparison, prior to Broadway’s shutdown there were four musicals running that had opened more than ten years ago. But for theatre artisans, A Chorus Line was the first big musical without a separation between principals and chorus. In A Chorus Line, every character was named and given a point of view - not only in the stagi

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Angela Lansbury (#326) - June, 2011: Five time Tony winning Actress.

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Jerry Herman (#28) November, 2004: Composer and Lyricist of "Mack and Mabel" and "La Cage aux Folles".

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#446 - The Addams Family: It was supposed to be the biggest Broadway show of the season. Two theatre titans taking on two of the most familiar roles in popular culture. The combination of wildly successful source material and innovative theatremakers were sure to create a theatrical juggernaut. And the public agreed: advanced ticket sales for the show were the largest of any Broadway production to date. And then… it opened. Many jeered the production, but none said it as succinctly as The New York Times’ Ben Brantley, when began his review with the following quote: “Imagine, if you dare, the agonies of the talented people trapped inside the collapsing tomb called The Addams Family. Being in this genuinely ghastly musical must feel like going to a Halloween party in a strait-jacket. A strangled voice inside you keeps gasping, ‘He-e-e-lp! Get me out of here!’” And then, in early 2016 the Educational Theatre Association had released their annual survey of the most-produced musicals in

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John Patrick Shanley (#97) April, 2006: Author of "Doubt" and "Defiance"

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Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America: In Beyond Broadway, Stacy Wolf examines the widespread presence and persistence of musical theater in U.S. culture as a live, pleasurable, participatory experience.

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36 Questions - The Podcast Musical - Act 1 of 3: Act 1 of the three-part podcast musical starring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton.

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S3 EP18 How to Survive a Killer Musical- Part 1 with Douglas J. Cohen: Douglas J. Cohen recently wrote a a book, How to Survive a Killer Musical, Agony and Ecstasy on the Road to Broadway, giving great insight into creating a new musical. Great insight for anyone who wants to get in on the ground level of creating a new show! Part one of two.

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Jerry Mitchell (#150) May, 2007: Director of "Legally Blonde".

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John Glover (#213) - August, 2008: From "The Marriage of Bette and Boo".

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#234 - Creating Characters (feat. Tracee Beazer, Afra Hines, Kelvin Moon Loh, Barrett Martin, Bret Shuford): Creating a character in a new Broadway musical is a gift for any artist, because you get to infuse the show with your own artistry. But it is the lucky few who get to create characters multiple times in multiple musicals. By originating roles in multiple musicals, they helped in a small but meaningful way to shape the legacy of musical theatre for generations to come. ...at least, that’s easy for me to say from the outside. But does it feel like that to the actors who create these ensemble roles? Do they think about the characters they create once the shows close? I posed this question to five of the most experienced and storied ensemble actors working on Broadway today before a live audience at BroadwayCon 2020. Currently performing in Broadway’s Beetlejuice, Chicago, Frozen, Hadestown and Wicked, they each shared stories about the small but mighty influence they’ve had on som

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36 Questions - The Podcast Musical - Act 3 of 3: Act 3 of the three-part podcast musical starring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton.

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Writer-Director Patrick Marber on Working With His Artistic Heroes: “It’s weird until it’s not.”

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Playwright and Director - April, 1988: Playwright and Director with Paul Benedict, Timothy Crouse, David Henry Hwang, Robert Kalfin, Terrence McNally, Jeremy Nussbaum, John Weidman

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Where'd All the Method Acting Go?: In the 20th century, method acting was everywhere. Actors went to extreme lengths to inhabit the complicated psyche of a character, sometimes making audiences deeply uncomfortable. Think Robert De Niro in “Raging Bull” or Marlon Brando in “Apocalypse Now.” But in 2022, in our heyday of superhero blockbusters and bingeable story lines, the Method seems to be fading away. Wesley invites Isaac Butler — critic, historian and author of “The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act” — to dissect the Method. They discuss where it came from, its most legendary practitioners, and whether Hollywood has a place for it today.

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Tom Stoppard (#186) - January, 2008: Author of "Rock 'n' Roll".

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Legendary Coach Larry Moss: A Rare Interview: Larry Moss is one of the most sought after acting coaches in the world today. He worked with Hele...

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#519 - Choreographers Making Moves (feat. Lizz Picini): For our third episode in this miniseries, we’re so excited to bring you a true renaissance woman in the industry. She’s been an associate to multiple Broadway choreographers, she’s been a dance captain, she’s starred in shows, and she’s also one phenomenal educator, the brilliant Lizz Picini. Currently teaching sold out classes at Broadway Dance Center, Lizz is in high demand with several other projects in the works. We’ll talk about how learning on the job has made her stronger, what insight she’s gained from being on all sides of the table, and why being present- whether that be in the audition room or on stage- is your biggest strength. All right listeners, here’s my conversation with Lizz Picini.

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Drama club: An all-theater episode, including deconstructing the patter song, Taylor Mac’s latest on Broadway and how so much Shakespeare ended up in so many parks.

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Len Cariou (#137) February, 2007: From "Sweeney Todd" and "A Little Night Music".

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Two Actors Talk Acting

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Sheldon Harnick (#126) November, 2006: Author and Lyricist of "The Apple Tree".

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Mary Louise Wilson (#153) June, 2007: From "Grey Gardens".

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Fanny Brice, Part 1

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36 Questions - The Podcast Musical - Act 2 of 3: Act 2 of the three-part podcast musical starring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton.

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#149 - Fosse/Verdon (Episode 3 feat. Ricky Ubeda): In the third episode of the F/X Fosse/Verdon miniseries, the episode’s primary musical moment does not celebrate Fosse at all. It is a flashback sequence where a young Gwen Verdon, working as a reviewer for the Hollywood Bugle, first sees the work of sem...

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39 - Spencer Liff: Spring Awakening choreographer Spencer Liff discusses the differences between working in theater in TV, shares his Broadway backstory, and more.

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Stephen Schwartz Part 1 ”Wicked”: Stephen Schwartz (stephenschwartz.com) was born in New York City on March 6, 1948. He studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music while in high school and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a B.F.A. in Drama. Up...

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Stephen Schwartz Part 2 ”Empathy”: Stephen Schwartz (stephenschwartz.com) was born in New York City on March 6, 1948. He studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music while in high school and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a B.F.A. in Drama. Up...

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Ep. 85 - TONY BANKS of Genesis ("Land of Confusion"): Grammy winner Tony Banks is the co-founder and keyboardist of Genesis, which helped define prog rock in the ‘70s with lead singer Peter Gabriel and emerged as a pop powerhouse in the ‘80s after drummer Phil Collins took over the lead vocalist role. Banks and Mike Rutherford were the only two musicians who were members of the band throughout Genesis’ entire history from the late 1960s through the early 2000s. He is a co-writer of Genesis classics, including “The Knife,” “The Musical Box,” “Supper’s Ready,” “Firth of Fifth,” “Follow You Follow Me,” “No Reply at All,” “That’s All,” “Invisible Touch,” “Throwing it All Away,” “Land of Confusion,” “Tonight Tonight Tonight,” “In Too Deep,” “No Son of Mine,” “I Can’t Dance,” and “Hold On My Heart.”     In addition to releasing five solo albums, Banks began scoring films in the late 1970s, including a British horror movie called The Shout, a science fiction film entitled Starship, and Quick