This week we team up with the ladies from our sister podcast Disney Grown Up! to talk about Disney Musicals! Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com 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.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know...
Sep 12, 2019•55 min
You can’t go wrong with more Sondheim! so let’s hark back to the best of times, when we spoke about the sometimes-underrated political musical Assassins. This week Kristen and Zane will chat with Jessica Kate Ryan and Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Sondheim’s most political musical, Assassins! - FURTHER READING - Wiki iTunes Spotify - CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS - Victor Garber , Terrence Mann , Patrick Cassidy , Debra Monk , Greg Germann , Annie Golden , Marc Kudisch , N...
Sep 09, 2019•1 hr 34 min
This week we are celebrating over two years of episodes from Musicals Taught Me Everything I know! And what better way to celebrate than finally tackling the impossible Top 5 List - TOP 5 MUSICALS. !SPOILERS BELOW! The top 20 list: Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Avenue Q, The Producers, Into the Woods, Heathers, She Loves Me, A Chorus Line, The Wild Party (Lippa), Beauty & the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, H2$, Something Rotten, Les Mis, Dogfight, Kiss Me Kate, Jersey Boys, My Fair Lady, Hadestown, W...
Sep 05, 2019•56 min
This week we chat with Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the classic musical - My Fair Lady! - FURTHER READING - Wiki iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com 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.com Support this show http://support...
Aug 29, 2019•49 min
This is an infamous episode, even if only for the rash promises we made in regards to Zane’s dancing. Also, funny and spooky times ahead! This week Kristen, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Isaac Tibbs about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the little horror-musical that could: Evil Dead! the Musical! - FURTHER READING - Wiki IMDb iTunes Spotify Website - CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS - Sam Raimi , Bruce Campbell , Ryan Ward Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Em...
Aug 26, 2019•1 hr 20 min
This week we chat with Robbie Mitchell about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Lloyd-Webber’s juggernaut of a musical - Jesus Christ Superstar! Find out more from Robbie at https://hillsmusical.org.au/ - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , Film IMDb iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and on...
Aug 22, 2019•1 hr 2 min
This week we chat with Helen Stephens about which of life's truths can be gleaned from sassy, sexy, darkly comedic retro satire that has taken the world by storm - Heathers! Marilyn Stasio , writing for Variety , wrote "...Seasoned industry pros could pick up a few tips on the Do’s and Don’ts of adapting material from this smartly executed musical treatment of “Heathers.” She praised the lyrics but was not a fan of the music, writing: "Even at their giddiest, the lyrics never dumb down the chara...
Aug 15, 2019•56 min
We admit that Jason Robert Brown has ben underserved by this podcast, so to go a little way towards repairing that let's revisit the time we talked about The Last 5 Years! This week your hosts chat with Heidi Enchelmeier about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jason Robert Brown’ intimate two person musical - The Last 5 Years! - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical IMDb iTunes Spotify - Movie , OBC MTI - CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS - Lauren Kennedy , Norbert Leo Butz , Betsy Wolfe , Anna Kendrick ,...
Aug 12, 2019•1 hr 34 min
This week we chat with Laura Fois about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the female-saturated musical - Nine! - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , 8½ , Federico Fellini , Film IMDb - 8½ , Nine iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com 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 w...
Aug 08, 2019•46 min
This week we chat with Oliver Sampson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Off-Broadway Military musical - Dogfight! - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , Movie IMDb iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com 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.benedictbraxtonsmit...
Aug 01, 2019•1 hr 9 min
In this reprise episode we are heading back to when we had one of the touring cast of Jersey Boys in the studio to pepper with questions! This week we chat with Josh Mulheran who is currently performing in the Australian Tour of Jersey Boys about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the biography musical the started it all - Jersey Boys! BOOK TICKETS TO SEE THE TOUR - QPAC , jerseyboys.com.au - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , Film , The Four Seasons , Frankie Valli , Bob Gaudio IMDb iTu...
Jul 29, 2019•1 hr 29 min
This week we chat with Xanthe Jones - Assistant Director of this year’s 24 Hour Musical Project - about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic - The Sound of Music! Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post stated that the show had "strangely gentle charm that is wonderfully endearing. The Sound of Music strives for nothing in the way of smash effects, substituting instead a kind of gracious and unpretentious simplicity." - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical ,...
Jul 25, 2019•46 min
This week we chat with Tammy Linde about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the book turned film, turned Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical film, turned stage musical - State Fair! - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Film , Musical IMDb - 1945 , 1962 iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedi...
Jul 18, 2019•43 min
Which musical has appeared on more top 5 lists than any other? Gypsy …probably, we don’t really keep track. But it is a great musical, and possibly on of the greatest! So this reprise session we are taking you back to our discussion about Gypsy with Shannon Foley. - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , Memoir IMDb iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.com Our...
Jul 15, 2019•1 hr 29 min
This week we chat with Taylor Davidson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of the most dance-centric musicals around - A Chorus Line! - FURTHER READING - Wiki IMDb - 1985 , 2016 iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com 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.bened...
Jul 11, 2019•49 min
This week we chat with Dani Altamura about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the new-age Sci-fi Broadway hit - Be More Chill! Peter Travers of Rolling Stone Magazine wrote, "The audiences who made this show happen digitally are now making pilgrimages to the Lyceum Theater to see those songs done live by a talented young cast with enough juice to ignite every light on Broadway... By the time Jeremy belts out his final number, 'Voices in My Head,' you’ll be hearing those voices, too, in a...
Jul 04, 2019•47 min
We always need more Judi Dench in our lives. And in our opinion one of her best performances was in A Little Night Music. So let’s take a look back at our discussion with Sam Boyd about it! Learn more about Circa ! - FURTHER READING - WIKI - Musical, Movie , Eine kleine Nachtmusik , Smiles of a Summer Night IMDb Spotify iTunes - CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS - Stephen Sondheim , Hugh Wheeler , Ingmar Bergman , Harold Prince , Elizabeth Taylor , Len Cariou , Lesley-Anne Down , Diana Rigg , Glynis Johns , H...
Jul 01, 2019•1 hr 39 min
This week we chat with Joel O'Brien about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the hippie classic musical - Hair! Clive Barnes wrote in the New York Times: "What is so likable about Hair ... ? I think it is simply that it is so likable. So new, so fresh, and so unassuming, even in its pretensions." - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , Age of Aquarius , iTunes Spotify Imagined Life from Wondery Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepo...
Jun 27, 2019•52 min
This week we chat with Alicia Poulter about which of life's truths can be gleaned from watching Dr. Seuss' best-loved characters collide and cavort in the unforgettable musical caper - Seussical! Somewhere in ''Seussical'' are the vestiges of a charming, unpretentious show, with a blithe, hummable score, about the transforming powers of imagination. With a small protean cast, conjuring characters out of the air in an intimate storybook-theater setting, ''Seussical'' might indeed be a hit, along ...
Jun 20, 2019•51 min
Obscure musical alert! Brad McCaw is a huge musical fan and has a huge appreciation of some obscure musicals, here is the first on he brought to the podcast back in the olden days - Floyd Collins! Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com 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.benedictbraxtonsmi...
Jun 17, 2019•1 hr 34 min
This week we chat with friend-of-the-show Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the rootin-est, tootin-est musicals this side of the mountain - Oklahoma! In the New York Herald Tribune , Howard Barnes wrote, "Songs, dances, and a story have been triumphantly blended. ... The Richard Rodgers score is one of his best, and that is saying plenty. Oscar Hammerstein 2nd has written a dramatically imaginative libretto and a string of catchy lyrics; Agnes de Mille has worked small m...
Jun 13, 2019•48 min
This week we chat with Jess Ham about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jason Robert Brown’s historical and intensely emotional musical - Parade! "Southern extended families are prone to telling stories and so are Jewish ones. Mine was both, so I got a double dose. I grew up hearing about the quirks of distant relatives, in-laws, and a whole network of people I didn't know. They all came with stories attached. But nobody mentioned Leo Frank. Some of the family even walked out of the roo...
Jun 06, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Zane is still unashamed of his love for the under-appreciated musical Zanna Don’t. So it is high time that we revisited this hidden, camp, musical gem! - FURTHER READING - Wiki Spotify iTunes Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com 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.co...
Jun 03, 2019•1 hr 18 min
This week we chat with Panda Haden and Kaitlyn Maxwell about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the smash hit musical - Wicked! “Chenoweth received nearly unanimous praise for her performances as Glinda while Menzel received mixed-to-positive reviews for her performance as Elphaba. Both USA Today and Time Magazine gave the Broadway production of Wicked very positive reviews, with Richard Zoglin of Time saying, "If every musical had a brain, a heart and the courage of Wicked , Broadway re...
May 30, 2019•59 min
This week we chat with Trevor Jones about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the often overlooked musical gem - Snoopy!!! You can find out more about Trevor HERE and more about Becoming Bill HERE - FURTHER READING - Wiki IMDb iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smit...
May 23, 2019•46 min
Politics, politics, politics. Let’s talk about politics. but the good kind, the musical kind! Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a musical all about a rather misunderstood period of American Politics! - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Show , Politician Les Freres Corbusier iTunes www.theatremakers.com.au - CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS - Michael Friedman , Alex Timbers , Sebastian Arcelus , Stephanie D'Abruzzo , River Alexander , Bryce Pinkham , Benjamin Walker , Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musical...
May 20, 2019•1 hr 25 min
This week we chat with Benjamin Tubb-Hearne about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical - Next to Normal! - FURTHER READING - Wiki iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com 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.com Supp...
May 17, 2019•50 min
This week we chat with Tristan Vanyai about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time - Guys and Dolls! https://www.savoyards.com.au/oklahoma - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , Damon Runyon , 1955 film adaptation IMDb iTunes Spotify Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by t...
May 09, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Patrick is one of our favourite people and Groundhog Day is one of his favourite musicals! So let us revisit this episode about TIm Minchin’s latest Broadway work - Groundhog Day! - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , Movie , Tim Minchin , Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania IMDb iTunes - Musical , Movie www.groundhogdaymusical.com - CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS - Tim Minchin , Danny Rubin , Harold Ramis , Barrett Doss, Andy Karl , Bill Murray , Andie MacDowell , Stephen Tobolowsky Like us on Facebook ! Follow us ...
May 06, 2019•1 hr 42 min
This week we chat with Brisbane filmmaker Charnstar Anderson about which of life's truths can be learned from the Festival darling, SIlence of the Lambs parody musical - Silence! - FIND CHARNSTAR’S FILMS - On Vimeo Pizza Deliverance L-Plates - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Musical , Movie , Jon and Al Kaplan IMDb iTunes Spotify Website Time Magazine’s Top 10 Plays and Musicals of 2011 Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.com Visi...
May 02, 2019•56 min
