This week we chat with Kieran Davey about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical parody of The Fellowship of the Ring - Fellowship! the Musical Parody! Kris Noteboom said “J.R.R. Tolkien’s books are ripe for parody. Heavy drama, weird names, weird creatures, an arduous quest with one of the most glaring plot holes in literary history. It’s all there. But, that actually makes creating a good parody difficult. Thankfully, the authors have succeeded here. First, the songs are actual...
Jun 11, 2020•56 min
This week we chat with Laurene Cooper-Fox about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Australian movie classic-turned-musical - Muriel’s Wedding! The Sydney Morning Herald commented that: "Muriel's Wedding feels like the complete package: a beloved film seamlessly updated; a central character who retains all the ambiguities that made you root for her in the first place; a conspicuously inventive score peppered with classic pop hits, and a mainstage debut that will be talked about for ye...
Jun 04, 2020•53 min
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 . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know . Hosted on Acast. See a...
Jun 02, 2020•41 min
This week we chat with Paige McKay about which of life's truths can be gleaned from woman-led classic - Little Women! The Village Voice reviewer noted "The show itself, similarly, seems lost in the drafty hugeness of the Virginia, where the often charming family scenes are dwarfed by the high proscenium arch (emphasized by the metal scaffolding that frames Derek McLane's otherwise attractive settings). The pity of it is that, between seizures, so much of Little Women's reality has been establish...
May 28, 2020•38 min
This week we chat with Zoe Jeffrey about which of life's truths can be gleaned from not-a-Disney-film turned Broadway show - Anastasia! The Hollywood Reporter reviewer, David Rooney, wrote "The seamlessness and storytelling economy of that opening sequence is quite impressive, deftly handling the ambiguity surrounding Anastasia's fate, while her family is murdered by revolutionaries. But the long first act gets bogged down, and while Ahrens and Flaherty certainly know how to craft a narrative-dr...
May 21, 2020•42 min
In this special episode, we chat with Michael Grant of the United Kingdom about which of life's truths can be gleaned from his brand-new, ragtime-esque musical - It's Not Really The Apocalypse! “Apocalypse”‘s 15 tracks work together just as a musical score should but when pulled apart and heard independently, still provide fully fleshed out ideas more than capable of entertaining on their own.” throwthediceandplaynice.com - FURTHER READING - Website: www.michaelgrantmusician.com YouTube: www.you...
May 19, 2020•31 min
This week we chat with Shannon Foley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from philosophical and incredibly not-historical opera/operetta/musical/whatever - Candide! The tale that Voltaire's classic satire tells is long and winding. And the tale of the Broadway show or (as Bernstein called it) American operetta to its present state as quintessential American opera (or music theater piece) is also long and winding. Over the years the piece got new books, new numbers, additional lyrics and ...
May 18, 2020•52 min
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 . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know . Hosted on Acast. See a...
May 14, 2020•1 hr 2 min
This week we chat with Mary Littlejohn about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the screen-spectacular turned stage-spectacular - Moulin Rouge! Diane Snyder of The Telegraph praised the scenic design, choreography, and costume and wrote that "Moulin Rouge! may not have the depth of some of Broadway’s great musicals... [but] it’s fun, tuneful and entertaining, and that’s exactly what we need right now." Mashable 's Erin Strecker said that "This is the best of what a jukebox musical can be...
May 07, 2020•44 min
This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the ice-cream loving musical She Loves Me! - FURTHER READING - Wiki IMDb iTunes Spotify - CELEBRITY SHOUTOUTS - Barbara Cook , Daniel Massey , Barbara Baxley , Jack Cassidy , Ludwig Donath , Rita Moreno , Madeline Kahn , Kelli O'Hara , Josh Radnor , Jane Krakowski , Gavin Creel , Victor Garber , Rory O'Malley , Peter Bartlett , Laura Benanti , Zachary Levi , Michael McGrath , Ruthie Hensh...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 18 min
This week we chat with Doug Hatch about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Beatles’ jukebox musical - Across the Universe! You can find Doug’s podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/never-showing/id1485591810 - FURTHER READING - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Universe_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Taymor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/ https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/across-the-universe/id544743026 ...
Apr 30, 2020•40 min
This week we chat with Christopher Batkin about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jason Robert Brown’s masterpiece song cycle - Songs for a New World! - FURTHER READING - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_a_New_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Robert_Brown https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-for-a-new-world/165160926 https://open.spotify.com/album/3Kp3aGIQI0MCpep5lhXViz Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on Patreon ! Email us: musicalstaughtmepodca...
Apr 23, 2020•34 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...
Apr 20, 2020•56 min
This week we chat with Tully Grimley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that smash hit Disney Musical movie - High School Musical! Kevin Carr gave the film a score of 3/5, saying, "The filmmakers were just trying to tell a story. Sex, drugs and violence just didn't factor into that equation." - FURTHER READING - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_Musical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_MusicIMDborg/wiki/Zac_Efron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Hudgens https:...
Apr 16, 2020•46 min
This week we chat with Jessica Kate Ryan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the silver screen fable of Mack and Mabel! According to Kenneth Bloom , Mack & Mabel was "The saddest failure of Jerry Herman's career". It was a "victim of its time, an era when rock musicals were preferred over traditional musical comedy scores. Deep at its core was a simple love story and an exceptionally appropriate score. The urge to turn what could have been a bittersweet drama into a huge musical...
Apr 09, 2020•34 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...
Apr 06, 2020•46 min
This week we chat with Cam Rollo about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical adaptation of the Fantasy classic - Lord of the Rings! - FURTHER READING - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings_(musical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien https://www.imdb.com/list/ls072068350/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/ https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-lord-of-the-rings-original-london-production/274086078 https...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 1 min
This week we chat with ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of Wildhorn’s biggest flops - Wonderland! John Fleming of the St. Petersburg Times expressed mixed feelings about the production. He called it "a visual feast, with dazzling costumes, marvelously funky dance and a flashy, high-tech production design," thought it "is loaded with talent onstage," and said the score "boasts one insanely catchy pop song after another." He continued, "But Wonderland also has a probl...
Mar 26, 2020•37 min
This week we chat with Melanie Bolovan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the smash-hit movie’s, smash-hit musical adaptation - Mean Girls! Entertainment Weekly 's Kristen Baldwin gave the musical a B+, writing: "An ode to self-respect and the benefits of a STEM-based education, Broadway’s Mean Girls is a lively, frequently hilarious adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 high school comedy. Propelled by dazzling set design and several stand-out performances, the musical — written by Fey, w...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min
This week we chat with ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the new smash musical - The Prom! Adam Feldman of Time Out Magazine gave the show 4 out of 5 stars, saying "It is cheering to see a musical comedy that engages with modern questions, with a teenage lesbian romance at its center to boot... But while the issues are contemporary, there is a 1980s feel to the character types and the overall style of Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar’s score, which resembles their work in...
Mar 19, 2020•42 min
This week Zane and Julie are away and so Miranda and KB decide to play!! 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 . Support this show http://supporte...
Mar 12, 2020•22 min
This week we chat with Johnny Ware about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the BRAND NEW, Australian Musical - Fangirls! Visit the website HERE You can book tickets to Fangirls here: Queensland Theatre - http://www.queenslandtheatre.com.au/Shows/19-Fangirls Belvoir - https://belvoir.com.au/productions/fangirls/ Watch more about the Show on YouTube: NOBODY (Song) WAIT AND SEE (Song) Why are Fangirls scary? Yve Blake at TEDxSydney Like us on Facebook ! Follow us on Twitter ! Support us on...
Mar 09, 2020•47 min
This week we chat with Jackson Macgovern about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jonathan Larson’s Tick… Tick… Boom! 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-...
Mar 05, 2020•53 min
This week we chat with Laurene Cooper-Fox about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that classic tale of love and unionization - The Pajama Game! "This is about capital and labour," a character announces at the start. But it's fair to say that the book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell is just as much about the romance that develops between an arrogant superintendent and a shopfloor militant in a midwestern pyjama factory. Refreshing as it is to find a musical in which passion collides...
Feb 24, 2020•43 min
This week we chat with filmmaker Shane Anderson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the almost-Oscar-winning movie musical - La La Land! Writing for The Boston Globe in December 2016, Ty Burr summarized the effectiveness of the film to relate to audiences stating: "...the movie traffics in the bittersweet happiness of treasuring things that are vanishing, like the unrealized future imagined in the climatic dance number, or those inky, star-filled dance floors that go on forever in o...
Feb 20, 2020•35 min
This week we chat with the recently repatriated Grace Clarke about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the creepy comedy show about death - Beetlejuice! - FURTHER READING - Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice_(musical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Perfect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/ iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/beetlejuice-original-broadway-cast-recording/14660504...
Feb 13, 2020•44 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...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 5 min
This week we chat with Ori DIskett about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical interpretation of a Russian classic - Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812! - FURTHER READING - Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha,_Pierre_%26_The_Great_Comet_of_1812 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st_Tony_Awards iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/natasha-pierre-great-comet-1812-original-broadwa...
Feb 06, 2020•45 min
This week we chat with Kym Brown about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Frank Wildhorn spy-cum-super-hero musical - The Scarlet Pimpernel! - FURTHER READING - Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel_(musical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wildhorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084637/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182408/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025748...
Jan 30, 2020•58 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...
Jan 27, 2020•47 min
