70 - Company (feat. Patrick Flynn)
Added 2023-01-18 08:30:01 +0000 UTCPhone rings, door chimes, in comes Patrick Flynn (The Original Cast) as he and the lads celebrate Bobby’s infamous 35th birthday in the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth deep-dive into marriage: Company. Topics include the many revivals of the show, the superb score/uneven book, and the incomparable performance of Raúl Esparza.
Patrick Flynn:
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The Original Cast is a podcast about original cast albums and the people who love them. Each episode, Patrick interviews someone who’d see on-stage, backstage, or in the house of a theatre about an original cast album they love.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Company, dir. John Doyle, 2006. Youtube / Cast Recording
- Company, dir. Hal Prince, 1970. Original Cast Recording
- Company, dir. Marianne Elliot, 2018. London Cast Recording
- “Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes” by Stephen Sondheim, Penguin Random House. 2010.
- Original Cast Album: Company. Dir. D.A. Pennebaker. Watch it on HBO Max / Criterion Channel
- Masterworks Broadway presents Stephen Sondheim: The Story so Far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7IiisCxYN0 - This is not the episode where the Stritch interview comes from, but it's the same series. the interview has been completely offline for the last decade
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Feat. David Armstrong as “Larry” and Eleanor Philips as “Multitudes of Amys”.
Comments
please for the love of god i need the Next To Normal episode, i also don't like Next To Normal but i wanna know what the beef is, i am burning w curiosity
Peter Paul Rubens' Muse
2024-02-29 17:24:15 +0000 UTCJust catching up on this one, and I just wanted to say the editing on this episode is perfect! I’ve really enjoyed hearing the excepts you’ve chosen, and I think the mixing of the “Bobby” chorus line under your discussion of the intermission break is… *chefs kiss*
The Token Detergent Rinser (British)
2023-09-10 14:32:53 +0000 UTCYes, that was absolutely iconic!
Elizabeth Power
2023-01-22 18:53:11 +0000 UTCThis was such an amazing episode. I feel like you figured out a way to make it accessible to people who have never heard of Company and people who know it really well like I do. I never realized until you said it that the couples don’t all know each other. I also really enjoyed the things that Patrick said about his marriage, I hope his wife can hear that part, it was really heartwarming! My college did a production of this show while I went there. I auditioned and had to read for Jenny. Despite the fact that I had seen the show before, I realized midway through the reading that Jenny was the one who smokes pot. I realized midway through that realization that I had no idea how you would act in that situation. Needless to say I did not get cast, but it’s funny to think about now. At the time of the production, only one of the people in it was married. (The girl playing Marta) Now “Bobby ” and “Amy “are married, as well as my two friends who played David and Jenny. They like to say they were married first and engaged second and then got married again.Sondheim bringing people together!
Elizabeth Power
2023-01-22 18:52:27 +0000 UTCcried like three times listening lmao
Andrew Trayford
2023-01-21 23:17:23 +0000 UTCA show that all leads up to having the "I Want" song at the end of the musical
TalkGibberish
2023-01-19 02:01:05 +0000 UTCLittle did you know, that little ditty? A.J..
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-01-18 16:18:26 +0000 UTCWhen I was a kid there was a radio stinger that went "another little ditty from music city" and I thought, "wow, there's a whole city devoted to music!"
Genevieve R
2023-01-18 16:04:54 +0000 UTC“Being Revived” is an all timer break skit
Faden Cross
2023-01-18 13:51:01 +0000 UTC
