The Original Cast

Costume designer Heather C. Jackson is here to talk about one of the best musicals ever. Not that anyone's ranking. But if we did, this would be high on the list. But we're not ranking. (Like, high hi...

16 Jan 20191h 4min

We were all in high school (some of you, statistically, still are), we all did theatre in high school (some of you, statistically, still do), we all had a tap solo sophomore year in Funny Girl that pr...

9 Jan 201914min

Actor/singer/teacher Katherine Riddle is here for our third Les Miz episode covering the 3-disc, complete recording. Katherine has played Cossette twice and has some interesting insights into that mos...

2 Jan 201954min

As you may or may not (but probably may) know, over at our Patreon page we have a patrons-only podcast called The Original Cast at the Movies. It's a long-form movie discussion podcast about musical m...

27 Des 201810min

Doug Wilder is an actor/director/filmmaker. During his episode about No Way to Treat a Lady, we talked about the idea of self-production and what a double-edged sword it can be. Have you checked out o...

26 Des 201811min

The Hub Theatre's brand new artistic director is here to talk about Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls follow-up that sprawled 3-LPs in its original release. Topics include: Catfishing in the 1950s, 3-Act...

19 Des 20181h 9min

Vaughn is the Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Playhouse. During his episode on the GroovyLily musical Striking 12, we discussed two other musicals he wrote/co-wrote: You or Whatever I Can Get and Di...

12 Des 201819min

CultralDC's Operations Manager is here to talk about not only the '96 London revival cast album of Jesus Christ Superstar (released in the US in 2000) but also the 2018 NBC broadcast of Jesus Christ S...

5 Des 201859min