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Broadway Breakdown
by Popcorn Talk Network
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Mamma Mia! Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Becca Brown and Jacque Borowski discuss the musical film Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! (promoted as Mamma Mia! The Movie) is a 2008 British-American-Swedish musicalromantic comedy film adapted from the 1999 West End/2001 Broadway musical of the same name, based on the songs of...
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Mamma Mia! Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Sam Davidson discuss the musical Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! (promoted as Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus' Mamma Mia!and Mamma Mia! The Smash Hit Musical) is a jukebox musical written by Britishplaywright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson...
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Wicked Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Taylor Gates and special guest Peter Chursin discuss the musical Wicked! Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel...
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Urinetown Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the musical Urinetown! Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical that premiered in 2001, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social…
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Legally Blonde Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Carla Renata and Ally Nasta discuss the musical Fun Home. Legally Blonde is a musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and bookby Heather Hach. The story is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the...
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Fun Home Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the musical Fun Home. Fun Home is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. The story concerns Bechdel's discovery of her own sexuality, her relationship with her gay father, and…
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The Book of Mormon Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the musical The Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is a musical comedy about two young Mormon missionaries who travel to Africa to preach the Mormon religion. First staged in 2011, the play satirizes various Mormon beliefs and practices. The script,...
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Next To Normal Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski and Alexis Torres discuss the musical Next To Normal. Next to Normal (styled as next to normal) is a rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. Its story concerns a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the...
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Hair Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the film Hair. Hair is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical about a Vietnam War draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army...
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Hair Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the musical Hair. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s…
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Jesus Christ Superstar Movie Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Christian Bladt discuss the movie Jesus Christ Superstar. Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American musical drama film directed by Norman Jewison and co-written by Jewison and Melvyn Bragg based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera of the same name. The film,...
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Jesus Christ Superstar Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Christian Bladt discuss the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started as a rock opera concept album before its Broadway debut in 1971. The musical is…
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Peter Pan Musical Discussion Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the musical Peter Pan. Peter Pan is a musical based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark "Moose" Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics...
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Finding Neverland Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Mark J Freeman, Kenny Harrison and Ally Nasta discuss the theatre show of Finding Neverland. Finding Neverland is an original musical with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham. Inspired by the 1998 play The Man Who Was...
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Closer Theatre & Movie Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the theatre show of Closer. Closer is the second play by British playwright Patrick Marber. The play was premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London in 1997, and made its North American debut at the Music Box Theatre on...
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Beauty and the Beast Films Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Becca Brown welcome guest Bianca Gisselle to discuss the two film versions of Beauty And The Beast. Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures....
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Beauty and the Beast Theater Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Marisa Serafini and Dakota T. Jones welcome guest Marc Kudisch to discuss the theatre musical of Beauty And The Beast. Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. Adapted…
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The Phantom Of The Opera Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Timothy Rodriguez and Jacque Borowski discuss the film of The Phantom Of The Opera. The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 British-American film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by...
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The Phantom Of The Opera Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Timothy Rodriguez and James Lott Jr. discuss the theatre show of The Phantom Of The Opera. The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe. Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe also wrote the musical's...
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The Normal Heart Play Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski and Jeffrey Masters discuss theatre show of The Normal Heart. The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist...
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Rent Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Alexis Torres and Timothy Rodriguez discuss the Rent Film. Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. The film depicts the lives of...
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Rent Theater Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Alexis Torres, Timothy Rodriguez, Drexel Heard discuss the Rent Theater Show. Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to...
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The King and I Movie Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss The King and I Theater Show. The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the Richard Rodgers and...
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The King and I Theater Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss The King and I Theater Show. The King and I is a musical, the fifth by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon, which is in turn derived from...
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch Movie Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski and Jeffery Fargo discuss the Hedwig and the Angry Inch Theater Show. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film written, adapted, and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, who also portrayed the title role, reprising his performance...
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski and Lacretia Lyon discuss the Hedwig and the Angry Inch Theater Show. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by a genderqueerEast German singer, Hedwig Robinson. The book is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the...
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The Sound of Music Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Dakota T Jones and Becca Brown discuss the Sound of Music Film. The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway...
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The Sound of Music Theatre Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Mark J Freeman, Dakota T Jones and Becca Brown discuss the Sound of Music Broadway Show. The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp,...
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Hairspray Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Ally Nasta, Alexis Torris and Becca Brown discuss the Hairspray Movie. Hairspray is a 2007 musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters' 1988 comedy film of the same name. Adapted…
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Hairspray Theatre Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Drexel Heard, Nino Llanera discuss the Hairspray Theatre Show. Hairspray is an American musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The...
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A View From The Bridge Theatre Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Jacque Borowski and Alan Kistler discuss the Jersey Boys Movie. A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller, first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The play was unsuccessful and...
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Jersey Boys Movie Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski and Marisa Serafini discuss the Jersey Boys Movie. Jersey Boys is a 2014 American biographical musical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood based on the Tony Award winning jukebox musical of the same name. The film tells the story of the musical...
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Jersey Boys Theatre Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jeff Graham and Mark J Freeman discuss The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jersey Boys is a 2005 jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the…
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Alexis Torres, Christian Bladt and James Franck discuss The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy horror film directed by Jim Sharman. The screenplay was written by Sharman and Richard O'Brien based on the 1973 musical stage...
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The Rocky Horror Show Theatre Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Yael Tygiel and Lacretia Lyon discuss The Rocky Horror Show. The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the...
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Little Shop Of Horrors Movie Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Lacretia Lyon discuss Little Shop Of Horrors the musical. Little Shop of Horrors is a 1986 American rock musical horror comedy film directed by Frank Oz. It is a film adaptation of the off-Broadway musical comedy of the same name by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard...
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Little Shop Of Horrors Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss Little Shop Of Horrors the musical. Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The musical is...
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Newsies Musical Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski and Tiona Hobson discuss Newsies. Newsies The Musical is a Disney Theatrical Productions stage musical based on the 1992 musical film Newsies, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City. The show has music by Alan...
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Newsies Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski and Tiona Hobson discuss Newsies. Newsies (released as The News Boys in the United Kingdom) is a 1992 American musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega in his film directing debut. It is loosely based on…
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A Chorus Line Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss A Chorus Line. A Chorus Line is a 1985 American musical film directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Michael Douglas. The screenplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the Tony Award-winning book of the 1975 stage production of the same name by James...
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A Chorus Line Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Jacque Borowski and James Lott Jr. discuss A Chorus Line. A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood, Jr.and Nicholas Dante. Centered on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line, the musical is set…
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The Boy From Oz Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss The Boy From Oz. The Boy from Oz is a jukebox musical based on the life of singer/songwriter Peter Allen while featuring songs written by him. The book is by Nick Enright. Premiering in Australia in 1998 starring Todd McKenney, the musical opened in…
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Cabaret Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, and Jacque Borowski discuss the film Cabaret. In Berlin in 1931, American cabaret singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) meets British academic Brian Roberts (Michael York), who is finishing his university studies. Despite Brian's confusion over his sexuality…
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Cabaret Theater Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the play Cabaret. Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit, inspiring numerous subsequent productions in London and New York, as…
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Show Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, Zach Wilson and Tiona Hobson discuss the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part West End stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany. Previews of…
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Les Miserables Film Discussion – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, and Alexis Torres discuss the Broadway Musical Les Miserables. Les Misérables is a 2012 British-French-American epic romantic musical period drama film produced byWorking Title Films and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the musical of…
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Interview with Scott Schofield – Broadway Breakdown
Host Jacque Borowskiinterviews special guest performer Scott Turner Schofield. Scott Turner Schofield is a transgender male performer. He has toured internationally with his one-person shows, "Underground TRANSit", "Debutante Balls", and "Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps" since 2001. Schofield...
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Les Miserables Broadway Discussion with BroadwayWorld’s Robert Diamond – Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps & Jacque Borowski discuss the Broadway Musical Les Miserables with special guest Robert Diamond of Broadwayworld.com. Les Misérables (pronounced /leɪ ˌmɪzəˈrɑːb/ or /leɪ ˈmɪzəˌrɑːb/; French pronunciation: [le mizeʁabl(ə)]) is aFrench historical novel by Victor Hugo, first...
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Xanadu (2007) Broadway Musical Review | Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps & Jacque Borowski discuss the 2007 Broadway Musical Xanadu with special guests Edward Carter Simon & Tiffany Michaela Jones. Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the 1980 cult classic film…
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Xanadu Film Discussion | Broadway Breakdown
Hosts Briana Phipps, Jacque Borowski, and Alexis Torres discuss the Movie Xanadu. Xanadu is a 1980 American romantic musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The title is a reference to the nightclub in the film, which takes its...
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