Guys Who Like Musicals
by Broadway Podcast Network
Hosts Dan Tracy and Joe Carroll are both guys who... (you guessed it) like musicals. We breakdown all things Broadway with weekly unscripted interviews. We've got 6 Broadway credits between us - so we're not only fans, but insiders. Looking for a candid weekly Broadway podcast giving you a lighthearted, no-BS look at the Great Way Way? Dying for a peek into the lives of Norbert Leo Butz, Gavin Creel, Shoshana Bean, Patti Murin, Alex Brightman, Ashley Park, and many more? Unsure how to help your kid accomplish their dreams and get on Broadway? We talk with your favorite stars about how they got their start. Check out our archive today! Part of the Broadway Podcast Network.
Episodes
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We love the Tony's
TONY AWARDS ARE BACK!!! #1 Robyn Hurder was robbed. #2 Danny Burstein is perfect. #3 Leslie Odem Jr has a perfect singing voice. #4 we still can’t get over that Wheels Of A Dream … Joe and Dan ARE Jesse Tyler Ferguson clutching his pearls and Kerry Butler sobbing while watching Brian Stokes...
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We Love Ali Luff
One of the coolest people on the planet is here. Our friend Ali Luff is hanging with us this week!! She’s most famous for being Alex Finke’s dressing roommate in Les Mis. She’s done a few shows… Waitress, Wicked,, a little ditty on Starz right now called HEELZ .. that’s HEELZ with a Z. This was...
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We Love Beth Leavel
MAMA JUNE IS HERE!! Joe and Beth spend plenty of time walking down memory lane this week. What is the backstory of those deviled eggs? IYKYK. Bandstand star and Broadway LEGEND of 13 Broadway Shows Beth Leavel is with us! Devil Wears Prada is right around the corner and we cannot wait to see Beth...
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We love Adam Pascal
We have got a story for you that you've NEVER heard this week. I mean COME ON!! Adam Freaking Pascal. Yes, RENT. Yes, AIDA. Yes, he gives us 16 bars of Pity The Child. (this may be an exaggeration) Yes. It was just announced that he's taking PRETTY WOMAN on the road!! We were blown away by his...
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So You Wanna Join Actors Equity?
This week Dan and Joe chat about the new Open Access policy just announced by Actor's Equity. The guys take questions, respond to social media comments, and talk about their experience as union and non-union actors. Every stage actor eventually asks the question "when should I join Equity?" It's…
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We Love Norbert Leo Butz
NORBERT LEO FREAKING BUTZ IS HERE!!!! 11 Broadway shows. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Rent, Wicked, My Fair Lady... Have you seen Bloodline? Just stop what you're doing and watch the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Tony performance and then binge Bloodline. We can't keep it together this week. Joe is fan boy...
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We love Ann Harada
Ann Harada is filming a very fancy movie in Ireland!! A Disney movie! A BROADWAY DISNEY MOVIE!!! .. I mean.. Kind of. Broadway vet (and Joe's Cinderella co-star) Ann Harada is with us today to celebrate her 1000th podcast appearance! You've heard Ann on a million shows, but you haven't heard her…
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We love De'Lon Grant
This week we’re talking to Come From Away and Jersey Boys star De’Lon Grant!! Did you know they're making of movie of Come From Away and the whole cast had to quarantine together in a Times Square? Did you know that even Broadway stars deal with the fear of 'not being enough' and imposter…
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Mike Ruckles Preps Us for a Broadway Return
HE'S BACK BABY!! Is your voice ready for Broadway to return? Are you ready for 8 shows a week of Charlie Price or Prince Topher? Well if you're anything like Dan and Joe you've done basically ZERO singing for the past year. Mike takes us through all the things we need to do to get back in "8 Show…
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We Love Maurice Jones
The Professor is in! NYU's newest Shakespeare professor joins us this week. Maurice andJoe did Romeo and Juliet together back in 2013 where they bonded over margaritas and The Lord of the Rings. This week we talk about making Shakespeare accessible in 2021, how life as an actor isn't all star...
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We love Derrick Baskin
Tony Nominee Derrick Baskin showed up in NYC and had literally nowhere to stay. He did, however, have a job at TGI Friday's which is sometimes all you need. Spelling Bee, Memphis, Difficult People, Aint Too Proud, Marshall... COME ON!! His memoir is coming out this year called From Friday's to...
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We Love Ben Sands
JOE IS GOING TO BE A MARVEL SUPERHERO!!! Now, that is what they call "click bait". Joe isn't going to be a superhero, but it's hard not to feel that way every time the name BEN SANDS pops up on Joe's phone. Ben Sands a partner at Artists and Representatives Agency in New York and he has been…
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We Love Ricky Rojas
If Broadway had a Most Interesting Man in the World ... it might be Moulin Rouge's Ricky Rojas. Born in Chile, raised in Australia and the UK, currently living in France because why not. He's restoring a house from the 1800s, plays and builds guitars, and rocks the greatest mustache Broadway has...
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We Love Telly Leung
We're back with PROFESSOR Telly Leung! Godspell, Aladdin, Rent, Glee, Allegiance, In Transit ... the guy has had an incredible career and he's just getting started. Telly just returned from Godspell at The University of Michigan and Dan and Joe are ready to go back to college so they can be...
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This week in the News.
We got some stuff to talk about this week. First: We address the bombshell article in the Hollywood Reporter. We need to talk about Scott Rudin. It's a difficult conversation, but we tried our best. Second: There is a growing conversation over casting in Jagged Little Pill. Third: Should Dan get…
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March Madness Final - Rent vs West Side
WE GOING TO THE SHIP.. WHAT?! WE GOING TO THE SHIP.. WHAT?! Name that movie :) Dan and Joe read off the tally for the BEST MUSICAL OF ALL TIME 2021 edition. Rent vs West Side Story. The final show down. This week we also talk about The Masters, illegal gambling, cryptocurrency, and, of course,...
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March Madness - The Final Four
ITS THE FINAL FOUR FINAL COUNTDOWN!!! Nearly ONE THOUSAND people voted on social media this week…. Hamilton vs Rent in the East and Fiddler on the Roof vs West Story in the West. Tune in for the penultimate battle for the title of Best Musical of All Time ... 2021 edition. Two game changing pop...
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March Madness Part Two - The Sweet Sweet 16
WE'RE BACK with our dear friend Carson Higgins. Dan and Carson met on the National Tour of American Idiot and Carson has stepped into the octagon to argue through the greatest musicals of all time. This week we get to the FINAL FOUR!!! Thank you for all your voting and engagement on social…
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March Madness Musical Throw Down Spectacular Spectacular
RENT vs AMERICAN IDIOT, WICKED vs HAMILTON, NEXT TO NORMAL vs SPRING AWAKENING, HAIR vs JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, OKLAHOMA vs HELLO DOLLY. This week is a March Madness Musical Theater THROWDOWN. Dan and Joe argue about the greatest musicals of time. A few important things, 1. We stole this week's...
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One Year Since the Lockdown
Hey. We love you all. This week Dan and Joe a minute to reflect on the past year. From the last shows we saw (Unknown Solider and To Kill a Mockingbird), to Dan’s move across the country, to happy hour with Robyn Hurder, to complete despair and grief, you have all stuck with us during the worst...
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We Love...Eachother with Alan Seales
Dan and Joe share host duties this week with Podcast host and BPN co-founder Alan Seales of The Theater Podcast. Alan wears about as many hats as a milliner and his show is one of the OG Broadway podcasts. (He's had some epic guests go take a listen!) We talk about the creation of GWLM, the birth...
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We Love Carrie St. Louis
Hey old friend!! Carrie St Louis is a rockstar AND an classically trained soprano. Carris is best known for her portrayal of ‘Glinda' in the Broadway and national touring company of Wicked, for her portrayal of ‘Sherrie' in the Broadway and Las Vegas companies of Rock of Ages, and as the closing...
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We Love Michael Arden
As Michael Arden says this week, "There is not nation without culture." The Guys couldn't agree more. WELL here is another episode where Joe can't keep his cool. Spring Awakening and Once On This Island director Michael Arden IS HERE. Talk about a multi-hyphenate. Michael is an actor, stage...
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We Love Leslie Kritzer
Beetlejuice star Leslie Kritzer has done a few shows... Something Rotten, Elf, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Catered Affair, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, BUT MOST importantly... She is a student of the Dan Tracy school of video production. Leslie just wants Dan to like her more than he likes other…
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We Love Nick Blaemire
Dogfight, Falsettos, a new EP out this week, movies, plays, musicals, Godspell... THE MAN IS NON STOP. Broadway multi-hyphenate Nick Blaemire is HERE!!! So you know that one friend you always ask for help? That one friend you constantly lean on who asks nothing in return? For us... That's Nick...
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We Love Jessica Vosk
From Wall Street to Wicked. Broadway star Jessica Vosk has one of the craziest stories out there, showing the world that it's never too late to follow your dream. Wicked, Fiddler on the Roof, The Bridges of Madison County, and Finding Neverland to name a few. Jessica Vosk is hilarious and...
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We Love Kerstin Anderson
"No one is worse off for hard work". The week's conversation with the lovely Kerstin Anderson is chock full of pull-quotes. Joe is Kerstin Anderson's stalker. He's been following her around New York for 6 years, lurking in audiences, admiring her performance. Is that weird? Dan and Kerstin toured...
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We love Patrick Goodwin
The definition of an enzyme is "a substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction." This is the closest metaphor Joe could come up with to describe role of Casting Director. The Casting Director is the actor's best friend. Without a...
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We Love Caissie Levy
Caissie Levy will always be Elsa to us. Caissie's son Izaiah still watches the Frozen films and points to Elsa and says, "That's you Mommy!!"... BE STILL MY HEART!! Just to be clear, we don't sleep with the Elsa doll like Caissie son (well Dan probably does). We are so excited that Caissie is…
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We Love Brian Usifer
KINKY BOOTS, FROZEN, THE BOOK OF MORMON.. Ever heard of it?!?! If it weren't for Brian Usifer, Elder Price, Elsa, and Charlie Price wouldn't know how to sing. Music director, pianist, orchestrator, arranger, producer and composer Brian Usifer was the man behind the batton for Joe in FROZEN and…
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We Love James Monroe Iglehart
THE Genie, Tony WINNER James Monroe Iglehart is here!!! Oh, man. You know him from ALADDIN, MEMPHIS, and HAMILTON, but what you need is his Sweeney, his Porgy, his Freestyle, and his deep love of comic books. We talk about it ALL this week. From sustaining a long run to auditioning for your best...
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We Love Taylor Iman Jones
Have you heard of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA? Joe wants 2020 to be over for Taylor Iman Jones' sake. Broadway's newest IT girl was having the best year ever until COVID screwed everything up. HAMILTON and THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA were about to happen at the same time!! UGH. BUT all hope is not lost...…
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We Love Jason Gotay
XOXO TV STAR!! Do you have any advice for Dan? It's gonna be alright Dan... Take a deep breath and listen to Jason. Smooth singing, handsome as hell, SUPER SWEET Jason Gotay sits down with us this and YES Joe and Dan hate auditioning after this guy. YOU try following that voice. SPIDERMAN and…
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We Love Courtney Reed
We are so grateful that the OG Jasmine is with us this week!! Kirsten Dunst had done a million movies and Courtney Reed felt like she was behind. ALADDIN star Courtney Reed is truly a jack of all trades. She's an entrepreneur (check out Gagged Chokers), and a member of the Broadway Princess Party...
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JINGLE JANGLE writer Davy Nathan
The Guys are back with Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey writer Davy Nathan! We owe this interview to our good friend Shoshana Bean. Davy and Shoshana have been collaborators for years and we're so grateful she connected us with Davy. Ok... this movie is about to be a BIG DEAL. Jingle Jangle is...
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We Love Ragtime and Christiane Noll
“A day of peace.A day of pride.A day of justice. We have been denied. Let the new day dawn, Oh, Lord, I pray... We'll never get to heaven. Till we reach that day.” If you don’t know RAGTIME, get in the car, drive three hours and listen to every word. CHRISTIANE NOLL IS HERE!! She is a Tony…
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We Love Chicago and Tyler Hanes
Have you seen cell block tango recently?!?!? POP, SQUISH, CICERO... Let's GO CHICAGO!! Arguably the best movie musical of all time (feel free to fight us).. We love Chicago. Dan and Joe danced in the ensemble of CHICAGO in college and they were BAD. But that's okay. We're thrilled that Broadway…
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Into the Woods with Benton Whitley
Hey friends, no one is alone.... I WISH .. there wasn't a pandemic. But that's not what we're talking about this week. This week we're talking about INTO THE WOODS!! We're so grateful that our friend and casting director extraordinaire, Benton Whitley is with us to talk about his favorite show,...
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We Love ONCE
"And I love her so." We REALLY love the show this week. Joe's Broadway debut and favorite show ever, ONCE: THE MUSICAL. If you need a good cry you can check out the John Carney film on Amazon and iTunes. We relive Joe's glory days in the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Musical. From the acapella…
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DAN Loves Music Man, Joe says NOPE
YE GODS Dan and Joe are FIGHTING. Dan loves THE MUSIC MAN, Joe can’t stand it. Tune in this week sports fans, we're fighting. We break down all the wonderful things in THE MUSIC MAN. Yes, we talk about the sexy Hugh Jackman and the stunning Sutton Foster, but we also nerd out about Kristin...
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We Love Hello Dolly and Will Burton
WILL BURTON IS BACK!! Friend of the pod and all around winner, Will Burton, has returned to nerd-out with us about HELLO, DOLLY! That's Hello Comma Dolly Exclamation Point. DON'T YOU FORGET IT. In case you're wondering, HELLO, DOLLY! is a musical about a woman and her favorite restaurant. In...
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We Love Howard Ashman and Disney Musicals
He gave a Mermaid her voice and a Beast his soul. Joe sings backup as Dan belts out "Kiss The Girl". This week we love Howard, a new documentary now on Disney+. Howard is the untold story of Howard Ashman, the brilliant lyricist behind Disney classics like “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “The...
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We Love Phantom of the Opera and Jim Hogan
This week we're chatting with stage and small screen star Jim Hogan, founding member and arranger for the viral Tiktok group t.3 (tik tok tenors), and we're nerding out over another Musical We Love.....The Phantom of the Opera. The longest-running show of all time, Phantom of the Opera has made...
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We Love Company, Matt Doyle and Another Vodka Stinger
This week we're talking Dan's favorite musical, COMPANY, with one of Joe's best friends, Matt Doyle. Matt is currently playing the gender-swapped role of "Jamie," in the revival of COMPANY on Broadway. He shares with us his mad dash to learn "Not Getting Married Today" 16 hours before the final...
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We Love Passing Strange, Only Love Is Real
This week we start a brand new format...MUSICALS WE LOVE… We love Musicals, we miss musicals… Starting this week we’re going to explore some shows you might not know and get a closer look at the shows you love. This week… Joe’s favorite musical of all time. PASSING STRANGE . . "You know its weird...
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What A Year It's Been Finale
Max and Robyn, Robyn and Max. Max Clayton and Robyn Hurder are the best of friends, the best of people, the most hilarious and most insightful. This week we're bringing you the highlights of each interview brought together through the glorious technology of ... sound editing. It's like they were…
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What a Year It's Been Part 4
Joe is off vacationing this week, and Dan has settled into his new home in beautiful Colorado, and he's bringing you back to one of our favorites - our interview with Gavin Creel. Gavin has won a Tony Award, and an Olivier, but what we know him as the most-played singer on our car radios. Gavin…
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What A Year It's Been Part 3
Is everyone watching Hamilton? This was the interview that really put Guys Who Like Musicals on the map this past year... and Joe was NOWHERE to be seen. Shoshana Bean puts her heart into her voice. This was the interview that really made us feel like we could talk with people at the absolute top...
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What a Year It's Been Part 2
Let the celebration continue!! More highlights from year one, Hamilton is coming to Disney plus, and Guys Who Like Musicals has a new look for year 2... What does that mean? Stay tuned. We really REALLY want to hear from you. How are you? Whatcha thinkin about?? What do you want more of? What...
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What A Year It's Been Part 1
Happy Anniversary Darling. For the next few weeks we will be recapping some of our favorite memories from the past year, as well as bringing you some things we should've paid more attention to... like the way our black colleagues deal with racism in the theater every single day. So that's where…
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About this show
Hosts Dan Tracy and Joe Carroll are both guys who... (you guessed it) like musicals. We breakdown all things Broadway with weekly unscripted interviews. We've got 6 Broadway credits between us - so we're not only fans, but insiders. Looking for a candid weekly Broadway podcast giving you a lighthearted, no-BS look at the Great Way Way? Dying for a peek into the lives of Norbert Leo Butz, Gavin Creel, Shoshana Bean, Patti Murin, Alex Brightman, Ashley Park, and many more? Unsure how to help your kid accomplish their dreams and get on Broadway? We talk with your favorite stars about how they got their start. Check out our archive today! Part of the Broadway Podcast Network.
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