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Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know
by That's Not Canon Productions
A podcast by musical-lovers for musical-lovers. Together our hosts will mine their musical libraries in order to learn whatever it is that musicals have to teach! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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REPRISE - The Light in the Piazza
The Light in the Piazza Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - Mean Girls with Melanie Bolovan
Mean Girls with Melanie Bolovan Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - Great Comet with Ori Diskett
Great Comet with Ori Diskett Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - Sweet Charity with Maureen Bowra
Sweet Charity with Maureen Bowra Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - Avenue Q
Avenue Q Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - Parade with Jess Ham
Parade with Jess Ham Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - Be More Chill with Dani Altamura
Be More Chill with Dani Altamura Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - The Wild Party (Lippa)
Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - Bat Boy with Alex Smith
Bat Boy with Alex Smith Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show...
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REPRISE - Big Fish with Morgan Garrity
Once again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)! Here is *insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare, and fireworks* Big Fish with Morgan Garrity! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter!...
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REPRISE - The Pirates of Penzance with Laurene Cooper-Fox
Once again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)! Here is *insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare, and fireworks* The Pirates of Penzance with Laurene Cooper-Fox! Like us on Facebook!…
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REPRISE - Jersey Boys with Josh Mulheran
Once again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)! Here is *insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare, and fireworks* Jersey Boys with Josh Mulheran! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter!...
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REPRISE - The Drowsy Chaperone with Aurelie Roque
Once again we are digging through the back catalogue to find some forgotten gem episodes! Here is an episode from way back at the start (forgive the long format)! Here is *insert drumroll, trumpets, fanfare and fireworks* The Drowsy Chaperone with Aurelie Roque! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on...
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REPRISE - Sweeney Todd with Joel O'Brien
This week Julie, Miranda, and Zane will chat with Joel O'Brien about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical thriller; Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street! - FURTHER READING - Wiki - Sweeney Todd, Musical, Film Sweeney Wikia IMDB - 1936, 1982, 2006, 2007 - CELEBRITY...
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REPRISE - 21 Chump Street with Alex Smith
This week we chat with singer/songwriter Alex Smith about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Lin Manuel Miranda, one-act musical - 21 Chump Street! https://www.origintheatrical.com.au/work/9462 Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Chump_Street...
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Musical Scattergories
This week your hosts play a lively round of musical scattergories! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict…
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Company with Cam Rollo
This week we chat with Cam Rollo about which of life's lessons can be learned from the classic Sondhiem musical - Company! "Creatively, Mr. Sondheim's lyrics are way above the rest of the show; they have a lyric suppleness, sparse, elegant wit, and range from the virtuosity of a patter song to a...
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Annie with Matt Young
This week we chat with Matt Young about which of life's lessons can be learned from the classic little-girl musical - Annie! Say what you will about the current version of “Annie,” which is directed with a slightly tremulous hand by James Lapine and features the virtuosic Katie Finneran as the...
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The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical with Christopher Batkin
In this episode we chat with Christopher Batkin about which of life's lessons can be learned from the famous young-adult musical - The Lightning Thief the Percy Jackson musical! Frank Scheck, in reviewing the production for The Hollywood Reporter, wrote that the musical "proves far more enjoyable...
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The King & I with Reindert Toia
This week we chat with Reindert Toia about which of life's lessons can be learned from the almost-always-controversially-cast-musical - The King and I! "The New York Times drama critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "This time Messrs. Rodgers and Hammerstein are not breaking any fresh trails, but they…
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Joshua Moore & Lawson
This week we talk with Joshua Moore & Lawson from the upcoming production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Phoenix Ensemble about which of life's lessons can be learned from this chocolate confection of a musical! BOOK TICKETS TO THE SHOW:...
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Annie Get Your Gun with Melissa Crabtree
This week we chat with Melissa Crabtree all the way from Chicago! About what life lessons there are to be learned from the gun-toting comedy - Annie Get Your Gun! You can find more from melissa and her adorable stationery at www.anactorplans.com John Chapman of the Daily News declared that the...
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Jerry Springer the Opera with James Shaw
In this episode, we chat to James Shaw of That's Classic Entertainment about which of life's truths can be learned from Jerry Springer the Opera! You can find more from James and his compatriots at https://www.facebook.com/thatsclassicau/, and you can find his podcast here:...
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The Cher Show with Grace Clarke
This week we chat with Grace Clarke about which of life's truths can be learned from the musical that is all-Cher, all-the-time - the Cher Show! "Choosing to recreate the spirit of the television variety shows that Sonny and Cher — and then Cher sans Sonny — headlined in the ‘70s is a choice that...
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Miss Saigon with Mike Zarate
In this episode, we chat with Mike Zarate about which of life's lessons can be learned from Boubil and Schonberg's second opus - Miss Saigon! "THERE may never have been a musical that made more people angry before its Broadway debut than "Miss Saigon." Here is a show with something for everyone…
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Legally Blonde with Stacie Hobbs
This week we chat with Stacie Hobbs about which of life's truths can be learned from the all-pink, all-feminist musical - Legally Blonde! Ben Brantley, reviewing the musical in The New York Times, wrote that the show was a "high-energy, empty-calories, and expensive-looking hymn to the glories of...
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Christmas Musical Pitches Special!
Your hosts are all going to pitch you their ideas for an original Christmas musical extravaganza! This episode is a bit chaotic so grab your eggnog and yell at us as we yall at each other! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_the_Halls_(2006_film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790604/...
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Fiddler on the Roof with Rex J Ablett
This week we celebrate Hunnakah with Rex J Ablett and chat about all of the lessons we can learn from the Jewish masterpiece - Fiddler on the Roof! "Miracle of miracles, indeed: Just when you think you know a classic musical backwards and forwards, along comes director Bartlett Sher to prove...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Melissa Crabtree
"It's ironic that Forum delivered such a show-stopping standard in the first five minutes since it has been confirmed by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim that his show's songs were meant to give audiences a respite from laughing, as had songs in the theatre of Plautus. While Sondheim is...
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Reefer Madness with Patrick Aiken
This week we chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be learned from the propaganda-parody musical - Reefer Madness! "Viewed through eyes blurred by no substance stronger than cough syrup, the film is still mildly diverting, with its censorious, bespectacled narrator and its…
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Kevin Werner
This week we chat with Kevin Werner about which life lessons can be learned from the gender-bending, rock musical - Hedwig and the Angry Inch! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com...
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Finding Neverland with Merilee E
This week we chat with Merilee E about which life lessons can be learned from the story of a story musical - Finding Neverland! As with many a Broadway musical these days, “Finding Neverland” — which features a book by James Graham and sticky soft-pop power ballads by Gary Barlow and Eliot…
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Thoroughly Modern Millie with Astin Hammermeister
This week we chat with Astin Astin Hammermeister about which of life's truths can be learned from the thoroughly modern musical - Thoroughly Modern MIllie! "It will require a strong stomach for overtly racist tropes and tired sexual stereotypes, though; not to mention a penchant for the kind of...
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Gutenberg! The Musical! with Kieran Davey
This week we chat with Kieran Davey about what life truths can be learned from the "historical", fourth-wall-breaking, show within a show - Gutenberg! The Musical! Gutenberg! The Musical!” is, in a word, zany! zany! zany! Two-character biotuner, in the guise of a backer’s audition, is as thin as…
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& Juliet with Alex Woodward
This week we chat with Alex Woodward about which of life's truths can be found in the 2019 musical - & Juliet! "From “Wicked” to “Waitress,” female empowerment has been a boon for musical theater. But where those shows veered between sincerely earnest and earnestly sincere, “& Juliet” gleefully...
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HMS Pinafore with Shannon Foley
In this episode, we chat with Shannon Foley about what lessons can be learned from the sea-faring comic opera - HMS Pinafore. The Era wrote: Seldom indeed have we been in the company of a more joyous audience. ... [Gilbert and Sullivan] have on previous occasions been productive of such…
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Call Me Madam with Naomi Mole
This week we chat with Naomi Mole about what lessons can be learned from the political commentary musical - Call Me Madam! "But for every joke that falls flat, there's a terrific song, including the charming "It's a Lovely Day Today," the beautiful ballad "Marrying for Love," the toe-tapping "The...
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Bernarda Alba with Timothy Winn
This week we chat with Timothy Winn about the Spanish play turned musical - Bernarda Alba. Ben Brantley, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote, "This latest offering from the prolific Mr. LaChiusa, often feels wan and weary...The music, though superbly orchestrated (by Michael Starobin) and...
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with Brad Chapman
This week we chat with Brad Chapman about the Australian cult classic turned musical - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! Reviews for the Toronto production include praise for the costumes from the Globe and Mail: "The costumes designed by Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, the same team that won an...
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The Band's Visit with Becky Ho
This week we chat with Beck ho about the Tony Award Winning Musical - The Band's Visit! The New York Times said it was "one of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by," and also "a Broadway rarity seldom found these days outside of the canon of Stephen Sondheim: an honest-to-God...
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The Wiz with Asabi Goodman
This episode we chat with singer-sensation Asabi Goodman about the super soul musical reimagining of the Wiard of Oz - The Wiz! In his review of the 1984 revival, Frank Rich wrote: "What made The Wiz surprisingly moving the first time around was that its creators found a connection between Baum's...
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Ladies in Black with Laura Fois
In this episode we chat we Laura Fois about the the Australian written and produced musical-turned film - Ladies in Black! ArtsHub indicated that "a comedy of mid-20th century manners, Ladies in Black is a paean to an optimistic future – the future of an uncomplicated gender equality and seamless...
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December Songs with Hayley Marsh
In this episode we chat with Hayley Marsh about one of the very first musical teatre song cycles - December Songs! FURTHER READING: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_Songs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Yeston https://open.spotify.com/artist/0RSFYUQQWpZg5bOne6OuzD...
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Six with Taylor Davidson
This week we are chatting with Taylor Davidson about one of the biggest new musicals of the last year - Six According to Rachel Weinberg of Broadway World, "Six carries out [a] joyful and anachronistic takedown of the patriarchy" through the performances of a "brilliant" cast and a book and score...
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Ordinary Days with Elizabeth Best
In this episode we chat with Elizabeth Best about the New York 4 hander musical - Ordinary Days "If life really were more like a musical, you’d be contented if that life percolated as vibrantly as does “Ordinary Days,” Adam Gwon’s sweet, fleet and tender survey of four youngish New Yorkers,...
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Memphis with Tim Dashwood
In this episode we chat with Tim Dashwood about the 1950's music based musical - Memphis! Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News gave the show three and a half out of five stars and said, "It's nice to know a new musical can actually surprise you! Though it starts on a familiar note and...
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Reprise: War of the Worlds with Charnstar Anderson
This week we chat with film maker Charnstar Anderson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the science fiction (and definitely NOT a concept album) musical - War of the Worlds! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected]...
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South Pacific with Vivien Wood
This week we are chatting with Vivien Wood about one of the biggest musicals of all time that is named after an ocean - South Pacific! The New York Herald Tribune wrote: The new and much-heralded musical, South Pacific, is a show of rare enchantment. It is novel in texture and treatment, rich in...
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Godspell with Carly Quinn
This week we chat with Carly Quinn about on of the original bible-based musical - Godspell! The original book has been stuffed fruitcake-full of gags about contemporary figures and current trends. An abbreviated list would include Heidi Klum and Donald Trump, Steve Jobs and Lindsay Lohan, and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast by musical-lovers for musical-lovers. Together our hosts will mine their musical libraries in order to learn whatever it is that musicals have to teach!
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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