This week Paulie talks to Nellie McKay, a singer-songwriter, actor, and stand-up comedienne, noted for her critically acclaimed albums, and for her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera, for which she won a Theatre World Award. Nellie is as charming, smart and funny as she is politically outspoken. In this interview Nellie sings a number of beautiful songs and talks about Doris Day, animal rights, the beauty of her "death row musical" and much more.

#1307: Nellie McKay

"Talk To Paulie" Is an interview show featuring the great artists, intellectuals, thinkers and doers that give our city and our borough much of its inimitable vitality. Each half-hour episode typically focuses on a single guest, often a theatre artist, visual artist, author, intellectual, activist, outlaw, and/or ingrate — representing the whole spectrum of intense beings that make New York what it is. Interviews will often be linked to an upcoming event related to the work of the guest: say, the publication of a book, the release of an album, the opening of a film, or a theatre or art show. "Talk To Paulie" plugs its audience into cool cultural happenings that are under, over or on the radar. "Talk to Paulie" is a former production of BBOX Radio

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#1307: Nellie McKay

#1307: Nellie McKay