Composer/lyricist Adam Gwon is here for a western adaptation of Wagner's The Ring Cycle and to talk about his new musical Scotland, PA which is based on an early-aughts indy film that adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth into a story about competing burger joints in 1970's rural Pennsylvania.

What a sentence!

Topics include: finding your path, changing your path, living that new path, and making guacamole.

Featured recordings: Das Barbecü - Original Cast Recording (1994) • Ordinary Days - Original Cast Recording (2009)

There is also a demo recording of "Byron" from The Waves, music and lyrics by David Bucknam, performed by Raúl Esparza with Matt Aument on piano.

THE ORIGINAL CAST MERCH NOW AVAILABLE AT TEE PUBLIC

Join us on PATREON to get our patrons-only podcast The Original Cast at the Movies? This month we've got journalist/radio personality Chris Klimek (It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!) and journalist/actress Rachel Manteuffel (Annie, maybe?) talking Prince's first movie: Purple Rain (1984)!

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