Bottomless Broadway

 ’Tis the season to be judgmental.  As we all know, Christmas comes six months early when you’re a theatre fanatic, and Cindy and Christine are here to guide you through their picks for the best of this Broadway season.

Want to join in on the judgment?  Come judge us and let us know how we’re doing on our nifty little feedback form: https://forms.gle/12jUJ1sc8f4qwcoE8

We’ll be live-tweeting the Tonys on location at Radio City Music Hall, so make sure to follow our Twitter account @BottomlessBway (https://twitter.com/BottomlessBway) and tweet us if you agree or disagree with any of our predictions.  Or if you have a burning passion that can’t be contained by Twitter’s character limit, email us at [email protected].

This marks the end of our normal season, but make sure you’re subscribed for any surprise episodes coming out before our next season starts up again in January 2020, and don’t forget to keep an eye on the blog (https://bottomlessbway.home.blog/ 

"The Beat Goes On" in this season's crop of jukebox musicals that "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" you to go see them.  But stay just a little bit longer and listen to our recap, discussing how they stack up to other shows like Summer, Beautiful, Motown, and the ultimate gold standard of Jersey Boys.

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Find out more about how the actors got involved in The Cher Show and their interactions with the actual Cher in this podcast episode.

Alternatively, find out how the five actors portraying The Temptations come to their characters in this episode.

The costumes in The Cher Show are a definite highlight, so check out what the designer Bob Mackie has to say about them.

Want to know more about the progression of autotune after Cher?  Check out Switched on Pop!

Jarrod Spector has now been in three different bio-musicals, so he knows a little bit about playing real people.

Want to see how the three Chers and Sonny stack up to the original?  Christine made a playlist on Apple Music so now you can!

The Cher Show:

Ain't Too Proud:

Stick around for our episode on our Tony predictions, coming out later this week!  So make sure you're subscribed, and follow us on Twitter @BottomlessBway for updates.

We'll just be voices in your head as you listen to us break down Be More Chill in this week's episode.  So join us on this ride through this teenage musical phenomenon, picking up right where we ended last week!

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Want to know even more about the songs?  Take a look at Joe Iconis's track-by-track breakdown for act 1 and act 2.

What would a show about technology be without some cool tech behind it?  Check out some of the design elements behind what you see and hear in Be More Chill.

Learn more about the orchestrator, Charlie Rosen, who's largely responsible for bringing that technological soundscape to life.

Smash--gone too soon or not soon enough?  Either way, it introduced a lot of us to Joe Iconis, who has a couple of songs featured in its show-within-a-show, along with our good friends Pasek and Paul (they're not actually our friends, we can only dream).

We recorded this before the Broadway cast recording came out, so all the tracks you'll hear are from the original New Jersey recording, but you can listen to both now and let us know which one you like better over on Twitter @BottomlessBway or email us at [email protected].

2015 Original Cast Recording:

2019 Original Broadway Cast Recording:

Pretty woman, walkin' down the streets of Broadway. But will she charm theatregoers of New York City like she did the Beverly Hills elite?  

This is another two-parter that got split into two separate parts, so keep an eye on your feeds for our episode on Be More Chill next week!

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If you want to know how Samantha Barks, Orfeh, and Andy Karl actually got cast, check out the episode from Billboard on Broadway!

Take a look at the tribute to Gary Marshall and some of his original ideas for the Broadway show.

Listen to the Broadway cast recording and let us know what your favorite songs are over on Twitter @BottomlessBway!

iTunes / Spotify

What's "That Beautiful Sound"?  A podcast on Beetlejuice the Musical!  All you'll want to do is hear THIS sound: our discussion on the musical and how it compares to the movie, as well as our predictions for some of the Tony categories that are completely irrelevant now!

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Want to see how Alex Brightman creates the voice of Beetlejuice? Take a look at his vocal chords!

Check out this New York Times article for more about Sophia Anne Caruso and why she's drawn to the part of Lydia.

We didn't get a chance to mention her by name, but Delia Deetz (and Miss Argentina) is played by the fabulously funny Leslie Kritzer.

Everyone agrees that David Korins's set is a definite highlight, see what he has to say about it!

Warner Bros. is just another movie studio trying to find their hit Broadway show, though they've been trying for a while.

No release date yet on the cast recording, but they're set to record in May.  Meanwhile, take a listen to these released songs:

Dead Mom

Say My Name

That Beautiful Sound (with 360 video!)

If any Beetlejuice movie fans want to let us know how the musical matched up for them, tell us on Twitter @BottomlessBway or email us at [email protected]!

"Whaddya Do" when you see Broadway’s newest cross-dressing comedy, Tootsie? You spend your subway ride home listening to our review of it, of course!  You heard it here first, or you just heard a lot of Santino fangirling but either way we have all the details.

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Christine couldn’t remember the name of the orchestrator when talking about instrumentation, but shoutout to Simon Hale for providing that grand golden-age sound!  Also mistakenly omitted: praise for “I Won’t Let You Down” and how it’s smartly reprised in “I Like What She’s Doing,” which you can hear a snippet of in new show clips from Broadway.com, hot off the presses today!

Say what you want about Michael Riedel and the New York Post, but he wrote a nice little article on how Tootsie the Musical started out (and we’re glad they managed to find the creative team that they did!)

We weren’t familiar with the original movie before, but if you ask actors, it’s the best movie of all time.  

Curious about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? You can watch all four seasons now on Netflix!  Or, check out all the music videos on Youtube including Santino in “I Could If I Wanted To.” 

No cast recording yet, but rest assured that there’s one on the way from Decca Broadway! Meanwhile, enjoy these two videos from BroadwayCon:

Lilli Cooper showing off her voice “Gone, Gone, Gone” and Sarah Stiles's absolutely hilarious turn in “What’s Gonna Happen.”

Edit: Take a listen to the Tootsie cast recording now to see if the music is actually better than it first seemed: iTunes / Spotify

As always, follow us on Twitter @BottomlessBway, check out our blog, or email us at [email protected]!  And remember to subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you're listening to this podcast!  Don't have an iPhone or want a quicker way to give feedback? Take our feedback survey here: https://forms.gle/BXUqJiNdjAWaQRCJ9

Cindy journeyed way down to Hadestown and can confirm: the show is hot as hell.  You heard it here first--more accurate and more prompt than the official reviews! 

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Learn more about what the road to Broadway was like in this article! 

Check out the music video for Why We Build the Wall! 

Want to listen to the songs before the Broadway album comes out?  Cindy's got you covered with her Apple Music playlist. 

Want to check out Cindy's write-up of Patrick Page in Nassim?  Take a look at our new blog! 

Do you agree with our Tony predictions?  Just want to talk about how great Hadestown is?  Come find us on Twitter @BottomlessBway.

From London to Milan, people all over the world clamor for Kinky Boots…but it’s only in New York til April 7, so go watch it and join us as we recap this 2013 Tony Best Musical winner track by track!

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Check out part 1 of our Closing Best Musicals episode on The Band's Visit here.

Want to know more about the making of this show? Check out the Broadway Backstory podcast.

Watch the Tony Awards performance of “Everybody Say Yeah”, complete with conveyor belt choreography 

We used selections from both the UK and Broadway cast albums, so see if you can guess which is which and tell us which one you like better @BottomlessBway

UK: iTunes / Spotify

Broadway: iTunes / Spotify

Once, not long ago, two millennials came to the Barrymore Theatre. You probably didn’t hear about it. But you really should. So here it is. 

With two Tony Best Musical Winners closing soon, we talk The Band's Visit and whether or not it's a story you really should hear about. And be sure to stay tuned for our second part about Kinky Boots!

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Listen along as we break down the show track by track:

Want to know more about the music? Hear from the composer himself!

Watch the Tony Awards performance of "Omar Sharif"

Agree or disagree? Tweet us @BottomlessBway 

LGBQTeens…and non-teens: the subject of our first episode where we talk about The Prom and Head Over Heels.  One wore it better, but both ushered in this Tony season’s attempts to make Broadway gayer, while scandalizing parents on and off stage.

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Cindy thinks it isn’t possible, but if anyone thinks they’re up to the task of fixing the book of Head Over Heels, tweet us @BottomlessBway.

Listen to the cast recordings to judge for yourself!

Watch the original version of “You Happened”