BroadwayCon: The Podcast

From Hamilton Tony sweep to Hamilton casting to the Hamilton Pence visit to things that have NOTHING TO DO WITH HAMILTON (like the influx of TV musicals, the question of how diverse is Broadway really, Broadway's response to the PULSE nightclub shooting, to the Shuffle Along drama). Patrick and Mo (mostly Mo) talk about it all!  Have Opinions on the topics we discussed? Email me: [email protected]

Broadway, TV, and Film publicist Lisa Goldberg shares her story career reinvention and how that helped her to find her way into the Broadway community. In the second half of the show, Tony nominee Rory O'Malley talks about how volunteering for the Obama campaign in 2008 helped shape him as a marriage equality activist and led to the creation of some the work that he is most proud of.

Buzzfeed's senior entertainment reporter Louis Pietzman talks about tricking the popular news site into letting him write about Broadway. We discuss his in-depth look at diversity in casting on Broadway and how it has affected the Asian-American community and we talk about his reporting on the importance of the Falsettos revival and his piece on the emotional subject matter of Dear Evan Hansen.

With BroadwayCon just a month away, we return to the BroadwayCon Office to see how the Con gets made! We talk about the exciting programming, recent guest announcements, the panels we all excited for, and big stars we can't wait to see. At the end of the episode we chat with Celia Keenan-Bolger about Patrick's favorite bit of stage magic and find out how she pulled it off!

Broadway favorite Nikka Graff Lanzarone talks about the New Group production of Sweet Charity, making her Broadway debut in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and stepping into the iconic role of Chicago's Velma Kelly on Broadway. She also talks about her podcast, The Ensemblist, her family's show business legacy, why she still loves living in New York City.

For this episode we're bringing you the tale of Broadway's ultimate superfan. From as far back as he can remember, Ben Rimalower has been obsessed with Patti Lupone. When the opportunity came up to work on a show she was starring in, he couldn't believe his luck. That experience would be just the beginning of a long and fabulous--if complicated--relationship with the Tony-winning star. It's SUCH a good story that he ultimately turned it into a one man show called Patti Issues.

This week we’re bringing you a tale of friendship, overnight stardom that was two decades in the making, the power of social media, and two theater nerds’ love of that 90s classic, Jurassic Park…..Or something like that.

Understudies are some the hardest working performers on Broadway. In this episode, we find out just how difficult the job is, clear up the the differences between swings and understudies, and hear first hand stories of these performers hard at work!

Tony nominee Montego Glover (Memphis, The Color Purple, It Shoulda Been You, Les Miserables) shares stories from her childhood, talks about discovering theater, when she knew that theater would be her career, and fun memories of her early days pounding the pavement in NYC. Plus she talks about the Emmy winning TV and Broadway star who was her first NYC roommate.

For this episode we go inside the BroadwayCon Offices--er, office--to chat with Mischief Management's Melissa Aneli and Sierra Fox. We get the inside scoop on what it takes to pull off the biggest and best Broadway fan convention in the world. They share their favorite moments from last year's inaugural event and make some exciting announcements about what's on the bill for 2017. In the second part of the show, we'll catch up with Daisy Eagan who won a Tony Award when she was 11 for originating the role of Mary Lenox in The Secret Garden.