Howard McGillin is a 2 time Tony Award nominated Broadway actor who also holds the record for most performances as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. He also originated the role of Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood on Broadway! He also led the cast of the Stephen Sondheim musical Bounce (as Wilson) which premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC opposite Richard Kind, Michele Pawk and Gavin Creel. His other Broadway credits include the latest revival of Parade, Gigi, She Loves Me, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Secret Garden (as Archibald), Sunday in the Park with George, and Anything Goes (as Billy, opposite Patti LuPone)! We get to talking all about that, his time working on iconic Sunday scene from tick, tick...boom, and much more!

Jody Reynard is a Broadway veteran currently playing Mr. Duvall in Mean Girls at The Cape Playhouse! He booked his Broadway debut as a swing in Fosse after an Ann Reinking led dance call! He also starred in Legally Blonde, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and Taboo on Broadway! Part time, he teaches numerous classes at Broadway Dance Center! We get to talking about the key to Fosse technique, meeting Ben Vereen, and nailing musical comedy! Go see Mean Girls now through August 29th!

Angie Schworer is a Broadway veteran with more than 10

Broadway credits! She's most well known for originating the role of Angie in The Prom, a role that was based on her and was played by Nicole Kidman in the Ryan Murphy Netflix film adaptation which we talk about as well! She made her Broadway debut in The Will Rogers Follies directed and choreographed by Tommy Tune. Her other Broadway credits include the original cast of The Producers, Some Like It Hot, Crazy For You and Sunset Boulevard. She's now taking up direction and choreography herself as she'll be working on the upcoming Ogunquit Playhouse production of The Producers as well as directing an upcoming regional production of Annie at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head Island, SC!

Tony Yazbeck is Broadway veteran who received a Tony Award nomination for the role of Gabie in the 2014 Broadway revival of On The Town! After making his Broadway debut as a child in the 1989 Revival of Gypsy, he’d then be in the 2008 Revival Gypsy this time as Tulsa however the journey getting there contained multiple twists and turns which we got to discussing at length! Other Broadway credits include A Chorus Line, Oklahoma, Prince of Broadway and most recently Flying Over Sunset! He’s currently playing Stone in Ogunquit’s production of City Of Angels! We get to talking about his wide dance history, the song and dance men that inspired him coming up and much more!

Cynthia Meng made history as first woman to ever conduct Ragtime on Broadway which now holds the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and closes August 16th at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway! Her other work on Broadway includes Company (2021 Revival), Dead Outlaw and Hadestown (for which she was a part of from the original Broadway production as a music assistant), and much more! Onscreen, she served as the Associate Vocal Supervisor for the film Spirited (starring Ryan Reynolds & Will Ferrell) as well as the 3rd season of the acclaimed Hulu series Only Murders in the Building where she worked on music and lyrics written by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Sara Bareilles, Michael R Jackson, Marc Shaiman & Scott Whittman and sung by Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and many others! Most recently, she was the Music Director for Basura, the new Gloria and Emily Estefan musical which made its world premiere at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta Georgia! We get to talking about all of that plus how she went from computer science major to playing and conducting on Broadway!

Donna Lynne Champlin is currently starring in The Loved Ones as Cheryl-Ann at Irish Rep open now until August 2nd! Her most notable stage work includes playing Pirelli in the 2005 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd (directed by John Doyle featuring Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone as Sweeney and Mrs Lovett respectively), playing Older Helen in Hollywood Arms (a semi-autobiographical role created by Carol Burnett and directed by Hal Prince), and James Joyce's The Dead starring opposite Alice Ripley, Marni Nixon and Christopher Walken! Many may know her as Paula Proctor in the hit CW musical comedy TV series Crazy Ex Girlfriend! We get to talking about her greatest Hal Prince stories, meeting Carol Burnett for the first time and much more!

Joomin Hwang is a Broadway performer turned author currently in & Juliet (alongside Joey Fatone & Chrissy Metz!) which he's been in since it originally opened on Broadway in 2022! He made his Broadway debut in The Prom in 2018 after immigrating from South Korea where he was a competitive breakdancer! He's now written a self help book titled The Rule of Five Journal which is OUT NOW helping those struggling to balance negativity in their lives with positivity! 

Joel Blum is a 2 time Tony Award nominated actor with multiple Broadway, Off Broadway and National Tour credits! He received his Tony Award nominations for his performances as Frank in the 1994 Revival of Show Boat (directed by Hal Prince and choreographed by Susan Stroman) and Buddy in Kander & Ebb’s Steel Pier respectively! Some of his earlier credits include being a part of the original ensemble of 42nd Street on Broadway and Debbie Reynolds’ Vegas act! In 2000, he starred as Marcellus in a Broadway revival of The Music Man alongside Craig Bierko, Eric McCormack, and Robert Sean Leonard! We get to talking about his parents’ history in vaudeville, working with Robert Morse & Elaine Stritch on Show Boat and the numerous lessons he’s learned over the course of his multi-decade long career!

Ken Jennings is a Broadway star best known for originating the role of Tobias in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street! His other Broadway credits include the original Broadway casts of Grand Hotel, Side Show, and Urinetown (originating the role of Hot Blades Harry)! Disney Parks fans will know him as a hologram in the short lived EPCOT attraction The Astuter Computer Revue! His one man show The Gospel of John which he performed off Broadway was nominated for the Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Solo Performance and he continues to tour the show across the country! 

Jack O’Brien is a theater legend whose work spans genres and across the globe. He’s directed classic Shakespearean plays (incuding Henry IV, MacBeth starring Ethan Hawke and more on Broadway), original Tom Stoppard epics (The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love and more on Broadway) and some of the greatest musical comedies of the contemporary era (Hairspray, Shucked and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)! Having directed more than 50 Broadway productions and 4 Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award he received in 2024), Jack has become one of the most prolific directors to ever work onstage. His work in the regional theater has not gone unnoticed either, having served as the Artistic Director of The Old Globe for 25 years overseeing the world premieres of Sondheim & Lapine’s Into the Woods, and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson! Now, he’s making his acting debut alongside Lisa Kudrow in the final season of the HBO comedy The Comeback! We get to talking all about that, his podcast with screenwriter Alan Fox, Notes With Jack, and his upcoming projects! A very special episode - Jack O’Brien’s I Wanna Be Like You!