Josh Swallows Broadway

Drew Gasparini is writing the scores for a number of new stage musicals including the Broadway-bound adaptation of The Karate Kid, an adaptation of Night Shift for Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, and an adaptation of the Ned Vizzini novel/film It's Kind of a Funny Story for Universal Theatrical Group (book by Alex Brightman), among others. Some of Drew’s original musicals include Crazy Just Like Me (winner of “Best Of Fest” and runner up for “Best Book” in the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2011), and Make Me Bad (book by Alex Brightman, Bloomington Playwrights Project, winner of PACE New Musicals). Drew was a contributing composer for the fictional musical Hit List on the NBC series Smash, and in 2019 wrote the music for Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical, a highly publicized PR stunt starring Michael C. Hall for Super Bowl LIII. He has released several of his own albums, and on January 13th, Drew launched his new podcast "Now We're Talking with Drew Gasparini" on the Broadway Podcast Network. 

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Andrew Polec recently played Matt in The Fantasticks (off-Broadway) and won the "Joe Allen Best West End Debut Award" for his role as Strat in Bat Out Of Hell, at The Stage Debut Awards.

Albums include Ben Fold’s Presents: University A Capella and Welcome to Khat House. Veteran MTV watchers might recognize him from a featured role in SuperMade. He has played Jimmy Dodger on CW's Katy Keene.

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BPN Town Hall: Josh Swallows WICKED: Shoshana Bean & Megan Hilty, originally aired March 28th, 2020: https://youtu.be/A8InNUpEOFU

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After sharing a dressing room with Josh during his time in The Prom on Broadway, he's never been the same. Michael Potts is an American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Brother Mouzone in The Wire and Mafala Hatimbi in the musical The Book of Mormon. He also played Detective Gilbough in season 1 of True Detective. Most recently, he can be see as Slow Drag in Netflix's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, alongside Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis.

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BPN Town Hall: Josh Swallows 2020 Graduates Ana Yi Puig, Evan Parker Shan Taylor Pretty, Michael Hassel, and Rebecah Boesch, including a surprise appearance from Kristin Chenoweth! 

This episode originally streamed June 17th, 2020: https://youtu.be/afPgoraem6c

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Grown man plays in the park with children, act 1 -- aka, FINDING NEVERLAND! Listen in as Josh reunites with his super duper fun time boys Ryan Worsing, Jonathan Ritter, Colin Cunliffe, Ron Todorowski & Chris Dwan. Hush Meadows is for puzzles, ya'all.

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After a smash-hit run at Central Park‘s Delacorte Theater in summer of 2008, HAIR returned to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years in March 2009. The story of a group of young Americans searching for love and peace during the Vietnam era, HAIR is a timeless portrait of a movement that changed the world.

This episode originally streamed March 25th, 2020: https://youtu.be/JbezC-gk3aI

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After winning the award for best actor at the National High School Musical Theater Awards (the Jimmy Awards), he joined the cast of Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway in the title role before he could legally vote. He began his own theatre company, Zneefrock Productions, to raise money for autism awareness. He can be heard playing himself in As the Curtain Rises, an original Broadway soap opera podcast, and most recently starred in Ratatouille the TikTok musical. He still can't legally drink yet.

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She Is Risen - selections from Jesus Christ Superstar, featuring Morgan James, Orfeh, and producers Meg Toohey and Richard Amelius.

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This episode originally streamed April 18th, 2020: https://youtu.be/kytT50Nh-nQ

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