Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know

This week we chat with Doug Hatch about which of life's truths can be gleaned from The Beatles’ jukebox musical - Across the Universe!

You can find Doug’s podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/never-showing/id1485591810

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Universe_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Taymor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/

https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/across-the-universe/id544743026

https://open.spotify.com/album/2rHgctQLLQqcebs4jN82z1

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This week we chat with Christopher Batkin about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Jason Robert Brown’s masterpiece song cycle - Songs for a New World!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_a_New_World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Robert_Brown

https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-for-a-new-world/165160926

https://open.spotify.com/album/3Kp3aGIQI0MCpep5lhXViz

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This week we chat with Helen Stephens about which of life's truths can be gleaned from sassy, sexy, darkly comedic retro satire that has taken the world by storm - Heathers!

Marilyn Stasio, writing for Variety, wrote "...Seasoned industry pros could pick up a few tips on the Do’s and Don’ts of adapting material from this smartly executed musical treatment of “Heathers.” She praised the lyrics but was not a fan of the music, writing: "Even at their giddiest, the lyrics never dumb down the characters singing them. Wish we could say the same for the music, which is brassy and blah and sounds nothing like the music that made the 80s the 80s."

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Wiki - Musical, Film

IMDb - 1988, 2018 TV Series

iTunes

Spotify

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This week we chat with Tully Grimley about which of life's truths can be gleaned from that smash hit Disney Musical movie - High School Musical!

Kevin Carr gave the film a score of 3/5, saying, "The filmmakers were just trying to tell a story. Sex, drugs and violence just didn't factor into that equation."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_Musical

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_MusicIMDborg/wiki/Zac_Efron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Hudgens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_High_School_(Utah)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475293/

https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/high-school-musical/id738563311

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2gUMs9PE8XZVQyzCDqaYmW

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This week we chat with Jessica Kate Ryan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the silver screen fable of Mack and Mabel!

According to Kenneth Bloom, Mack & Mabel was "The saddest failure of Jerry Herman's career". It was a "victim of its time, an era when rock musicals were preferred over traditional musical comedy scores. Deep at its core was a simple love story and an exceptionally appropriate score. The urge to turn what could have been a bittersweet drama into a huge musical comedy was fatal."

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This week we chat with Trevor Jones about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the often overlooked musical gem - Snoopy!!!

You can find out more about Trevor HERE and more about Becoming Bill HERE

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Wiki

IMDb

iTunes

Spotify

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This week we chat with Cam Rollo about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the musical adaptation of the Fantasy classic - Lord of the Rings!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls072068350/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-lord-of-the-rings-original-london-production/274086078

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4S2wUJySdZeD4u5549nE97

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This week we chat with ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from one of Wildhorn’s biggest flops - Wonderland!

John Fleming of the St. Petersburg Times expressed mixed feelings about the production. He called it "a visual feast, with dazzling costumes, marvelously funky dance and a flashy, high-tech production design," thought it "is loaded with talent onstage," and said the score "boasts one insanely catchy pop song after another." He continued, "But Wonderland also has a problem: It makes almost no sense. The book needs a major rewrite, and not just a tweak here and there. What Wildhorn and his colleagues...or somebody else can do to bring at least a measure of dramatic logic to the musical will ultimately decide its fate." He felt a scene in which Alice meets author Lewis Carroll "appears to be an attempt to give the show emotional depth", but "it is totally out of place, like dropping a scene from one of Wildhorn's Gothic pop operas into Legally Blonde," and the character of the Mad Hatter was a "casualty of the misconceived book" because "the story is so preposterous." He noted "El Gato and the jazzy Caterpillar ... have great solos to introduce Alice to Wonderland, but then have little to do the rest of the show."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wildhorn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland

https://music.apple.com/us/album/wonderland-original-broadway-cast-recording/433522098

https://open.spotify.com/album/4LSb6xpCHXLeLJeNtCrlBc

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This week we chat with Melanie Bolovan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the smash-hit movie’s, smash-hit musical adaptation - Mean Girls!

Entertainment Weekly's Kristen Baldwin gave the musical a B+, writing: "An ode to self-respect and the benefits of a STEM-based education, Broadway’s Mean Girls is a lively, frequently hilarious adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 high school comedy. Propelled by dazzling set design and several stand-out performances, the musical — written by Fey, with music by Jeff Richmond, and directed by Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon) — gives fans everything they want while bringing the saga of Regina George and the Plastics into the social media age."

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Wiki - Musical, Film, Tina Fey

IMDb

iTunes

Spotify

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This week we chat with ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the new smash musical - The Prom!

Adam Feldman of Time Out Magazine gave the show 4 out of 5 stars, saying "It is cheering to see a musical comedy that engages with modern questions, with a teenage lesbian romance at its center to boot... But while the issues are contemporary, there is a 1980s feel to the character types and the overall style of Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar’s score, which resembles their work in The Wedding Singer; a stronger dose of reality in the lyrics and the book (by Beguelin and Bob Martin) would better justify the show’s eventual turn to sentimental education. But Casey Nicholaw’s peppy direction helps give the show enough momentum to power past its narrative potholes and occasional bumps of heavy-handedness."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prom_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Sklar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Beguelin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Martin_(comedian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prom_(film)

https://theprommusical.com/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10161886/

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-prom-a-new-musical-original-broadway-cast-recording/1439644985

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2B2t1FljSrujv5XywkxFR4

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