Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast

Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast

By Alouise DittrickArtsPerforming Arts
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Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast episodes

  • Episode 16 - Some Thoughts on Movie Musicals
    Episode 16 of the Take Me To The World Musical Theatre Podcast is a short episode where I give some thoughts on the future movie musicals, including a few I watched this year. While this episode discusses In The Heights, Inside, Hamilton and tick, tick... BOOM! there are no spoilers for these shows in this episode.
    Check out resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episode-16
    21 min
  • Episode 15 – Visual Element Series: Props
    This is the first episode in a series on The Take Me To The World Musical Theatre Podcast that I'm doing about visual elements in musicals. Today I'll be talking about props and how they can help enhance our understanding of a musical's setting, characters, plot, and theme.  Full spoilers for the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.  

    Check out resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episode-15
    27 min
  • Episode 14 – Some Random Musical Related Thoughts
    This is a very random episode of The Take Me To The World Musical Theatre Podcast where I talk about a few musical related topics that don't require their own in-depth episode. Topics include if/when I will spoil a musical for myself, whether or not I only listen to musical cast recordings, and a random thing that sometimes happens in cast recording that makes me deliriously happy.

    Check out resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episode-14
    23 min
  • Episode 13 – An Analysis of Act 2 of Cabaret, and Some of Its Characters and Themes

    In this podcast episode, I take a look at Act 2 of the musical Cabaret and discuss some of the characters and themes in the show. This is the final part of my series on the musical Cabaret.  As a reminder, I am using the 1998 Broadway Revival version of Cabaret. There are major spoilers for Cabaret in this episode.

    Check out resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episodes-11-12-13

    54 min
  • Episode 12 - An Analysis of Act 1 of Cabaret

    In episode 12 of the Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast, I talk about Act 1 of the musical Cabaret. This is part one of a multiple-episode analysis on the musical Cabaret. For this series, I'll be using the 1998 Broadway Revival version. There are major spoilers for Cabaret in this episode.

    Check out resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episodes-11-12-13

    46 min
  • Episode 11 - A Brief History of the Musical Cabaret
    In episode 11 of the Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast, I talk a little bit about the history and my experience with the musical Cabaret. This is part one of a multiple-episode analysis on the musical Cabaret. For this series, I'll be using the 1998 Broadway Revival version.   
    Check out resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episodes-11-12-13
    24 min
  • Episode 10 - Love Never Dies
    Episode 10 of The Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast I talk about the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Love Never Dies, which is a sequel to his most successful musical The Phantom of the Opera. There are spoilers for both of these shows throughout this episode.
    Find resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episode-10
    47 min
  • Episode 9 - Reviews of Come From Away, Six, and Waitress

    In this episode, I review the three shows I saw in 2019, which were Come From Away, Six, and Waitress. Potential spoilers for these three shows are in this episode. If you want to try to avoid spoilers here's when the reviews start for each show.


    Come From Away review starts around the 6:19 mark.
    Six review starts around the 10:32 mark.
    Waitress review starts around the 17:36 mark.

    Check out resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episode-9

    25 min
  • Episode 8 - A Chat About Musicals With Friends

    For episode 8 I invited a couple of friends over to talk about musicals. We talk about some of our favourite and least favourite musicals. In this episode lots of giggling and nerding out about musicals. 


    Find resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episode-8

    45 min
  • Episode 7 - The I Want Song

    In episode 7 of the Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast, I talk about The I Want Song; one of my favourite types of songs in musical theatre. I go into what the I want song is, why it's used, and a few different types of the I want song.

    Find resources for this episode at takemetotheworld.com/musical-podcast-episode-7

    36 min

About Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast

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The Take Me to the World Musical Theatre Podcast is all about musicals and is hosted by Alouise Dittrick. Whether on stage or on film if it's a musical I'll be talking about it. Some episodes will be…