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We just couldn't stay away from the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Time Rice songbook as we cover our musical theater blind spots. This time, it's Evita with Patti Lupone singing "Don't Cry for Me Argentina." What will Shannon make of this truly strange show that she'd never experienced before?

All clips are from the 1978 Original Broadway Cast Recording of Evita featuring Patti Lupone and are used in accordance with the Fair Use Exemption for criticism and commentary.

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The undisputed king of the megamusical, Andrew Lloyd Webber, is back with his biggest hit, and one of the biggest hits in musical theater history: The Phantom of the Opera.

This episode we discuss the title song, our history with the show in general, and the sequel that never really caught on.

All clips are from the 1986 Original London Cast Recording of The Phantom of the Opera featuring Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford and are used in accordance with the Fair Use Exemption for criticism and commentary.

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MAKE IT BIGGER! That was the refrain in the 80s on the West End and Broadway, and we're looking at some of the highlights of the megamusical era in our new miniseries.

We begin with the show that arguably started it all -- Andrew Lloyd's Webber's 1981 phenomenon, Cats. Join us, won't you, as we discuss "Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats." 

All clips are from the 1981 Original London Cast Recording of Cats and are used in accordance with the Fair Use Exemption for criticism and commentary.

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A Platinum post-mortem is in order, and this week, we invited Town & Country and GMA royal correspondent (and The Queen: A Life in Pictures author) Victoria Murphy on to give us the lowdown on what it was like covering the Jubilee festivities. She also sets the scene from the royal correspondent’s perspective and chats about the status of the royal brothers. Also: LILIBET!!! Plus, baby August, the York sisters, Lin-Manuel Miranda, parenting in public and so much more. Grab a cup of post-Jubbly recovery tea and tune in!

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Is the critically reviled Cats about to enter the next of its nine lives, reborn as a cult classic worthy of repeat – and, er, influenced – viewings? We're getting jellicle in our latest pod... whatever that means.

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Joel and Toast talk with CATS fancier Abby (Twitter @clapifyoulikeme) about the weekly digital watchalongs of the movie that she hosted from June 2020 to April 2021, and Abby provides a critical perspective only someone who's seen CATS 50+ times can.

Since you deserve to experience a watchalong too, Abby is hosting a special one Saturday, May 22nd at 9pm EST!  Send Abby a DM for the invite.

Referenced in this episode:  Judi Dench didn't play Dungeons & Dragons with Vin Diesel on the set of Chronicles of Riddick.

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Original music by Jeremy Nasato.

Cover art by Tyler Donnelly.

We are back with a bang and we are delighted to welcome as our special guest Susie Winkworth. Susie is a professional Cellist and Arranger whose tweet streams over the past couple of weeks @winkmusicuk  have garnered more than 75 thousand shares and retweets and highlight perfectly the dilemma facing the creative sector and it's mostly freelance staff of world class performers and technicians.  Susie joins us to discuss the current situation and tell us about an initiative on 6th October "Let Music Live" which is worthy of all our support. You can find more information about this on Instagram and Twitter @letmusicliveuk

Also check out Sonia Friedman's response on this at:
https://www.soniafriedman.com/news-press/sonia-friedman-comments-on-the-chancellors-announcement-on-thursday-24th-september-2020

The Cinderella Lockdown supercut is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3VLhrlw5cA

Magic with the Musicals is here: https://planetradio.co.uk/magic-with-the-musicals/player/316084/

Richard also manages to bring us a review and we talk about the next few months and how Theatre and Music is going to come back.

Do check out Susie on Twitter and please share with us your stories and experiences of being in a creative role during lockdown. As always email us : mail@stagedoorcast.co.uk

We will be back in two weeks with more news and views. See you then!

As you can imagine things are now a bit different here at StageDoorCast HQ but we are doing our best to bring you a show with news, views and something hopefully to take your mind off the troubles that we are all currently facing. So with appropriate Social Distancing we carry on with a couple of reviews, some news and opinion and thoughts on the future.
We will return with a planned recording on April Fools day and we hope you all keep safe and well until then. Don't forget "Wash Your Hands"

Best wishes Cliff and Richard

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