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DAMN YANKEES  Book by Douglass Wallop & George Abbott | Music & Lyrics by Jerry Ross & Richard Adler | Based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop

Works Consulted & Reference :

• Damn Yankees (Libretto) by Douglass Wallop & George Abbott
• Damn Yankees (Revised Libretto) by Joe DiPietro
• Damn Yankees (1958 Film) Directed by George Abbott
• Fosse by Sam Wasson
• Sense of Occasion by Hal Prince
• The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel

Music Credits:

• "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
• "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
• "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
• "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
• "Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne
• "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
• "Whatever Lola Wants" from Damn Yankees (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Jerry Ross & Richard Adler | Performed by Gwen Verdon
• "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
• "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
• "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
• “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

As the Film Listology season closes in on #100,  Garret and Scott complete their "transgressive trilogy" of vintage New Hollywood films with Cabaret  from 1972. Directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minelli and Michael York, Cabaret  snuck in a win with the Academy Award for Best Director (among others) in the same year as Francis Ford Coppola's original The Godfather. The film situates its narrative at pre-wartime Germany. A love triangle evolves to capture the attention of a part-time singer-performer (Minelli) at a dingy burlesque nightclub, thrusting these uneasy relationships into chaos just as their world seemingly unravels as fascism comes into prominence in Nazi Germany. Recognizing the film's larger legacy as a Broadway musical of the same name, Garret  wrestles with the cultural significance factor of Fosse's film despite its storied popularity and passionate defenders.

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, & Noel King (Eds.). The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004.

Geoff King. New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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CHICAGO  Book by Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse | Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb |  Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins

Works Consulted & Reference :

• Chicago (Original Libretto) by  Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse
• Fosse by Sam Wasson
• Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz by John Kander, Fred Ebb, as told to Greg Lawrence

Music Credits:

• "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
• "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
• "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
• "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
• "Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne
• "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
• "Nobody" from Absysinia  | Music by Bert Williams, Lyrics by Alex Rogers | Recorded for the Victor label
• "Mister Cellophane” from  Chicago (New Broadway Cast Recording 1997) | Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb |  Performed by Joel Grey
• "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
• "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
• "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
• “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

FUNNY GIRL  Music by Jule Styne | Lyrics by Bob Merrill | Book by Isabel Lennart from an original story by Miss Lennart 

Works Consulted & Reference :

• Funny Girl (Original Libretto) by  Isabel Lennart & Bob Merrill
• Jule: The Story of Composer Jule Styne by Theodore Taylor

Music Credits:

• "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
• "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
• "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
• "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
• "Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne
• "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
• "Don't Rain on My Parade” from  Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jule Styne | Lyrics by Bob Merrill |  Performed by Barbra Streisand
• "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
• "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
• "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
• “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

Willkommen to an episode full of history, Liza Minnelli, and ANGLES! The person most confused by the film this week was: everyone in the throuple, sexually.

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On this week's episode, we discuss a brilliant film with one of the most deceiving titles in movie history. Join us for an episode filled with drugs, music, dance, sex and a not so thinly veiled commentary on death. IT'S SHOWTIME, FOLKS!! It's ALL THAT JAZZ!

When we realized our 100th episode of Spooky Tuesday was just around the corner, we knew we had to pick something extra special to celebrate — something fun, something for the girls, something with a lil ✨razzle dazzle.✨ And given that our milestone movie *also* happened to fall on a Fifth Tuesday, a sacred institution, we knew that there was only one film for the job: Chicago (2002). With a star-studded cast, a banger soundtrack, and a generous handful of Oscars, this flick absolutely IS all that jazz, and our podcast lawyer is helping us break it all down. 

Movie Musical Month concludes with Bob Fosse's All That Jazz! Nuff said!
 
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Links referenced in/relevant to episode 90:
-The Guardian coverage the inquest into Liam Scarlett's death: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/nov/11/choreographer-killed-himself-after-sexual-misconduct-claims-inquest-hears
-Complete Out100 list: https://www.out.com/print/2021/11/08/see-all-names-2021-out100-list-here
-New York Times feature on "Chicago" revival's 25th anniversary: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/theater/chicago-broadway-anniversary.html
-BBC video on Glasgow nightclub using dance as renewable energy source: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-59194559
-Fast Company piece on the same nightclub's effort: https://www.fastcompany.com/90674380/this-nightclub-traps-dancers-body-heat-to-warm-and-cool-the-building
-Dance Magazine story on what makes a "good" costume: https://www.dancemagazine.com/dance-costumes-2655347703.html

Katie, MJ, and Joe return after a brief hiatus to discuss not one, but two films! (Don’t worry, Darcy will be back soon!)  

First, License to Drive (1988) provides fertile ground for theorizing a Jacob’s Ladder-esque, life-before-his-eyes story structure wherein Les Anderson (Corey Haim) dies at the end and the film circles back upon itself, Finnegans Wake style. Other topics include: Teenage deceit, personal experiences getting our licenses, the snowballing of lies, North by Northwest, patrilinear murder, Heather Graham as fey or chaos witch, the problematic nature of putting a vulnerable woman in a trunk, the greedy 80s/the reward system of cheating, and more...

Second, we have Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991), Katie and Joe’s childhood fave. Nostalgic reflections ensue! Katie warmly remembers how Joe would constantly watch the VHS (recorded off of HBO) as their after school ritual. Joe recounts how Christina Applegate’s character Swell exemplified the “not a girl, not yet a woman” theme. MJ theorizes that it’s an existential survivalist thriller. Other topics include: adulthood as service, the douchey business world (“Fake it ‘til you make it!”), sexist reviews, iconic lines (“I’m right on top of that, Rose!”), twinning, latchkey kids, gender role reversal... among other things!

Then we cap it off with a compare/contrast.

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We are launching a new series on #TimeSensitive. You've gotten to know Sam and Ian over the years, and it's clear what they do and don't like. Well, now we are forcing them to embrace their "don't".

We all know Sam is not a fan of spontaneously bursting into song, so this week, with your help, Ian forced Sam to watch the Best Picture-winning musical "Chicago" for the first time.

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A transcript of this episode is available here: https://thedanceedit.com/transcript-episode-42

Links referenced in/relevant to episode 42:

-Ann Reinking in "There'll Be Some Changes Made" from "All That Jazz": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL36kbuI6tE
-Reinking in "We Got Annie" from "Annie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmSUcq3D_t0
-Reinking in "Big Noise from Winnetka" on "Dancin' Man": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aOjeiqL4TY
-Chloé Lopes Gomes' account in Pointe of racism at Staatsballett Berlin: https://www.pointemagazine.com/chloe-lopes-gomes-ballet-2649095670.html
-The New York Times story on Lopes Gomes' allegations: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/arts/dance/Chloe-Lopes-Gomes-Ballet.html
-Theresa Ruth Howard's Dance Magazine op-ed on what Lopes Gomes' case reveals: https://www.dancemagazine.com/chloe-lopes-gomes-racism-2649520212.html 
-Playbill announcement of "Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical": https://www.playbill.com/article/ratatouille-the-tiktok-musical-streaming-concert-to-benefit-the-actors-fund
-Philadanco website: https://philadanco.org/
-Philadanco Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/philadanco/
-Philadanco Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Philadanco
-International Association of Blacks in Dance website: https://www.iabdassociation.org/
-IABD 2021 conference information: https://www.iabdassociation.org/mpage/conference

This week's episode of Revenge of the Film Nerds sees BK & Jack tackle one of the most engrossing movies yet: 1979's All That Jazz, directed by Bob Fosse. Together they delve into the startling parallel between the film's protagonist & its director, the film's tributes to and the subversion of Hollywood and Broadway musical standard, the ways in which the story discusses fidelity & death, & much, much more. A film which so thoroughly examines show business could only provoke two artists into a deep examination that was a joy to record & is a fun listen as always. The Film Nerds take on the musical: It's Showtime, Folks!

CABARET Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Book by Joe Masteroff | Based on The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and the play I Am A Camera by John Van Druten. 

Episode Segments:

• 1:44 - Speed Test 
• 3:55 - Why God Why
• 5:17 - Back to Before
• 25:33 - What's Inside 
• 50:37 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
• 1:06:42 - Our Favorite Things
• 1:14:55 - Corner of the Sky 

Works Consulted:

• Cabaret (Original Libretto) by Joe Masteroff, John Kander & Fred Ebb | Directed & Produced by Harold Prince
• Cabaret (1972 Film) Directed & Choreographed by Bob Fosse, Screenplay by Jay Allen, Produced by Cy Feuer
• Cabaret (1987 Revised Libretto) by Joe Masteroff, John Kander & Fred Ebb | Directed & Produced by Harold Prince
• Cabaret (1998 Broadway Libretto) by Joe Masteroff, John Kander & Fred Ebb | Directed by Sam Mendes, Co-Directed & Choreographed by Rob Marshall, Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company
• The Making of Cabaret by Keith Garebian 
• Cabaret: The Illustrated Book by Joe Masteroff, John Kander & Fred Ebb

Music Credits:

• "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
• "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
• "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer 
• "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
• "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
• "The Money Song (Sitting Pretty) from Cabaret (Original  Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Performed by Joel Grey, Cabaret Ensemble & Harold Hastings
• "Money" from Cabaret (New Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Performed by Alan Cumming & Cabaret Ensemble (1998)
• "Cabaret" from Cabaret (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb | Performed by Jill Haworth & Harold Hastings
• "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
• "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
• "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas

Acclaimed Israeli-born, UK-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale to the Melbourne Festival, we travel to the Brisbane Festival to experience three Australian works that question the ways in which we connect: From Darkness, Bitch on Heat and Communal Table, award-winning English actor Maxine Peake shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and Chicago returns to the Australian stage, bringing glitz, glamour, guile and all that jazz.