Jim And Tomic's Musical Theatre Happy Hour

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Strip off your clothes and let the sunshine in, it’s time to talk all about the revolutionary classic Hair! Jimi and Tommy debate whether or not this one of the most important musicals of all time, Jimi comes out as a latent hippie and the guys discuss the concept of tribe musicals. Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify SHOW NOTES Take a listen to the Original Cast Recording for some insightful interviews from the creators of Hair. Have you ever been involved in a show which you would consider tribal? Let us know all about it over on our subreddit! Check out this Broadway.com interview with some of the team from the Diane Paulus revival in Central Park. We love the woman in the pink dress! We love hallucinogenic orgies! Come and enjoy these highlights from the film with us.  AN AWARD-WINNING QUIZ QUESTION… This musical holds the record for producing the biggest number of Broadway Prom ‘Queens’ for any single show - what is it? Learn more abo

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Welcome to our podcast on Maple Avenue! This week, we're talking about the fabulously important (and recently closed) musical Fun Home. We chat about the importance of representation, non-linearity, vagaries in the LGBTQ alphabet soup of terminology, and Jimi gets caught up on a particular V-word. Fun Home (Original Cast Recording) Amazon / Spotify / iTunes SHOW NOTES If you haven't read the graphic novel that the musical Fun Home is based on, we highly recommend it! Alison Bechdel's early comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For is archived online. Check it out! After seeing her life on stage, Alison Bechdel responded in the best way possible: with another autobiographical comic strip. Sydney Lucas. Ring of Keys. Tony Performance. 'Nuff said. No matter how you describe it, Ellen's coming out on television was revolutionary in the 90s. Here's a retrospective. Want to hear more about the political drama surrounding the graphic novel in South Carolina? Here's a quick NPR story

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Good morning! Unpack your raincoats and dust off your tap shoes as it’s time to celebrate the greatest movie musical of all time - Singin’ in the Rain! We chat all about directorial tyranny, metatheatrical dubbing and Hollywood’s biggest drag queen of all time - Gene Kelly! Singin' In The Rain (Original Film Soundtrack) Amazon / Spotify / iTunes SHOW NOTES She battled through the tyranny of Gene Kelly’s directorial reign and gave birth to the exquisite Carrie Fisher. Check out this amazing interview from Debbie Reynold’s daughter! Check out Hollywood’s most beautiful Drag Queen of all time - Gene Kelly, beat for the gods! This movie contains some of the greatest tap dancing routines ever! Check out ‘Fit as a Fiddle’ at the movie’s opening for a little taste. Oh, and movie producers - bring tap back! Which Beautiful Girl are you? Jimi is naturally number 2 as his cloak is ALWAYS trimmed with monkey fur to lend a dash of drama, Tommy is number 4; always dripping with frin

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ *Cough!* *Hack!* *Eeech!* Hairball got you down? We've got the perfect solution: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-hit musical Cats. It's team Jimi (aka Cats Trash) vs team Tommy (aka the rest of the world). Are we talking about high concept art? Or the lowest common denominator. The gloves are off in this cat-astrophe of an episode. Cats (Original Cast Recording) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify SHOW NOTES Do you share Jimi's crush on Tony Vincent as Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar? You will soon… Reminisce with this Independent article published the morning after Cats's record-breaking 6,138th performance." We're rats. We're RATS! We're furry and forlorn!""Who out there is a fan of Stephen Ward?" Did you miss that Lloyd Webber flop? We've got you covered. Wanna see an old-man theatre cat get scared out of his wits by the creepiest cat you've ever seen? Of COURSE you do… Tune in to Broadway.com's backstage coverage of the Cats revival with the oh-so-handsome Tyler Hanes. Want too muc

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ This time around we’re going in heavy with Stephen Sondheim’s harrowing hit ‘Assassins’. We try and tease apart the intricacies of the American Dream, discuss how musical theatre can be used as a form of therapy in times of crisis and discuss what it means to be a ‘docu-musical’. Assassins (Original Cast Recording) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify Assassins (Revival Cast Recording) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify SOME BUSINESS… Big thank you once more to Dave Malloy and Team Comet for giving us a shout out! If you’re new to the podcast feel free to check out some of our older episodes. Jimi’s top choice is ‘A Cabaret Cocktail’ and Tommy’s is ‘Dinner With Dolly’ but take your pick, pour yourself a drink and enjoy! This episode was recorded prior to the killings in Baton Rouge, St. Paul and Dallas and are therefore not discussed among the other tragic events in Orlando. SHOW NOTES If you didn’t join us, you can check out Tommy’s "high-budget" live stream here where so many of you ask

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Come with us to 19th century Russia where we attend the stunning musicopera, “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” based on a chapter of Tolstoy’s epic ‘War and Peace’. Seeing as it’s regarded as one of the longest novels, we thought we’d make this one of the longest podcasts - so here’s part 2! We chat about the joys and importance of feminism on Broadway, Jimi unleashes his musical theatre homosexual agenda and Tommy has his best line-reading of the word "YEAH" ever! Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Original Cast) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify ◀ DID YOU LISTEN TO PART 1? SHOW NOTES Keep following along with us on Genius for more tidbits from the maestro, Dave Malloy. Have a listen to the breathtaking Brittain Ashford perform Sonya Alone at the recent Sh-K-Boom anniversary concert. Get a glimpse of the spectacle of Comet and see how much audiences freak for this show! Want to hear more magic from Dave Malloy? A journey into the hypnotised mind of Sergei

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Come with us to 19th century Russia where we attend the stunning musicopera, “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” based on a chapter of Tolsty’s epic ‘War and Peace’. Seeing as it’s regarded as one of the longest novels, we thought we’d make this one of the longest podcasts - so here’s part 1! We muse about how Comet will leave its mark on the future of musical theatre, whether it’s Mosc-OH or Mosc-OW, and generally bask in the brilliance of Mr Dave Malloy! Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Original Cast) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify SHOW NOTES Shout out to superfan, Brad, who supplied us with an amazing relic from the American Rep production of the show – an actual, honest to goodness programme! Come join us on our obsession with Dave Malloy - check out his blog for some magic musings from the maestro himself! Get a glimpse of the stunning production values and interviews from the creative team. Is it Mosc-OH or Mosc-OW? Linguists of the Happy Hour, let u

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Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Can you spell F-I-N-A-L-L-Y? After a longer-than-anticipated hiatus, Jimi and Tommy are back! This time with the William Finn penned musical, The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee. Listen as Jimi and Tommy discuss the tribulations of pre-adolescence, the intensity of actual spelling bees and hear Jimi confess his undying love of Barrett Foa. E-N-J-O-Y! The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Original Broadway Cast) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify SHOW NOTES Who would have guessed that even Dame Julie Andrews herself would trip over her lines! Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. Still, her guest star role during Spelling Bee is a heck of a good time.Interested in the real-life cutthroat world of high stakes spelling? Here's a trailer for the documentary Spellbound. (And compare that to the Weimaraners from Best in Show.) Like sports AND musical theatre? (Or, at least, like making fun of sports with musical theatre?) You'll love watching Billy Eichner and Jason Sudeikis bro ou

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Put on your Sunday clothes no matter what day it is and come on down to Yonkers and join us in celebration of everyone’s favourite matchmaker (sorry, Yente!) - Hello, Dolly! Jimi and Tommy are back after a little break with one of the most successful musicals ever. They babble about Pearl Bailey and the vitally important all-black production, decide on who did Dolly best and Tommy shares a hilarious corn-shaped anecdote. Hello, Dolly! (Original Broadway Cast) iTunes / Spotify / Amazon  Hello, Dolly! (1968 Revival Cast feat. Pearl Bailey) iTunes / Spotify / Amazon SHOW NOTES The song that didn’t start it all! Here’s Satchmo himself singing the title song. Take a glimpse at the original New York Times glowing review of the 1964 Broadway production : These are the ultimate friendship goals! Here’s Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway in 1969 from the very suitably titled, “Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey: On Broadway” They say that Beyoncé and Lady Gaga are the mode

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ We swing back in time to Chateau Sondheim and visit that Frank in “Merrily We Roll Along”! Together we fanboy over the artistry in one of Tommy’s ALL-TIME favourite musicals, Jimi channels his inner Irene Cara and has a crisis about LA and the boys get the deep about the nature of artistic relationships. Also - singing! Merrily We Roll Along (New Cast Recording) iTunes / Spotify / Amazon SHOW NOTES It started out with a song, which which was a nursery rhyme, which then became a theme tune for maniac cartoon characters! Check out when our podcast deity Lin-Manuel Miranda (alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and unhyphenated Colin Donnell) was in the Encores! production. Have you ever seen “Six By Sondheim”? Well you should! Potentially the sexiest line up of Merrily ever? Jimi’s hyped-up libido certainly thinks so! Go look! What do you think about LA? Are you team Charley or team Frank? Whatever the decision, the Tony Awards have successfully mocked those that tried. Will Jerem

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Let us take you back to that glorious age of Italian cinema and explore Guido Contini’s mental breakdown as we discuss the smash-hit stage musical and less-of-a-hit movie musical, Nine! We come down with a case of the sandy tambourines, discuss where we feel this show stands in the world of feminism and Jimi exposes Tommy to Fosse’s love for agendered hypersexualised choreography. Nine (Original Broadway Cast) iTunes / Spotify / Amazon SHOW NOTES Check out original Nine director Tommy Tune in his greatest role of all time - as Mr Fantastic in Arrested Development Season 4! Catch the sandy tambourines and watch Fergie provide us with the only good reason to watch the movie. In contrast, check out the ‘82 Tony Awards where Nine swept up the award for Best Musical. Is this the best choreography for children on a Broadway stage? Yes. Yes it is. Nice try, Billy Elliot. Have you seen ‘All That Jazz’? It’s so similar to ‘Nine’! But maybe better? Do you agree? Or is Jimi just bi

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Happy New Year sportsfans! So many of you wanted us to talk about Kander and Ebb’s sensational Cabaret so we decided what was the use of sitting alone on our rooms and decided to let that music play ... and then analyse the heck out of it! Don’t tell mama, but Jimi and Tommy go head to head over Sally Bowles, we officially canonise Bob Fosse and we talk an AWFUL lot about Alan Cumming. Grab some pineapple and some string and come play with us! Cabaret (1998 Broadway Revival Recording) iTunes / Spotify / Amazon SHOW NOTES See what on earth Tommy is talking about when he mentions this podcast’s sponsor, Liza Minelli’s marvelous “hand dance” during New York, New York. Newly discovered X-Men team member, Chita Rivera has adamantium-infused hips. Check out them kicks, folks! SHE’S 82 YEARS OLD! Jimi thinks Jane Horrocks is unstoppable, Tommy thinks otherwise. Maybe it’s a Transatlantic divide thing. You decide! Check out the Kander and Ebb Kennedy Center Honors performance, a

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Welcome to part two of the Jim and Tomic Holiday Extravaganza! By now you’ll be fatted on the sofa full to the brim of turkey, cookies and general festive cheer. What better way to unwind than with Jimi and Tommy talking holiday traditions, the top ten Christmas songs from musicals, the enigma that is the British Pantomime and a good ol’ fashioned game of everyone’s favourite Ellen DeGeneres-crafted activity. Happy Holidays! SHOW NO ◀ DID YOU LISTEN TO PART 1? First of all, we want to know what your favourite holiday musical is! Tweet us @jimandtomic to let us know! Have a look at Tommy’s alltime favourite holiday special - the Rankin and Bass Christmas Specials! Here are the Brothers Miser introducing themselves in some festive stop-motion joy. Jimi’s all time favourite holiday special is everyone’s favourite Scottish soft drink’s Christmas advert. Take a wander around the sights of Scotland in full Raymond Briggs style glory. Speaking of holidays, watch Tommy watch Mr

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Welcome to part one of the Jim and Tomic Holiday Extravaganza! Crack open the eggnog and light up a fire as you settle down with us for an evening of musical quizzes, chatting about the recent NBC Live production of “The Wiz”, potentially poor Christmas musicals, the questionably successful live stream of “Daddy Long Legs” and a plethora of deviation from the point. Happy Holidays! SHOW NOTES To get you in the mood here’s Queen Liza-With-A-Z and Cyril Ritchard after what looks like their seventh carton of eggnog. Enjoy Dame Angie leading the working broadway masses in a post-strike sing a long! (And do your best to look past her lyric difficulties). Check out Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” saving the day with his Red Ryder Carbine Action BB Gun, with the compass on the stock and this thing that tells time, in an early rehearsal for its out of town tryouts in Chicago. Have sympathy for poor Marta in the recent “Sound of Music” live broadcast in the UK, who takes a fall

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ It’s time to get ‘Totally F@&#ed’ as this week’s podcast is all about the beautifully raw ‘Spring Awakening’. We discuss the current revolutionary revival by Deaf West on Broadway, play spot the difference with the musical and the original play, fangirl about Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff and Tommy finally admits his mad crush on Frank Wedekind. Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast) iTunes / Spotify / Amazon SHOW NOTES The beautiful Sutton-Superfan, Jonathan Groff, sounds off to the equally beautiful Seth Rudetsky (give us a job, Seth!) about when he auditioned for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and performs the entire tap number from the opening! He’s come a long way to get to his adonis status in Perfect Pitch. Here’s Skylar Astin sporting the famous Georg binocular locks. This is purely just a podcast about the hot men associated with “Spring Awakening”. Here’s the man who started it all. You work that moustache, Mr. Wedekind! Lea Michele looking adorable herein one

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Come join us in our auditory shtetl as we discuss the trials and tribulations of Tevye and his family and their classic and much beloved musical “Fiddler on the Roof”. About to enjoy another promising revival on Broadway, we thought it was high time we talked about the musical that puts the “rad” in “tradition”! Witness Jimi having an existential crisis, bask in our vain attempts at trying to pronounce Eastern European names and find out who the true protagonist of this fan favourite is. L’chaim! Fiddler on the Roof (Original Broadway Cast) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify SHOW NOTES Check out the cast of the brand spanking new revival of Fiddler on Broadway and hear about how the show has influenced them throughout their lives. Read a bit more about the “Tevye the Dairyman” stories that started it all - and find out the fates of the forgotten daughters Shprintze and Bielke! Check out the sickest slickness of Jerome Robbins’ original choreography at the 2011 Tonys and then comp

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ Happy Hallowe’en! We get spooky with the scariest musical of all time King Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”. This week we make revelations about who has the power, add fuel to the fire of the eternal debate of who is the best Mrs Lovett, discuss whether or not Nellie Lovett is really as a misguided as she seems and Jimi dances live to the one and only “Disco Sweeney Todd”. Yes, it exists. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Broadway Cast) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify / Google Play SHOW NOTES Come bask in the flickering glow that is the ending of Hangover Square.Sharpen your pitchforks, folks! Is this the most controversial YouTube video of 2015? Millions of Helena Bonham Carter fans agree. Who do you think is the ultimate Lovett?Go buy the Sondheim Bibles a.k.a. “Finishing the Hat” and “Look, I Made a Hat” to witness copious tidbits of awesomeness from “Saturday Night” to “Road Show” and plenty more in between. We love

Discuss on Reddit ➤ Support the Show ➤ We launch straight in with a Lin-Manuel Miranda-shaped love-fest to discuss the musical that is taking this Broadway season by storm and discuss the characters, lyrical genius and influences of the smash-hit sensation 'Hamilton'. Hamilton (Origincal Broadway Cast) Amazon / iTunes / Spotify / Google Play SHOW NOTES: Jimi: YouTube / Twitter Tommy: YouTube / Twitter Check out the some of the certified-grant-winning 'genius' behind the lyrics Go follow Mr Lin-Manuel Miranda on Twitter - and tell him we sent you! Want to know what we meant by ALW 'queening everything up?' Check out this episode of 'Over the Rainbow' and all will become clear. This particular episode says goodbye to Emilie Fleming. Good luck. Schoolhouse Rock; for Jimi and the other non-Yanks out there. Read about how Hamilton is only just out-paced by "Not Getting Married Today" Wanna get real nerdy about Hamilton (like Tommy's U.S. History teacher co-worker)? Check out the online collection of Hamilton's wri