Fifty Key Stage Musicals: The Podcast is a supplement to the Routledge Press publication Fifty Key Stage Musicals. Each episode focuses on an iconic musical that altered the landscape of the genre and features interviews with theatre professionals and scholars. Hosts: Andrew Child and Robert W. Schneider.
https://www.routledge.com/Fifty-Key-Stage-Musicals/Schneider-Agnew/p/book/9780367444426
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 23 hours 46 minutes
episode 41: RENT
Composer Jonathon Larson set out to bring musical theatre to a new generation with Rent, a rock opera based on Puccini’s La Boheme and set in Lower Manhattan’s East Village.
episode 40: GREASE (1994)
Casting Director Stuart Howard details the way producers Fran and Barry Weissler changed the Broadway landscape by employing “Stunt Casting”-- the hiring of celebrities who will draw audiences to a show after the box office inevitably slows-- in the 1994 Broadway revival of Grease.
episode 39: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Disney’s animated films, which in turn lead to a profitable pipeline between the children’s media conglomerate and New York City, beginning with a stage adaptation of the animated box office hit, Beauty and the Beast.
episode 38: FALSETTOS
Jack Lechner highlights the reasons that, although Falsettos wasn’t the first musical to tackle same-sex relationships or even the first musical to tackle the AIDS crisis, the show had a lasting emotional affect on audiences and influenced later works dealing with similar subject matter.
episode 37: THE SECRET GARDEN
Director Susan H. Schulman traces the development of The Secret Garden as the first collaboration between an all-female creative team in a Broadway musical.
episode 35: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
The Phantom of the Opera held audiences captive since its Broadway premiere.
episode 34: LES MISERABLES
Robert Meffe traces the development of Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and Herbert Kretzmer’s epic mega-musical, Les Misérables through inception and how it created the template for musicals that would successfully fuse their scores with popular musical forms.
episode 33: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Comparing early responses to Queer representation in film and cinema from French and American audiences, Robert W. Schneider sets the scene for the opening of La Cage Aux Folles, Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s musical adaptation of a French farce featuring the first leading homosexual couple for the Broadway musical.
episode 32: CATS
In this episode, member of the original Broadway cast, Stephen Hanan, analyzes the marketing genius of Sir Cameron Macintosh, the artistic originality of Trevor Nunn, and the indelible literary capability of T.S. Eliot which led to the lasting success of Cats.