My Broadway Memory
My Broadway Memory, a new live, visual podcast — a celebration of memorable experiences at the theatre with Broadway’s biggest names. During each episode, a guest will choose a Playbill from their collection at random and take a trip down memory lane. In addition to discussing the actual show, Michael, Brian, and guests will discuss the headshots, ads, and other traits that make a Playbill a time capsule of Broadway history.Michael and Brian are calling out to theatre fans everywhere to join in on the fun by creating their own My Broadway Memory videos and sharing them to Instagram or Facebook. Be sure to tag @MyBroadwayMemory and use use the hashtag #MyBroadwayMemory to have a chance at being featured.
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Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Mary Testa was recently nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Aunt Eller in the 2019 Broadway Revival of Oklahoma! She has been seen on Broadway in Wicked, Guys and Dolls, Xanadu, Chicago, 42nd St., Marie Christine, On the Town, Forum, The Rink, Marilyn and Barnum. Off-Broadway includes Portuguese Kid, Government Inspector, First Daughter Suite, Queen of the Mist, See What I Wanna See and A New Brain. Much film and television. Twelve original cast albums. Multiple Tony, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League nominations and a special Drama Desk award celebrating ‘Three Decades of Outstanding Work.’@marytesta.actressJackie Hoffman: Emmy-nominated for her performance in FX’s Feud! Select TV/Film: Gilmore Girls, Difficult People, Elementary, Girls, Inside Amy Schumer, Birdman, Garden State, Legally Blonde 2, Kissing Jessica Stein. Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On the Town, The Addams Family, Xanadu, Hairspray (Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (Yiddish), Once Upon a Mattress, A ChanukahCharol, The Book of Liz (Obie Award). CD: Live at Joe’s PubWant more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Joe Iconis is a musical theater writer and performer. He has been nominated for a Tony Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, and is the recipient of an Ed Kleban Award, a Jonathan Larson Award, and a Richard Rodgers Award. Be More Chill (with Joe Tracz) is currently playing London’s West End, after running at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre and off-Broadway’s The Pershing Square Signature Center after a world premiere at Two River Theater. Joe is the author of Love in Hate Nation (directed by John Simpkins; Two River Theater), Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams; Barrington Stage Company and Greenwich House Theater Off-Broadway), Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova, NAMT), The Black Suits (with Robert Maddock; Center Theater Group, Barrington Stage Company), ReWrite (Urban Stages, Goodspeed Opera House), and Theaterworks USA’s The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks and We the People. Musicals currently in development include The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson for La Jolla Playhouse (directed by Christopher Ashley), Punk Rock Girl! His music appeared on season two of NBC’s Smash. Albums: Be More Chill (OCR and OBCR, which over 500 million streams); Broadway Bounty Hunter (OCR); Things to Ruin (OCR); Two-Player Game, The Joe Iconis Rock & Roll Jamboree, and the upcoming Broadway Bounty Hunter (OCR) all available on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. Joe is hugely inspired by Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, The Muppets, and the Family of artists he frequently surrounds himself with. www.MrJoeIconis.com@mrjoeiconisJennifer Ashley Tepper is producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation, recent projects that are part of a decade-long collaboration with the group known as Joe Iconis & Family. From producing small concerts in basements to producing a show on Broadway, Tepper has cultivated the theatrical collective which The New York Times called “the future of musical theatre”.She is also the Creative and Programming Director at Feinstein’s/54 Below, where she has curated or produced over 3000 shows, including musicals in concert, original solo acts, theatrical reunions, songwriter celebrations, and more. Tepper's leadership at the venue has gained praise from publications including The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Playbill, Newsday, The New York Post, and more.As a writer, Tepper has authored three volumes of The Untold Stories of Broadway book series, published by Dress Circle. NBC New York has called the books an "inspiring Must-Read". Published in 2013, 2014, and 2016, each book has occupied the #1 spot on Amazon.com's Best Sellers List in Broadway & Musicals.On Broadway, Tepper has worked on [title of show], The Performers, Godspell, Macbeth, and The Parisian Woman, and off-Broadway Smokey Joe’s Café and Boys’ Life.Tepper is the conceiver and director of The Jonathan Larson Project which premiered in fall 2018 and received an original cast recording from Ghostlight Records. She is historian consultant on the upcoming tick, tick… BOOM! movie and co-creator of the Bistro Award- winning concert series, If It Only Even Runs A Minute, now in its 11th year.Tepper recently received a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. She was named one of the 10 professionals on Backstage Magazine's "1st Annual Broadway Future Power List", which stated: "Proving herself both a zeitgeist predictor and theatrical historian with her eclectic programming, Tepper is leading the conversation on contemporary musical theatre."@jenashtep.Want more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Adrianna Hicks is a Texas native with a B.F.A Musical Theatre from the University of Oklahoma’s Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre. Credits include Broadway: SIX, The Color Purple Revival,Aladdin; Regional/Tour: The Wiz, SIX, The Color Purple Revival Tour, Ragtime, Buddy Holly; International: Sister Act Germany, Legally Blonde Austria, Dirty Dancing Germany; Concert: Michael Bublé Call Me Irresistible Tour. Insta: @missadriannahicksAndrea Macasaet makes her Broadway debut in Six. She also appeared in the Six tour at American Repertory Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Ordway Theater, Citadel Theatre. Canada: Heathers: The Musical, Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Prairie Nurse (Station Arts Centre); Miss Saigon (Victoria Operatic Society). Canadian National Tour: Bubble Guppies Live! Ready to Rock! (Koba Entertainment). @andrea.cesyl.Want more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
TODRICK HALL is an American singer, songwriter, actor, director, choreographer, & YouTuber. He aspires is a role model for LGBTQ and people of color, and includes his experiences as a Black gay man in his art..Starting with season eight, Hall became a resident choreographer on RuPaul's Drag Race, and occasional judge. From 2016 to 2017, Hall began his Broadway career in original Broadway production of The Color Purple. Since then he’s starred as Lola in Kinky Boots on Broadway. Billy Flynn in Chicago on Broadway and the West End. And his latest Broadway credit being Ogie in Waitress last summer. @todrickCOLLEEN BALLINGER is an American YouTuber, comedian, actress, singer and writer. She is known for her Internet character Miranda Sings, posting videos of the character on YouTube, performing her one-woman comedy act on tour in theatres worldwide, and creating a Netflix original television show based on the character. @colleenWant more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
ELIZABETH STANLEY currently stars in Jagged Little Pill on Broadway, playing Mary Jane Healy. She recently starred in the world premiere of the new musical Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette, Diablo Cody, and Glen Ballard, directed by Diane Paulus at A.R.T. She previously appeared on Broadway in the revival of On the Town (Drama Desk Nomination), Million Dollar Quartet, Cry-Baby, and the Tony Award-Winning revival of Company as well as the First National Tours of The Bridges of Madison County and Xanadu. On television, Elizabeth can be seen in “NOS4A2” (upcoming), “FBI,” “The Get Down”, “The Affair,” “Black Box,” “Made in Jersey,” “Fringe,” “The Chappelle Show,” and “PBS Great Performances – Company.” @el.stansDeAnne Stewart is an Ithaca College musical theatre graduate who is currently in Jagged Little Pill on Broadway. She was also seen in the National Tour of Beautiful the Musical and The Mighty Real Off Broadway. Amidst creating quarantine content for JLP, DeAnne has been exploring other facets of her skill set recently. Songwriting is a medium which she has been secretly exploring for a few years now. She just released a stripped down and homemade music video for her song, "Goodbye", written with guitarist, Jervej Bervar. @deannestewartWant more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Alison Cimmet reports good news from Covenant HouseThank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. We appreciate your support!Thank you to our guests, producers, and Broadway Podcast Network!@alisoncimmet@covenant_houseWant more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Victor Legra reports good news from Hancock French Woods Arts AllianceThank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. We appreciate your support!Thank you to our guests, producers, and Broadway Podcast Network!@hfwaa_org@victorlegraWant more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Megan Hilty is most recognizable for her portrayal of seasoned triple-threat Ivy Lynn, in NBC's musical drama Smash. Most recently she starred as Patsy Cline in Lifetime's original movie Patsy & Loretta, for which she earned a Critics Choice Award Nomination for her performance. Broadway: Wicked, 9 to 5, Noises Off!, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Encores). @meganhiltyMarc Shaiman is an award-winning composer, lyricist, orchestrator and musician. Marc has been Oscar nominated seven times (for “Mary Poppins Returns” (2), “Sleepless In Seattle”, “Patch Adams”, “The First Wives Club”, The American President” and “South Park-Bigger, Longer & Uncut”). He has received two Tony Award nominations (winning one for co-writing the score to “Hairspray” with co-lyricist Scott Wittman), five Grammy Awards nominations (winning one for The Original Cast Recording of “Hairspray”), eleven Emmy Awards (winning one for his work on Billy Crystal’s Academy Award hosting), four Golden Globe nominations (including "The Star", song co-written with Mariah Carey), and two BAFTA nominations ("Sleepless In Seattle" and "Mary Poppins Returns"). Other film work includes “Beaches”, “When Harry Met Sally”, Misery”, “City Slickers”, “The Addams Family”, “Addams Family Values”, “A Few Good Men”, “Sister Act” (1 & 2), “George of the Jungle”, “In and Out”, “Hocus Pocus”, “The Bucket List” and “Parental Guidance”. Broadway musical credits are the Tony-nominated “Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me”, the Tony-winning “Catch Me If You Can”, and "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory". Broadway concert credits are "Peter Allen-Up In One", Bette Midler's "Divine Madness", Ellie Greenwich's "Leader Of The Pack" and “Patti LuPone On Broadway”. After a tremendously successful concert for The Actor's Fund, his musical "Bombshell", created as part of the television show “Smash," is now being developed into a future show. He has co-produced and arranged Grammy winning recordings for music icons such as Bette Midler, Harry Connick Jr. and Mariah Carey, including the Grammy-winning recordings "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "From A Distance.” TV: “The Sweeney Sisters” on SNL, countless award and talk show appearances. @marc_shaimanWant more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Ellyn Marie Marsh - Broadway/OBC: The Rose Tattoo, Enron, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Kinky Boots and Pretty Woman. Creator of the web series “Turning the Tables” and “Gettin Peggy Wit It.” Web series: “Gallery View”. Co-host of the true crime podcast “Obsessed with Disappeared”. Mom to the most hilarious daughter (Lola) and Trader Joe’s enthusiast. @ellynmarshConstance Shulman - Connie is best known for voicing Patti Mayonnaise on Doug and for her recurring role as Yoga Jones in Orange Is the New Black. Shulman originated the role of Annelle in the first production of Steel Magnolias Off-Broadway. @connie.shulmanWant more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Kathryn Allison reports good news from Community League of the HeightsThank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. We appreciate your support!Thank you to our guests, producers, and Broadway Podcast Network!@kathryndallison@cloth159Want more of My Broadway Memory?!Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on TwitterMICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate PodcastBRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage PodcastBROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram#MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices