Category: Podcast

Episode 15: It’s Always Fair Weather

It's Always Fair Weather

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSThis week is unusual in that none of your hosts have seen our movie – IT’S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER! Known today as the movie that “the Gene Kelly tapping on roller skates” dance is from, 1955’s IT’S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER pretty much …

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Episode 14: Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSFor this week’s episode, Windy bends Mike and Vinnie’s brains with THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.  An all-star cast made this movie a hit at the time, but it has since vanished into cinema obscurity – resurfacing as a hit Broadway musical in 2000! …

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Episode 13: Xanadu

Xanadu

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0013.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSThis week, Mike and Vinnie struggle to keep up as Windy lays out several decades of her obsession with XANADU. Mike had never seen it, Vinnie never on the big screen, and it was showing at the Alamo Drafthouse so this was …

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Episode 12: Disney’s Newsies the Broadway Musical

Disney's Newsies the Broadway Musical

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0012.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSThis week, Mike and Vinnie gush about DISNEY’S NEWSIES THE BROADWAY MUSICAL (and Windy sits back and preens with “I told you so”). Thank god for Harvey Fierstein who restructured and improved the plot and characters, giving us a story with emotional …

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Episode 11: Newsies

Newsies

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0011.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSThis week, listeners, Windy steers Mike and Vinnie towards NEWSIES, the 1992 live-action Disney musical. Starring a teen-aged Christian Bale (who was mortified to appear in a musical), a scenery-chewing and excessively gesturing Robert Duvall, and Bill Pullman singing and dancing, this is a …

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Episode 10: The Music Man

The Music Man

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSThis week, listeners, Mike discovers and Vinnie re-discovers the sweet, simple (yet sly) joys of THE MUSIC MAN. Robert Preston stars as Professor Harold Hill (spoiler: not his real name) in the role that made him a Broadway star, and defined both …

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Episode 9: Phantom of the Paradise

Phantom of the Paradise

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0009.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS  Listeners! Take a listen as Mike gets his mind blown by PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE! Brian DePalma’s 1974 rock opera is gloriously garish with literary references galore, Paul Williams’ soundtrack is a smorgasbord of musical styles settling in on glam-prog-rock, and …

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Episode 8: On the Town

On the Town

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0008.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSThis week is our first episode featuring Gene Kelly as he sails through Manhattan in ON THE TOWN! Neither Vinnie nor Mike had ever seen it, and this is a classic for a reason. Based on a ballet created by Jerome Robbins (THE …

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Episode 7: Sweeney Todd (stage)

Sweeney Todd

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Episode 6: Main Hoon Na

Main Hoon Na

http://media.blubrry.com/reeledumusical/reeledumusical.com/upload/podcast-reeledumusical/arem0006.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSIt’s our first Bollywood!  I mean, not our first – all three of your hosts have seen at least one Bollywood movie. But it’s our first Bollywood episode and it is the delightful MAIN HOON NA (“Trust Me, I’m Here”)! Windy was …

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