Dec 25, 2018
Merry Christmas, fellow filthy Broadway animals! We've moved on from the movie musical into the holidays, and this Irving Berlin musical covers all of them. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Arbor Day, Labor Day... Let's check into the Broadway adaptation of the classic ’40s movie musical "Holiday Inn,"...
Dec 19, 2018
City of stars...sry I can't see you in this smog. HERE IT IS, FOLKS: the final episode in this DOOZY of a season! We have spent the last few months going through defining movies of each decade, and we are finally to the 2010s. In this episode, Alex and Daisha examine the cinematic and musical tools used from the...
Dec 12, 2018
Seasons may change, winter to spring, but we love this movie until the end of time! Our movie musical for the week is the overwhelming Baz Luhrmann mélange of major Romantic operas: Moulin Rouge! It’s hard not to love this glitter-covered jukebox musical as it takes us through a rollercoaster of emotions and pop song...
Nov 28, 2018
Here is a lion! Welcome to Pride Rock, the glamorous, regal, iconic site of this week's movie musical, Disney's epic AF "The Lion King." Featuring a cast of what feels like 50 famous actors, this 90s nostalgia trip is one helluva ride into the Pridelands, as young Simba must face his destiny after his father meets a...
Nov 14, 2018
Welcome back, dear listeners! We took a brief hiatus so Alex could get his silly laptop in the shop. So now that we're back, after a brief update on what's happened in the world of Broadway, it's onto the weirdest movie we've watched yet: Jim Henson's "Labyrinth," starring minor-age Jennifer Connelly as a...