Tim Aumiller and Scott Schneider of NO HOPE share thoughts on musicals, culture and the 16+ year collaborative journey of their barely-on-life support writing careers and creative endeavors. They formed NO HOPE Productions in 2003 when they presented their first musical DOSE! at the East Village’s Kraine Theatre. Since, they have written five full-length musicals and presented more than a dozen evenings of new music including SIREN/KINGS and PULLING THE PLUG at the legendary Joe’s Pub and THE YEAR AFTER at The Green Room 42. Their musical HELLO, MY NAME IS BILLY was a Backstage Critic’s Pick and a FringeNYC award winner. On film, their song “Fools Like You” was featured in the acclaimed documentary ACTRESS; you can also find their music video “Evolution” featuring Siren on YouTube. The NO HOPE Songbook Volume I: 2003-2013, which includes their MAC Award nominated “So Many Reasons” can be purchased on their website nohopeproductions.com. Recently they received a Fruitie award for Outstanding One Act at the Fresh Fruit Festival for their first consensual cannibal musical, ONCE BEGUN.
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"Farewell September" Written by Scott Schneider and Tim Aumiller, performed by Brittneyann Accetta, Max Crumm, Dayna Dantzler, Deon'te Goodman and Shanna Sharp. With Murph Aucamp, Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim, Scott Schneider, Jacob Shipley and Wick Simmons. (C) 2023 Schneider and Aumiller, NO HOPE.
Tim and Scott embark on season three of their award-winning* podcast, bringing their unique critique to New York theater, of the moment movies, and everything & the kitchen sink of pop culture. Prepare yourself for more guests, more laughs -and of course more musicals, both loved and hated. (*this is a lie)
"Boundaries" Written by Scott Schneider and Tim Aumiller, performed by Krystina Alabado. (C) 2023 Schneider and Aumiller, NO HOPE.
Tim and Scott are back with a "quick" introduction to their long-awaited first ever professionally recorded album, THE YEAR AFTER, a song cycle.
Tim and Scott continue their Intermission conversation, swapping New York theatre highs and lows since wrapping Season 2 - singing washing machines, strippers named Juicy, Patti vs. Karen, backdoor EGOTS and the brilliance of Heather Headley!
The wait is over -at least for a minute… Tim and Scott are back with a big heaping dose of hopelessness, rage and gallows humor that would get them cancelled, if anyone knew who they were! Nearly twenty years in the making, they name the village of talented artists currently working to record their song cycle THE YEAR AFTER -coming this fall. Tim relives his first time with Justin Bieber, Scott hears Kathleen Turner sing(?), and they share the catharsis of the ethereal Valerie June.
Season Two comes to its stunning conclusion as Tim and Scott REWIND on pyramid schemes, the drug-fueled time erasing creation of Fleetwood Mac's magnum opus, Broadway songs that cracked the Top 40 and many more questions accidentally asked they couldn't answer. Producer Michael Fell stops by for a Fall farewell and a theatre-themed drinking game!
Tim and Scott invite you on a trip through the cultural flashpoint that is HAIR -in all its messy, moving, naked glory.
Tim and Scott welcome back Bizzy as she returns from Ireland to Camp Coy! They discuss chicken nuggets, graham crackers as ass -and once again go for the hard-sell in everyone's favorite front-page-to-stage segment, PITCHING BIZZY!
Tim and Scott say wilkommen to Hans Rausch once again for a moving discussion of his favorite musical, Kander and Ebb classic CABARET, set in 1930's Berlin during the waning days of the Weimar Republic.
Tim and Scott welcome Hans Rausch, calling from Tim's favorite city, Berlin, Germany -who "helps people who have great ideas, put them on the stage." They discuss his astounding resume, dish on his personal history, Disney's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, the German phenomena of STARLIGHT EXPRESS and a fülle of other musical theatre experiences.
Tim and Scott are back with a full slate of Rewinds, a game with producer Michael Fell and the highs and lows, hits, misses and history of the one and only GREASE.
"What It Feels Like When I Am Touched By Your Heart" Written by Scott Schneider and Tim Aumiller, performed by Brittneyann Accetta. (C) 2021 Schneider and Aumiller, NO HOPE.
Tim and Scott welcome special guest, Brittneyann Accetta, to share her journey from a musical family, starting her YouTube presence at 10 (inspired by who else but Justin Bieber!), writing her first song, singing the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden at 13, her intensive training at AMDA and performing in her very first musical -THE OFFICE, A Musical Parody! Finally, she is struck by THE GREAT COMET.
Special Guest Mary Johnston Rutherford returns with a heart full of love for epic mega-musical LES MISERABLES. The group talks side villains, barricades, missed entrances, 25th Anniversary stunt casting, Frances Ruffelle fun facts -AND wrap with Mary’s Mackey experience working on THE CHER SHOW!
Tim and Scott welcome Broadway Wardrobe Supervisor and extraordinary human Mary Johnston Rutherford as she leapfrogs her journey from Hutchinson, KS to six months in Europe with her high school sweetheart to 11 second quick changes and motherhood on The Great White Way!
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott continue their conversation with special guests Steph Bishop and Robert Maril of Tender Creature. This time, the subject is musicals! Steph savors the queer revelation that is FUN HOME while Robert shoots down the beast that is KING KONG.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott welcome special guests Steph Bishop and Robert Maril of folk-pop duo Tender Creature to discuss their musical past, present and future and, of course, to introduce their new EP -The Offering.
Tim gets personal with his love of Elton John and elevation of ROCKETMAN. Scott is deeply offended by the stage adaptation of THE LITTLE MERMAID.
Tim and Scott welcome frequent collaborator and good-time gal Bizzy Coy to discuss northern European geography, pyramid schemes and $$ free money $$. They go for the hard-sell in a new front-page-to-stage segment called Pitching Bizzy!
Scott chronicles his intimate affair with MERRILY, WE ROLL ALONG. Tim eviscerates the misogynistic torture porn movie musical DANCER IN THE DARK (despite finding a few bright spots).
Special Guest, art director and media guru, Kyle Thomas Hemingway joins to discuss his career, "The Real Housewives" and a musical he loves, Andrew Lippa's THE WILD PARTY.
Tim and Scott rewind on topics ranging from musical theatre dance mixes to PRISCILLA's stage and screen costume budgets to the Michael Jackson musical coming to Broadway with book penned by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Lynn Nottage.
Reprise: RENT. Special Guest Marc Sinoway defends his favorite musical of all time against Tim’s ongoing contempt.
"Heart On My Sleeve" Written by Scott Schneider and Tim Aumiller, performed by Brandy Burre at her home in Beacon, NY. (C) 2021 Schneider and Aumiller, NO HOPE.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott continue their conversation with Special Guest Brandy Burre to talk their many NO HOPE collaborations over the last two decades -including a snippet of the brand new "Heart On My Sleeve." The full song debuts as a Bonus Episode you can listen to now! Brandy pans "perhaps the greatest flop in Broadway history," Andrew Lloyd Webber's ASPECTS OF LOVE.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott welcome Special Guest Brandy Burre to get the lowdown on her storied journey from smalltown Ohio to Washington, D.C. to NYC and now to Beacon -with stops on HBO's THE WIRE and the award-winning documentary ACTRESS, along the way. Brandy weeps for THE SECRET GARDEN.
Collaborator Bizzy Coy calls in from Dublin for Creative Chaos! Tim recalls the emotional and personal encounter of PASSING STRANGE. Scott bashes the botched jukebox adaptation of THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT.
Season Two kicks off with producer Michael Fell joining for some sea-shanty Tik-Toks and other silliness. Scott praises the concert film (clearly-NOT-a-musical) LIZA WITH A Z. Tim discusses the disappointing yet beautifully arranged GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY.
Tim and Scott wrap Season 1 with their traditional follow-up to the many things they failed to mention or didn't know in previous episodes. Plus a lightning-round review of a smattering of songs with "New York" in their title.
Tim comes clean (and full circle) on COMPANY. Scott calls out THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW as utter chaos.
A CHORUS LINE danced its way into Scott's cold cold heart at the young gay age of 14. Tim suffers the massive disappointment of THE COLOR PURPLE musical adaptation.
Scott discovers the life and music of Ms. Joplin through the deeply affecting LOVE, JANIS. Tim bashes THE PRODUCERS for more than one reason.
Tim recalls the ignorance of "better days" with the last mighty roar of the Disney Renaissance and THE LION KING. Scott jumps into the nostalgia bemoaning his post-high-school graduation third chorus boy from the left role in BYE BYE BIRDIE.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott continue talking with Special Guest Stage Manager / Producer Dawn Magyar about landing on Broadway with KINKY BOOTS and their many NO HOPE collaborations. Dawn walks out of BE MORE CHILL.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott welcome Special Guest Stage Manager / Producer Dawn Magyar to discuss her journey from Disney to Cleveland to Blue Man Group. Dawn ugly cries over ONCE.
Tim teems with ecstatic joy from the visceral revival of ONCE ON THIS ISLAND. Scott recalls the absurd experience of being 4th row center for SUZANNE SOMERS: THE BLONDE IN THE THUNDERBIRD.
Scott sings from the hills about his love for THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The long-running success of AIDA baffles Tim.
Tim recalls the rage of AMERICAN IDIOT while Scott attempts to unravel NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812.
Scott relishes the brilliantly profane SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT. Tim bashes RENT.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott continue their conversation with Special Guest Shanna Sharp. They focus on their collaboration making the "Evolution" music video. Shanna shares a musical she “could do without” -DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott welcome Special Guest Shanna Sharp to discuss their first collaboration, DOSE!. Shanna reminisces about her love for INTO THE WOODS.
Scott eviscerates EVITA; Tim embraces MATILDA.
Scott reveres SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE; Tim slams NEXT TO NORMAL.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott continue their conversation with Bizzy Coy. They dive into their second collaboration MONSTERS. Bizzy praises BAT BOY.
Creation and Collaboration Episode. Tim and Scott welcome Special Guest Bizzy Coy to discuss their first collaboration TEACH ME TO SING. Bizzy eviscerates JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT.
Tim can barely muster a kind word for GYPSY; Scott glorifies JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.
Tim lauds LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and Scott kicks little orphan ANNIE in her little orphan shins.
Scott tackles the popular juggernaut, WICKED, and Tim throws down on SWEENEY TODD.
Scott celebrates RAGTIME and Tim gushes over HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.
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