One Fan Show: A Broadway Podcast

Alex talks with his guest (and twin brother) Tyler about Cats (2019), the new movie based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash musical, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Judi Dench, Idris Elba, and plenty of other insane celebrities who are now CGI cats forever. We discuss why we like James Corden and Jason Derulo now, compare Cats to every Best Picture nominee at the Oscars, and most importantly urge you and everyone you know to go see this avant-garde masterpiece immediately.  Links to things mentioned in the show... I'm sorry but this trailer is perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTDoOmc1OQ "If you can't get T. S. Eliot, get T. S.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_yhrD6IJQA&feature=youtu.be&t=108 Unmasked by Andrew Lloyd Webber: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unmasked-andrew-lloyd-webber/1126314408 The rat from Charlotte's Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE4RRKaCifU Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ This week's guest: Tyler  

Alex talks with his guest (and twin brother) Tyler about the Broadway production of Oklahoma! playing at the Circle in the Square Theatre through January 19, 2020. We discuss why it's called sexy/horny/dark Oklahoma!, Ado Annie seducing audience members, an audience member trying to undress Curly with her eyes, and why Tyler really should have seen it twice when he had the chance. Links to things mentioned in the show... Tickets and info: https://oklahomabroadway.com/ Listen to the 2019 Broadway Cast Recording on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3JctweW8WZzHbU8gw0J8NP?si=1xR0ALqET9--QKG-2HCI7A Something Wonderful by Todd Purdum: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/something-wonderful-todd-s-purdum/1126272819#/ Cast and creative team Talks at Google interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5e0bZcHdWw Ali Stroker on The Tonight Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTnnLaIvtk8 Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ This week's guest: Tyler    

Alex talks with his guests Tyler, Ethan and Beth (in the first four-person episode of One Fan Show!!) about the Broadway production of Be More Chill playing at the Lyceum Theatre but closing August 11th, 2019. We discuss our different experiences (some having already seen it on Broadway, some having seen a Minneapolis production and one person seeing it for the first time), we talk about the "Michael in the Bathroom" singalong and we Muppet-cast the show. Links to things mentioned in the show... Tickets and info:http://bemorechillmusical.com/ Listen to the Original Cast Recording on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6emT6Wf0qivQ0Hyx0gruyr?si=EHHAWAosT92MKju6hBOhBA Listen to the Original *Broadway* Cast Recording: https://open.spotify.com/album/2otn74uchXYddmyj8IdGXW?si=T52Xt7BzTYWXsy_DcbEYlA Pepe the King Prawn Muppet saying "Smoking is very bad for you okay": https://youtu.be/Pa_HT9vQiLw?t=60 Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ This week's guest: Tyler, Ethan and Beth

Alex talks with his guest (and twin brother) Tyler about Minneapolis Musical Theatre's production of Be More Chill playing at the Illusion Theater in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota until April 28th. We discuss the differences in seeing it after the Broadway production and seeing it for the first time, the differences between this 2015 version vs. 2019, and the parts that made Tyler laugh so hard he shook the entire row of seats. Links to things mentioned in the show... Tickets and info:https://www.aboutmmt.org/ Listen to the Original Cast Recording on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6emT6Wf0qivQ0Hyx0gruyr?si=EHHAWAosT92MKju6hBOhBA Old Town Road: https://open.spotify.com/track/53CJANUxooaqGOtdsBTh7O?si=eqlGua2tRluw1ilTOzd4fQ Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ This week's guest: Tyler Lauer  

Alex talks with his guest Ethan about Fiasco Theater's production of Merrily We Roll Along playing at the Laura Pels Theater Off-Broadway until April 14th. We discuss the history of Sondheim and Hal Prince's infamous flop as well as one thing every critic got wrong about this show, and Alex gets choked up for the first time. Links to things mentioned in the show... Tickets and info for the production at Roundabout Theatre Company: https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/get-tickets/2018-2019-season/merrily-we-roll-along/ Listen to the Original Broadway Cast Recording on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3KZq3isCTbYMzGvnXkTfNr?si=sE2iIq48SP-_0b8H3I4Arg Watch the documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80132964 For discount tickets: Use code MWRFIASCO1 on Roundabout's website or enter the Today Tix lottery Broadway.com Live at Five with Manu Narayan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_2OgMtW4c0 Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ This week's guest: Ethan Lauer

When I saw the new Broadway musical Be More Chill on February 21st, 2019 at the Lyceum Theatre, I sat next to a mom and her tween daughter. During the course of the show, the mom shook her damn head five distinct times — and I think those instances point out everything you need to know before seeing this musical. Welcome to the first episode of The Big Five, from One Fan Show.  Links to things mentioned in the show... Tickets and info for Be More Chill: https://bemorechillmusical.com/ Be More Chill cast recording from 2015: https://open.spotify.com/album/6emT6Wf0qivQ0Hyx0gruyr?si=cKMfbPPVQLqqzOZQkhagcw "Michael in the Bathroom" performed at 54 Below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fQmkBmb60 "Michael in the Bathroom" animation from Youtuber trash cass with 4.1 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVGqLbpCboU Ben Brantley's self-own: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/theater/be-more-chill-review.html Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer

Alex talks with his guest Eric about the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's production of Fiddler on the Roof currently playing at Stage 42 Off Broadway. We discuss what it's like to see the classic show performed entirely in Yiddish (with English and Russian supertitles), what got us both closest to crying and why it's better than The Phantom of the Opera.  Links to things mentioned in the show... Tickets and info for Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish: http://fiddlernyc.com/ Broadway Radio's interview with Adam Shapiro (Der Rov): https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2018/10/28/spotlight-adam-shapiro-fiddler-on-the-roof-in-yiddish-at-national-yiddish-theatre-folksbiene-nytf/ Video highlights of the production from its original run at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7yryjpzUv8 Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer This week's guest: Eric Prister

Alex talks with his guest Beth about the two-part Harry Potter play aka Harry Potter and the Cursed Child currently playing at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway. We discuss how it compares to reading the script (which J.K. Rowling didn't write), our crush on Jamie Parker (who plays adult Harry), the $33 million theater renovation and whether or not you should pay $$$ to see it.  Links to things mentioned in the show... Original #OneFanShow video about The Cursed Child coming to Broadway: https://youtu.be/UIgv7GThn_w "Another Harry Potter Landmark: At $68 Million, the Most Expensive Broadway Nonmusical Play Ever" via The New York Times Dumbledore vs. Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: https://youtu.be/ZMeFnwsxh6s?t=168 The lead singer of Counting Crows, Adam Duritz Tickets to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child around the world: https://www.harrypottertheplay.com/ Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer This week's guest: Elizabeth Ireland

Alex talks with his guest Ethan about Company XIV's production of Nutcracker Rouge, a "baroque burlesque" version of The Nutcracker currently playing at Théâtre XIV in Brooklyn until January 13th. We discuss how it's like Moulin Rouge, our favorite moments including an impromptu Champagne shower, the connection to The Prince of Egypt musical, and lots more. Links to things mentioned in the show... Lexxe "Red Velvet" music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0-iPJr2CA Jourdan Epstein on So You Think You Can Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EvAKMUNLPc Cast on Instagram: @QueenLexxe, @OperaGaga, @Cunio4, @AllisonESchuster, @CompanyXIV Trailer for Nutcracker Rouge 2018 (with video from last year): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH28fr6ZUtY Tickets to Nutcracker Rouge and the upcoming Queen of Hearts: http://companyxiv.com/ Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer This week's guest: Ethan "on the streets of Bushwick" Lauer

Alex talks with his identical twin Tyler about the Broadway musical King Kong, currently playing at the Broadway Theatre. We discuss, of course, the 2,000-pound animatronic King Kong, as well as the connection to French duo Justice, how it's like the Dracula puppet musical in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and most of all whether or not you should see it. (*Please note: I realized after the recording that I was saying the lead actor's name wrong. It's Christiani Pitts, not Christiana. Apologies!) Links to things mentioned in the show... Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, the Merrily We Roll Along documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwqEdQykJU Andrew Lloyd Webber plays piano for the song "Love Never Dies" at an event at The Town Hall in New York for his book Unmasked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKVpAXYQIRE Jason Segel's Dracula puppet musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd5lMDkvzvI Justice "D.A.N.C.E.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCnBrrnOefs Be More Chill original cast recording with Eric William Morris (who plays Carl Denham): https://open.spotify.com/album/6emT6Wf0qivQ0Hyx0gruyr?si=0da4-AJxTcWAUOxa5npMmg Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer This week's guest: Tyler "Don't Email Me" Lauer

Alex talks with Ethan Lauer to discuss SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, currently playing at the Palace Theatre and running until September 16th. We discuss the David Bowie connection, standing ovations for Squidward Q. Tentacles, whether or not you should see it before it closes, and much more. Links to things mentioned in the show... One Fan Show (the short-lived web series): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDa5Bx_ehK4AI6A1uHbEnFw Mooing with strangers in Tompkins Square Park for the 20th Anniversary of RENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIvlcwjsawA&t=2s The cast of SpongeBob performing at the 2017 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuWO2vLsjdc Ben Brantley's review in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/theater/spongebob-squarepants-broadway-musical.html BroadwayRadio's This Week on Broadway podcast review: https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2017/12/10/this-week-on-broadway-for-december-10-2017-eva-noblezada/ Theater People podcast interview with producer Kevin McCollum: https://theaterppl.com/the-podcast/2016/8/15/kevin-mccollum Get in touch with Alex and One Fan Show: https://onefanshow.tumblr.com/ Instagram: @AlexLauer Twitter: @AlexLauer This week's guest: Ethan Lauer, @Ethan.Lauer