A weekly musical film podcast (hosted by Lia and Odiesia) + UWSU Musical Theatre Society Grease things also. Links and stuff to come.
Our special month Podcrushed is coming to an end. We are finishing up with the first (?) podcast musical, 36 Questions. Judith tries to save her marriage using 'the 36 questions (to fall in love)'. Her husband Jase hopes that he'll finally get the truth about who she really is.
This Valentine's month we're doing something different! Welcome to Podcrushed, our special podcast musical month. This episode we're covering the 6 episode podcast, Crush Hour. Join us on our 5 journeys to 5 meet cutes, loosely linked, He's Just Not That Into You style.
For our second "The Year is Still Young" movie, we talked about another 2022 stage to screen adaptation of a musical that centres kids, 13 the Musical. This is a story about Evan, a boy who moves to a new town just as he's planning his bar mitzvah. Now, he has to make new friends, so he can have the party he's always wanted.
Happy 2023! We are starting off the year with a recent smash, Matilda the Musical!! The story of a clever and imaginative young girl who gains supernatural powers and leads a revolution. Join us this month focused on great young performers in The Year is still Young, For our obsessions: https://tellmemoretellmemorepodcast.tumblr.com/ For our fave songs: https://open.spotify.com/user/x8hb9tgqy9plvt6zx3djejyz1?si=e09430e3dea74e40 For all other links: https://msha.ke/tellmemoretellmemorepodcast/
The duel continues as we turn the clock back a few year to 1999. There we find Alicia Morton playing Annie in the TV movie adaptation of the Christmas adventure. With an equally stacked cast and familiar songs, this movie puts up quite a fight in our Duel in December!!
Coming at you this Xmas with a duel. Our first contestant it Annie (2014). A modern remake that brings the classic musical into the digital age. Starring Quvenzhané Wallis as the titular character and Jamie Foxx as the mega-rich businessman who takes her in for the holiday. Hope you enjoy our little Duel in December. Stay tuned for more!
Happy Birthday to half of the podcast, Odiesia!! To celebrate, we bring you a previously promised episode. For updates on uploads, follow our twitter (@tmmtmmpodcast) This is Labyrinth, a story about a girl who needs to rescue her baby brother from the Goblin King. Join us on this character filled journey through the labyrinth.
It's 80s October (a.k.a. Octies) and we are dipping straight into a campy cult classic with 1980's Xanadu starring Olivia Newton-John. A story about an artist and a muse. Grab your roller-skates and join us on this ride.
in our second of the double-feature we go all the way to Russia, where a young girl is hoping to be a gold medalist in figure-skating. However, things don't exactly go to plan.
For our double-feature upload, we're first heading into the land of ice hockey with Score: a Hockey Musical, starring some familiar faces. When 17 year old Farley gets recruited for a hockey team. His mostly sheltered life goes into turmoil as he deals with the friction between who he is and who he's expected to be.
We watched The Lion King 2 for our second ROARgust episode. This time the story is a vague adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Kiara, Simba's daughter and Kovu, Scar's heir, fall in love even though they are from feuding prides. This is a slightly late episode but enjoy the journey with us anyways!
It's ROARgust everybody!! Our lil month dedicated The Lion King and its sequel. In our first August episode we have THEE Lion King. Loosely based on Hamlet, this animated movie set in Africa explores themes of family, grief and responsibility. Young Simba who ‘just can't wait to be king' faces a tough decision when he gets that exact opportunity. Join us on this coming-of-age story adapted from Shakespeare.
We are closing off Bollywood July (a week late), with RamLeela, a 2013 Bollywood adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this tumultuous adventure. Ram of the Rajadi's (played by Ranveer Singh) and Leela of the Sanera's (played by Deepika Padukone)are star-crossed lovers whose families have been feuding for decades upon decades. join us as we travel the familiar journey of forbidden love and tragedy.
Welcome to Jollywood, our Bollywood month!! Starting off with the 2002 adaptation of Devdas starring Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai as our star-crossed-friends-to-lovers. After over a decade apart Devdas is finally coming home and his childhood best friend, Parvati, who has been pining for him, might finally get the chance to tell him how she feels. Join us for this rollercoaster of emotions.
Capping off our Pride Month we're taking a look at a cult classic. Hedwig and The Angry Inch tells the story of a young German rock singer who, after a botched sex-change operation, moves to a trailer in Kansas where she continues her search for her stardom and her "other half". Trigger Warnings: - Forced sex transition (20:13 - 23:27) - Sexual acts with a minor (33:18 - 34:00 & 37:24 - 38:32) Also ambient noises happen (28:53 - 43:36) For our obsessions: https://tellmemoretellmemorepodcast.tumblr.com/ For our fave songs: https://open.spotify.com/user/x8hb9tgqy9plvt6zx3djejyz1?si=e09430e3dea74e40 For all other links: https://msha.ke/tellmemoretellmemorepodcast/
Ulysses is a shy, effeminate teenager who is both coping with his father's death and coming of age. Join us in our first musical this Pride month as we follow him on his journey to self discovery and self acceptance in Saturday Church Trigger Warnings: CA: 31:00 - 31:38 CSA: 39:00 - 41:38 (with vague references to this at 42:15 - 43:32)
Closing out BeatleMAYnia with The Beatles themselves. There's hijinks, banter and music, it's a quick little romp with A Hard Day's Night.
Welcome to BeatleMAYnia! We're starting off with 2007's Across The Universe! A story (primarily set in 1960s America)about a boy in love, a girl fighting for peace and her brother off to war. Join us on our little journey as we speed run through The Beatle's discography.
Closing out the month with another movie from an unofficial trilogy, The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort). This Jacques Demy film is a fun, french, stylistic series of missed connections, with gorgeous visuals, great choreography and Gene Kelly. So join us as we follow twins Delphine and Solange as the find love and follow their dreams.
Bienvenue to our Paris-centric April. Starting with Baz Luhrmann's extravaganza of excess, Moulin Rouge! A simple story within a story about a young writer who moves to Paris and falls in love for the first time. But as first loves go, this one takes many-a-turn. Come with us, into the Moulin Rouge.
Maestro March capped off the with the only appropriate entry: West Side Story (2021). Celebrating Stephen Sondheim as the lyricist of WSS. Take a journey with us to 1960s New York City. The tensions are high between rival the gangs, The Jets and The Sharks. One night, two star-crossed young lovers meet and their love sets off a tragic sequence of events.
Welcome to Maestro March! This episodes celebrates Jonathan Larson through the recent movie adaptation of his show Tick, Tick... Boom! In this 2021 release, Jonathan is preparing for the workshop showcase of his show Supurbia. His 30th birthday is looming, his girlfriend has a job offer that is taking her away from New York City and he still has one more song t o write. For the cameos list got to 1h 11m 40s (71:40)
Closing out Barbruary with 2008's Barbie & The Diamond Castle. Best friends Liana and Alexa find themselves thrust in an adventure. Their new friend Melody who is stuck in a mirror needs their help to save music. Just like our previous movie, Diamond castle is a tale of music and friendship.
Hello you gorgeous gossips, t's Barbruary! The Barbie-centric month and we're starting with 2021's Big City, Big Dreams. The story about vlogger, Barbie Roberts and her musical theatre training adventure in New York City. Join us for this movie musical filled with bops and blossoming friendships,
Closing out ja(NEW)ary with director Leos Carax's first english film Annette. This rock opera with music and lyrics by Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, is the story of Henry, a standup comedian and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, opera singer Anne. Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. note: we will be uploading on Wednesdays for the foreseeable future
It's ja[NEW]ary! The month we're dedicating to relatively recent releases. In this episode, we join Mirabel, a 15 yer old with a family full of magical people. The family Madrigal use their talent to take care of their people. However, something is threatening their magic and Mirabel, the only family member without powers takes it upon herself to find out what's going on, in hopes to fix it.
Issa double feature day! Our second helping of the stage-to-screen, movies featuring a queer teen lead, is The Prom. This Broadway show turned Netflix Original follows Emma, a girl who just wants to take her girlfriend to prom. Unfortunately the homophobic PTA will stop at nothing to keep this from happening. Enter stage left, a group of theatre celebs in need of a cause to boost their public perception. Thank you for your patience this month. It's been quite a month. Join us next time for some Xmas shenanigans!
It's here! Promvember, the fun and fab double feature day. Starting with Everybody's Talking About Jamie. Based on Jamie Campbell, this movie follows a young boy from Sheffield who has dreams of becoming a drag queen. However, this coming-of-age story, adapted from the West End show of the same name, is also about self-discovery and learning to be yourself no matter what.
Sadly, Doctober has come to an end. However, we have one last romp. Ooh Shock Treatment! In what feels like a Rock Horror AU. Brad and Janet, now married, are invited to be contestants in a marriage game show in an effort to save the relationship. Unfortunately, there are sinister forces that send Janet on a rollercoaster of self discovery and Brad to a mental health facility.
Hello you gorgeous gossips, it's spooky season, shocktober if you will. We are FINALLY covering the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in our first of two Doctober episodes. After their car breaks down Brad Majors and his fiancée Janet Weiss enter a castle seeking a telephone. However, they are immediately thrust into a strange adventure once they meet the master of the house, Dr. Frank N. Furter. Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick, this Richard O'Brien musical is a non-stop romp.
Psychedelic 70s September winds down with another rock album turned musical movie, The Who's, Tommy! After witnessing his father's murder, a traumatized Tommy becomes deaf, blind and mute. After attempts to cure him fail, he eventually finds his calling as a pinball wizard and the leader of a religious cult. TRIGGER WARNING: abuse (physical and sexual incl.) 23:55 - 31:35
Psychedelic 70's September comes steaming right ahead with the first showing of the month: the brain melting motion picture to accompany the album of the same name, Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'. In it we follow the eponymous Pink's traumatic journey from childhood after the loss of his father in war. Pink Floyd's The Wall is considered one of the greatest albums of all time, and the accompanying film is a wild ride that is one of the heaviest films we've covered.
After missing their flight, S Club 7 find they have been replaced by clones. What will they do next? Well, join us for another Brit Pop moment with Seeing Double.
It's Brit Pop August! And we're are starting with the barely sensical Spice World. Join us on the Spice Bus filled with cameos and fantastical sequences starring one of the most iconic girl groups, the Spice Girls.
Coming in under the wire due to multiple technical difficulties: Moana! Join us on our last JuLin-Manuel Miranda episode as we sail across the ocean with Moana of Motunui to find the demigod Maui and save her Island and her people.
Welcome to JuLin-Manuel Mondays and we are starting off strong with the movie musical of the summer In The Heights, based on the Broadway musical of the same name. Usnavi De La Vega played by Anthony Ramos tells us about a very pivotal summer for the neighbourhood of Washington Heights in New York City. It's a story about community, love and most importantly following your dreams. Timestamp for background noises: 1hr 3mins
We're wrapping up Gentlemen's June with the lesser known Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. Starring Jeanne Crain and Jane Russell as the showgirl duo, The Jones Sisters. Trigger Warning!!! we describe a scene and musical number that contains incredibly racist imagery from 34:40 to 43:06 so please proceed with caution. we do mention the scene in the rating section as well but in far less detail.
Welcome to Gentlemen's June everybody! Starting off with the unmistakably iconic film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Lorelei Lee set to marry the very wealthy Gus Esmond in France. However, due to interference by his father, Gus can't travel with her, so her best friend and fellow showgirl Dorothy Shaw is tasked with chaperoning her to make sure she behaves.
The month of monsters has come and gone. We're ending on a fun and camp classic Little Shop of Horrors, starring Rick Moranis as Seymour, a nerdy florist who finds an interesting plant that has a peculiar appetite. This black comedy was based on the Off- Broadway production of the same name written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.
Join us this Monster May as we prepare for the epic battle between heaven and hell. The Devil’s Carnival and its sequel Alleluia! Devil’s Carnival, tells the story of ultimate good and evil through Aesop's fables. However, some things aren’t as they seem. This double feature of an episode brings us the return of Terrance Zdunich and Paul Sorvino of Repo: The Genetic Opera as Lucifer and God respectively.
In this insanely late episode, we talk about Nickelodeons 2012 gender-bent modern take on Cinderella. Starring Max Schneider and Keke Palmer in the lead roles of Charlie Prince and Kaydee Worth. This updated fairytale focuses on Charlie's pursuit of a music career while pop star, Kaydee yearns to be her authentic self. It's the story that you know and love but with a twist!
We need no excuse to watch teen TV movies, so we've dedicated this whole month to them! Starting off, we're looking at the DCOM adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, Let It Shine! In this rap-filled musical, we follow Cyrus as he attempts to find a balance between his duty to church and family, while pursuing his heart and the love of young pop star.
Leaving Murder March with a really fun one! Repo: The Genetic Opera, starring Buffy The Vampire Slayer actor Anthony Stwert Head, Spy Kids actress Alexa Vega-Pena, Opera Singer Sarah Brightman and Paris Hilton. This rock opera take place in a post-apocalyptic version of the near future where organ transplants can be reposed.
It's Murder March! Coming from the killer ladies in Chicago, now we take a trip to Fleet Street where we visit the demon barber: Sweeney Todd! A man bent on revenge goes on a killing spree while his enraptured mistress bakes the dead into pies.
5, 6, 7, 8! Our final Fosse February episode is in collaboration with By All Means Necessary (a true crime podcast hosted by Maja). Join us as we follow the jazzed up murderesses of Chicago starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Reneé Zellweger then head over to BAMN where Maja talks about the true crimes that inspired the iconic musical.
Fosse February is here! For our first foray into the legendary works of Bob Fosse, we're delving into his directorial debut, 'Sweet Charity'! Follow the sweetly optimistic dancer-for-hire Charity Hope Valentine, played by Shirley MacLaine, as she falls in and out of love and searches for 'Something Better than This' -while doing amazing choreo!
Jandrewary continues with maybe the slightly unexpected Victor/Victoria! Set in 1930s Paris, this film portrays Julie Andrews as a starving soprano, who gets a break when a new friend convinces her to become a female drag artist, by first pretending to be male.
January, or should we say 'Julie Andrews-ary' is here! This month we've dedicated our show to Julie Andrews, and why wouldn't we start off with one if her most known roles 'Mary Poppins!' Starring alongside Dick van Dyke, Julie plays the titular nanny who floats into the world of the Banks family and changes their lives for the better.
At long last, 2020 is over, and we say goodbye to a supremely interesting year with another new classic, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey! The brilliant granddaughter of a downtrodden toy inventor attempts to reignite the flame of creativity that once burned bright inside him before they lose the shop for good.
The festive season is here at last! We are leaving 2020 behind and looking for new classics to take with us! First on our roster was a fresh offering from the legend herself, Dolly Parton. In 'Christmas on the Square', a miserly woman sees the error of her ways with a touch of angelic help.
It's NUN-vember, the sequel, so hold on to your habits as we dive into Sister Act 2! Starring Whoopi Goldberg and Lauryn Hill, the film follows a Vegas singer turned fake nun as she helps uplift inner-city Catholic school students by forming a choir.