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Albin has left the stage, and the Dondins are on their way!! What can Georges and Jean-Michel do to patch this up and get Anne's family to love them? Well, a lot of shenanigans and the realization Jean-Michel is a terrible person. We're finishing up La Cage! Strap on your highest heels and join us! We are what we are!!

It's June and to celebrate Pride, we're going back to La Cage Aux Folles! Come for the drag and stay for the shenanigans!!

One of us just finsihed a show, and the other one of us is on their honey moon so let's talk about the Tony nominees that are out!!!

Wicked: For Good isn't out yet, but we're here to talk about Act 2 of the musical, which, spoiler alert, will be the basis of the second movie! After Elphaba leaves the Emerald City, things take a dark turn. And then Dorothy drops in.For more Emily Edwards content, please check out https://msemilyedwards.com/ or find her on Bluesky at @msemilyedwards.bsky.social. You can check out F*bois of Literature on the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/fuckboisoflit/posts and the Ticklish Business podcast at https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

*sung to the tune of Popular*Crossover! We're doing a CROSS OVER!This week is a big week here cause we're doing a crossover with Emily Edwards, author and host of F*ckbois of Literature podacst to talk about Wicked. We talked about the book over there and we're gonna talk about the show over here so go check out Emily's episode based on the book, and if you're joining us from here, welcome and strap on your silver shoes and get ready to dance through this blockbuster musical!For more Emily Edwards content, please check out https://msemilyedwards.com/ or find her on Bluesky at @msemilyedwards.bsky.social. You can check out F*bois of Literature on the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/fuckboisoflit/posts and the Ticklish Business podcast at https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

It's Act 2 and we're ready to be tossed off the .. I mean, find out what Urinetown ACTUALLY is! Where is it? Who lives there? What is a metaphor? None of these questions and more will be answered until we have a musical song and snap number. Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

We continue the year of revolutionary thinking to bring you Urinetown! What is Urinetown? Where is Urinetown? Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for act 2 for this to be revealed in song and dance but until then, we can learn more about this city we live in and the people who inhabit it who have to pay for the privilege to pee.https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We're still wintering in the Hamptons with Big Edie and Little Edie and their army of racoons and cats! It's act 2, which means we're heavy into the documentary territory recreation and out of fantasy land. What caused the rift between the two? Can one have cake AND eat it? What's up with Jerry? https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We're donning our revolutionary costumes for today and are taking you back in time to discuss Grey Gardens! Act 1 is all about Big Edie overshadowing Little Edie during her engagement announcement to Joe Kennedy Jr and the fallout that happens during all of that. Join us out in the Hamptons during this winter in that summer town! https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We're talking Pippin today, and we're joined by David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele, historians and authors of books you should read! We're here today to talk about Pippin, the musical about the son of Charlemagne, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson and Bob Fosse, as well as original direction/choreography by Fosse. To round it out, our guests have just released a book they wrote on the sons and grandsons of Charlemagne, called Oathbreakers!For more medieval history, check out their newsletter at https://buttondown.com/ModernMedievalDavid M Perry can be found at https://www.davidmperry.com/Both can be found on blusky Matthew Gabriele @profgabriele.com and David M Perry @lollardfish.bsky.socialOathbreakers can be found at your local or online book seller!

We take a holiday break to talk a bit about an intellectual property that includes musical theater and is associated with Christmas in England, but not necessiarly together. We're talking Peter Pan, the history of the IP, what IS a panto, and why this isn't really a thing in the US. 

We're rounding out November with the second act of Mack and Mabel with author and podcaster Emily J. Edwards! For more Emily, check out https://msemilyedwards.com/and for Ticklish Business, check out https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Leave a five star review and rating! Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

Today we're joined by Emily Edwards, author and cohost of the Ticklish Business podcast!!! We're talking pre Hayes code Hollywood, or at least the Jerry Herman rose colored glasses version of it in the famous musical flop, Mack and Mabel! Get out your liverwurst on rye and settle in for some mayhem.For more Emily, check out https://msemilyedwards.com/and for Ticklish Business, check out https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Leave a five star review and rating! Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We finish off spooky month with the second act of Gentleman's Guide!!! Who's killing the D'Ysquiths? Why didn't this podcast episode come out on time? Will Monty marry Phoebe or Sybella? All of these questions might be answered on this podcast!!!

This October we're talking about MURDER and DEATH and maybe sorta LOVE. It's The Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder! See how one actor plays 500 different roles like that one TikToker renacting Rock Island from the Music Man! Gush over the legitimate singing! Shudder at the horrific deaths of the D'Ysquith family members!

We're back and we're just a big brass band for daddy! Join Matt and David as we finish up Sweet Charity! Will Charity find love? Will she admit her job to Oscar? Will they ever not be trapped somewhere?

In this era of Brat Summer, we're gonna talk about the ultimate musical theater queen of Brat Summer, Charity Hope Valentine! Who is she? What's a taxi dancer? What is my motivation during Hey Big Spender? All of these questions and more!

It's hot (Wait, we already did that bit) and Matt and David are looking ahead to the cooler months to see what's coming and going on big ol way that we call Broad to see what we're willing to postpone our student loan payments to buy tickets for! And what shows we're sad to see go.

It's still hot in here, but at least the sun has finally gone down and we can see what happens to the townsfolk when things heat up as they cool off! Lizzie realizes things about herself and Starbuck tells some stories. And then something BIG happens on the stage!

It's hot and we're all praying for rain and a break in the heat and what better way to do that then with the Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones, and N. Richard Nash musical, 110 in the Shade! You might know this from Nash's play The Rainmaker or the movie based off the play with Katherine Hepburn, or the 2007 revival. Or you might not know this at all, in which case, we're here to tell you all about this delightful musical!

We're here for Act 2 of this delightful but also slightly dated little musical!

It's the musical based off of Truman Capote's novel! The story of two sisters arguing and thus one of them deciding to live in a tree and how that affects the family didn't do well as a Broadway musical, but it seems like there might have been other factors. The music's charming and honestly deserves a second look! 

It's May so we're talking workers' rights! And Liza! And Kander and Ebb! It's a doozy and we're realizing this show doesn't get as much love as it deserves so check out Flora the Red Menace with us!

We're uninvited but we're still weekending in the country. Wear your hair down and get ready for act 2 of A Little Night Music! So many things happen in the space of one dinner party! Love, sex, a stunning red dress! 

A podcast in the country! We wish we'd been asked!Fresh from the flop (at the time) that was Follies, the team of Sondheim and Prince were looking for something more ... lighthearted and decided to look to both French farces and Bergman films. And we got A Little Night Music or as Clive Barnes, renouned theater critic proclaimed, "Good God! -- an adult musical!"

Life truly is happiness indeed, except when Mercury is in Retrograde, but even then it's the best of all possible worlds! We're finishing up February with act 2 of Candide! Who dies this time?To hear more from Zach or to check out the Hardly Focused podcast, go check out https://hardlyfocused.com/friends

Life is truly happiness indeed in that we get to talk to someone new about a great show! We're joined by Zach Ward of the Hardly Focused podcast to discuss Bernstein's Candide! Which one you ask? Well, sorta, all of them? What do you mean all of them? Well, listen to find out! To hear more from Zach or to check out the Hardly Focused podcast, go check out https://hardlyfocused.com/friends

We're back from trapaizing around the Austrian foothills in curtain clothes and we're ready to tackle the incoming Nazi take over! It's time for Act II of The Sound of Music! Happy Holidays!

It's a holiday tradition! Somewhere! We finding out what we can't face and deal with those who are sixteen going on seventeen. Come join us as we trek through the Austrian Alps with the Sound of Music!!

We're all still getting over our psychosomatic colds and it's time for act 2 of Guys and Dolls!!! When we last left our cast, Sarah had ceremoniously broke it off with Sky, Adalaide was waiting for Nathan to settle down, and the various gangsters of NYC were left without a place to gamble.

It's November so our thoughts start heading towards warmer climates. Havana, especially! We're doing act 1 of the powerhouse, Guys & Dolls! So grab your dice and your bushels and your medical journals!

Brad and Janet are spending the night over at the Frankestein place and things take a turn. Not that they weren't already. Touch A Touch A Touch A Touch Me cause we're doing Act 2 of The Rocky Horror Show!

Who's Rocky Horror? Will Janet and Brad make it to Doctor Scott's? What does toast have to do with any of this anyway? We're talking about the cult show to end all cult movies or something hyperbolic like that! Put on your tap shoes and get ready to Time Warp again, it's the Rocky Horror Show!!!

We get off the tug boat in Montecarlo and are ready for Ramin's abs and Omar's smile. What happens to Fanny once she gives up on fame for love? Will she stay away from the stage? All this and more with this month's special guest, Robbie Rozelle!! You can follow Robbie on all platforms at divarobbie.

Don't tell us not to live, cause we're doing Funny Girl!!! International cabaret superstar Robbie Rozelle. We talk about everything from Taylor Dayne to Deborah Gibson. You can follow Robbie on all platforms at divarobbie.You can find Thank You Five on Twitter at thankyoufivepod. Please leave a five star review or rating on your favorite podcatcher!

We're back with more pies and more shaving and more mayhem. Will Sweeney's plan come to fruition? Will Anthony rescue Johanna? How many versions to these parlor songs are there?!!!If you want to listen to Oh Malort or know more about Chicago History, please give the Oh Malort podcast a follow on twitter and instagram at OhMalortPod and Alyssa on twitter and instagram adyksterhouse. You can listen at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/welcome-to-oh-malort/id1684738593?i=1000610743411You can find Thank You Five on Twitter at thankyoufivepod. Please leave a five star review or rating on your favorite podcatcher!

We're joined by Alyssa Dyksterhouse of the wonderful Oh Malort podcast to talk about Stephen Sondheim's macabre murder musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street! Sure it's long, but it's a great episode and a great show that currently has a revival on the Broad-way! If you want to listen to Oh Malort or know more about Chicago History, please give the Oh Malort podcast a follow on twitter and instagram at OhMalortPod and Alyssa on twitter and instagram adyksterhouse. You can listen at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/welcome-to-oh-malort/id1684738593?i=1000610743411You can find Thank You Five on Twitter at thankyoufivepod. Please leave a five star review or rating on your favorite podcatcher!

We're finishing Pride Month with act 2 of The Prom!!! It's a little shorter but so are most act 2s! Happy Pride everyone and enjoy!

Happy Pride everyone!!! We're doing this month with The Prom so get your dresses and tuxes and flower arrangements and get ready to awkwardly slow dance to The End of the Road! Or whatever the kids are dancing to these days!Follow us on Twitter at @thankyoufivepod

We're in the Big Dollhouse and we can't live Without Love. But all isn't lost because even though Amber Von Tussle is a giant Cootie, You Can't Stop The Beat. It's act 2 of Hairspray! Join us as we find out if the Corny Collins show is finally going to be integrated!!

Movies made of musicals continue! We're doing Hairspray! Love your hair, hope it wins! What does a plucky girl from the wrong part of Baltimore do when she wants to dance on TV but no one will let her? Side note, there is a discussion of race and outdated terms used.

Matt and David are joined by Peter and Nathan from The Gospel of Musical Theatre to talk about Cabaret! What did it mean then? What does it mean now? Just how attractive IS Michael York? We cover it all, with a lot of fascinating information about the real Sally Bowles (Jean Ross. Go look her up!). For more on The Gospel of Musical Theatre, check them out at https://gospelofmt.podbean.com/Thank You, Five on Twitter: @thankyoufivepod

Matt and David are joined by Peter and Nathan from The Gospel of Musical Theatre to talk about Cabaret! What did it mean then? What does it mean now? Just how attractive IS Michael York? We cover it all, with a lot of fascinating information about the real Sally Bowles (Jean Ross. Go look her up!). For more on The Gospel of Musical Theatre, check them out at https://gospelofmt.podbean.com/Thank You, Five on Twitter: @thankyoufivepod

School is coming to an end (it's not) and so is Matilda. Now that she has powers, how will she use them? And what became of the arcobat and the escapologist in her story? And what about the Russians Mr Wormwood was trying to sell to?

We're back! And even though it's March, we've decided we're going to the movies this year! What does that mean? Musicals that have a movie adaptation (That we haven't done. There's a lot of movie musicals out there...). So we're starting with Matilda!! And just in time since Roald Dahl is getting cancelled... again!

upfront, the audio is abit wonky and we didn't realize until it was too late to do anything, but it's not the worst thing and is still listenable, but it's cool if it gets to be too much!Matt and David take a small moment to talk about where Broadway is at, right now, with all the closings going on.

We're joined by the incredible Roberta Blevins to talk about the second act of the premier Disney Broadway musical, Beauty and the Beast! You can find more about Roberta, including her instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and podcast at https://robertablevins.com/

We're joined by the incredible Roberta Blevins to talk about the premier Disney Broadway musical, Beauty and the Beast! You can find more about Roberta, including her instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and podcast at https://robertablevins.com/

Who's got the pain when we do Act 2 of Damn Yankees?! Joe rethinks his plans for the Washington Senators and Applegate has plans for Joe. Will Joe get the upperhand or will he loose his immortal soul?!B

For October, we're tackling the 1955 musical about selling your soul just for baseball. We don't understand that motive but still. It's time to give Lola what she wants and it's not those Damn Yankees!!