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In episode fifteen of Talking To The Dead In Suburbia, host Anna Raimondi – spiritual medium, motivational speaker, healer, and author – interviews Adam Pascal – Broadway actor, singer, and musician. Anna and Adam cover a lot of topics, including the transformative and healing power of music. At the end of the interview, Anna receives some powerful messages from Adam's loved ones in spirit. Connect with Anna Raimondi: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna.raimondi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annalraim/ Website: https://www.annaraimondi.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnnaRaimondi Connect with Adam Pascal: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adampascal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Pascal/100044519585971 Connect with The Angel Cooperative: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelcooperative/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AngelCooperative Website: https://theangelcoop.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAngelCooperative About this week's guest: Adam Pascal became part of theatrical history by creating the role of Roger Davis in Rent, earning a Best Actor Tony nomination and reprising his performance in the 2005 movie adaptation. Pascal has since juggled a career as a concert and recording artist with leading roles on Broadway in Aida, Cabaret, Chicago, Memphis, Disaster!, and Something Rotten!
Valerie, Camille and Tatiana catch up on everything going on in the middle of the mess that is today. From Jared Leto being added to Batman vs. Superman, AKA what is longer the Snyder Cut (1:00), we jump to the photos for the upcoming Suicide Squad from James Gunn (5:00). We say farewell to the last of the old Marvel Television with Helstrom and MODOK and hello to Marvel Studios Television with WandaVision and The Falcon & The Winter Soldier (8:30). The state of our entertainment union provides humor as we root for Aaron Tveit to win the Best Actor Tony, considering he's the only one nominated (17:00), as well as upcoming movie musicals like The Prom (22:00). Dominic West brings controversy to the last season of The Crown and embarrassing Lily James (24:00), and we bring excitement to The Mandalorian's next season (30:00). This leads to Disney+ in general (34:00) with Soul being moved and Raya and the Last Dragon being in theatrical limbo despite a gorgeous trailer. Finally, it's time to review streaming things, including: The Boys Season 2 (41:00), The Queen's Gambit (47:00), The Trial of the Chicago Seven (52:00), Borat 2 (1:04:00), The Haunting of Bly Manor (1:11:00), and finally Lovecraft Country (1:23:00).
Actor, singer, director, and composer Michael Rupert is a bona fide Broadway legend. The Denver native, who grew up in Los Angeles and acted in numerous television programs during the 1960s, moved to New York at age 17 to play a role in the Kander-Ebb musical The Happy Time On Broadway. He received a Tony Award nomination for his efforts. In 1986, he starred in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity and WON the Best Actor Tony. Since then he's appeared in numerous shows On Broadway (Ragtime, City of Angels, Pippin, and Legally Blonde) and Off (Falsettos, Putting in Together, and others). He's also an accomplished singer with numerous tracks; check out the Varese Sarabande collection. During February 2019, he was in Pittsburgh directing Point Park University's student production of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George.
Chad Kimball is currently starring in Come From Away which is in its second year on Broadway. His previous Broadway credits include Memphis, which earned him a Best Actor Tony nomination, Lennon, Good Vibrations, Into the Woods and The Civil War. You may have seen him on screen on The Good Wife and Wallflowers. Be sure to follow him on Twitter at @ChadKimball1.(Hosts: Caitlin Moynihan, Andy Lefkowitz, Lindsey Sullivan)
A conversation with the brilliant actor Christopher Walken, starring on Broadway in Martin McDonagh's “A Behanding in Spokane,” for which he received a Best Actor Tony nomination.
The panel of performers -- Betty Buckley (Sunset Boulevard and a Tony Award winner for her performance in Cats), Liz Callaway (Cats), Valerie Harper (Death Defying Acts), Brian Murray (Racing Demon), Roger Rees (Nicholas Nickleby, for which he won a Best Actor Tony), two-time Tony-winner Frances Sternhagen (for The Good Doctor and The Heiress) - talk about the different ways they started in the business, training at the Royal Shakespeare Company, notable acting teachers, how to prepare for auditions, replacing in a show with an abbreviated rehearsal period, and how to keep performances fresh during a long run.
With more than 200 years of combined theatre experience among them, our guests - stage veterans Philip Bosco (1999 Best Actor Tony for Lend Me a Tenor), two-time Tony Award-winning actor John Cullum (for Shenandoah and On the Twentieth Century), Marian Seldes (who won a Tony for 1967’s A Delicate Balance and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010) and Tony Award Winner Carole Shelley (1979 Best Actress Tony for The Elephant Man) -- discuss the breaks that got each of their careers started; how they handle the situation on stage when they or their co-stars forget their lines; how they feel about serving as understudies; the audition process; their successes and failures; and they share stories of working with such other legends as Sir John Gielgud, Joseph Papp, Morris Carnovsky, Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott, Geraldine Page, George Cukor, Myron McCormick and Ruth Gordon. Stage Veterans 2009 also includes a short tribute to the late Robert Prosky, who appeared on the prior Stage Veterans edition of Working in the Theatre in 2005.
The panel of Broadway actors -- Joan Allen (The Heidi Chronicles and 1988 Best Actress Tony winner for Burn This), Ed Asner (Born Yesterday), Philip Bosco (1999 Best Actor Tony for Lend Me a Tenor), Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine), Nancy Dussault (Into The Woods) and Madeline Kahn (Born Yesterday and Tony winner for The Sisters Rosensweig) -- talk about the first time they fell in love with performing, auditions, how their careers have evolved, and the difference in stage and film work.
The panel of performers talk about their training and when they decided to become actors. Power Plays co-stars Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss talk about working together at Northwestern. Both Billy Crudup (Tony winner for The Coast of Utopia) and Dana Reeve (More To Love: A Big Fat Comedy) pursued Master of Fine Arts degrees in order to teach as well as act. In England, Roger Rees (Nicholas Nickleby, for which he won a Best Actor Tony) trained primarily by observation. Two-time Tony Award-winner James Naughton (for City of Angels in 1990 and Chicago in 1997) discusses the Blue Light Theatre Company, started by his son Greg Naughton, where Billy Crudup is in Oedipus. The panel also discusses what they've gained from working with brilliant directors, being both director and actor, and preparing for auditions.
Four acclaimed leading men -- Jeff Daniels (Blackbird), Brian Dennehy (Inherit the Wind and a Tony Award for Death of a Salesman), Liev Schreiber (Talk Radio and a Best Actor Tony for Glengarry Glen Ross) and Kevin Spacey (1991 Tony winner for Lost in Yonkers) -- discuss a wide array of topics, including whether the prefer rehearsal to performance, their experience in long runs and how great plays can carry actors along, the acting opportunities of appearing in many plays by the same author, how they find new challenges, whether they can still enjoy theatre as a member of the audience, and if its harder to do their work now that they're well known.