A Reel Education: The Musical!
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Episode 24: The Last Five Years
This week, we explore the uniquely constructed, emotionally haunting THE LAST FIVE YEARS. If you’ve never heard of it, that’s okay. This is a theater nerd deep cut (frankly, Windy is shocked that a movie version even got made).
Episode 23: Mary Poppins Returns
LOVELY Alright, Jazz Hams, it’s an extra giddy, extra squeeful, extra-long episode this week because we all absolutely fell in love with MARY POPPINS RETURNS! SIDENOTE: We promised to link to the Drafthouse no talking PSA featuring Lin and Emily,
Episode 22: Mary Poppins
Listeners, it is no surprise that your hosts have been anticipating the opening of MARY POPPINS RETURNS since Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda were announced. In anticipation, we’ve found a stunt virgin who has never seen the original MARY POPPINS!
Episode 21: White Christmas
This week, Holiday Hams, Mike and Vinnie are exposed to that Christmas mainstay WHITE CHRISTMAS. Directed by Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA) with costumes by Edith Head and filmed in glorious VistaVision, it’s a visual treat.
Episode 20: Holiday Inn
This week, Vinnie and Mike finally take in the seasonal classic HOLIDAY INN, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, with Windy as their native guide. It’s a standard romantic comedy love triangle, except that one-third of the triangle is crooner extrao...
Episode 19: Broadway Melody of 1940
It’s a super-sized episode this week, Jazz Hams! Vinnie and Mike just couldn’t stop talking about the amazing dance numbers in BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940! Teaming up two of the best tappers of the era, Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell,
Episode 18: Tangled
This week, Jazz Hams, we dive into our first Disney animated musical with the charming and tuneful TANGLED! Mike was our virgin this week, and he absolutely fell in love with Donna Murphy’s performance as Mother Gothel,
Episode 17: Kiss Me Kate
The Fossepocalypse begins! KISS ME KATE boasts so many amazing things (Howard Keel in striped tights! Tommy Rall defying gravity! James Whitmore as the most adorable thug ever!) that you might forget that this is also the movie that put Bob Fosse on th...
Episode 16: Little Shop of Horrors
This week, Jazz Hams, all three of your hosts have seen the movie, so we brought in our first “official guest” (Jennie is more a silent partner than a guest) – Kaitlin Piraro – to watch that cult favorite LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
Episode 15: It’s Always Fair Weather
This week is unusual in that none of your hosts have seen our movie – IT’S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER! Known today as the movie that “the Gene Kelly tapping on roller skates” dance is from, 1955’s IT’S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER pretty much marks the end of the Gold...