A Reel Education: The Musical!

A Reel Education: The Musical!


Latest Episodes

Episode 14: Thoroughly Modern Millie
November 06, 2018

For this week’s episode, Windy bends Mike and Vinnie’s brains with THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.  An all-star cast made this movie a hit at the time, but it has since vanished into cinema obscurity – resurfacing as a hit Broadway musical in 2000!

Episode 13: Xanadu
October 30, 2018

This week, Mike and Vinnie struggle to keep up as Windy lays out several decades of her obsession with XANADU. Mike had never seen it, Vinnie never on the big screen, and it was showing at the Alamo Drafthouse so this was an EVENT, capital “eeeeeeee!

Episode 12: Disney’s Newsies the Broadway Musical
October 23, 2018

This week, Mike and Vinnie gush about DISNEY’S NEWSIES THE BROADWAY MUSICAL (and Windy sits back and preens with “I told you so”). Thank god for Harvey Fierstein who restructured and improved the plot and characters,

Episode 11: Newsies
October 16, 2018

This week, listeners, Windy steers Mike and Vinnie towards NEWSIES, the 1992 live-action Disney musical. Starring a teen-aged Christian Bale (who was mortified to appear in a musical), a scenery-chewing and excessively gesturing Robert Duvall,

Episode 10: The Music Man
October 09, 2018

This week, listeners, Mike discovers and Vinnie re-discovers the sweet, simple (yet sly) joys of THE MUSIC MAN. Robert Preston stars as Professor Harold Hill (spoiler: not his real name) in the role that made him a Broadway star,

Episode 9: Phantom of the Paradise
October 02, 2018

  Listeners! Take a listen as Mike gets his mind blown by PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE! Brian DePalma’s 1974 rock opera is gloriously garish with literary references galore, Paul Williams’ soundtrack is a smorgasbord of musical styles settling in on glam-pr...

Episode 8: On the Town
September 25, 2018

This week is our first episode featuring Gene Kelly as he sails through Manhattan in ON THE TOWN! Neither Vinnie nor Mike had ever seen it, and this is a classic for a reason. Based on a ballet created by Jerome Robbins (THE KING & I),

Episode 7: Sweeney Todd (stage)
September 18, 2018

If the only version of SWEENEY TODD you’ve ever seen is the Tim Burton one, then Windy has some strong opinions on what you should be watching first chance you get. (Which is literally how this episode happened to Mike and Vinnie.

Episode 6: Main Hoon Na
September 11, 2018

It’s our first Bollywood!  I mean, not our first – all three of your hosts have seen at least one Bollywood movie. But it’s our first Bollywood episode and it is the delightful MAIN HOON NA (“Trust Me, I’m Here”)!

Episode 5: Enchanted
September 04, 2018

This week, your hosts sing along with Amy Adams (and some cockroaches) in ENCHANTED! Meta, satire, spoof, homage – ENCHANTED is all of the above. Filled with deep Disney nerd references (literally every name in this movie means something),