Dec 6, 2025
Nov 1, 2025
Another grandmother joins us for this installment in our songs about aging, though Abuela Claudia isn't just anyone's grandmother, she is everyone's grandmother. Her solo "Patiencia Y Fe" is one of the standout moments in the standout score of Lin-Manuel Miranda's breakthrough show In the Heights, and Olga Merediz...
Oct 28, 2025
We're back! We had an illness related delay, which was us being
thematic, since illness is part of growing older...yeah, let's go
with that.
But we are back on track and here to talk about Stephen Schwartz's
Pippin. In particular, we're looking at the 2012 revival
and Andrea Martin's performance of "No Time at...
Oct 1, 2025
Out with the new and in with the old! Yes, we're moving from
songs about growing up to songs about the act of having grown up,
i.e., songs about aging and growing old.
We're starting with a song from a show we have been slightly remiss
in having only discussed once way back in the early days of our
podcast, despite...
Sep 16, 2025
Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy podcast.
After 5 years and 125 episodes, we're finally talking about one of
the major smashes of the past decade: Pasek and Paul's Dear
Evan Hansen. Winner of 6 Tonys -- including Best Actor for
overnight sensation Ben Platt -- the show has had quite the
interesting...