You’re wrong about musicals

In this episode, we discuss Pasek and Pauls's Dear Evan Hansen. We talk about the battle zone that was the 2017 Tony Awards, the commodification of the show and give our opinions on how we would fix it. LINKS: Pasek and Paul Winning the Jonathan Larson Grant: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Pasek-and-Paul-Among-Winners-of-Jonathan-Larson-Awards-20070216 The Washington Post article about its

In this episode, we tackle Lin Manuel Miranda's 2015 Hamilton. We look at the Political moment that it found itself in the insane fandom that formed around it and the fact that it is just so good even when we try to be cynical about it. LINKS: Deadline review: https://deadline.com/2015/02/musical-hamilton-opens-public-theater-1201375233/ Guardian review: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/18/hamilton-review-founding-father-gets-a-hip-hop-makeover Tony

In this episode, we explain what we mean by some key ideas like the pipeline. First full episode will be out on the Monday the 14th of August