Highlights: The poor man’s Rogers and Hammerstein, tartan, Oklahoma!, 18th century Scotland, dystopian hellscape, born in the wrong generation before it was cool, horny in the 40s, show tunes as popular music, old men playing bagpipes, happy endings. Content warnings: murder, people in the 40s being super horny....

Highlights: orphans, Les Mis, bargain prices at Macy’s, choreography awards, fifty children on the stage, Dodger!, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, music notation, mmmbop, children’s musicals and the bizarre plot lines wherein, My Fair Lady. Content warnings: mention of murder, abuse....

Highlights: America’s obsessions with orphans, Charles Dickens, curly hair, universal optimism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Annie’s girl gang, dog hot takes, borrowing children, scam culture....

Highlights: what do you think musicals are, oh that’s morbid, The South, dream casting, celebrities on Broadway, vendetta against the Tony awards, Jake Gyllenhaal’s DMs, as the casting director for all productions of Parade I regret to inform you. Content warnings: discussion of anti-semitism, lynching, murder; mention of rape....

Highlights: I don’t know why any of that information was relevant, the movie was better(?), Jeremy Jordan, live action Aladdin, adapting movies into different movies, the original Be More Chill, The Swedish Chef, eight Tony awards for being the best trash, Death Note the musical....

"Next to Normal"

"Pacific Overtures"

"The Drowsy Chaperone"

"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"

"Free to Be... You and Me"

"Be More Chill"

"Wicked"

"Anything Goes"

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

"Moulin Rouge"

"Emojiland"

“Ragtime”

"Into The Woods"

"Dear Evan Hansen"

"Thoroughly Modern Millie"

"The Last Five Years"

"The Threepenny Opera"

Highlights include: the Bechdel test, tragicomics, gay teens, clothing choices, borrowing books, fun funeral songs. Thank you to Brian Hamilton for editing this episode....

"Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812"

"Chess"