Todd Almond — I'M ALMOST HERE
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Todd Almond joins the podcast to chat about why he's adapted The Odyssey for the stage four times, how living inside Bob Dylan's catalog while starring in Girl From the North Country impacted his own songwriting, and what it's like to write a musical commissioned by Audible for both stage and audio. Don't miss this conversation about his new musical I'm Almost There.
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