Broadway babies, Act 1
As threatened in the previous episode, we look at what fuels current teenage fandoms for musical theatre and compare it to older experiences, with the help of Kyle Marshall of Putting It Together. Also, we won an award!
Here are links to the things we mentioned:
- We won the 2020 Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Series
- Other Alberta Podcast Network winners
- Sports: Tight Ends
- Technology: Press Start to Join
- News and Current Affairs: The Daveberta Podcast
- Television and Film: Emily Missed Out
- Music: Putting It Together
- Full list of winners
- Hamilton
- Lin-Manuel Miranda at the White House
- The fandom on Tumblr
- Fan-fiction on Wattpad
- Show Boat
- The Color Purple at the Citadel
- Heathers
- Playing at J. Percy Page from March 4 to 7
- Six
- Karen talking about Six on I Don’t Get It
- High School Musical
- Encore! — the show about going back to high school to re-stage a musical
- Dear Evan Hansen
- Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton
- Neil Patrick Harris’s It’s Not Just For Gays Anymore
- The Prom
- Falsettos
- Fun Home, Changing My Major to Joan
- The Louder We Get at Theatre Calgary
- Kyle Marshall of Putting It Together
- Our appearance on Putting It Together
- Legally Blonde at Ross Sheppard High School (May 6-9, 2020 — save the date!)
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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show, and to Unit B for use of the recording studio. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.