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Gypsy: 2024 Broadway Cast Recording with Music Director Andy Einhorn
Between a matinee and evening performance, musical director Andy Einhorn talked with Kyle about his relationship with Audra McDonald, revivals, and the decisions that ...
Out of Myself – Songs of Peter Foley (with Kate Chisholm)
Peter Foley was an accomplished composer/lyricist and mentee of Stephen Sondheim. The New Yorker praised Foley for his “gift for sinuous, haunting melody and surprisin...
Finale – Passion (with Matt Koplik)
Death, love, and letters. What more could you want in a finale? Matt Koplik returns to discuss Fosca and Giorgio's journey through the musical and how this piece wraps...
Loving You – Passion (with Dimitris Dimopoulos)
Fosca lays it out plainly. She will live and die for Giorgio. Dimitris Dimopoulos joins Kyle to discuss choices, asking Sondheim a question, and missing out on the ori...
No One Has Ever Loved Me – Passion (with Mike Meaney)
Giorgio finally realizes what love is. Mike Meaney joins Kyle to discuss letter, realizations, and duels. Follow Mike on Instagram.Send feedback to puttingittogetherpo...
Farewell Letter – Passion (with Charlotte LeMay)
An amalgam of three previously heard songs, Farewell Letter shows how Giorgio has changed. Charlotte LeMay returns to discuss all the messiness of relationships. Send ...
Soldier's Gossip 2 / Transition 4 / Forty Days – Passion (with Alex Asp)
Beyond allowing for costume and scene changes are there thematic reasons for the transitions in Passion? Alex Asp returns to offer insight into three songs that stem f...
Sunrise Letter / Is This What You Call Love? – Passion (with Tyler Joseph Ellis)
All Giorgio wanted to do was sit underneath a tree and read about how Clara is getting grey hairs. Instead he's being watch by Fosca and he must release all his pent u...
Sondheim in Portuguese with Gustavo Brunetti – Sondheim Adjacent
What's it like to watch Sweeney Todd in Portuguese? Gustavo Brunetti joins Kyle to discuss his experience seeing two different productions, and what the future of Sond...
Soldier's Gossip 1 / Flashback – Passion (with Shannon Migliore)
It's time to get some backstory! Shannon Migliore returns to pick apart the lengthly Flashback sequence from Passion which explains Fosca, and very well may explain Gi...
I Wish I Could Forget You – Passion (with Jim Cullen)
Who hasn't forced the person they're obsessing over to write them a love letter? Jim Cullen returns to discuss the operatic (sorry, Sondheim) nature of Passion and how...
Transition 2 / Trio (Fifth Letter) / Transition 3 – Passion (with Will C. White)
A devastating letter bookended by transitions. Will C. White returns to discuss rhapsodies, epistolary works, and trains.Check out Will's website.Send feedback to putt...
Garden Sequence – Passion (with Anne Slovin)
They hear drums, we hear music. Anne Slovin joins Kyle to discuss the meaning of that quote as well as the complicated nature of the entire Garden Sequence.Follow Anne...
Liaisons II: All Things Bright and Beautiful album with Anthony de Mare
The Liaisons Project, conceived by Anthony de Mare, is a landmark commissioning and concert project based on the songs of Stephen Sondheim. The original project brough...
I Read and Transition 1 – Passion (with Eric Henwood-Greer)
This is the introduction of Fosca into the narrative. Eric Henwood-Greer joins Kyle to discuss how this song sets up a lot of the drama that will unfold throughout the...
First, Second, Third, and Fourth Letter – Passion (with Brian Holcomb)
How do you make letter writing interesting theatrically? Brain Holcomb returns to explain the importance of these notes and how they help inform the rest of the show.S...
Happiness – Passion (with Christine Chen)
The show opens with a naked couple in bed singing about how happy they are. Obviously that means everything will turn out great. Christine Chen returns to discuss the ...
Ari Axelrod on " "A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway" – Sondheim Adjacent
The Broadway musical as we know it would not exist without the generations of Jewish songwriters who brought not only their talent but their heritage and perspective t...
Passione d'amore with Joel DeCandio
Sondheim was inspired to create a musical because of this movie. Joel DeCandio returns to discuss the differences and many similarities between this and the eventual s...
Fosca – the novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (with Michael Vecchio)
The story of Passion starts over a hundred years before the musical debuted on Broadway. In this episode Kyle talks with Michael Vecchio about what was going on in Ita...