Tune in to next week's episode when we discuss The Life specifically, the Broadway production's performance from April 24th 1997!Ĭontact to The Unauthorized Critics Circle's inaugural end-of-season celebration: the First Annual Critter Awards! Perhaps we may frighten away the ghostly bitches of so many words ago with a little conversation. One may even feel the presence of the two co-hosts who bore witness to this very production, and hear the reverberations of their discussions pertaining to gift horses, the CATS movie, and whether or not the show with over 13,000 performances is a good musical. Rehearsals over the pandemic have restored it, so that we may get a hint of what it may have felt like when it was new. We're told that this is the very production that figured in the famous disaster (that, of course, being Cameron Mackintosh's stranglehold on American musical theatre).

Some of you may recall the strange affair of The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history. Shande!) Oh yeah.we have topics.um.Topics include the revolutionary nature of A Chorus Line, the goddess Donna McKechnie, Buddhism and it's influence on Musical Theatre, the nature of perfection in art, and how the show has aged over the years.ĭon't waste the chance to tune in next week for our Halloween Special! //|-,Ĭontact #66 then - a musical in its third decade. What the hell was that? Couldn't even pop the head to call attention to himself. Will Joshie swipe his dance card to find out he was rated Looks: 3, Hips: 2? Will Dan's knees give out in the middle of the audition? Why is Colorado Senator Michael Bennett such an unentertaining disgrace to the legendary Michael Bennett name? (I mean he didn't even stage a coup de théâtre or at least give us a double pirouette at that Democratic Presidential Primary. We'll be back next week with our recaps of the other major theatrical season thus far.Ĭontact week hosts Joshua and Dan are putting themselves on the line, yes, they're putting themselves on your line to cover A Chorus Line from it's pre-Broadway run at the Public Theatre.

Thank you for joining us for season two of The Unauthorized Critics Circle.

The Unauthorized Critics Circle once again unites to celebrate excellence in once-live recorded theatre, and with your UNCC head co-hosts Joshua and Daniel we whisk you back into the last year of our podcast with such award categories as the Wellest-Built Costumes Award, the Aged-Like-Milk Award, and the Art Nouveau Award for Most Bizarre Set Piece. Critter Awards for Excellence in Broadway Adjacent Podcasting, more commonly known as the Critters, are back and they're bigger than ever! This ceremony promises fireworks, dancing chorines, free loot bags, and every celebrity name dropped in the Fire Island movie! Welcome back to the latest iteration of The Unauthorized Critics Circle's end-of-season celebration: the Second Annual Critter Awards!

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