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It Makes Every Gay Bone in my Body Vibrate (Ep 544 - Broadway/Stephen Oremus)
The second of the Wicked films comes out later this month, and so for this week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris podcast we’re jumping into the archives to hear my 2017 chat with Tony winner Stephen Oremus, who was the music director for Wicked on Broadway and conducted the orchestras for the two Wi
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Bonus! Meet the fairies who made MGM musicals so gay
MGM musicals are known for being big, brassy, sassy musical humdingers. They're big and bold and bright and colorful and cheerful and ... very, very, very gay. Why is that, though? Well, it's thanks to a group of folks known within the industry as "Freed's Fairies." Backup link to the bonus video: h
Nov 9, 2025 0 1
Bonus video! The Plant that ate (Off) Broadway
Hello there! For this week's bonus video, we're heading back in time to a scrappy little off-off Broadway theater where a frustrated lyricist named Howard Ashman has decided he's going to make a musical out of the weirdest material imaginable: A schlocky B-movie about a killer plant from space. It s
Jun 23, 2024 0 1
The Best of The Sewers of Paris: Musicals!
On this week's Sewers of Paris, I’m continuing the monthlong Pride special, bringing you excerpts from some of the very best conversations I’ve had over the last nine years. On this episode, we’re talking musicals — a roundup of conversations about songs on stage and on screen. We’ll start with a co
Jun 13, 2024 0 1
Bonus video! Don't be Alarmed, Judi Dench is SUPPOSED to Sound Like That
Hello from New York! I'm back for some more archive research, and also a big fabulous Pride event at the Toronto Public Library (to which you're invited! Details below!) ... but that won't stop me from recording a bonus video on some random overpass with a weird clunky-looking building in the backgr
Jun 9, 2024 0 1
October recommendations! Mysteries, musicals, and disaster-queers
Hello there! Time once again for the monthly feedback video, a series that is free to everyone on Patreon and that started as a way for me to respond to questions ... and has now sort of morphed into trading recommendations for great stuff to watch. So! If you like the kind of things that I make, he
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Sept Feedback! British camp classics, weird musicals, and queer horror
Hello there! Here's a Q&A/feedback video for September, and ohhhh boy do I have a lot to share this month. Lately you've been sending me a lot of suggestions for stuff that I should check out, and I have to say you all have wonderful taste -- so I'm going to pass many of those recommendations right
Sep 1, 2023 0 1
Bonus! Casting All in the Family with a Hitchhiker, a Cheap Fired Dancer, and Batman's Delivery Boy
Hello there! In this week's bonus video, I've got some intriguing stories about the casting of All in the Family -- and some very unlikely lucky-breaks that completely changed the lives of some of the younger actors, from Rob Reiner to Sally Struthers to Mike Evans (that's Lionel Jefferson, who was
Jul 16, 2023 0 1
Sewers of Paris: Never Saying No to Anything (Ep 413 - Andrew/Monty Python)
My guest this week is Andrew Farrier, a New Orleans tour guide and podcaster who began his career in a small Louisiana town, giving tours of haunted houses as a kid. A child of hippies, Andrew was given wide latitude to explore creative pursuits, and it wasn’t long before he found himself in New Orl
Jan 5, 2023 0 1
Bonus video! ABC's Ratings Bloodbath, the Magoo Test, and Singing Cops
A quick note about videos: Patreon tells me they're still working on finding a way to make the video embeds work better. In the mean time, if it's not working for you, try viewing it in a browser like Safari or Chrome, instead of in the Patreon app; or try viewing it at this link: https://youtu.be/F
Oct 10, 2021 0 1
So Weird and So Cool (Ep 259 - Baldur's Gate/Liam Esler)
My guest this week dreams of great big musical adventure. Liam Esler is the co-founder of Summerfall Studios, a game company that’s currently in development on a game called Chorus, which promises to be an adventure story that’s also an interactive musical. Currently crowdfunding for the game, Liam
Nov 7, 2019 0 1
The Sewers of Paris: Dad at the Gay Bar (Ep 251 - Fame/Pete Rush)
Where do you pick up the skills to design the life of your dreams? My guest this week is artist and theatrical designer Pete Rush, who fell in love with drama at an early age and thought he’d be a New York actor until he realized he had an aptitude for stage design. So he crossed over from creating
Sep 12, 2019 0 1
Nothing Went Fine (Ep. 144 - Les Miserables)
According to the FBI, my guest this week was involved in one of the largest fraud schemes in history -- the nearly half-billion dollar failure of the National Heritage Life Insurance Company, which had 26,000 elderly policyholders. While Michael Blutrich was involved in the insurance scheme, he was
Dec 14, 2017 0 11
You Can be Sad or You Can be Gay (Ep. 107 - Guy Branum)
Why is "gay" the word that the world seems to have picked to describe us? My guest Guy Branum has some thoughts on the topic, and on many more. You can see Guy as the host of "Talk Show the Game Show," debuting April 5 on TruTV, where celebrities compete to be the best guest on a talk show. There co
Mar 30, 2017 0 11
My Life is Drama -- Make me Laugh (Ep. 100 - Dan Savage)
This Week's Guest: Dan Savage If, like me, you are a huge fan of Dan Savage's work, you've probably heard him speak at length about sex and love and news and politics -- but this conversation is going to be a little different as we dive into 8-track tapes, secret bike rides, family arguments, and a
Feb 9, 2017 0 11