Interview: Thoroughly Modern Millie with Dick Scanlan

Episode 15: Kiss Me, Kate

Cole Porter loved riding big ol' stallions, drugs, Venice, and gay, homosexual, buttsecks. Other times he loved Shakespeare and gangsters. We go high brow and low in Padua this week! - Learn all about how Cole Porter and Bella Spewack wrote their backstage-Shakespearean musical Kiss Me, Kate.

Interview: Thoroughly Modern Millie with Dick Scanlan

In this special episode, Broadway librettist Dick Scanlan tells us all about how his monster hit musical Thoroughly Modern Millie was born and what's next for it.

Episode 14: Hair

“Sally, get that limp d—k out of your mouth and get on stage!!!!” Hair was wild behind the scenes: sex, drugs, dog poo. And this is Broadway, people! - Learn all about how Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Tom O’Horgan, and the original Broadway cast wrote the American tribal love-rock musical Hair.

Episode 13: Evita

Will and Caitlin both do the same show. How’d it turn out? Better than Che Guevara’s patent application. - Learn all about how Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote their rock opera Evita, directed by broadway legend Hal Prince.

Episode 12: Into the Woods