Today: A replay of our most downloaded episode ever!
Taylor Gaines is joined by the piano man without a plan, Scott Passarella, for a wide-ranging conversation about the weekly genius that is “Off Book: The Improvised Musical” podcast. They talk about his musical background, his techniques for improvising a musical, the brilliance of Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna, and when Lin-Manuel Miranda will come on the podcast.
Taylor Gaines is joined by the piano man without a plan, Scott Passarella, for a wide-ranging conversation about the weekly genius that is “Off Book: The Improvised Musical” podcast. They talk about his musical background, his techniques for improvising a musical, the brilliance of Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna and when Lin-Manuel Miranda will come on the podcast.
This week, Bryan and Taylor are throwing some cultural recommendations at you supersonic. First, Taylor talks about the entertaining and thought-provoking book “The Postmortal” by Drew Magary (4:20). Then, Bryan raves about his current favorite Broadway cast recording, “Dear Evan Hansen” (8:00). After that, they exchange podcast recommendations, with Taylor earmarking an episode of “On Being” (12:30) and Bryan praising an episode of the “Longform Podcast” (16:00).
Finally, they preview their upcoming discussion of FX’s stunning new show, “Legion” (21:00).
We did something out of the ordinary this week. Instead of talking about television, we talked about musical theater.
That’s right! With the Tony Awards coming up this Sunday night, Bryan and Taylor decided to dive into the phenomenon that is 16-time nominee “Hamilton” and rank all 46 songs on the nearly 150-minute long soundtrack. Taylor ran through his list from the bottom (46) to No. 12, where Bryan joined in for each man to reveal his top 12.
Lots of fun and random bursts into song on this one. What will be number one? Listen to find out!
