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Jim Borstelmann's I Wanna Be Like You!
Jun 11, 2026
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Jun 6, 2026
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Maulik Pancholy's I Wanna Be Like You!
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May 20, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/11/26 | ![]() Jim Borstelmann's I Wanna Be Like You! | Jim Borstelmann is a Broadway veteran having been in the original casts of The Producers, The Addams Family and many more. Jim was in the ensemble of the 1996 revival of Chicago starring Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth and Joel Grey which is still on Broadway holding the record for the longest running Broadway revival. A self taught dancer, Jim made his Broadway debut working under the legendary Jerome Robbins having been a swing in Jerome Robbins' Broadway. His most recent Broadway appearance was in 2023 in New York, New York, marking his 4th Broadway collaboration with former guest and Broadway icon Susan Stroman. We get to discussing all of those credits, Mel Brooks stories, the keys to being a successful Broadway swing, and more! | — | ||||||
| 6/6/26 | ![]() Kevin Adams' I Wanna Be Like You! | Kevin Adams is a 4 time Tony Award winning lighting designer who's currently nominated for his 9th Tony Award for his lighting design on the 2025 Broadway revival of Chess! His previous credits include the Off Broadway and Broadway productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Spring Awakening (for which he won his first Tony Award for). He's also worked on the original productions of Next to Normal, American Idiot, SpongeBob Squarepants, and The Cher Show! His work transcends musicals having worked on operas, Broadway plays, and one person shows including John Leguizamo's Sexaholix! Upcoming, he's working on a new book charting his career to be released plus lighting designing the Broadway musical Galileo starring Raul Esparza coming this fall to the Shubert Theatre. As our first lighting designer on the podcast, we get to talking not only about his career in the theater but also how lighting has evolved moving from the incandescent era to the more energy efficient era we're in now! | — | ||||||
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Maulik Pancholy's I Wanna Be Like You! | Maulik Pancholy is currently starring as Reverend Howard Layton/The Leprechaun in Schmigadoon on Broadway! Onscreen he's best known as the voice of Baljeet in the Disney Channel sensation Phineas and Ferb and Sanjay in Sanjay and Craig on Nickelodeon. He's also well known as Jack Donaughy's assistant Jonathan on the hit NBC comedy 30 Rock! His former Broadway credits include It's Only A Play and Grand Horizons! Coming up, he'll be starring alongside Paul Giamatti, Julianne Moore, Bernadette Peters and more in Jesse Eisenberg's new untitled movie musical from A24. His new novel Will They, Won't They? will be released in January 2027 but right now you can catch him eight times a week at the Nederlander Theater in the musical tied for the most Tony Award nominations of the season, Schmigadoon! | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Beowulf Boritt's I Wanna Be Like You! | Beowulf Boritt is a 2 time Tony Award winning scenic designer! His charity The 1/52 Project which focuses on amplifying marginalized designers has won the 2026 Tony Award Honor For Excellence In Theatre! Some of his work on Broadway includes Act One, New York, New York, On The Town, A Bronx Tale, Flying Over Sunset, The Scottsboro Boys, Sunday in the Park with George (2017), Prince Of Broadway and many more! His book Transforming Space Over Time released in 2022 and features a detailed look to the scenic design process as well as featuring interviews with legendary theater directors including Hal Prince, Susan Stroman, James Lapine, Jerry Zaks and Kenny Leon! Upcoming, he’ll be scenic designing the new musical Wanted and The Imaginary Invalid both transferring to Broadway this fall!! | — | ||||||
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Susan Stroman's I Wanna Be Like You! | FIFTH DREAM GUEST! Susan Stroman is a 5 time Tony Award winning Broadway director and choreographer! Her most iconic work includes directing and choreographing The Producers (working alongside Mel Brooks), Contact (for which she won multiple Tony Awards including Best Musical), the 2000 Broadway revival of The Music Man, Bullets Over Broadway (alongside Woody Allen), New York, New York and many more! As a choreographer, she's responsible for the original choreography of the smash hit Crazy For You, the 1994 revival of Show Boat, Oklahoma starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Trevor Nunn, Liza at Radio City Music Hall, and Steel Pier to name a few! Her work on screen includes directing and choreographing the film adaptation of The Producers as well as choreographing numbers in Curb Your Enthusiasm! Upcoming, she'll be at the helm of the new Ahrens and Flaherty musical Little Dancer which will open in the West End in 2027 with many more projects in development! We get to talking about the biggest things she learned from Hal Prince , what she looks for in new work, why she's made a pointed effort to only work on new works and much more. | — | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Lisa Lampanelli's I Wanna Be Like You! | Two-time Grammy Award nominee Lisa Lampanelli was known for more than 30 years as “Comedy’s Lovable Queen of Mean.” A constant on the comedy scene, with countless tours, 13 NBC “Tonight Show” appearances, and sold-out performances at Radio City Music Hall and Carnegie Hall under her belt, she became well-known for her roasting skills, publicly lambasting everyone from David Hasselhoff to Flavor Flav to Pamela Anderson on Comedy Central. In 2016, Lisa decided to do something a little different. She wrote “Stuffed,” a four-person play about food and body-image issues, which enjoyed two off-Broadway runs! Her charitable efforts -- she raised $130,000 for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis during season 5 of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” and won $50,000 for the same organization on Fox’s “Celebrity Weakest Link” – are among her proudest achievements. She is currently serving as Associate Producer of “The People Versus Lenny Bruce," which has begun performances Off Broadway at Theatre Row now until June 28th! | — | ||||||
| 5/5/26 | ![]() Stephen Kramer Glickman's I Wanna Be Like You!✨ | theater historystand up comedy+3 | Stephen Kramer Glickman | NickelodeonBig Time Rush+3 | — | Stephen Kramer GlickmanBig Time Rush+6 | — | 2h 34m 04s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Jeffrey Seller's I Wanna Be Like You!✨ | theater industryproducing+4 | Jeffrey Seller | HamiltonRent+3 | — | theaterproducer+6 | — | 53m 31s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Carey Renee Sharpe's I Wanna Be Like You!✨ | Off Broadwaytheater+4 | Carey Renee Sharpe | Theater 555Blood/Love | Wisconsin | Carey Renee SharpeBlood/Love+5 | — | 51m 48s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Claybourne Elder's I Wanna Be Like You!✨ | Broadwaymusic+4 | Claybourne Elder | If The Stars Were MineRoad Show+6 | — | Broadway staralbum+5 | — | 1h 36m 05s | |
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| 4/14/26 | ![]() Mark Evans' I Wanna Be Like You!✨ | theaterBroadway+4 | Mark Evans | Mark Evans StudioThe Play That Goes Wrong+7 | — | Mark EvansBroadway+4 | — | 1h 49m 37s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Simon Leary's I Wanna Be Like You!✨ | theateracting+4 | Simon Leary | Circa TheatreThe Glass Menagerie+2 | Timaru, NZWellington+1 | Simon LearyHeartbreak Hotel+5 | — | 1h 36m 37s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Michael Sommers' I Wanna Be Like You!✨ | drama criticisminfluencers+4 | Michael Sommers | New York Stage ReviewThe New York Times+4 | — | drama critictheater+5 | — | 1h 32m 42s | |
| 3/28/26 | ![]() RE-RELEASE: Robert Horn!✨ | theatermusical writing+4 | Robert Horn | ShuckedTootsie+7 | GermanyWest End | Robert HornShucked+6 | — | 1h 56m 20s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() RE-RELEASE: Brad Oscar!✨ | BroadwayTheater+4 | Brad Oscar | SchmigadoonThe Producers+4 | Kennedy Center | Brad OscarBroadway+5 | — | 1h 46m 13s | |
| 3/25/26 | ![]() RE-RELEASE: Michael Kostroff!✨ | actingaudition advice+4 | Michael Kostroff | The WireSonny with a Chance+4 | — | Michael Kostroffaudition advice+3 | — | 1h 42m 29s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() RE-RELEASE: Andy Karl!✨ | theatermusicals+4 | Andy Karl | Little Shop of HorrorsGroundhog Day the Musical+5 | — | Andy KarlElbi Cespedes+7 | — | 1h 53m 37s | |
| 3/18/26 | ![]() 1 Year Anniversary Thank You!✨ | anniversarythank you+3 | — | — | — | anniversarythank you+3 | — | 0m 42s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Rob Rokicki's I Wanna Be Like You!✨ | musical theaterThe Lightning Thief+4 | Rob Rokicki | MTI TheatricalsThe Lightning Thief+1 | BroadwayWest End+1 | Rob RokickiThe Lightning Thief+4 | — | 1h 20m 45s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Janine LaManna's I Wanna Be Like You! | Janine LaManna is a Broadway star who's most well known for originating the role of Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical! Her other Broadway credits include Evelyn Nesbitt in the original production of Ragtime, Kiss Me Kate, The Drowsy Chaperone and more! She also starred in PBS' version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego as Carmen Sandiego! She also performed multiple times at the White House during the Bush administration! She joins us to discuss her career, what Broadway was like post 9/11 and how the role of Gertrude is one she'll cherish forever. | — | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Andrew Keenan-Bolger's I Wanna Be Like You! | Andrew Keenan-Bolger is a Broadway veteran most well known as the original Crutchie in Newsies on Broadway! He's also an author with his new debut solo YA novel Limelight OUT NOW! He also starred and created the webseries Submissions Only which lasted 3 seasons on YouTube! Some of his other Broadway credits include Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins and Tuck Everlasting! We get to talking about his time originating Jojo in Seussical out of town in Boston, his Newsies journey and co-writing his first couple of novels, the Jack & Louisa series! | — | ||||||
| 2/26/26 | ![]() Adam Gwon's I Wanna Be Like You! | Adam Gwon is an award winning composer and lyricist whose work has been performed on 6 continents! His musical Ordinary Days premiered Off Broadway in 2008 and has gone on to become a hit beyond its Off Broadway run in part thanks to its successful cast album! His songs Fine, I'll Be Here and Favorite Places from Ordinary Days have gone on to be performed at concerts and cabarets all over the world! He's here now to discuss the cast album for his latest musical All The World's A Stage which premiered last spring Off Broadway and is OUT NOW and features former guests Matt Rodin & Elizabeth Stanley! We get to talking about how he went from actor to writer, how Ahrens & Flaherty affected his career in a major way, his time as a Tony Award voter and much more! | — | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Ross Meyerson's I Wanna Be Like You! | Ross Meyerson is an Emmy Award winning casting director for his work on the hit drama Damages starring Glenn Close along with his former partner Julie Tucker. Currently, he’s casting the upcoming season of Dexter: Resurrection following the success of the first season last year! His roots however are in theater having been the Artistic Director of Millbrook Playhouse and various regional theaters across the country. Some of his most prominent casting credits include Nurse Jackie, Kevin Can Wait, Sneaky Pete and The Big C! If you’d like to take class with Ross, he currently teaches at One on One NYC! | — | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | ![]() George & Marty Lee Andrews' I Wanna Be Like You! | George & Marty Lee Andrews are on the precipice of celebrating 50 years of marriage, having shared a life working in the theater. The two of them have been a part of some of the most legendary musicals of all time. George holds the Guinness World Record for the longest running actor in the same Broadway show having been in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway in 1988 and finishing his run in 2011! Prior to this, he originated the role of Frid in Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler’s classic musical A Little Night Music which Marty starred in its first national tour. The two of them directed the show in it’s premiere in South Africa and developed a strong relationship with its original director and Broadway legend, Hal Prince. Their career spans decades and have spread their welath of knowledge to generations younger than them with children and grandchildren also working in the theater. George & Marty tell us all about their careers, how they met, and their favorite Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim stories! | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | ![]() Joe Iconis' I Wanna Be Like You! | Joe Iconis is a Tony and Drama Desk Award nominated composer and lyricist for writing Be More Chill. Aside from Be More Chill, he’s written plenty of musicals that have premiered Off Broadway and regionally including Broadway Bounty Hunter, The Black Suits, and most recently The Untitled Hunter S Thompson Musical (which premiered last year at Signature Theater in Arlington, Virginia) and many more! He also contributed songs to the second season of the NBC TV series SMASH including Broadway, Here I Come and The Goodbye Song sung by Jeremy Jordan, Katherine McPhee and Krysta Rodriguez. In 2022, he released an album of story oriented songs titled Album which featured theater icons such as Danny Burstein, Lin Manuel Miranda, Aaron Tveit and many more. We get to talking about his entire career and what he has coming up next! | — | ||||||
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