Thank You, Five

We start Comfort and Joy with a return to one of our favorite musicals composed by the guy who wrote the Pina Colada song!!! Let's take a brief jaunt back down memory lane to talk about The Mystery of Edwin Drood!!Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com!

We don't have a show to talk about this month, due to family things and holidays but we still wanted to bring you some fun theater talk! We want to wish all of our listeners a happy holiday season and a bright new year!Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com!

It's the 90s but we're in the 50s! Or is it the 80s? It's Brazil! Or is it Argentina? It's the Kiss of the Spider Woman, an early 90s queer revolutionary musical based off a movie based off a novel and that currently has a movie adaptation that for some reason is being released the same month as Wicked For Good. Molina is a queer person imprisoned for being queer. Valentin has just been thrown into the same cell. The two of them must learn to survive each other and the tortures in store for them. CW: This episode does deal with gender, sexuality, the expression thereof and how that's been expressed and recognized over the years as well as violence caused by that.Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

We're talking about the musical about the French Revolution!!! Wait, no, we didn't already do that because Les Mis doesn't take place during the French Revolution! It's Frank Wildhorn's The Scarlet Pimpernel, the musical with almost as many versions as Chess. Based on a novel (and a play and a series of books and a series of movies and ...) by Baroness Orczy at the turn of the century, it had a number of openings, closing, rewrites, and attempts at Tony awards. Percy Blakeney marries the beautiful French woman Margaueritte only to find she's been instrumental in turning in nobility to the executioners. So, he takes on a disguise to help people escape France, chased by the relentless Chauvelin. Find out what happens in the episode!To find out more about Christine, please check out mynameispurpose on most if not all social media apps.For more Footnoting History, go to https://www.footnotinghistory.com/ or find them on any podcatcher!Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

It's the summer of love and the sexual revolution and Vietnam is happening and there's so much civil unrest! It's time for Hair! So let's pull out our best bell bottoms and prayer beads and get ready to sit in and be in. Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

This July, we're talking about Sonheim's second Broadway show he did both the music and lyrics for. Yes, we say it's the first in the show but we're correcting that now! Everyone in a small, poor town is overseen by the ruthless mayor Cora, who's opposed by a nurse at the local mental hospital, Fay Apple. What happens when a natural miracle promises health and curative powers for the citizens? And who is this mysterious man who shows up to help out the citizens when they can't tell who's a patient at the hositpal and who's a citizen of the town?Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

It's June and to celebrate Pride, we're going back to La Cage Aux Folles! Come for the drag and stay for the shenanigans!!

Wicked: For Good isn't out yet, but we're here to talk about Act 2 of the musical, which, spoiler alert, will be the basis of the second movie! After Elphaba leaves the Emerald City, things take a dark turn. And then Dorothy drops in.For more Emily Edwards content, please check out https://msemilyedwards.com/ or find her on Bluesky at @msemilyedwards.bsky.social. You can check out F*bois of Literature on the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/fuckboisoflit/posts and the Ticklish Business podcast at https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

It's Act 2 and we're ready to be tossed off the .. I mean, find out what Urinetown ACTUALLY is! Where is it? Who lives there? What is a metaphor? None of these questions and more will be answered until we have a musical song and snap number. Remember to leave a five star review and note that we have an email!!! Send us your questions and loving feedback!https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcastthanku5pod@gmail.com

We're still wintering in the Hamptons with Big Edie and Little Edie and their army of racoons and cats! It's act 2, which means we're heavy into the documentary territory recreation and out of fantasy land. What caused the rift between the two? Can one have cake AND eat it? What's up with Jerry? https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We're talking Pippin today, and we're joined by David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele, historians and authors of books you should read! We're here today to talk about Pippin, the musical about the son of Charlemagne, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson and Bob Fosse, as well as original direction/choreography by Fosse. To round it out, our guests have just released a book they wrote on the sons and grandsons of Charlemagne, called Oathbreakers!For more medieval history, check out their newsletter at https://buttondown.com/ModernMedievalDavid M Perry can be found at https://www.davidmperry.com/Both can be found on blusky Matthew Gabriele @profgabriele.com and David M Perry @lollardfish.bsky.socialOathbreakers can be found at your local or online book seller!

We're rounding out November with the second act of Mack and Mabel with author and podcaster Emily J. Edwards! For more Emily, check out https://msemilyedwards.com/and for Ticklish Business, check out https://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com/Leave a five star review and rating! Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TY5Podcast

We finish off spooky month with the second act of Gentleman's Guide!!! Who's killing the D'Ysquiths? Why didn't this podcast episode come out on time? Will Monty marry Phoebe or Sybella? All of these questions might be answered on this podcast!!!