On this week’s show, Rob and Jamie are joined by three-time Tony Award winning composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director, and performer Jason Robert Brown, best known for his shows “Songs for a New World”, “Parade”, “The Last Five Years”, “13”, “The Bridges of Madison County”, and “Honeymoon in Vegas”.  Together, they discuss his musical theatre work, solo albums, concerts, monthly residency at SubCulture, Eydie Gormé, the Muppets, and what it’s like making music in quarantine. 

This week’s music: “Opening: The New World” from “Songs for a New World”, “I’m Still Hurting” from “The Last Five Years / SubCulture Concert 58”, “A Little Brains, A Little Talent” from Andrea Burns “A Deeper Shade of Red”, “Melinda”, from “How We React and How We Recover”, “I Love Betsy’, from “Honeymoon In Vegas”, “The Old Red Hills of Home” from “Parade”, “Hope”, from “How We React and How We Recover”,  “Friki-Friki”, from “Honeymoon In Vegas”, “One Second and a Millions Miles”, from “The Bridges of Madison County”, “Moving Too Fast” from “The Last Five Years”, “Sanctuary”, from "SubCulture Concert 58”, “Do the Work”, from “Prince of Broadway”, “Wait ’Til You See What’s Next”, from “How We React and How We Recover”.

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On this week’s episode, Rob and Jamie venture to the “City of Brotherly Love” to catch up with the fabulous Carolee Carmello.  As she winds down the national tour of “Hello, Dolly!”,  they sit down to discuss her remarkable career, her incredible voice, and what playing Dolly Levi has meant to her at this time in history.  Before that, Rob and Jamie geek out about their Carolee Carmello fandom and, a bit later, Rob gives a look into Philadelphia’s historic Academy of Music.

This week’s music: “Under Separate Cover”, from “A Class Act”, “The Winner Takes It All”, from “Mamma Mia”, “Prologue”, from “City of Angels”, “Rose’s Turn” from “Gypsy”, and “You Don’t Know This Man” and “All The Wasted Time” from “Parade”.