SIMP - The Self-Indulgent Musical Podcast

It’s Muppets Christmas Carol Season! So today, we dive into one of our favorites, a classic, and discuss the commitment of Sir Michael Caine. We discuss the beautiful, practical world built with our muppets, some bops, and some lore we love. There’s also personal history with the IP, a Menken detour, and more!@simpcasters@epicadventureof@ibroskisimpcasters@gmail.com

Happy Anniversary, SIMPS! Here we are a year later to bring us back to the beginning with WICKED: FOR GOOD. Join us for a discussion of new songs, old stories, similarities, and differences between the musical and the movie. We also talk WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST, doors, plot holes and justifications, clock ticks, and SO MUCH MORE! Needless to say, SPOILERS ABOUND.Let us know your thoughts and feelings about WICKED: FOR GOOD! Write in!@simpcasters@epicadventureof@ibroskisimpcasters@gmail.com

Today, we discuss the intersection where social media meets Broadway. We go back to the beginning with forums and BTS and how that evolved to today’s TheatreTok. We talk about the morality of casting based on follower count, the teenification of Broadway, slime tutorials, and more! Also, we shout out our TikTok commenters! If you have thoughts, Send them our way!@simpcasters@epicadventureofsimpcasters@gmail.com

We finally watched INTO THE WOODS 2014! And we have thoughts on the adaptation, everyone is acting so good, we were robbed of some impeccable casting, and Ian has a new office! Write in with your thoughts and feelings about all the into INTO THE WOODSes! GET. JANEANE GAROFOLO. ON BOARD.@simpcasters@epicadventureof@ibroskisimpcasters@gmail.com

Life has been lifing so we will be back soon with INTO THE WOODS part 2 - a compare and contrast with the 2014 movie. In the meanwhile, here is our deep dive into RENT from the GLEE 👏 AGGRESSIVE days. "Welcome to the BONUS EPISODE! Today, instead of talking GLEE, Corrina and Ian discuss RENT the musical/the movie! There's a lot of ACTING FACES OFF! A lot of ambiguity around 90's East Village culture! A lot of hoops jumped through to justify musical theatricality!"See you soon!@simpcasters@epicadventureof@ibroskisimpcasters@gmail.com

Today we talk about INTO THE WOODS (1991), a masterpiece in Ian’s eyes. And trust us, we could talk about it forever, but we'll leave you with this. Ian has one problem with it. Listen to find out what it is! @simpcasters@epicadventureof@ibroskisimpcasters@gmail.com

Today, Beda Spindola of the upcoming Hell’s Kitchen tour joins us to talk about going viral, showing up, and joining Equity. We dive into dream roles, cruise work, vocal health, and doing it scared. And so much more because we love to yap!@bedaspindola@simpcasters@epicadventureof@ibroskisimpcasters@gmail.com

Today, we rank a select number of jukebox musicals. How did we do? Write in and tell us what we got right! Tell us what we got wrong, what we missed, or what we need to add next time!@simpcasters@epicadventureof@ibroskisimpcasters@gmail.com