Episode 501: Evita (1996)

Special Guest: Sir Tim Rice
Guest Co-Hosts: Paul Mow, Todd Nathanson

We kick off Musical Month with a look at Alan Parker's Evita (1996). Based on the stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, it's the story of Eva Duarte, a girl (Madonna) from the backwaters of Argentina who makes her way to Buenas Aires, climbing the social ladder until she ends up with Colonel Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce) who soon becomes the country's fascist dictator.

Todd in the Shadows and Paul Mow join Mike to discuss the stage and screen versions while Sir Tim Rice discusses the versions of Evita that we almost saw in movie theaters.

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Links:
Buy Evita on Blu-Ray
Buy Evita: The Original Cast Recording on CD
Buy Evita: The Original Broadway Cast on CD
Buy Oh What a Circus by Tim Rice
Learn more about The Ghostlight Theater
Subscribe to the Song Vs. Song podcast

Music:
"Es El Pueblo" - Nelly Omar
"Down Thru' Summer" - Ross Hannaman
"Rainbow Tour" - Swedish Cast
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" - The Mike Flowers Pops
"What's New, Buenas Aires?" - Evita: The Original Broadway Cast

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"Queen of Hearts"(Evita Perón) (Documentary) from Carlos Pasini-Hansen on Vimeo.

Episode 313: Making Mr. Right (1987)

Special Guests: Susan Seidelman, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly, Laurie Frank, Floyd Byars
Guest Co-Hosts: Beth Accomando, Miguel Rodriguez

In Susan Seidelman's Making Mr. Right (1987), Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) is an ad executive whose new client, ChemTec, needs a major PR campaign in order to make the Ulysses robot (John Malkovich) palatable to the American public.

Laurie Frank and Floyd Byars penned this sci-fi romantic comedy.

The episode features the second of the three-part interview with actress Glenne Headly. Hear the first part on the Dick Tracy episode.

Beth Accomando and Miguel Rodridguez join Mike to discuss this delightfully quirky film.

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Links:
Buy Making Mr. Right on Blu-Ray
Visit the official Ann Magnuson website
Visit the Frank Picture Gallery
Read Beth Accomando's film reviews
Visit the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival website

Music:
"Another World" - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
"Blank Generation" - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
"I Met An Astronaut" - Ann Magnuson
"Too Many Fish in the Sea" - The Marvelettes
"Happy Together" - The Turtles

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Episode 282: Dick Tracy (1990)

Special Guests: Glenne Headly, Garyn G. Roberts, Dan Kampling
Guest Co-Hosts: Jared Case, Frank Santopadre

Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy is a beautiful recreation of the four-color world of Chester Gould's square-jawed detective. It's also something of an uneasy marriage of Stephen Sondheim songs, Madonna, and a cavalcade of character actors as Gould's "Rogues Gallery."

Interviews feature Glenne Headly who plays Tracy's love interest, Tess Trueheart, as well as author Garyn G. Roberts, and Dick Tracy afficianado Dan Kampling. We also hear just a bit of executive producer Floyd Mutrux from a previous interview.

Jared Case and Frank Santopadre join Mike to debate if the film ultimately works.

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Links:
Buy Dick Tracy on Blu-Ray
Buy Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and Context by Garyn G Roberts
Buy Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell
Buy Dick Tracy The Official Biography by Jay Maeder
Read Dick Tracy: A (Re)appreciation by Jared Case
Read Looking Back at Dick Tracy by Becky Lea
Read Remember Dick Tracy? by Keith Phipps
Learn more about the Cash & Epps collection at MSU
Visit the official Stephen Sondheim website
Visit the official Frank Santopadre website
Hear more of Frank Santopadre on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
Learn more about the Nitrate Picture Show
Hear more from Floyd Mutrux

Music:
"Bat/Tracy?" - Danny Elfman
"Dick Tracy" - The Ventures
"Tess's Theme" - Danny Elfman
"The Powerful Fully-Transistorized Dick Tracy Two-Way Wrist Radio" - Man or Astro-man?
"Dick Tracy" - Ice-T

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