I Wanna Be Like You with Elbi Cespedes

Al Tapper is a composer and producer who's composed more than a dozen musicals including his latest show After All These Years which opens at the AMT Theater on September 10th! He's produced the documentaries Broadway: The Golden Age and Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy which featured interviews from Broadway legends such as Stephen Sondheim, Carol Burnett, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, John Raitt, and many many more! We get to talking all about that, his experiences with Marlon Brando, Neil Simon, and Steven Spielberg and much more!

Howard McGillin is a 2 time Tony Award nominated Broadway actor who also holds the record for most performances as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. He also originated the role of Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood on Broadway! He also led the cast of the Stephen Sondheim musical Bounce (as Wilson) which premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC opposite Richard Kind, Michele Pawk and Gavin Creel. His other Broadway credits include the latest revival of Parade, Gigi, She Loves Me, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Secret Garden (as Archibald), Sunday in the Park with George, and Anything Goes (as Billy, opposite Patti LuPone)! We get to talking all about that, his time working on iconic Sunday scene from tick, tick...boom, and much more!

Jody Reynard is a Broadway veteran currently playing Mr. Duvall in Mean Girls at The Cape Playhouse! He booked his Broadway debut as a swing in Fosse after an Ann Reinking led dance call! He also starred in Legally Blonde, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and Taboo on Broadway! Part time, he teaches numerous classes at Broadway Dance Center! We get to talking about the key to Fosse technique, meeting Ben Vereen, and nailing musical comedy! Go see Mean Girls now through August 29th!

Angie Schworer is a Broadway veteran with more than 10
Broadway credits! She's most well known for originating the role of Angie in The Prom, a role that was based on her and was played by Nicole Kidman in the Ryan Murphy Netflix film adaptation which we talk about as well! She made her Broadway debut in The Will Rogers Follies directed and choreographed by Tommy Tune. Her other Broadway credits include the original cast of The Producers, Some Like It Hot, Crazy For You and Sunset Boulevard. She's now taking up direction and choreography herself as she'll be working on the upcoming Ogunquit Playhouse production of The Producers as well as directing an upcoming regional production of Annie at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head Island, SC!

Tony Yazbeck is Broadway veteran who received a Tony Award nomination for the role of Gabie in the 2014 Broadway revival of On The Town! After making his Broadway debut as a child in the 1989 Revival of Gypsy, he’d then be in the 2008 Revival Gypsy this time as Tulsa however the journey getting there contained multiple twists and turns which we got to discussing at length! Other Broadway credits include A Chorus Line, Oklahoma, Prince of Broadway and most recently Flying Over Sunset! He’s currently playing Stone in Ogunquit’s production of City Of Angels! We get to talking about his wide dance history, the song and dance men that inspired him coming up and much more!