Broadway’s award-winning, record-breaking, smash hit, Hamilton, is a musical unlike any other. In this special episode, we have re-voiced, remixed, and remastered one of our shows about our favorite broadway musical! Featuring Nevin Steinberg, Hamilton’s Tony-nominated sound designer, Benny Reiner, Grammy-winning Hamilton percussionist, Anna-Lee Craig, Hamil ... Show More
Nov 19
Defying Gravity: The Audio Wizardry of Wicked's Live Vocals
In movie musicals, the vocals are almost never recorded live on-set. Instead, the actors pre-record their songs, then lip sync to those recordings while filming. But on Wicked, they threw out the rulebook, and recorded all of the lead vocals live. In this episode, Production Soun ... Show More
32m 21s
Nov 2021
Episode 277: Lin-Manuel Miranda On The Music Of Encanto, Tick Tick Boom & Hamilton
Our latest guest on soundtracking is the actor, songwriter, playwright, producer, rapper and now feature film director, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Not fair, really, is it?!
Lin-Manuel is perhaps most well known for writing the script, music and lyrics for Hamilton, which has been a glob ... Show More
43m 43s
May 2024
The Real Hamilton: An American Myth?
<p>11 Tonys, a Grammy, a Pulitzer Prize and broken box office records - there's no denying the impact of Lin-Manuel Miranda's <em>Hamilton.</em></p><br><p>Throughout this series on the <em>real </em>Hamilton, we have been trying to uncover the man the musical is based on. But how ... Show More
35m 52s
Feb 2024
Culture Chat: Jennifer Lopez’s baffling ‘This is Me … Now’
This Friday, we explore Jennifer Lopez’s mind-boggling new movie musical ‘This is Me … Now: A Love Story’, which was released alongside an album of the same name. The film, inspired by her marriage to actor Ben Affleck, is a series of music videos, action scenes and therapy sessi ... Show More
20m 47s