Surprise! With hopes of reuniting on a more regular basis, Alex & Kelsey are back to dive into this year’s movie musical mega hit, Wicked. Starting with the stage show’s inception, our hosts chart the course of this award-winning, chart-topping juggernaut, as they consider this year’s Oscar race,...

Taking a quick pause on Season Two! To that end, congratulations to Kelsey on her amazing new job in another city! Bear with us while we figure out a plan for remote recording, but in the mean time, enjoy this quick update from Alex with some additional background on the change and a brief recap ...

The tea is spilled as Alex & Kelsey discuss feuds, beef, and the complicated political history of 1996’s Evita. In what the pod might consider their best work, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice delved into South American history to explore a deeply beloved, yet deeply flawed heroine in Eva Perón. ...

Tongue-in-cheek meets heart-on-sleeve as Alex & Kelsey gush over 1986’s cameo-filled Little Shop of Horrors. Not long before ushering in what’s now known as the Disney Renaissance, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken helped legitimize New York’s burgeoning Off-Off Broadway scene at the WPA Theater with...

Kelsey & Alex visit an often terrifying version of Oz in 1978’s box office dud and eventual cult classic The Wiz. Diana Ross led a seemingly relentless campaign to secure the film’s lead role (the unofficial fictionalization of which we discussed in our Dreamgirls episode), and her age being 33 a...

Next on their journey through the decades, Alex and Kelsey examine Barbra Streisand’s breakout performance in 1968’s Funny Girl. For the first time ever, neither of our hosts had seen this film before, so their wide-eyed enthusiasm — especially concerning the dreamy Omar Sharif — is 100% genuine....

For this month’s 50’s installment, Kelsey and Alex discuss the racy camp of Rogers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration, Oklahoma!

Kelsey and Alex delve into Vincente Minnelli’s wartime love letter to simpler times, Meet Me in St. Louis. Featuring a star-making, coming-of-age performance from Judy Garland.

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Enter Hollywood’s problematic golden age, as Kelsey and Alex dive into the harrowing history of The Wizard of Oz. Welcome to Season 2!

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Before they officially kick off Season 2 Kelsey and Alex get spooky with The Nightmare Before Christmas!

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Willkommen to the penultimate episode of season 1! Kelsey and Alex dive into Fosse’s ever-relevant masterpiece Cabaret, starring the legendary Liza Minnelli.

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Leapin’ Lizards! In their most divisive episode yet, Kelsey and Alex discuss 1982’s star-studded Razzie winner Annie.

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If you like spinning newspaper montages, you’ll love 2006’s Dreamgirls. Alex and Kelsey break it down in this week’s episode.

Papas! Mamas! Sunrise! Sunset! Kelsey and Alex review, recap, and recast the 1971 classic Fiddler on the Roof.

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Kelsey & Alex play it ~real cool~ and discuss everything this top-winning musical gets right, and everything it really, really gets wrong.
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Alex and Kelsey break down the erotic weirdness of the OG “O.G.” and everything else wrong with The Phantom of the Opera.

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Alex and Kelsey talk about their all-time favorite, Moulin Rouge! and all the “Baz Luhrmann-isms” that make you either love it or hate it. Come for their critiques, stay for their bad accent work!

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Introducing THE HILLS ARE ALIVE, a brand new podcast on the We Own This Town network in which hosts Alex Caress and Kelsey Jayne dissect, recap, and reimagine classic movie musicals.

In Episode 1, they tackle the titular film - The Sound of Music. There's Nuns. There's Nazis. There's Hills!

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Kelsey and Alex talk about the least Christmas-y musical of all Christmas musicals, war, Dior, and other things they know nothing about.

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