A Tough Act to Follow
By Francesca and Grace
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A Tough Act to FollowAug 31, 2020
Where Do You Belong?
God I Hope I Get It
After reminiscing on the history of our rep books, we decided to continue on this journey to the past and discuss our college audition processes. We even watch and comment on our prescreen videos!
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Breaking Down the REP
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Out of the Blue
We are back with another episode of Musical Madness Mondays! This week, we talk all about one of our favorite shows, The Wild Party. We are big fans of both the Andrew Lippa and the Michael John Lachiusa Wild Party, and we give all the tea on our experiences, Mandy Patinkin as Burrs, and our dream casts.
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Back to School Pandemonium!
We are so excited to be back in the swing of things after our little hiatus. We both just finished our first week of senior year, and there is lots to catch up on. We chat about our predictions and goals for the semester, and all about what's on our back to school shopping list.
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COVID better get out and stay out! - Interview with Alex Colavecchio
This week, we had a very special guest come on to talk life post-grad. Alex Colavecchio, who graduated from WCSU in 2019, talks all about what she has been up to post-grad, and gives lots of advice for current college students who are nearing post-grad. Between moving to the city, auditioning, and running her own photography business, Alex has been grinding non-stop. We were very reassured after chatting with Alex, as post-grad has been on our minds a lot lately, especially in the midst of a pandemic.
You can find Alex on instagram at @alexcolavecchio and @alexcolaphotography !
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Guess that Musical!!!
Fran is back! After our weekly catch-up, we play “Guess that musical!" Follow along as we poorly describe musicals to each other and try to guess what they are! Stay tuned for more exciting episodes!
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Meet my sister!
Fran is away this week, but we are still giving you a tough act to follow with special guest, Grace’s sister, Molly! Molly and Grace talk about their spotlights, queues, and what they’re fighting for, and then a little bit about their relationship as sisters. Stay tuned until the end to hear Molly’s iconic vocals.
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The Room Where it Happens
In honor of it being released on Disney+, this month’s musical madness Monday episode is all about Hamilton! We talk about our experiences with Hamilton, our thoughts on the show, and our dream casts.
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A Wild, Wild Party!
We are so excited to be back recording together LIVE for this episode! However, it’s unfortunatley under the most tragic circumstances, as we are investigating the mysterious murder of Fran after having quite a Wild, Wild Party. In this special murder mystery episode, we interview Broadway’s top suspects to try and avenge Fran’s death. Follow along with the investigation to figure out who killed Fran! We will announce the findings of the investigation on next week’s episode.
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Q & A!
After a little hiatus last week, we are back and so much better with this really exciting Q&A episode. We asked our instagram followers to submit us questions and had lots of laughs answering them!
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We Can Do Better Than That
For the first time since starting the podcast, we finally recorded an episode LIVE in the same room! We can't wait to get back to school where we will be recording together every week, but for now, we had an absolute BLAST laughing together about our most iconic onstage mishaps. We also introduce a new segment where we digress Fran's Sondheim nightmares!
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Oh the Thinks You Can Think!
We had so much fun recording this debut episode of ‘Musical Mondays,’ a new series on the pod where we spend an entire episode discussing one musical. In this episode, we discuss a class fan favorite - Seussical the musical. We give the tea on Seussical’s run on Broadway, come up with our own dream casts, and reminisce on when we were the show. Let us know on our Instagram if you have any show requests for future episodes of Musical Mondays! Thank you for listening!
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Tough Act To Follow Tonys
In this special episode, we sit down in our best pajama sets to celebrate the 2020 Broadway season. Last week, we released a ballot of Tony nominees and we are so grateful to everyone who voted. We have an exciting lineup of special guest announcers for each award. After each presenter, we discuss our thoughts on the category. A HUGE thank you to everyone who participated in this episode. Stay tuned for more exciting episodes like this one.
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Journey to the Past
After catching up and confirming that A Tough Act to Follow is most definitely haunted, we take an exciting, somewhat embarassing, journey to the past! We had so much fun reminiscing on our childhood growing up in theater. We tell stories from community theater and school productions and have LOTS of laughs.
We’re hoping to follow this act next week with a super exciting episode to honor (what would have been) the 2020 Tony’s! We’ve created a Tony ballot for you to fill out so we can celebrate this Broadway season in a way that’s not the Grease sing-along.
Here is the link to the Tony ballot!
We hope you have fun thinking about what this season would have looked like! We can’t wait to announce the winners!
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The Ladies Are Improving
We are beyond excited to have had our first guest on the podcast this week! After our weekly catch up, we bring in the one, the only, THE Dean Martin. We knew Dean had to be our first guest because he was there when we first came up with the idea of starting a podcast! We then get into discussing our favorite Broadway divas. We tell some fun stories and talk about how these iconic women have inspired us. You can find a template to share your top 3 Broadway divas on our Instagram story!
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We have some super exciting episodes coming up so stay tuned! Thank you to Dean for making this week quite a tough act to follow!
And thank you to everyone for bearing with us as we figure out some audio issues. Everything will be cleared up by next episode!
Link to Judy Garland Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay5VW__TTcU
Losing Our Minds
In this episode, we talk highs and lows of the past week, our last week of school. Now that classes are over, we are fighting, as we do, to motivate ourselves during this quarantine. We came up with a Tough Act To Follow Quarantine Tag made up of fun theater and quarantine related questions that we thought would be fun to answer. A few of the questions have to do with music, so we made playlists of all the songs we mentioned in case you want to check them out! Listed below are the playlists, as well as links to other items we mentioned. If you want to fill out the tag, you can find the template on our instagram story.
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This week was certainly a tough act to follow, so make sure to come back next Monday for a new episode!
Apple Music Playlist: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/a-tough-act-to-follow-week-4-playlist/pl.u-38oWXa8tNvRMZE
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ifGdBOnYXV0uCFUGOBkbk?si=ch6a2FunTwGLnl4PO5t8YQ
Massage Gun: https://www.amazon.com/AUKMA-Cordless-Percussion-Stiffness-Relaxation/dp/B07ZKQ2SCG
Google Home: https://store.google.com/product/google_home
Climbing Uphill
In this super exciting episode, we read and react to our listeners’ most insane audition stories! First, we recap a crazy week full of final projects and performances. We’ve all been drowning in self-tapes, so we thought we’d chat a bit about our approach to song interpretation. We look back on some of our own bizarre audition experiences, and then get into reading your stories! Thank you to everyone who submitted!
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Talk to you next Monday for the next episode!
In Our Own Little Corners
Wooo! Our first full-length episode! We catch up, and then go back and reminisce on the early days of quarantine. We talk all about transitioning to online performance classes, self-tapes, and our upcoming finals.
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Getting to know US!
Welcome to our intro episode! We hope you enjoyed getting to know a little about us.
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