Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
We found 6 episodes of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “musical”.
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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
October 28th, 2024 | 2 hrs 4 mins
1990s, 90s, animated, animation, catherine o'hara, christmas, cinema, danny elfman, disney, film, films, halloween, horror, movie, movies, musical, musicals, puppet, puppets, stop motion, theater, tim burton, x-mas, xmas
This is Halloween! This is Halloween! For our final mainline October episode guest Matt Storm aka Stormageddon of the "Fun" and Games, and Reignite podcasts tricks and treats with us to revisit this masterclass in stop-motion animation that lets us celebrate two holidays for the price of one.
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The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
October 18th, 2024 | 2 hrs 3 mins
andrew lloyd weber, film, films, gaston leroux, halloween, hollywood, horror, leroux, lon chaney, makeup, movie, movies, musical, musicals, opera, paris, phantom, phantom of the opera, silent film, silent flims, silent movie, silent movies
We can't stay silent about the classic 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera. From Lon Chaney's iconically inhuman make-up to his all-too-human performance, the film still thrills and chills nearly 100 years later. We're joined once again by writer/director of The Canyon, Alex Sosin, to venture into the depths below the Paris opera house and revel in the true face of what dwells within.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
June 10th, 2024 | 2 hrs 14 mins
1990s, 90s, animation, broadway, cartoon, cartoons, cinema, colorado, comedy, film, matt stone, movies, musical, musical theater, musicals, satan, satire, south park, trey parker
South Park, CO may be a quiet mountain town but decades on it remains the locus for satire, profanity, and the occasional doomsday prophesy. Friendly faces Dave Jackson (the Tales From the Backlog podcast) and comedians Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Rolland Lopez (@rollandlopezvoiceactor) join us to go down to South Park and have ourselves a time with their 1999 musical feature outing that fully let Trey Parker and Matt Stone off the leash of basic cable.
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Disney Songs, Part 2
February 5th, 2024 | 2 hrs 7 mins
animation, broadway, cartoon, cartoons, coco, disney, disney channel, disneyland, disneyworld, duck tales, ducktales, high school musical, mary poppins, muppets, music, musical, musicals, nightmare before christmas, pixar, theater, touchstone
We're back to revisit our favorite Disney songs to infinity and beyond! Last time we covered songs from Walt Disney Studios' animated features. This time we're covering everything else from Pixar to Touchstone to the Disney Channel to the amusement parks and more. Returning guests Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo join us for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious massive mouse house roundtable.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
October 30th, 2023 | 1 hr 37 mins
1970s, 70s, aliens, gender, halloween, horror, lgbtq, musical, musicals, queer, rock, rock and roll, sci-fi, scifi, sexuality, susan sarandon, tim curry, trans, transsexual
Let's do the Time Warp again as special guest writer/director/actress/producer Shakina Nayfack (@shakeenz, Difficult People, Quantum Leap) joins us to send off our Halloween season with a bang, emphasis on the bang. This musical is a one-of-a-kind blend of rock, camp, horror, and sexual exploration that really puts the "fluid" in gender fluidity, one that has and always will inspire hordes of live audiences to not just dream it, but to be it.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
October 16th, 2023 | 2 hrs 1 min
alan rickman, angela lansbury, cannibalism, cannibals, class warfare, folklore, helena bonham carter, horror, johnny depp, lansbury, musical, musicals, opera, sondheim, stephen sondheim, theater, tim burton, victor garber, victorian
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd, who murdered patrons so we could pod. Actress, comedian, and host of Coming Out Pod Lauren Flans (@comingoutpod, @LaurenFlans) joins us to dine on Stephen Sondheim's horror musical masterpiece of class and cannibalism.