Brand Envy
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, we take a look at four brands that have found a way to survive for decades.
One company has been entertaining crowds with wax for 200 years.
One restaurant has been topping their ice cream cones with a unique swirl for over 80 years.
Another company teamed up with a certain debonaire spy 60 years ago.
And a fourth brand has made a fortune blowing bubbles for over 75 years.
Their stories are fascinating.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an apostrophe podcast production. |
| 0:08.0 | You're so king in it. |
| 0:14.0 | The scores of it in and it's now. |
| 0:18.0 | Your teeth look brighter than no, no. |
| 0:29.0 | You're not you when you're hungry. |
| 0:34.3 | You're a good hand with all the teeth. You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. |
| 0:42.3 | One day in the mid-80s, Andrew Lloyd Weber stumbled into a used bookstore. |
| 1:02.9 | He picked up a copy of a well-fum novel written in 1910. |
| 1:07.1 | It was titled Phantom of the Opera. |
| 1:11.0 | Upon reading the book, he started thinking seriously about mounting the story as a musical. |
| 1:17.3 | That musical hit Broadway in 1988. |
| 1:23.7 | It was an interesting inflection point in Broadway's history. |
| 1:28.2 | Times Square in New York was crime-ridden. |
| 1:30.9 | Broadway was at a low ebb. |
| 1:33.6 | Then came what has been called the Second British Invasion. |
| 1:37.9 | Big productions from England began rolling into New York. |
| 1:41.8 | Evita, Cats, Le Miz, and Phantom of the Opera. |
| 1:52.0 | The show was an overnight sensation. Audiences loved it. Performances sold out. Andrew Lloyd- Lloyd Weber made the front of Time magazine. |
| 2:03.4 | Phantom of the Opera dominated the 1988 Tony Awards, |
| 2:07.6 | winning seven, including Best New Musical. |
| 2:11.3 | It was the event of the year. |
| 2:14.7 | Production-wise, Phantom was a spectacle. |
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