Episode 98 – Unmasked
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Kait and Renata decided that this podcast didn’t have enough musical theater references, so they invited their Jellicle friends Ashley and Stacey to read Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s memoir Unmasked. Join us to learn more than we ever wanted to know about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s child bride, and not as much as Duarte wanted to know about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s cats. We apologize in advance for all the earworms.
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Footnotes: Renata’s Highly Subjective Audio-Visual Guide to the World of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber to quit House of Lords due to Brexit making his schedule ‘impossibly’ busy
Comedy Bang! Bang!: Andrew Lloyd Webber Rap
Comedy Bang! Bang!: John C. Reilly, Ice-T, & Andrew Lloyd Webber Call in from a Hot Air Balloon
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “MUSICAL; THEATRE” with guests THE BOTH (Aimee Mann & Ted Leo)
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Episode 1
Candy pairing: Ashley says Trolli Sour Brite Blasts, Kait says a themed Broadway cocktail in a souvenir sippy cup, Stacey says Riesens, Renata says sherbet lemons.
Coming up next: A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the music of the night so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.3 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.4 | And for this episode, we read Unmasked by Andrew Lloyd-Weber. |
| 0:22.1 | Joining us to discuss this musical theater memoir are Stacey Snyder, comedian and librarian, |
| 0:27.6 | and Ashley Clark, musical theater newbie. |
| 0:30.4 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello. |
| 0:32.2 | Hi. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm going to tag each of you individually so people can try to tell your voices apart. |
| 0:39.3 | Hi, Stacey. Thanks for joining us. Thanks, Renata. |
| 0:40.3 | D'Warte also came to say hi, Stacy. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah, his collar's jingling. |
| 0:45.3 | Hi, Ashley. How are you doing? |
| 0:47.3 | Hey, I'm good. How's it going? |
| 0:48.3 | Pretty good. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:51.3 | All right, so as you just heard, this is Andrew Lloyd Weber's memoir. |
| 0:57.5 | Even if you are not a musical theater fan, you probably have heard of this person, |
| 1:02.0 | Andrew Lloyd Weber. |
| 1:03.9 | If you've never heard of them, you probably just stop listening now. |
| 1:07.2 | I think this is going to be too much for you. |
| 1:13.0 | But normally at the start of our show, we tend to summarize the plot of the books that we've read before we start talking |
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