Something New - A Musical Theatre Podcast

JBN hangs out with Kate Lumpkin, a fabulous casting director and professional fairy godmother. Song premiere: "Bibbidi" with music and lyrics by Joel B. New. Performed by Miss Lumpkin featuring Gillian Berkowitz on piano.

Season 5 Premiere! JBN sits down with the hilarious and talented Marcus Monroe (twitter.com/marcusmonroe). Song premiere: a setting of Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning" from President Bill Clinton's 1993 Inauguration; performed by Ernie Pruneda with Gillian Berkowitz. To watch the song on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JQ7i35F2NII #SomethingNewPodcast

The Season 4 finale of Joel B. New's musical theatre podcast "Something New" took to the stage in the form of a livestream concert on Saturday, October 8th. An audio recording of the event has been exclusively released to Broadway World on October 24th and will be available on all podcast platforms starting October 31st.The concert's lineup of singers included Tim Eliot, Devin Ilaw (Les Miserable, upcoming Miss Saigon), Amy Jo Jackson, Garth Kravits (The Drowsy Chaperone), Katharine Pettit, Lauren Ruff, Bailie Slevin, Lauren Sowa, and Gabe Violett (Spring Awakening, current season of NBC's "The Voice"). Accompanied by Gillian Berkowitz (Jersey Boys). The online audience enjoyed many of Joel's original songs that premiered on the podcast this season, including a few from his upcoming EP "Cabot Cove".Presented by Howl Round TV, the concert was recorded live from the Dramatists Guild Fund's Music Hall, a space provided as a free resource for writers. A video

Joel reads aloud the latest entry from his artist blog, "Confessions of a Banter Writer." To subscribe and read more, visit https://www.tumblr.com/blog/confessionsofabanterwriter. Also be sure to tune into howlround.tv on Saturday, October 8th at 7pm EST for the Season 4 Livestream Concert Finale!

Joel reads aloud the latest entry from his artist blog, "Confessions of a Banter Writer." To subscribe and read more, visit https://www.tumblr.com/blog/confessionsofabanterwriter.

In Episode 417, Joel B. New sat down with the Founders of Motivated Movers, Elise Hearden and Jesse Palmer. Song Premiere: "Sexy Hallway" featuring KC Comeaux. Follow me and my guests! MotivatedMoversNYC.com | facebook.com/MotivatedMoversNYC | twitter.com/MotivatedNYC | instagram.com/motivatedmoversnyc | twitter.com/comsdevice | instagram.com/kckc1980 | joelbnew.com | facebook.com/joelbnewsongs | twitter.com/joelbnew | instagram.com/joelbnew

BAILIE SLEVIN is the founder of Entertaining Finance, a business management and financial consulting firm geared specifically towards creatives. Bailie is the perfect combination of finance ninja and theater nerd. With 10 years of experience as a financial adviser and a hefty resume in theater, she is redefining planning for artists and entrepreneurs. She’s worked with Certified Financial Services and Forest Hills Financial Group in finance and teaches Financial Literacy and Well-being workshops and speaks throughout the region on the specifics of Financial Management for Artists. As a stage manager, general manager, and producer on Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, Tony Awards, Drama Desk, OBIE Awards, and IT Awards pepper Bailie’s resume. Some of her favorite projects include The Norman Conquests, Altar Boyz, Naked Boys Singing!, Pursuit of Persephone, A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, and Popesical in Concert at Joe’s Pub. She currently serves as a board member for The Ta

Devin Ilaw is a performer, musician, music director, and vocal coach. He can currently be seen making his Broadway debut in LES MISERABLES, now playing through September 4th. Favorite credits include the 25th anniversary tour of LES MISERABLES, MISS SAIGON, BERNSTEIN’S MASS, WEARING BLACK, and THE KING AND I. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon. | For the live song portion of the episode, Mr. Ilaw performs "Quiet Girl", an brand new exploratory song from MACKENZIE & THE MISSING BOY. Music and lyrics by Joel B. New, inspired by Langston Hughes' poem of the same name.

Michael Cassara (michaelcassara.net) is a Casting Director and Educator based in New York City, dedicated to developing and fostering the growth of new musicals, plays, and film projects. He has worked with many of the nation’s top theatres including Gulfshore Playhouse, the Denver Center, the Old Globe, Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, The Hangar Theatre, and more. | Since 2007, Cassara has served as the resident casting director of the New York Musical Festival, where he has cast over 70 individual projects. In 2013, he became the Casting Director for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), and casts their annual Festival of New Musicals each October. Feature film credits include Grantham & Rose, Contest, and Clear Blue Tuesday. Additionally, he has cast a number of high-profile short films including Alienated and The Hyperglot. | Originally a performer, Michael is a native Clevelander and a BFA graduate of the musical theatre program at Otterbein. He regularly teaches and le

In honor of Pride, I'm reposting the behind-the-scenes look and live performance of my original radio musical "RSVP," which premiered on this podcast back in Season One! "RSVP" - a chamber musical. Book, Music, and Lyrics by Joel B. New. Directed by Lori Wolter Hudson. Cast: Greg Etling as "Michael Walker", Jenny Neale as "Susan", Scott Guthrie as "The Stranger". "RSVP" was recorded live at Ripley-Grier Studios in NYC on 3/16/13 (www.ripleygrier.com). Sound design by Emily Auciello. About The Piece: "RSVP" takes place in Middle America in the early 1970’s. To be specific, this is the morning of Michael and Susan’s wedding. Michael is a nonfiction writer by trade, but on this morning – when he should be getting ready for the ceremony – he finds himself fixated on his first attempt at fiction. Writing what he knows, Michael creates the protagonist in his own image. However, when his fictional self is confronted with a familiar stranger

In Episode 412 of "Something New" -- a musical theatre podcast that interviews diverse artists and premieres original songs -- award-winning songwriter Joel B. New went to Paris, France and sat down with Lisandro Nesis, the artistic director of Broadway au Carré, which produces a monthly series of concerts and open mics that showcase American contemporary musical theatre.For the live song portion of the episode, Lisandro performs "Better than Fine" from New's song cycle STANDALONE, and a duet entitled "The Ballad of the Cluck Cluck Sisters" is premiered by Jessica Gabrielle and Lily Kerhoas. Featuring Joel at the piano and Vincent Gilliéron on egg shaker. Both performances were recorded live from Joel's recent Broadway au Carré concert on Friday, June 10th, 2016."Something New" is available on iTunes, Stitcher, and TuneIn.Joel B. New is the recipient of an American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant for his music and lyrics. His stage projects include TO HELL

In Episode 411 of "Something New" -- a musical theatre podcast that interviews artists and premieres original songs -- award-winning songwriter Joel B. New sat down with Tim Eliot and Lauren Sowa, a real-life couple with an enormous bag of theatrical skills between them.Tim Eliot met Lauren while doing Cymbeline in Maine. He has been featured on Boardwalk Empire, in Christina Kallas’s The Rainbow Experiment and Keith Boynton’s Seven Lovers, and on the webseries The 3Bits, duder, and Pride. A veteran of classical and downtown theater, Tim played MacBeth and Hamlet with Everett Quinton and many Sleep No More alums. He has also directed NYC productions of Much Ado About Nothing, Erdman’s Suicide!?, and Romeo and Juliet. Tim recently finished his second year of study with William Esper and holds an MFA from the ART/MXAT Institute and a BA from Yale. www.timeliot.comLauren Sowa is thrilled to be taking part in this podcast! Lauren is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA

We've reached the mid point of Season 4! Enjoy highlights from last month's concert, "Cabot Cove Or Bust", featuring performances and original songs by Emily Prime (https://soundcloud.com/emilyprime), Jennifer Sanchez (https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.sanchez.1614460?fref=ts), David Alan Thornton: http://www.davidalanthornton.com/) and me (www.joelbnew.com) Recorded live on Sunday, April 24th, 2016 at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC.

Originally from Oregon, LAUREN RUFF (www.laurenruff.com) received her BFA in Musical Theater from The New School by way of AMDA NY. She’s performed Off Broadway in Shout The Mod Musical, Passion, Stop The World, The Boyfriend among other plays, musicals and workshops. Her work can also be seen on screen, in a few stints on SNL, in several short films and her Web Series, Big City, (a featured selection at NYTVF) which she wrote, produced and starred in. Two of her projects, Callie Wants a Solo and Boys and Other Distractions, have gone on to win audience choice at several film festivals in the greater New York area. Lauren is also a professional Voice Over artist having voiced various commercials for TV, Radio and Internet as well as cartoons! She has been a teaching artist for the past six years and her spirit animal is a Golden Retriever. She also loves a Rosé, sunsets and hugs in no particular order. Song Premiere: "Fading Hipster," music and lyrics by Joel B. New (www.joelbnew.com). Featurin

In prep for their upcoming 4/24 concert at the Bowery Poetry Club, JBN revisits interviews with Jennifer Sanchez, Kate Steinberg (aka Emily Prime), and David Alan Thornton. Song Premiere: Longfellow's poem "Snowflakes," performed by Carver Duncan (www.carverduncan.com) $15 tix to "Cabot Cove Or Bust" available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2471399

Farah Alvin’s Broadway credits include: It Shoulda Been You, Nine, The Look of Love, Saturday Night Fever, Grease!, A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway credits and Original Cast Recordings include: The Last Smoker In America, The Marvelous Wonderettes (Drama Desk Nomination), I Love You Because, and many more. She is also a Certified Holistic Health Counselor, a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and SUNY Purchase and is AADP certified. Her private nutrition practice works with individuals to find health and balance in their life through better eating and lifestyle. She’s also a songwriter and a sometimes blogger. Visit her at www.farahalvin.com and on all social media. | Song Premiere: "Tell Me A Story" from Joel B. New's MACKENZIE & THE MISSING BOY | accompanied by Josh Kight.

Garth Kravits is an actor, singer, musician and composer and award winning film maker.He made his Broadway debut in the musical The Drowsy Chaperone.Kravits has appeared in the Off-Broadway productions of Old Jews Telling Jokes and Toxic Audio Loudmouth; regionally in Gettin’ The Band Back Together, Meet Me in St. Louis: A Live Radio Play, and It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, (Bucks County Playhouse); The Producers (Gateway Playhouse) and Happy Days: A New Musical (Goodspeed Opera House); and as Benny Southstreet in the regional tour of Guys and Dolls.On television, Kravits has guest starred on 30 Rock, The Blacklist, Nurse Jackie, Hostages, Tin Man and The Carrie Diaries www.garthkravits.com. Song Premiere: "The Night Cafe" by Joel B. New (joelbnew.com), inspired by the artwork of Vincent Van Gogh, accompanied by Josh Kight (joshkight.com). To pledge to Joel's album Kickstarter campaign thru 4/6, please click here: bit.ly/1LPzB35

JBN concludes his unedited conversation with Season One's Billy Bustamante, Christine Schneider (nee Paterson), Gay Marshall, and Chris York. Recorded live on Friday, February 26th, 2016. Hosted by the Dramatists Guild Fund, Inc. (dgfund.org) Song Premiere: "Dirge For A Dead Dachshund" from the Cabot Cove EP. Performed by Charlie Johnson with Josh Kight on piano. A Kickstarter campaign to produce the Cabot Cove EP is running through 4/6/16. To make a pledge and be part of this artistic endeavor, visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1319958753/lets-commit-to-a-murder-she-wrote-album-of-pop-son

Four seasons later, JBN caught up with four of the most downloaded episodes from his premiere season: Billy Bustamante, Gay Marshall, Christine Schneider (nee Paterson), and Chris York. Song Premiere: "The Dead Must Sing" from the Cabot Cove EP. Performed by Amy Jo Jackson, accompanied by Josh Kight. www.joelbnew.com

Marion Abbott is a graduate of Musical Theatre Performance at Sheridan College and was named one of the Twenty Most Successful Graduates of the program. She also holds her Grade Ten Voice and A.R.C.T. in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music. In 2014, she created The Confidential Musical Theatre Project, which had its debut in Toronto and expanded to 8 cities by the end of its first year. There are now franchises in 14 cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago. She is looking forward to working as Musical Director for Drayton Entertainment's summer pantomime Aladdin and is preparing to produce a theatre festival that celebrates Women In Musical Theatre. Song Premiere: "Murder In A Minor Key" from Joel B. New's upcoming Cabot Cove EP, inspired by MURDER, SHE WROTE book titles. www.confidentialmusicaltheatreproject.com, www.joelbnew.com