LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway

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  • Find out what your favorite stars were doing as kids. Whether they were starring on Broadway or their backyard cabaret act, host Marc Tumminelli will get the full story! Marc sits down with Broadway, TV & Film stars to dish about how it all got started on LITTLE ME: growing up Broadway! As a theater educator and the owner of Broadway Workshop, Marc gets his guests to open up about the good, bad and ugly of being a young person with a dream of the bright lights of Broadway. Performers will share tales of hitting it big, local auditions, school theater, backstage stories, child stardom, nightmare auditions, opening nights, unexpected closings, stage moms and dads, wranglers, unemployment, college and everything else Marc can get out of them! Produced by the Broadway Podcast Network.
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Episodes
  • EP77 - Luke Islam - Comment Section

    EP77 - Luke Islam - Comment Section
    Apr 13 2023
    Film and TV star - Luke Islam breaks down his wild ride to fame in episode 77 of LITTLE ME: Growing up Broadway! Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with his student Luke Islam to talk about his incredible career going from Broadway super fan to one of the most talked about America's Got Talent contestants and his rise to stardom on Disney+' Mighty Ducks, Netflix's movie musical 13 and the upcoming film Theater Camp! Luke Islam shot to national stardom when he appeared on Season 14 of America's Got Talent. After a show stopping performance he received the Golden Buzzer, sending him straight to the Quarter finals as well as viral acclaim, following his success on AGT, he made his professional acting debut as the series regular on the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. He starred in the Netflix musical move, 13: The Musical, this summer he can be seen playing the role of Christopher L in the anticipated film Theater Camp starring Ben Platt. But before Theater Camp hits theaters, Luke will be seen back on stage as "Bobby Strong" in Broadway Workshop/Project Broadway’s main stage production of URINETOWN at theater 555 in NYC! Produced by Marc Tumminelli and The Broadway Podcast Network! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • EP76 - Spotlight on... Merri Sugarman

    EP76 - Spotlight on... Merri Sugarman
    Mar 30 2023
    In this special SPOTLIGHT episode, Marc sits down with Broadway Casting Director, MERRI SUGARMAN to chat about her career and her new book: From Craft to Career, A Casting Directors Guide for the Actor! Merri Sugarman (of Tara Rubin Casting) has cast the Broadway, touring, Chicago, Las Vegas and international companies of Spamalot, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jesus Christ Superstar, It Shoulda Been You, School of Rock, Miss Saigon, A Bronx Tale and Ain't Too Proud. She has also cast for many regional theaters including the Papermill Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, The Stratford Theater Festival, Dallas Theater Center and many others. She is the casting director of the critically acclaimed web series Submissions Only and has many TV and film projects, workshops, labs and developmental readings to her credit, including the musical TREVOR.  Broadway Workshop director, and Little Me host, Marc Tumminelli breaks down the Broadway casting process and everything that is part of Merri's new book From Craft to Career, A Casting Directors Guide for the Actor, now available for pre-order! Buy the Book! https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/from-craft-to-career-9781350276017/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • EP75 - Jean Louisa Kelly - Anything Can Happen

    EP75 - Jean Louisa Kelly - Anything Can Happen
    Jan 5 2023
    Broadway, Film and TV star - Jean Louisa Kelly joins us for our first episode of 2023! Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli begins 2023 by sitting down with Jean Louisa Kelly who began her career playing title role in a New England summer stock production of Annie, and then went on to make her Broadway debut with the original cast of Into the Woods. Jean tells her Broadway to Hollywood story in this epic episode. Jean Louisa Kelly shot to stardom playing the role of Tia opposite John Candy in the John Hughes hit film Uncle Buck, and went on to play Rowena Morgan opposite Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland’s Opus, and Luisa in the film adaptation of The Fantasticks. More recently, she appeared the Warner Bros film Malignant and in Paramount’s monster hit Top Gun: Maverick. On the small screen, she played Kim Warner in the long-running CBS sitcom “Yes, Dear", and as Nurse Diane on “Mad About You" as well as so many other notable TV and Film Projects. She has recorded multiple albums available across all digital platforms and she is bringing her all new solo show to the Laurie Beechman theater on January 21st! Produced by Marc Tumminelli and the Broadway Podcast Network. https://www.westbankcafe.com/laurie-beechman-theatre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 mins

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