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Broadway Revival

By: Alex Barron, Shelley Lewis, Faith Salie
Narrated by: Faith Salie
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Episodes
  • Episode 1 : Exit, Pursued by a Bear
    Nov 18 2021
    41 mins
  • Episode 2 : Theater, by Any Means Necessary
    Dec 2 2021
    40 mins
  • Episode 3: Places, Everyone
    Dec 2 2021
    46 mins

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About the Creator and Performer

Faith Salie is a five-time Emmy-winning contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a regular on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!. She stars Off-Broadway in her solo show, Approval Junkie, based on her memoir of the same name, at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre November-December 2021. She’s also the host of Audible’s newest podcast, Broadway Revival, about the epic comeback of theatre. She hosted five seasons of PBS’s Science Goes to the Movies and is a storyteller for The Moth, with her story viewed over 4.2 million times and included in The Moth’s New York Times bestseller, Occasional Magic. Faith’s interviewed thousands of people as the host of a dozen podcasts ( NPR, Wondery, Stitcher, Audible) and has been interviewed by Oprah and Anderson Cooper. Bylines: Time, The New York Times, Slate, O, The Oprah Magazine, and McSweeneys. As an actor, her favorite stage roles include playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret (American Repertory Theatre) Squeaky Fromme in Assassins (Oxford Playhouse, England), Svetlana in Chess (Edinburgh Fringe), and a member of the Los Angeles premiere of The Laramie Project. She’s performed at Carnegie Hall, sung with the Boston Pops, and swum with the Weeki Wachee mermaids. Faith is a Rhodes scholar who received her MPhil in Literature from Oxford University, after which her cohort became things like 2020 presidential candidates and Pulitzer Prize winners, while she went to Hollywood and landed on a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine collectible trading card worth hundreds of cents.
Faith lives in NYC with two kids and one husband.

Dear Listener,

What surprised me most while reporting this story?
"I knew that the theater people whom I interviewed for this show would be emotional about what it meant when theater went away. After all, theater is emotion. What surprised me was the profound thoughtfulness of every person who shared his/her/their story. These were people—actors, writers, designers, producers, stage managers, activists—who asked themselves who they are without a stage—even whether they needed a stage. They asked themselves whether artists really matter, what racial equity in the theater must look like, and how to make theater accessible to all. When the theater went dark, none of these players shut down.
From playwright Antoinette Nwandu, who shares why she was compelled to utterly change the ending of her play * before it reopened on Broadway; to the cast and creative team of Mrs. Doubtfire, who wrestled with the impact of a story that finds comedy in presenting a man who puts on a dress; to the kids in Mrs. Doubtfire, who confess what it felt like to think they’d literally grown out of their Broadway debuts because their bodies grew taller and their voices dropped lower, and everyone in between who waited for the curtains to rise—none of us will ever think about theater the same way again." – Faith Salie, writer of Broadway Revival

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Broadway survived the pandemic

was a great listen. thank you to all who work tirelessly for every show. 🙏

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I work on Broadway and this podcast did a great job of encompassing different theatre workers experiences and various aspects

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Who knew?

I loved Broadway… On my once a month NYC business trip from the outer world (Montana,) I was fortunate to experience so many worlds from drama, musical, on and off Broadway. All our worlds shut down, I retired, no more New York, no more Broadway, no more traveling Broadway series, not even a little regional theater. The stark reality of Salie’s podcast, not only gave me perspective but great hope. Thank you

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