I Wanna Be Like You with Elbi Cespedes

I Wanna Be Like You with Elbi Cespedes is a podcast that explores the journeys of successful individuals and how they’ve built and sustained their careers. Host Elbi Cespedes sits down with accomplished guests to discuss their beginnings, the challenges they’ve faced, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Through engaging and insightful conversations, this podcast offers inspiration, practical advice, and a deeper look into what it really takes to achieve long-term success.

I Wanna Be Like You with Elbi Cespedes is a arts podcast hosted by elbito322, with 98 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

elbito322 hosts I Wanna Be Like You with Elbi Cespedes, a arts show with 98 episodes published.

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  Episode #90

  Larry Fuller's I Wanna Be Like You!

  Sep 30, 20262h 36mS1

  Larry Fuller is a Tony Award nominated choreographer who’s career in the theater spans decades on and offstage. His work as a choreographer includes the original Broadway productions of Evita, Sweeney Todd, and Merrily We Roll Along! As a performer himself, he was a swing in the original Broadway cast of West Side Story, the original production of The Music Man and Funny Girl starring Barbara Streisand! We get to discussing it all as well as his new book to be released in the spring of 2027!

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  Episode #89

  Timothy Hughes' I Wanna Be Like You!

  Sep 25, 20261h 15mS1

  Timothy Hughes is gearing up to star in the upcoming Broadway musical Wanted! Some previous Broadway credits include the original Broadway casts of Frozen and Hadestown, the latter earned him an article in The New York Times regarding his height (6'7"). Most recently on screen he was featured alongside Lisa Kudrow in the final season of HBO's The Comeback. Another major screen credit is The Greatest Showman, where he played Strong Man. You may have also heard his voice on Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis' concept album Warriors singing We Got You alongside Joshua Henry! Other Broadway credits include Chaplin, Sweeney Todd (2023) and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!

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  Episode #88

  Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf's I Wanna Be Like You!

  Sep 19, 20262h 14mS1

  Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf is cellist with more than 20 Broadway credits. She currently plays in the pit of The Great Gatsby on Broadway! Some of her theater credits include the original Off Broadway production of The Last 5 Years, The Bridges of Madison County, A Little Night Music (2009 revival) and many others. In 2021, she released her debut album Music of Broadway For Cello and Piano which featured new orchestrations of music by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Alan Menken and many more! We discuss all of that, the quote Elaine Stritch gave her for her website, and even get a LIVE CELLO PERFORMANCE IN STUDIO!

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  Episode #87

  Julia Murney's I Wanna Be Like You!

  Sep 16, 202652 minS1

  Julia Murney is currently starring in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as Rona at The Cape Playhouse running now to September 19th! She's most well known for having originated the role of Queenie in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination! Her previous Broadway credits include Wicked (Elphaba) and Lennon the Musical! We get to chatting about all of that and more!

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  Episode #86

  David Lindsay-Abaire's I Wanna Be Like You!

  Sep 6, 20263h 21mS1

  David Lindsay-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright, book writer and lyricist whose work has appeared on screen and stage! He won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Rabbit Hole in 2007 (which was adapted into a feature film starring Nicole Kidman) and the Tony Award in 2023 for Best Book of a Musical as well as Best Musical for Kimberly Akimbo (a musical based on his play of the same name) which he wrote with Tony Award winning composer Jeanine Tesori. The show just concluded a national tour and has now begun performances in the UK starring Maria Friedman! His latest work The Balusters just wrapped up a successful Broadway run having won the Drama Desk Award for Best Play! Some of his other stage work includes his first collaboration with Tesori: Shrek the Musical as well as the plays Good People, Ripcord, Fuddy Meers, Wonder of the World and many more! His work on screen includes the films Robots, Poltergeist (2015), The Family Fang and more! He currently serves as the Co-Director of Julliard's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrighting Program. We get to talking about all of his stage work as well as his new musical that he's writing with Tesori and much more!

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