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Syracuse (On)Stage"Cinderella" with Brian Cimmet & Jessica ChenAbout Brian CimmetBrian Cimmet teaches courses in musical theater performance, literature, history, and audition technique. His recent Department of Drama credits include direction and musical direction for Avenue Q and music direction for Parade and Spring Awakening. Other Syracuse credits include Merrily We Roll Along, Seussical, Hairspray, Violet, Like You Like It, White Christmas, Cradle Will Rock, Rent, and Cabaret. Beyond the confines of Syracuse, Cimmet’s credits include the Broadway companies of The Drowsy Chaperone, Mary Poppins, and Grease; the original Off-Broadway productions of I Love You Because (also the cast album); and The Tin Pan Alley...2024-11-1926 min
Fill Me In Again#137: The Coincidence of Language.Hi Eric and Jeffrey, I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to let you know that I was talking with Ryan Hecht the other day, and we were both so honored by your FILL ME IN website. In fact, we were so moved, we created a small surprise for you. Well, not very […]2015-04-071h 48Fill Me In Again#136: The podcast of then.Some have said it’s the end of an era. We think it’s just something we decided not to do anymore. Original blog post on the Wayback Machine2011-03-1343 minFill Me In Again#135: Have a goat.Wednesday is Wednesday, even if the podcast is up 14 hours late. Original blog post on the Wayback Machine2011-02-2752 minFill Me In Again#134: I have done zero preparation for this episode.Pre-production means jack. Original blog post on the Wayback Machine2011-02-1002 minFill Me In Again#133: How did you learn about the word ‘plethora’?Is anyone out there? Original blog post on the Wayback Machine2011-02-0707 minFill Me In Again#132: Is there something in your box that you didn’t order?Being busy and being away from home are two separate concepts yielding two separate results. Original blog post on the Wayback Machine2011-01-2500 minFill Me In Again#131: Palindrome!Our Motto: ottoM ruO. Original blog post from the Wayback Machine2011-01-1135 minFill Me In Again#130: Fifty-three Fridays.Recaps! News! The future! All we need now is something interesting to talk about. Original blog post from the Wayback Machine2011-01-0450 minFill Me In Again#129: Inuktitut Syllabics.Brian doesn’t know the difference between Monday and Tuesday. Also, freaky dreams infect our audience. Original blog post on the Wayback Machine2010-12-2756 minFill Me In Again#128: A power of two.Mercifully, “What Brian Doesn’t Know About Lettuce” was cut before release.2010-12-1438 minFill Me In Again#127: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.Our first interview in ages! It’s Brian’s father, Xop, and he has a lot to say.2010-11-3049 minFill Me In Again#126: “Alphabological and Others” by Pat Sajak.Ryan has a singing face. And pie and ice cream co-exist on a plate. Photographic evidence exists.2010-11-2338 minFill Me In Again#125: We’ve figured out how hereditation works.Pie and ice cream taste great together, but that doesn’t make them inseparable. Also, more things Brian doesn’t know about pie.2010-11-1639 minFill Me In Again#124: We are experts in Ramen noodles.Ramen is pre-cooked in a ton of fat and oil. Did you know that? One of us did not.2010-11-0938 minFill Me In Again#123: It’s the all-vowel show (including the enwah).A day late an a dollar short. Except we don’t even make that much on this show.2010-11-0349 minFill Me In Again#122: We’re throwing muffins in the kitchen.This week, things are triple-checked, double-crossed and the whole show is one singular sensation.2010-10-2645 minFill Me In Again#121: In which we reune with Studio A.Big things happened this week, but we didn’t participate in any of it. But we were in the same room again for the first time in two months, so that was celebratory. For us.2010-10-1938 minFill Me In Again#120: Gression.The times, they are a-stayin’ like they’ve always been.2010-10-1244 minFill Me In Again#119: Office hours are on Wednesday afternoon.Come visit Brian in Syracuse. But sign up first, so he doesn’t go home early and forget about you.2010-09-2834 minFill Me In Again#118: An acronym of an anagram.This week, we’ve got contests, emails, Ryan lying about things he’s said. The usual.2010-09-2136 minFill Me In Again#117: Pick one — baldness or dementia.Writing this little blurb three months after airing the episode, we have no idea what this one is about.2010-09-1437 minFill Me In Again#116: Pickles sings!It’s been a three-week hiatus, but we haven’t been cancelled, contrary to everything CBS says about us.2010-09-0733 minFill Me In Again#115: A complete success, for the most part.With the exception of an inexplicable and unstoppable chirping, Lollapuzzoola seemed to happen, more or less.2010-08-1742 minFill Me In Again#114: ROFLCOPTER — Franklin’s stealing third!It’s our annual pre-Lollapuzzoola episode. Typically, this means we have no useful content (because we’re frantically preparing for the ‘zoola), but it also means we’re weirder than usual (same parenthetical reason).2010-08-1038 minFill Me In Again#113: Would you please take the vuvuzela home and practice?Big news is afoot. We’d suggest that you listen to find out — but if you’re reading this, you probably either already know or never cared.2010-08-0338 minFill Me In Again#112: Context, no context.We’re renaissance men. Musical instruments and poetry — what else did you expect?2010-07-2732 minFill Me In Again#111: Insalvagable.Together again, together forever. Or at least, for 40 minutes.2010-07-2040 minFill Me In Again#110: Your extrapolation is not my failure.Well, it’s better than last time. We’re still 300 miles apart, but now the internet works again.2010-07-1330 minFill Me In Again#109: In case you ever wondered what would happen if Ryan wasn’t available…Brian’s in Maine. Ryan’s on vacation. Not a single conversation happens between them. It’s really horrible. Enjoy!2010-07-0627 minFill Me In Again#108: Featuring “Jag On A Hank” — unplugged.Ryan sings in this episode. A few times.2010-06-2233 minFill Me In Again#107: The drug of the puzzle world is the “a-ha moment.”We learn about puzzle hunts and Winston Breen, courtesy of an interview with Eric Berlin.2010-06-1540 minFill Me In Again#106: Happy birthday, Solomon of “The Stare.”Quality over content. Also, Brian’s nephew turns two.2010-06-0836 minFill Me In Again#105: My baton is more legitimate than yours.The arguments continue, and the irreconcilable differences in puzzle practice are… well, kind of irreconcilable.2010-06-0136 minFill Me In Again#104: Now my new fork has fallen.It’s that Season Three surge, where the two main characters begin to fail in their relationship. Where will this lead?2010-05-2536 minFill Me In Again#103: No tangents… Go!In an effort to make up for last week’s uselessness, Brian talks really fast, and it kinda freaks Ryan out a bit.2010-05-1839 minFill Me In Again#102: One step below adequacy.What the episode title lacks in specificity is exceeded only by what the episode itself lacks in content. It’s fun, yes. Crossword-y? Not this time.2010-05-1134 minFill Me In Again#101: Does it involve running?We’ve got a new logo, so let the branding begin.2010-05-0441 minFill Me In Again#100: Lifetime!This show has everything. Regular segments, special guests, oddball sound effects, poetry written just for us — it’s maybe the greatest episode of the greatest podcast in the history of everything. Lifetime!2010-04-201h 11Fill Me In Again#099: Ease on down, ease on down the road.It’s our first travelling episode as we record the show from Brian’s car. We might sound a little like our heads are in a toilet, but we promise, it’s just a Honda Fit.2010-04-1338 minFill Me In Again#098: Pump up and air out.A tribute to sneakers we wore almost 20 years ago is somehow enough of a thing to make it into the title.2010-04-0640 minFill Me In Again#097: The most ginormous thirty-eight minutes you’ll ever hear.We cheat a bit and use old material without telling you. Only about six seconds, but still.2010-03-3037 minFill Me In Again#096: Release the Kraken!Our pronunciation is kept in check, but Ryan still doesn’t know the past tense of “babysit.”2010-03-2335 minFill Me In Again#095: This is the gloaming.One exhausted host and one not-yet-awake host attempt to present thirty-five minutes of humor. Hilarity ensues.2010-03-1634 minFill Me In Again#094: Season Three Premiere! (or, “What in the world is ‘zambezi and oat’?”)It’s the start of a new podcast season, and we are back with new and old segments alike.2010-03-0943 minFill Me In Again#093: Season Finale – The 2010 ACPTIt’s our season finale, and ACPT wrap-up. You’ll never guess the twist ending that no one saw coming. Even now that it’s happened, it’s difficult to believe.2010-02-2344 minFill Me In Again#092: ACPT — Here we come!Pre-ACPT interviews with Tyler, Trip, Francis, Dan and Howard, 13 minutes with Will Shortz, a double thunder round, and holy crap, the big weekend is moments away!2010-02-1649 minFill Me In Again#091: Superbowl Tuesday!Superbowl predictions, Outsider puzzles and the agenda.2010-02-0935 minFill Me In Again#090: This episode has been placed in your capable hands.Interviews are back! We talk about puzzle, chicken and Mad Magazine with Patrick Merrell.2010-02-0244 minFill Me In Again#089: Remember when Episodes 87 and 88 were issued on vinyl?Welcoming Ryan back from Costa Rica, we immediately begin discussing things he doesn’t understand, like cryptic crosswords. Yes, still.2010-01-2639 minFill Me In Again#088: Platinum limb and addled gain gives the bird (9).It’s a contest within a contest, plus we solve one more clue in Ryan’s cryptic crossword.2010-01-1941 minFill Me In Again#087: Please forgive us, for we did not know that Venkatasubramanyan rhymes with bunion.One of our New Year’s resolutions is to actually talk about more puzzles. This episode lives up to that. Will the next one live up to this one?2010-01-1237 minFill Me In Again#086: We call this one “Happy New Year, everyone!”Welcome to 2010! We offer our 2009 Year In Review, and name several people as Best Of without offering them a single prize. That’s how we do it!2010-01-0549 minFill Me In Again#085: Mohammed and Crosscan, leaders in their own way.The original Winner of the Contest becomes part of his own legacy. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Episode 85 of Fill Me In. This is going to be our last episode of 2009, so it’s got a little extra of a few favorite Fill Me In features, including: mediocre sound quality Viewer Mail that no […]2009-12-2235 minFill Me In Again#084: I am the music; you are the circus.The move to Mac may be less than anyone had hoped.2009-12-1536 minFill Me In Again#083: In which you’ll wish Ryan had never started with the whole Thor thing.The diatribe continues, much to the chagrin of at least one co-host.2009-12-0842 minFill Me In Again#082: It started as a stick, but then I called it a podcast.A whole bunch of names, and Ryan has very firm opinions about something that no one ever really wanted to argue with him in the first place.2009-12-0136 minFill Me In Again#081: Shut that damn bouzouki up!Ryan knows more than Brian does about music. Just this once.2009-11-2434 minFill Me In Again#080: This one night, Charlize Theron tickled my stomach.Really, the title kinda says it all.2009-11-1738 minFill Me In Again#079: Go to Connecticut, take a right and just keep going.Desperate for attention, we beg you to rate us on iTunes. Even if you don’t want to.2009-11-1035 minFill Me In Again#078: A random sort of thing.Mike Nothnagel has a doppelganger. Happy Halloween!2009-11-0337 minFill Me In Again#077: The Phillies super cream cheese monkey a*s suck.All baseball players play baseball, and Ryan loves baseball — but Ryan does not love all baseball players.2009-10-2737 minFill Me In Again#076: The dictionary is the enemy of the podcast.Brian is censored, Ryan narrates a film trilogy and more complaints run rampant with regards to out-of-the-language French.2009-10-2037 minFill Me In Again#075: [They may go up in a plane.]Beef stew and a battle royal between all the Greeks and Romans that Fill Me In has to offer.2009-10-1335 minFill Me In Again#074: And if you also went to Vassar, we’ll say your name next week.Ryan flies solo for almost two minutes without crashing the plane.2009-10-0636 minFill Me In Again#073: A small break from daily indoctrination.Our roving reporter reports on Pleasantville (the tournament-hosting town, not the movie), and Ryan and Brian offer a special musical performance.2009-09-2935 minFill Me In Again#072: …and Bingo was his name-o.We play games with our audience whether they are listening or not.2009-09-2238 minFill Me In Again#071: I’m in a ukulele band.Old stories brought back and completed! Old friends discovered in new places!2009-09-1535 minFill Me In Again#070: Buon Giorno, Gionata Papelbuono!With 50% of the hosting team overseas, the podcast faces a major obstacle in bringing entertainment to the (minuscule) masses.2009-09-0833 minFill Me In Again#069: The Oracle, The Innovator, The Math Teacher of Xan Vongsathorn’s Sister.We receive some awesome Viewer Mail, and confirm a surprising connection between two of our fans.2009-09-0138 minFill Me In Again#068: Breaking news — Lollapuzzoola is finally over!It’s the Lollapuzzoola Recap episode. If you were there, you know what happened. If you weren’t, you got some ’splainin’ to do.2009-08-2536 minFill Me In Again#067: Jab rhymes with cab and lons rhymes with Fonz.The largest Viewer Mail bag to date, we return to the Vongsathorn family, and the Crossword Tip of the Quartermonth discusses quote puzzles.2009-08-1840 minFill Me In Again#066: Try being nicer.Brian and Ryan are labeled as “mean.” Sad, not entirely accurate, but not entirely inaccurate either.2009-08-1136 minFill Me In Again#065: Nom nom nomWe’ve got a picture of a bunny nibbling on something and a bit of music that may or may not be protected by copyright.2009-08-0434 minFill Me In Again#064: The Peter Gordon ShowWe’ve got an interview and the World’s Worst Crossword Puzzle courtesy of constructor/editor and sextuple-threat Peter Gordon.2009-07-2839 minFill Me In Again#063: If you were a flute, what kind of animal would you be?For some reason, terrible audio quality (not as bad as early in Season One, but weirdly metallic and outer-spacey). It’s still a good show, though.2009-07-2133 minFill Me In Again#062: The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, an anagram thereof.In honor of Bastille Day, we interview Brendan Emmett Quigley.2009-07-1442 minFill Me In Again#061: *Unedited, unplugged, unlistened…Soup is a little too prevalent, we think. But we offer a rare segment: The Crossword Tip of the Quartermonth.2009-07-0739 minFill Me In Again#060: There’s a bobcat in our bag.Mostly the standard segments — viewer mail, Xan Vongsathorn, contests.2009-06-3036 minFill Me In Again#059: Reduced to a PG-13 rating (now without nudity, foul language, or humor).We worry about the future of the second Sunday puzzle. We still have a petition up, but it’s looking a little thin.2009-06-2338 minFill Me In Again#058: Hey people who don’t listen to us — why aren’t you listening?Lollapuzzoola 2 is in the developmental stages.2009-06-1535 minFill Me In Again#057: Please find us, Christina Applegate. We think you’re awesome.It’s Brian’s 36th birthday, and he dreams about a podcast interview with Christina Applegate.2009-06-0936 minFill Me In Again#056: Numquam uidi iniquius certationem comparatam…We’re starting to play with sound effects. Uh-oh.2009-06-0233 minFill Me In Again#055: We’re on Abe Vigoda time.Xan Vongsathorn’s name is a vongsathorn in our side.2009-05-2535 minFill Me In Again#054: Take your lederhosen and get out of here!2009-05-1837 minFill Me In Again#053: Something old, something new, something borrowed… and a buzzer.The spreadsheet is born. Unbelievable.2009-05-1130 minFill Me In Again#052: Would you like to sponsor our lack of sponsorship?Recap of the L.A. tournament with Doug Peterson. Also Tyler Hinman calls in with a new contest.2009-05-0530 minFill Me In Again#051: Hooray! It’s our milespone episode!Discussions of other puzzle features (Wired magazine, the One Day University) and another Fill Me In themed puzzle comes our way.2009-04-2830 minFill Me In Again#050: Thunder vs. LightningThe beginning of the Thunder Round, as well an interview with Elissa Grossman, coordinator of the Los Angeles Crossword Tournament.2009-04-2030 minFill Me In Again#049: The Contest.Via Twitter, we offer our first podcast contest.2009-04-1330 minFill Me In Again#048: Aaaaand…We recap the Boston Crossword Tournament (yes, we competed!) and take a photograph of a huge, dead rodent.2009-04-0730 minFill Me In Again#047: Nicknames, and their relative deservedness.We’re trying to begin Twittering. Also, we want new listeners to understand what we do. It’s all schtick, kids.2009-04-0138 minFill Me In Again#046: Season Two “Prem-yah.”Our fascination with Jai Alai is in full swing. What’s a goykachea?2009-03-2432 minFill Me In Again#045: Finally, the final finale.It’s more cut footage from Episode 43. We think of these last two episodes as the bonus features on the DVD box set.2009-03-1741 minFill Me In Again#044: We met him at a bar… on a Saturday…Delaying the start of Season Two, we put up an episode comprised almost entirely of interview footage cut from Episode 43. This one is all about Merl Reagle.2009-03-1140 minFill Me In Again#043: Season Finale – The 2009 ACPTDespite being the so-called finale of Season One, this is where at least one of us (Brian) thinks the show began to take off. Before this, too much rambling nonsense. After this, plenty of rambling nonsense, but also occasional structure. This episode is super-sized, but it’s a fun recap of the 2009 tournament. Lots of […]2009-03-031h 04Fill Me In Again#042: [Insert kickass title here.]It’s a tough-to-hear interview with Tyler Hinman. He’s a genius, so it’s worth struggling through the bad audio.2009-02-2458 minFill Me In Again#034: The Song of the Volga Boatmen.Brian and Ryan have totally different approaches to solving a Saturday puzzle.2008-12-1630 minFill Me In Again#025: Brian goes to plaid.Oh, crap. More long-distance horribleness. The microwave serves as our timer.2008-09-0918 minFill Me In Again#012: Long distance submarines.…because that’s how it sounds. Brian works away from home a lot, so some episodes were recorded via Skype. This was the first attempt.2008-05-2835 min