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The Musical Midrash PodcastJ & D Talk About Queer CastingThis week on Musical Midrash, we’re doing something a little different — and a lot more fun.Join me and my husband, J. Kyle, for the next installment of J&D Talk About Musicals, where we dive into two exciting casting announcements:✨ Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl (with Cynthia Erivo, Adam Lambert, and more)✨ A benefit performance of The Drowsy Chaperone featuring an all-trans and nonbinary cast (Laverne Cox, Alex Newell, Jonathan Van Ness, Betty Who, and more)We talk queerness, theology, casting as canon-expansion, Jesus with soft eyes, and why...
2025-07-1726 minThe Musical Midrash PodcastJ & D Talk About Queer CastingThis week on Musical Midrash, we’re doing something a little different — and a lot more fun.Join me and my husband, J. Kyle, for the next installment of J&D Talk About Musicals, where we dive into two exciting casting announcements:✨ Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl (with Cynthia Erivo, Adam Lambert, and more)✨ A benefit performance of The Drowsy Chaperone featuring an all-trans and nonbinary cast (Laverne Cox, Alex Newell, Jonathan Van Ness, Betty Who, and more)We talk queerness, theology, casting as canon-expansion, Jesus with soft eyes, and why...
2025-07-1726 min
The Musical Midrash PodcastJ & D Talk about The Sound of MusicIn this episode of Musical Midrash, I’m joined by my husband and theological co-conspirator J. Kyle Wils0r for the first-ever edition of J & D Talk About Musicals — and we’re starting at the very beginning (a very good place to start) with The Sound of Music.Together, we revisit this classic through a theological lens: Where is God in the hills, in the music, and in the quiet acts of resistance? What can the story of the Von Trapps teach us about moral courage, exile, and the choices we face in times of rising authoritarianism? And is...
2025-07-0342 minThe Musical Midrash PodcastJ & D Talk about The Sound of MusicIn this episode of Musical Midrash, I’m joined by my husband and theological co-conspirator J. Kyle Wils0r for the first-ever edition of J & D Talk About Musicals — and we’re starting at the very beginning (a very good place to start) with The Sound of Music.Together, we revisit this classic through a theological lens: Where is God in the hills, in the music, and in the quiet acts of resistance? What can the story of the Von Trapps teach us about moral courage, exile, and the choices we face in times of rising authoritarianism? And is...
2025-07-0342 min