Exit Stage Death Archive

This week we're off off off off broadway as Matty takes us on a look at three theatrical experiences (Heaven’s Gates & Hells Flames, Judgement House, and The Holy land Experience) used for Religious Conversion in the name of Modern Christianity, that culminates in a theme park where you could watch Jesus be crucified at every day at 3pm!

We're continuing our Month of the death of flop musicals, Em takes us behind the musical with ghost investors and an FBI investigation that could never seem to raise itself onto broadway. Rebecca will haunt the memories of broadway fans for years, but what happened, and find out if it will ever come to Broadway on the newest Episode.

There has never been a show like her, and there hasn't been one sense, on this episode Matty takes us on a deep dive behind the bloody short broadway run of it's most notorious flop, Carrie The Musical, find out where the production went wrong in the monolith based on the fan favorite Stephen King horror novel!

its time for places actors on this episode Em takes us behind the troubled past of theatre lighting into the gaslight trend that set literal dancers ablaze

Today's episode is REAL BIG NEWS as Matty takes us into the musical Parade and the terrible murders behind it's gorgeous haunting score. It's time for places actors as we hear about the murders of Mary Fagan and Leo Frank.

In today's Bonus Episode Em and Matty are joined by Miki Abraham (from the upcoming broadway run of Shucked and the Broadway National Tours of Beautiful and Once on this Island) to talk about her time growing up and performing at the Market House Theatre, touring theatres that are over 100 years old, and what the theatre industry looks like after 2020 and what change we have left tot bring.

On this Episode Em borrows a page from the musical Ragtime, and takes us behind the original crime of the century and the life of the original IT girl, THE Gibson girl, Evelyn Nesbitt!

What do you get when you combine an exiled religion, a compound in the catskills, and a touring show that sell millions of tickets a year? A Cult? Matty tells us the tale of the touring sensation with shady cult like backing Shen Yun.

In Their First Bonus Episode Em and Matty sit down with Mean Girl the Musical's current Janie Ian to discuss her time as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway and the strange and other worldly things she's experiences in theatres across the country!

Content Warning: Listener discretion is advised for the violent and traumatic nature of today's episode! Scream's Horror franchise has taken the world by storm and even inspired a campy and well loved parody musical by the same name. But it's story is inspired by a much darker true case, the story of the Gainesville Ripper.

From the Sondheim Cannon we're taking a deep dive into the presidential killer musical Assassins, as Matty takes us behind the story of the 1975 attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford by Manson Family Member Squeaky Fromme.

After being told by a fortune teller as a child to stay away from dark waters Natalie Wood's life would be a tragic journey of abuse and trauma leading to a mysterious death near Catalina island in the dark waters of the pacific ocean, but what really happened? On this episode Em breaks down the life and mysterious death of Natalie Wood and posits on what actually happened.

Every theatre person you meet will at some point tell you the story of their local theatre ghost, but In Episode 1 Matty takes us on a deep dive on a ghost story that is almost too good to be true, the Ghosts of Broadway's Belasco Theatre.