Big White Elephants
Director and Choreographer Rob Marshall once said, ”The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they’re bad, they’re really bad - big white elephants.” On this podcast, Grace and Scott discuss a range of Movie Musicals, from classics to DCOMs and everything in between to analyze what makes them work or why they’re Big White Elephants!
Episodes

Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
On Episode 10, Grace and Scott are joined by Marcie of the Movie Mixtape podcast to look after too many children, run away from Nazis, and hear that the hills are alive with The Sound Of Music (1965), celebrating its 60th anniversary.
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Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn/A stately pleasure-dome decree/Where Alph, the sacred river, ran/Through caverns measureless to man/Down to a sunless sea
We don't know what that means but we did watch Robert Greenwald's Xanadu (1980) and on this episode we talk all about it: Kenny Ortega, Clarinet-playing Gene Kelly, Roller Skates, Olivia Newton John. This film has it all, but is it a Big White Elephant?
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Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Live from Philadelphia, Grace and Scott meet in person to talk about their weekend trip before introducing a conversation about hand choreography, 30-somethings pretending to be teenagers, and a "database of asses" in Randal Kleiser's Grease (1978).
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Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
On episode 7, Grace and Scott travel back to Paris in 1900, admire the lush colors, and thank heaven for...[checks notes] little girls(?!) for Vincente Minelli's Gigi (1958).
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Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Covering our first new release, this episode finds Grace and Scott heading off to summer camp, singing some Ben Folds songs around the campfire, digging up a time capsule, and discussing the latest Peanuts television special, Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (2025)
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Oppenheimer Trailer but it's Dodgeball

Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
On Episode 5, Grace and Scott burn their draft cards and go to a Be-In to discuss Miloš Forman's adaptation of Hair (1979). Are the hippies too insufferable? Should more tax dollars be going towards teaching horse cops to dance? What does "glibby gloop gloopy" even mean? We try to answer these questions and more!
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Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
On Episode 4, Grace and Scott are joined by comedian and the host of You Got A Friend In Me, a Randy Newman podcast Tristan Miller to head on down to New Orleans, eat some beignets, kiss some frogs, and talk about Musker and Clements's The Princess and the Frog (2009).
Find out more about Tristan at www.tristanjmiller.com and check out their stand up special Manic Impressive on youtube
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Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
On Episode 3 of Big White Elephants, Grace and Scott flood their apartments, dance to some calypso, and remember what it was like to live through a pandemic while discussing Tsai Ming-Liang's 1998 quasi-musical The Hole (1998)
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Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
On episode 2 of Big White Elephants, Grace and Scott take a surrey with the fringe on top to the box social to discuss Fred Zinnemann's adaption of the Rogers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma (1955). We get into Todd-AO, dream ballets, incels, and--somehow--Jeremy Jordan gets mentioned again.
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Here's the essay Grace mentioned by Christopher Bannow about his experience playing Jud Fry on the National Tour of Oklahoma!: Surviving in the States: Audience Rejection on the Road with Oklahoma!

Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
On this first full episode, Grace and Scott give 'em the old razzle dazzle and discuss Rob Marshall's debut feature film, Chicago (2002). Scott talks about crying during two different movies, three separate Jeremy Jordan projects are mentioned, and important questions are asked like "Was Catherine Zeta-Jones the Rachel Zegler of 2002?"
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