LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway
Find out what your favorite stars were doing as kids. Whether they were starring on Broadway or their backyard cabaret act, host Marc Tumminelli will get the full story! Marc sits down with Broadway, TV & Film stars to dish about how it all got started on LITTLE ME: growing up Broadway! As a theater educator and the owner of Broadway Workshop, Marc gets his guests to open up about the good, bad and ugly of being a young person with a dream of the bright lights of Broadway. Performers will share tales of hitting it big, local auditions, school theater, backstage stories, child stardom, nightmare auditions, opening nights, unexpected closings, stage moms and dads, wranglers, unemployment, college and everything else Marc can get out of them! Produced by the Broadway Podcast Network.
Episodes
April 13, 2023 • 54 mins
Film and TV star - Luke Islam breaks down his wild ride to fame in episode 77 of LITTLE ME: Growing up Broadway!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with his student Luke Islam to talk about his incredible career going from Broadway super fan to one of the most talked about America's Got Talent contestants and his rise to stardom on Disney+' Mighty Ducks, Netflix's movie musical 13 and the upcom...
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March 30, 2023 • 53 mins
In this special SPOTLIGHT episode, Marc sits down with Broadway Casting Director, MERRI SUGARMAN to chat about her career and her new book: From Craft to Career, A Casting Directors Guide for the Actor!
Merri Sugarman (of Tara Rubin Casting) has cast the Broadway, touring, Chicago, Las Vegas and international companies of Spamalot, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Tryi...
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January 5, 2023 • 57 mins
Broadway, Film and TV star - Jean Louisa Kelly joins us for our first episode of 2023!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli begins 2023 by sitting down with Jean Louisa Kelly who began her career playing title role in a New England summer stock production of Annie, and then went on to make her Broadway debut with the original cast of Into the Woods. Jean tells her Broadway to Hollywood story in this epic e...
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December 15, 2022 • 54 mins
Drew Minard breaks down his Broadway debut in The Music Man and his life growing up on stage in this week's episode of LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director - Marc Tumminelli sits down with Broadway's Drew Minard to touch down on his remarkable journey performing from the age of 3 in Iowa to touring the United States and the world as the title role in Billy Elliot: The Musical to making his B...
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December 8, 2022 • 56 mins
The star of Broadway's Almost Famous, Casey Likes sits down with Marc Tumminelli to talk about living his dream 8 times a week in episode 73 of Little Me: Growing Up Broadway!
At age of 20, Casey Likes made his Broadway debut playing William Miller in the new musical ALMOST FAMOUS, a role he created in the pre-Broadway run at the Old Globe. Casey breaks down his time working on the creation of Almost Famous and the long road to Bro...
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November 17, 2022 • 65 mins
Danielle Brisebois, Broadway's first ever "Molly" from the historic original production of Annie shares her "growing up Broadway" story in this week's episode of LITTLE ME!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominee, DANIELLE BREISEBOIS who at the age of 7 started her career in film The Premonition before making history in the original Broadway cast of Annie ...
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November 3, 2022 • 71 mins
Broadway star - Alysha Umphress breaks down her childhood performance career in episode 71 of LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway.
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director - Marc Tumminelli sits down with friend, Alysha Umphress to talk about her time on Broadway in On the Town, American Idiot, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Bring it On! Alysha shares all the magical moments of her childhood p...
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October 27, 2022 • 68 mins
Broadway's Trevor Braun tells his growing up Broadway story in episode 70 of Little Me: Growing Up Broadway!
Little Me Host, and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with former child actor and current star of off Broadway's THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG - Trevor Braun! Trevor tells his Broadway story, making his Broadway debut as CHIP in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and going on to originate the role of Flounder in Disney’s T...
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October 20, 2022 • 68 mins
Broadway and Disney+ Star - Kate Reinders breaks down her career in episode 69 of Little Me: Growing up Broadway!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with Kate Reinders who chats about playing the beloved "Miss Jenn" in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series! Kate also shares her early career story growing up doing community and school theater, making the big move to NYC and going on to be...
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October 13, 2022 • 80 mins
This week we are joined by the daughter of ANNIE creator Martin Charnin - SASHA CHARNIN MORRISON!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with the fashion icon Sasha Charnin Morrison to chat about the world's most famous orphan and what is was like to witness the meteoric rise of the musical phenomenon - ANNIE.
Sasha tells her backstage story growing up around Annie and what her experience was wat...
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October 6, 2022 • 65 mins
We're Back! The Broadway star of Beetlejuice - Elizabeth Teeter tells it all in episode 67 of Little Me: Growing Up Broadway!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with the all grown up child star, Elizabeth Teeter to talk about her incredible career starting at 10 years old in the closing company of Mary Poppins on Broadway and going on to work along side Helen Mirren in The Audience as well as ...
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April 7, 2022 • 60 mins
Rueby Wood & Aria Brooks share their behind the scenes story of making the newly released Disney+ film - Better Nate Than Ever!
Broadway Workshop director and Little Me host, Marc Tumminelli is reunited with Better Nate Than Ever stars - Rueby Wood and Aria Brooks to break down their experience making the new Disney+ film. Marc, who served as the movie's acting/dialogue coach gets Rueby and Aria to open up about their audition proc...
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March 17, 2022 • 78 mins
The history making original star of Annie, ANDREA MCARDLE is with us to celebrate our 2nd anniversary!
In this historic anniversary episode Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with the Broadway star that started it all for young performers on Broadway - Andrea McArdle. Andrea breaks down her amazing career, the major moments that defined her, the ups and downs, the incredible celebrity encounter...
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February 10, 2022 • 67 mins
Tammy Minoff recounts her time starring on Broadway in The Goodbye Girl and The Will Rogers Follies in episode 64 of Little Me: Growing Up Broadway!
Actress, director, writer and producer, Tammy Minoff joins Little Me host, Marc Tumminelli for a hilarious backstage tour of her years starring on Broadway! Tammy unpacks her childhood experince originating the role of Mary Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies directed by the great Tommy ...
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February 3, 2022 • 51 mins
Broadway star of Caroline or Change and Dear Evan Hansen - Samantha Williams tells her Broadway story this week on Little Me: Growing Up Broadway!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with Samantha Williams who made her Broadway debut during her junior year of college in the Tony Award-winning hit musical Dear Evan Hansen playing the role of Alana Beck. Samantha tells us her backstage story of go...
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January 27, 2022 • 52 mins
Samantha Massell spills the tea on her Broadway debut in Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème in this weeks LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli catches up with Samantha Massell who has appeared on Broadway as Hodel in the acclaimed revival of Fiddler on the Roof as well as a child star turn in Baz Luhrmann's Broadway production of La Bohème. Samantha talks about being a child actor gro...
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January 20, 2022 • 68 mins
Broadway child superstar - Eamon Foley breaks down his early career and his quest for a Broadway "Show Jacket" in this weeks LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway.
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with Broadway's Eamon Foley who tells his unbelievable backstage story of working on Broadway starting at nine years old, performing in the original casts of Gypsy, directed by Sam Mendes, Assassins, dire...
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January 13, 2022 • 65 mins
Broadway's Brandon Espinoza breaks down his 25+ years in show business in the first LITTLE ME episode of 2022!
Little Me, Host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli sits down with Broadway, TV and film actor, Brandon Espinoza who made his Broadway debut at the age of 10 in The Will Rogers Follies, and then went on to star as a kid on Broadway in 90's mega musicals; Les Misérables, and BIG! Brandon also recounts his time o...
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December 22, 2021 • 70 mins
This week Marc joins the FLOP OF THE HEAP podcast to talk all things Broadway super flop SMILE: The Musical!
LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway takes a trip away from child stars to celebrate the holiday season and sit down with John Bow of FLOP OF THE HEAP podcast! Little Me host, Marc Tumminelli and Flop of the Heap host, John Bow break down the musical SMILE and everything that went wrong making the show an enormous 80's Broadway fl...
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December 16, 2021 • 58 mins
We are celebrating the release of Steven Spielberg's West Side Story with star Paloma Garcia-Lee this week on LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway!
Little Me host and Broadway Workshop director, Marc Tumminelli catches up with Broadway, TV and film star - Paloma Garcia Lee, who shares the incredible of story of going from unstoppable Broadway dancer to blowing up the silver screen as Graziella in Steven Spielberg’s all new film of West S...
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