Live Alone and Like It – Dick Tracy (with Alex Asp)

From the radio plays the crooner hit "Live Alone and Like It." But is it possible this song is really talking about Dick Tracy himself? Or The Kid? Or even Warren Beatty! Alex Asp returns to pick apart a song that, at first glance, may appear to be slight but actually has some depth.

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We are using two productions to frame our discussion of Dick Tracy.

The original film (1990) starring Warren Beatty and Madonna.

You can find that on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjfdLifDKhA

The Broadway production of Putting It Together.
You can listen to that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrJgE9SWMR0

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What is Putting It Together?

This is a podcast about Stephen Sondheim's entire body of work show by show and song by song. Each week Kyle Marshall invites an expert to discuss a Sondheim song in-depth. Together they discover the humour, how the songs inform character, and any hidden meanings. Most importantly they try to understand the man behind the music, the Shakespeare of our time, as best they can.