Vintage Old Biddy

Vintage Old Biddy is back to close out our 4th Season with a jam packed episode including this season’s installment of Byron Hagan’s “A Thief in Disguise” This time we get to see the origin story of our criminal pals in “The Cat Burglar of Paris” featuring the voice talents of:Tony ArtigaIan FedergreenByron HaganThomas HaganRachel HeringLaRena IoccoCharlie KoganJosh LopezMichelle MaccaroneWant to catch up on A Thief in Disguise? Listen to the following episodes:Season 1Season 2Season 3The episode also includes an interview with Dina Grilli and a song from Blithe Spirit. Visit the show's website for more information. We’ll be putting out episodes of Vintage Old Biddy quarterly so we will see you in November but be sure to subscribe for bonus content! And if you can’t get enough of Michelle and Dina be sure to subscribe to The FlanacastSupport the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

Happy Valentines Day Vintagerinos! (Is that a word? I guess I just decided it was!) We have something salty and something sweet for you this Valentines episode. The sweet comes in the form of our radio play this month: an homage to rom coms called “A Floridly Floral Case of Love” written by me (Michelle Maccarone) Featuring the menthol cool stylings of:Dina GrilliLaRena IoccoMichelle MaccaroneAlso featuring an audio rendition of the first episode's recap  of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans (spoiler alerts for those who have not yet watched!) Read the 2nd and 3rd episode's recap as well as future ones on Vintage Old Biddy's websiteBe sure to follow not only Vintage Old Biddy but also the new handle Flanacast for information on the launch of our new podcast! Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

We may have reached the end of our House of Usher rewatch but fear not, Dina and Michelle are back for one final episode where we break down all our thoughts and ideas on the series. This won't be the last of us as we will be back with more spooky, eerie rewatching in the new year. Until then be sure to follow Dina and Michelle for all updates! Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

It's the final countdown folx!! It's time for the Usher family to pay for what they agreed to and it's time for Michelle to make quips and Dina to give us all the research and truth bombs.But don't worry! There will be an episode 9 next week where we break down all our impressions and surprises! Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

Happy Thursday fellow Flanifans. Hold on to your midsections! This week Dina and Michelle cover Episode 7 of The Fall of the House of Usher: The Pit and the Pendulum. New episodes drop every Thursday for this first of what we hope will be many Vintage Old Biddy Recaps! Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

You've had your turkey, you've had enough of your own family so let's go back to a family (hopefully) more dysfunctional than yours!This week Dina and Michelle discuss Episode 6: Goldbug which was one of our favorites of the season so far. Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

It's Thursday so it must be time to discuss weird sounds coming from your walls!On today's episode Dina and Michelle are talking about Episode 5 of The Fall of the House of Usher: The Tell Tale Heart. Gird your heart mesh, it's time to see what horrors befalls Victorine Lafourcade.Check out new episodes weekly on Thursdays.  Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

Happy first day post strike, fellow Flanifans! On today's episode Dina and Michelle are talking about Episode 4 of The Fall of the House of Usher: The Black Cat.Get your scratching posts ready for some scares, some knowledge bombs and some jokes that hopefully will not give you a hairball.Check out new episodes weekly on Thursdays.  Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

This week the biddies cover the dark death of Camille in "Murder of the Rue Morgue"  Clutch your heart mesh, turn the lights low, and give it a listen!New episodes of "The Biddies of the House of Usher" are live every Thursday! Biddies of the House of Usher features Dina Grilli and Michelle Maccarone Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

It's time for episode 2 where biddies Michelle Maccarone and Dina Grilli, self described "flannifans" (it's now a thing- get into it) talk about this year's Netflix series "The Fall of the House of Usher." Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

In this exciting first episode of what we hope will be a series of rewatch podcasts, we present to you: Episode 1 of The Biddies of the House of Usher!Dina Grilli and Michelle Maccarone will be discussing every episode of Mike Flanagan's "The Fall of the House of Usher" now streaming on Netflix. Huge Flanafans, Dina will provide stunning, insightful research, and Michelle will provide the witty quips and hyperbole that you never knew you needed.Episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays! Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

It's spooky Halloween time again! And you know what that means...it's Dina Grilli time! One of my best friends Dina has done a wonderful interview about some of this year's spooky selections and written a third episode of our favorite real estate/haunted house podcast!Spirits Beyond: A Really Meta Radio Play in the Exactly Right UniverseFeaturing:Dina GrilliKaren Mascolo HaganByron HaganThomas HaganFelisha HengLaRena IoccoAly Ryan KoganMichael KidneyMichelle MaccaroneSylvester NunneryNeed to catch up on past episodes? Listen to Episode 1 here, and Episode 2 here. And some final exciting news! The Biddies of the House of Usher: a VOB Rewatch Podcast will be dropping it's first episode right in this feed in just 2 days so stay tuned! Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

We're back for the Season 4(!) premier of Vintage Old Biddy: The Podcast. We're your fun, silly, kitchy, informative podcast for lovers of scripted radio plays and interviews with those in the vintage industry and beyond!This month we got a chance to talk to the owner of The Niche Shop, a wonderful UES Manhattan Vintage shop that just expanded to the Upper West Side!The radio play is the second installment of "The Vintage Medium" This month's chapter features our reluctant medium, Cybil helping the spirit of an old crooner find what he needs. The cast features:Dina GrilliKaren Mascolo HaganByron Hagan Rachel Ladd Aly Ryan Kogan Click here to listen to the first episode of the series. Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

It’s the final episode of Season 3! Featuring the thrilling conclusion of A Thief in Disguise: The Great Escape.The cast features the voice talents of:Scot Cahoon Alyson Ryan KoganMatthew MartinDina GrilliJosh LopezKaren Mascolo HaganByron HaganKevin McCauleyHilary GoldmanMichelle Maccarone Need to catch up? The first part of this chapter can be found hereThis month’s interview I get to talk to fashionista and theatre pioneer Grace Lazos. Follow her and be sure to follow Broadway Bods!If you like this podcast be sure to subscribe and rate us! If you do email vintageoldbiddy@gmail.com and we will send you a nifty sticker! If you are able and willing to financially support my work please check out my PATREON and Tip Jar.Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

We’re back with the final 2 episodes of Season 3!After a bit of a hiatus we’re so happy to present the 3rd episode of A Thief in Disguise: The Great Escape.The cast features the voice talents of:Scot Cahoon Alyson Ryan KoganMatthew MartinDina GrilliJosh LopezKaren Mascolo HaganByron HaganKevin McCauleyHilary GoldmanMichelle Maccarone If you need a refresher Episode 1 can be found here and Episode 2 here.This month’s interview features Carousel New York. Follow them for information on their next event. If you like this podcast be sure to subscribe and rate us! If you do email vintageoldbiddy@gmail.com and we will send you a nifty sticker! Check out my Patreon if you're interested in supporting my work.Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

Happy Holidays! This month’s radio play is an excerpt from David Templeton’s Polar Bears, an exploration of the lengths we go to to keep the spirit of Christmas alive, voiced by Chris Carlson.David Templeton is an award-winning playwright whose play “Galatea” one the 2022 Steinberg/American Theater Critics Association New Play Citation. “Polar Bears” was first staged in 2015 at Main Stage West theater in Sebastopol, California. Find out more about his work and his plays at DavidTempletonPlaywright.com. Chris Carlson is the artistic director of Brooklyn Players. Happy Holidays and see you in 2023!If you like this podcast be sure to subscribe and rate us! If you do email vintageoldbiddy@gmail.com and we will send you a nifty sticker! If you are able and willing to financially support my work please check out my Patreon and Tip Jar.Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

It’s Giving Tuesday! In honor of the season of giving I talked to my friend, Ben Houghton: Executive Director for Broadway for Arts Education. If you like this podcast be sure to subscribe and rate us! If you do email vintageoldbiddy@gmail.com and we will send you a nifty sticker! Click here for more information or to donate to BAEIf you are able and willing to financially support my work please check out my Patreon and Tip Jar.Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

Happy Halloween! The spookiest time of the year is the best time of year as far as I’m concerned. And in this month’s interview and radio play we will be talking to VOB’s spooky aficionado: Dina Grilli!We talk abut our favorite movies of the season and in depth about our favorite this season: Barbarian. Please be aware that this interview will contain spoilers for the movie, now streamable on HBO Max!This month’s radio play is a continuation of last year’s. Listen to that episode first here but you will still be able to follow this one without listening to the first if that’s your pleasure!Real Haunted Real EstateA Radio Play by Dina GrilliFeaturing:Dina GrilliFelisa HengMichael  KidneyAly Ryan KoganLaRena IoccoMichelle MaccaroneKaren Mascolo HaganByron HaganAnd introducing:Thomas Hagan If you like this podcast be sure to subscribe and rate us! If you do email vintageoldbiddy@gmail.com and we will send you a nifty sticker!If you like what you hear and  are able and willing to financially support my work please check out my Patron and Tip Jar.Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

We are back with Season 3 of Vintage Old Biddy. After a bit of an extended hiatus we will be restarting with monthly episodes of your favorite variety show! This month is all about love.  “Where have you been?” you may ask. Well the answer if falling in love with my girlfriend, Larena Iocco.To celebrate that our friend, and reason we met, Allison St. Rock has written a 1920s lesbian romp with original music and voiced by not only Allison but also myself and LaRena.Sapphia’s SoireA radio play Written by Allison St. Rock. With original music by Allison St. Rock.Featuring:Dina GrilliLaRena IoccoMichelle MaccaroneAllison St. RockAnd because I love a theme, this month’s interview is between LaRena and I. I hope you enjoy our tribute to love!If you are able to help financially support my work please join my Patreon or make a one time donation.Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.

The thrilling conclusion of “The Thief in Disguise: A Prohibition New Year” is here!The episode also features an interview with the author, Byron HaganFeaturing the Voice Talents of:Scot Cahoon, Alyson Ryan KoganMatthew Martin, Dina Grilli Joshua LopezKaren Mascolo HaganByron HaganTasha R Williams  Support the Show.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, please leave a review on your platform of choice. If you are able to financially support the pod, please consider subscribing on a monthly basis or you can always leave a one time tip on VOB's website.