It’s surprising when you’re listening to a podcast and suddenly the speaker bursts into song. But that is the point of 36 Questions, the new podcast from the creators of the hit faux-NPR sci-fi podcast Limetown: It’s a musical. It’s about a couple on the brink of divorce who try the “36 questions that lead to love” — known to many from a New York Times Modern Love column that went viral in 2015 (the book was released last week) — in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage.
The podcast, which will be released in three parts starting Monday (with one episode every other week), includes 12 original songs that will be simultaneously released as free singles. It was written, directed, and composed by Ellen Winter and Chris Littler, who happen to be in a band together. The husband is played by Jonathan Groff of Hamilton (!), Frozen, and Glee. The wife is played by actress Jessie Shelton.
“A basic rule of musicals — of storytelling in general — is that the…
