John Kavanaugh is a composer, lyricist, and musical director who received 9 Emmy nominations and was awarded the 2014 Daytime Emmy Award for "Sofia the First" Main Title theme song. John is also one of the songwriters on "Sofia the First: Royal Magic," that was just released on Disney Jr. and Disney+.

John wrote songs for Disney's first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor, and penned the songs and served as music director on the series "Alice's Wonderland Bakery." His songs can also be heard in the Disney Channel series Vampirina: Teenage Vampire and in several hit movies, including the Winnie The Pooh film "Springtime with Roo," Nickelodeon's "Globehunters," and "Descendants 3." For "Descendants 3" he wrote the song "My Once Upon A Time" for Dove Cameron and that soundtrack album rose to #1 within the first hour of release. It was also nominated for a Billboard Music Award. John also served as musical director on the first season of The New Mickey Mouse Club for the Disney Channel.

John is as kind as he is talented and successful and we know you're going to love this interview!

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Disney, Broadway, and film veteran Sarah Uriarte Berry is back for the rest of her conversation with Scott! In this week's episode, Scott and Sarah pick up right where they left off last week and that’s with - Disney Princess - The Concert tour. They talk about a host of other things including their mutual love of Dole Whip and Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout and their thoughts on the entertainment offerings at The Disneyland Resort. So without any further ado - here it is - the rest of Scott's interview with the lovely...the wonderful - Sarah Uriarte Berry!

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In this episode, Scott welcomes an old friend to the podcast - Sarah Uriarte Berry. Scott and Sarah did a production of "Grease" together and they had a great time reminiscing about the show and talking about her incredible career on Broadway, on tour, and what it was like being the very first Belle at The Disneyland Resort.

Sarah Uriarte Berry made her Broadway debut as Eponine in "Les Miserables" and later reprised her role for the 10th Anniversary Production. She also starred as Belle in "Disney’s Beauty and the Beast" twice on Broadway: First at the Palace Theater, and 11 years later, paired with Donny Osmond at the Lunt-Fontanne.

Also on Broadway, Sarah won critical acclaim as Franca in "The Light in the Piazza" at Lincoln Center Theater, where she received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

On tour, she played the role of Betty Schaefer in "Sunset Boulevard" with Petula Clark and the role of Julie Jordan in "Carousel" with Patrick Wilson. For "Carousel," she won an Ovation Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She also recently toured with "Disney Princess - The Concert."

Other notable theatre credits include starring as Cinderella in "Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella" for the New York City Opera alongside Eartha Kitt, Nicola in "Taboo" opposite Boy George, "Next To Normal," "End Of The Rainbow," "A Little Night Music" at the Kennedy Center, soloist in Bernstein's Mass at Carnegie Hall, and "Sondheim on Sondheim" at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Vanessa Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Jonathan Groff.

Sarah’s film appearances include roles in the feature film "Frontera" starring Ed Harris, Eva Longoria and Michael Peña, and "Pretty Bird" starring Billy Crudup. On television, Sarah’s appeared on "Law and Order - Criminal Intent," "Six Degrees," The Tony Awards, and can be seen as Saint Jellorica in the infamous Cats episode of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."

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