Start spreading the news: a tribute to the greatest city in the world – New York City.
Nov 11, 2012•59 min
We're hitting the Big Time on this episode – an entire program devoted to the glorious days of vaudeville and its influence on the American musical.
Nov 04, 2012•59 min
Welcome to the chills, spill, thrills, ghouls and goblins of the musical theater.
Oct 28, 2012•59 min
No minimum, no cover charge: only the finest cabaret artists of the last five decades tackling the Broadway songbook with class, elegance, and intimacy.
Oct 21, 2012•59 min
Our candidates for greatest political musical score include Of Thee I Sing, I'd Rather Be Right, Mr. President, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Oct 14, 2012•59 min
We're going to rock around the Theatre District with The Four Tops, The Doors, Janis Joplin, James Brown, the Mamas and the Papas, Elvis Presley and those four irrepressible mop tops from Liverpool!
Oct 07, 2012•59 min
Princes come, princes go – but there was never a prince of Broadway like Alfred Drake.
Sep 30, 2012•59 min
The only Broadway musical to feature a score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David – and what a score it is!
Sep 23, 2012•59 min
The Broadway bell has rung and it's time to take your seats. We go "back to school" with a full syllabus of songs about teaching, learning, and everything in between.
Sep 16, 2012•59 min
Nothing's quite the same as the Pajama Game – or the talented team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross who brought Broadway two of its biggest hits in the 1950s: the back-to-back smashes The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees.
Sep 09, 2012•59 min
In honor of Labor Day, this episode is a tribute to our nation's working men and women. Workers from cops to dance hall girls to cleaning women to whalers to union organizers sing for their supper.
Sep 02, 2012•59 min
A tribute to the composer who took the mid-1970s by storm and won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, a Grammy, and a Pulitzer Prize.
Aug 26, 2012•59 min
A retrospective of Noel Coward's influence on the American scene; starting with his Las Vegas appearances in 1955, through the Broadway musicals Sail Away, The Girl Who Came to Supper, and High Spirits.
Aug 12, 2012•59 min
The first of our two-part tribute to the Master, featuring songs originating from England in the 1920s and 1930s.
Aug 12, 2012•58 min
Highlights from the "Comedy Tonight!" concert from Guild Hall in East Hampton (July 29, 2012).
Aug 05, 2012•59 min
Jazz writer and critic Will Friedwald joins us in bringing the Broadway songbook to the boites and hangouts along 52nd Street.
Jul 15, 2012•59 min
An overview of Broadway's greatest comic figures who rose from the bottom of the bunch to become superstars.
Jul 08, 2012•59 min
Our Independence Day broadcast highlights--of course--the Tony Award-winning 1776.
Jul 01, 2012•59 min
The sound of Tony Bennett is one of my favorite things; so is the music of Richard Rodgers.
Jun 24, 2012•59 min
Broadway's proudest papas and most popular patriarchs are celebrated in this broadcast: dads (and tads) sing their hearts out from Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables, Ragtime, The Rothschilds, Carousel and more.
Jun 17, 2012•59 min
An overview of the contenders for the 2012 Tony Awards, including selections from all the major musical categories.
Jun 10, 2012•59 min
Songs from The Most Happy Fella, Golden Boy, Grease, Rags, Porgy and Bess, Sugar, and some assorted Hollywood surprises.
Jun 03, 2012•48 min
In honor of our brave men and women who served in the Second World War, Ted Chapin (president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization) joins us for a virtual tour of the Stage Door Canteen and the songs that celebrated America on the homefront.
May 27, 2012•59 min
The 20th of May is Eliza Doolittle Day and, to celebrate, we present an entire hour of Lerner and Loewe's classic score to one of Broadway's greatest shows.
May 20, 2012•59 min
Some of Broadway's most impressive (and implacable) moms, with knock-out performances by, among others, Laura Benanti, Sherie Rene Scott, Bobby Short, Lea Michele, Audra McDonald, Robert Weede, and Liz Callaway.
May 13, 2012•59 min
Thirteen years without the legal manufacture of booze brought some intoxicating music out of the Broadway stage, both during and after the fact.
May 06, 2012•59 min
Springtime brings happy plots that end in a marriage knot; here's a sampling of Broadway's best, from shows as diverse as Of Thee I Sing, Dance a Little Closer, Zorba, The Rink, and, of course, Company.
Apr 29, 2012•59 min
In a tribute to the theatrical season that put the biographies of Eva Peron and Judy Garland onstage, a look at some of the real-life girls who found their real lives immortalized in Broadway musicals.
Apr 22, 2012•59 min
The greatest lyricist of all time? Well, it could be the playwright whose birthday we celebrate this week: William Shakespeare, the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon.
Apr 21, 2012•59 min
The idea of turning movies into musicals is not purely a recent phenomenon. This episode looks at the Broadway shows from 1953 to 1973 that were based on films.
Apr 15, 2012•59 min
