Here she is, boys! Here she is, girls! The legendary Merman, on our first full broadcast to feature her. All her Broadway hits, in her inimitable manner, from Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, Anything Goes and more.
Broadway's legendary songsmith turns 90--isn't it rich? So we send in the tunes, our personal Sondheim favorites, sung by Steve Lawrence, Mel Tormé, Audra McDonald, Barbara Cook and more.
The great hits from Broadway--in their West End incarnations. Our second part, with Ute Lemper in Chicago , Mary Martin in Dolly!, Topol in Fiddler , Angela Lansbury in Gypsy and more. This Sunday at 3PM, live or streaming.
The great hits from the West End that have sailed across the pond to make Broadway history: Oliver!, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Me and My Girl and more.
Fortune and Fate in the American musical: high rollers and spinning wheels from Guys and Dolls, Show Boat, Hamilton, St. Louis Woman and more.
We're at the microphone, live, with Brian Stokes Mitchell the greatest singing actor of his generation, following his career from Ragtime to Man of La Mancha to his latest solo album.
The groundbreakers of the 2010s: Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Fun Home, Book of Mormon , and more.
Begin the Beguine with a full hour of great Broadway tunes played by the finest dance bands-- swing and sway with Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Stan Kenton, Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Harry Connick, Jr, and more.
Here's our nightlife show tunes pub crawl with the best practioners of the cabaret arts: Bobby Short, Mabel Mercer, Steve Ross, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano and more.
The full spectrum of E. Y. "Yip" Harburg's Broadway lyrics, sung by Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Pearl Bailey, Petula Clark, Carmen McRae, and the wordsmith himself.
It's the beginning of our ninth year on the air, so, of course, it's Nine: The Musical . Listen to Antonio Banderas, Raul Julia, Jonathan Pryce, Barbra Streisand, and others on this Fellini-esque musical farrago.
The greatest director/choreographer of the last century, Jerome Robbins, gives us something to talk about; in conversation with his biographer, Amanda Vaill, with dance music from On The Town, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roo f and more.
We remember Jerry Herman, a great American songwriter, with his biggest hits and some rarities sung by Angela Lansbury, Joel Grey, Barbra Streisand, and Jerry himself, among others.
This holiday season, territory folks should stick together. We're backstage with Mary Testa, Aunt Eller in the current Oklahoma! , for a passel of the best holiday music from Broadway and beyond.
We remember the great legends of the Broadway songbook who left us in 2019: Carol Channing, Harold Prince, Jo Sullivan Loesser, Doris Day, Albert Finney, and more.
Hey, cats--head down to the Village for an hour of beatniks, hepcats, and hippies in the American musical: Hair , of course, but also Wonderful Town, The Nervous Set , Bob Dylan, and more.
Pearlie Mae--so nice to have you back where you belong. Pearl Bailey in a jaw-dropping series of performances of songs by Gershwin, Weill, Berlin, Rodgers, and from the scores to St. Louis Woman and Hello, Dolly !
Make someone happy and enjoy this ambitious score from Comden/Green/Styne. Do Re Mi was a good old-fashioned show and we'll hear Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, plus Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald and more.
Sometimes Broadway is luckier the second time around: revivals that made us rethink great masterpieces. Alan Cumming in Cabaret , Audra McDonald in Carousel , the Yiddish Fiddler and more.
Look around, look around: it's autumn in the greatest city in the world. New York in a melancholy mood--songs performed by Ethel Merman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bobby Short, Mel Tormé and more.
Velcome to Blood-vay to Main Steet! Count Larry Maslon stirs up a cauldron of Halloween classics: witchy warblings from Bette Midler, Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Idina Menzel and a circle of sorceresses!
On the 60th Anniversary of Billy Wilder's classic film, we'll play music from the movie, as well as a syncopated medley of tunes from various stage adaptations; performers include Robert Morse, Tommy Steele, and, of course, Marilyn Monroe.
We're sending of loads of lovely love in memory of the divine Diahann Carroll: her stunning performances from House of Flowers, No Strings, Sunset Blvd , and the American Songbook, joined by Pearl Bailey, Judy Garland and more.
The eternal music of George Gershwin: here are some of his greatest songs, played by the composer himself, with a contrasting assist from Sarah Vaughan, Fred Astaire, and Ethel Merman.
The spotlight remains on Judy Garland, as we listen to her glorious renditions of the Broadway songbook of the 1950s and 60s, joined by Howard Keel, Ethel Merman and daughter Liza.
Judy Garland is back in the spotlight and, in an unprecedented two-part episode, we look at her glorious commitment to the Broadway songbook from the first part of the 20th Century, joined by friends such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra
Here are performances that leap out of the recording studio and into your heart and soul. Sammy Davis, Jr. and Carmen McRae, Frank Sinatra, and Johnny Hartman from pop music and Robert Morse, Elaine Stritch and Audra McDonald from Broadway.
This is for those of you with an interest in pirates: we'll sail the musical seas on this vacation weekend with songs from Titanic, Sail Away, The Last Ship and more.
Richard Rodgers' 1962 score--for which he wrote lyrics and music--is a little-known Broadway treasure. Diahann Carroll, Nat King Cole, Marilyn Maye and others take us on a tour.
A sampling of the great songs that Broadway composers wrote just for Hollywood pictures: Tinseltown tunes by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Kander and Ebb, Sondheim and more.
