Let's pretend we've been invited up to Cole Porter's apartment in the Waldorf Astoria; it's after dinner and the cognac's been poured, and the greatest cabaret singers of all time have stepped up to the piano to entertain us.
Aug 04, 2013•59 min
Selections from Stephen Sondheim's score are performed by Zero Mostel, Nathan Lane, Phil Silvers, and others: comedy this afternoon.
Jul 28, 2013•59 min
We turn to the music of Coward and the short plays from 1936 that comprise "Tonight at 8:30," along with wistful and witty songs from the Coward songbook performed by the composer himself, Gertrude Lawrence, Bobby Short, Carmen McRae and others.
Jul 21, 2013•59 min
The groundbreaking musical by Rodgers and Hart is celebrated in various cast and studio recordings, along with vocal support from Chet Baker, Steve Lawrence, Patti LuPone, Ella Fitzgerald, and Bobby Short.
Jul 14, 2013•59 min
Wonder of wonders! For this episode of BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, we're privileged to have Sheldon Harnick in the studio for an hour of great stories and great songs.
Jul 07, 2013•1 hr 3 min
It's triple your pleasure, triple your fun with "Tremendous Trios," as we celebrate some of the best three-person numbers in Broadway history.
Jun 23, 2013•59 min
In celebration of Steve Ross' new album of Noel Coward treasures ("Noel Coward: Off the Record"), the debonair cabaret celebrity will be joining me in the studio to open our trunks, as it were, and rediscover wonderful songs cut from classic shows.
Jun 16, 2013•59 min
The Tony Awards is Broadway's big night; this broadcast is devoted to the musical highlights of the 2012-13 season, with selections from MATILDA, KINKY BOOTS, as well as from albums not-yet-released, such as PIPPIN, CINDERELLA, and MOTOWN.
Jun 09, 2013•59 min
In celebration of the renewed interest in F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY, "Broadway to Main Street" is extending all the way to East Egg.
May 26, 2013•59 min
With June about to bust all over, today we're turning to that masterpiece of narrative musical theater, Rodgers and Hammerstein's CAROUSEL.
May 19, 2013•59 min
Listen to some of the greatest dance music from the stage, including WEST SIDE STORY, A CHORUS LINE, ON THE TOWN and more.
May 05, 2013•59 min
On "Haunted Heart," we look at the musical stage's depiction of memory, lost love, spectral visitors, omniscient mentors, and how music connects us to the presence of the past.
Apr 28, 2013•59 min
We stretch BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET all the way to the Champs Elysees in our tribute to Paris – after all, it's April! So, with the chestnuts in blossom, we'll hear Maurice Chevalier, Sammy Davis, Colette Renard, Judy Garland & others.
Apr 07, 2013•59 min
In the spirit of the season of renewal and resurrection, we look at some of the amazing comebacks on the Broadway stage.
Mar 31, 2013•1 hr
Among the great musical theater songwriting teams of the 1930s, Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz provided the wittiest and most haunting of tunes.
Mar 30, 2013•59 min
Curtain up! Light the lights! BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET is back in full podcast/broadcast mode with a salute to that most ebullient of composers, Jule Styne.
Mar 24, 2013•59 min
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a musical tribute to the Man of Steel!
Mar 17, 2013•59 min
In honor of the Broadway debut of "Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA," we're riding our carriage along BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET.
Mar 03, 2013•59 min
A tribute to Broadway's tributes to the film industry, we'll hear songs from MACK & MABEL, FADE-OUT FADE-IN, GRAND HOTEL, as well as a quick history of Oscar-nominated songs.
Feb 24, 2013•59 min
It takes two to tango, so we're playing great duets from the Broadway canon. Join Porgy and Bess, Mac and Jenny, Emile and Nellie, Mame and Vera, Stone and Stine and other musical couples who sang their hearts out.
Feb 03, 2013•59 min
Today we're celebrating the City Center Encores! revival of Bock and Harnick's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning 1959 musical FIORELLO!
Jan 27, 2013•59 min
We're taking it nice 'n' easy, matching gems by Cole Porter with incomparable renditions by Frank Sinatra.
Jan 20, 2013•59 min
A tribute to the great British musicals that never made it across the pond.
Jan 13, 2013•59 min
Sammy Davis dominates the proceedings in a knockout performance, with rare outtakes, cut numbers, and Quincy Jones in the corner.
Jan 06, 2013•59 min
On the cusp of a New Year, BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET turns to show tunes that express optimism, hope, and various resolutions for the future; shows include SAIL AWAY, WEST SIDE STORY, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, and SHE LOVES ME.
Dec 30, 2012•59 min
Join us as we celebrate the career of Barbara Cook, from plucky ingenue to one of our most compelling interpreters of popular song.
Dec 23, 2012•59 min
My co-host is the jolliest elf in the Theatre District, Jordan Gelber, the star of ELF. We'll be stuffing our Broadway stockings with show tunes about the holidays from BABES IN TOYLAND to MAME to PROMISES, PROMISES to CAROLINE, OR CHANGE.
Dec 16, 2012•59 min
With a nod to the show’s current revival, we take a look at America’s most indomitable orphan from her comic strip and radio days through her Broadway, film, and television incarnations.
Dec 09, 2012•59 min
A compilation of the wackiest, most wonderful pairings of singer and song. Improbable? Yes, but delightful.
Dec 02, 2012•59 min
Selections include rare cast recordings, along with renditions by Lena Horne, Ray Charles, Rosemary Clooney, and Mercer himself.
Nov 25, 2012•59 min
