Broadway To Main Street

You've been invited to a swell-egant, elegant party. On the guest list: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Idina Menzel, Nat King Cole, Judy Holliday, Sammy Davis, Jr. and more.

Adam Guettel's astonishing song cycle transforms into a multiple-episode virtual presentation by MasterVoices. Its artistic director, Ted Sperling, joins us to look at this work along with performances by Audra McDonald, Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, Mandy Patinkin and more.

Truer than the red, hot, and blue! A valentine to our listeners with love songs from Carousel, Show Boat, The Color Purple, and many more.

It's the best of times with Jerry Herman's enduring score to this groundbreaking musical. Performances from the original Broadway cast, plus Keith Michell, Gary Beach, Douglas Hodge, Gloria Gaynor and the composer himself.  

Our concluding look at the fascinating idiosyncratic gems that didn't transfer directly to Broadway, from the mid-1970s to today: The Last Five Years, Little Shop of Horrors, Hello Again, Floyd Collins and so many more.

The little shows that could--from every corner of Manhattan--beginning in the 1950s through the mid-1970s: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Fantasticks; The Threepenny Opera; Jacques Brel; Godspell and so many more.

New windows! Blue skies! Happy days! The American musical tackles the bright promise of the future. Songs from Mame, Aladdin, The Boy from Oz and many, many more  

  We begin our tenth year of broadcasting with a decade-by-decade celebration of moments from the greatest musicals of the last 120 years: My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, The Lion King, Hamilton and more.  

At the conclusion of challenging year, we remember the talents who sang and danced off to another venue, stage right: Ann Reinking, Jerry Herman, Terrence McNally, and more.

Our gift to you is the most hilarious elf we know, Randy Rainbow, joining us live for our Holiday Show, spreading comfort and joy, picking holiday favorites, and plugging his "Hey Gurl, It's Christmas!" album.  

Start spreading the news: we're celebrating one of the greatest creative partnerships in musical theater. Liza's classics and some rarities from The Act, Cabaret, Flora the Red Menace, and more.

Strictly entre nous, we're offering thanks for the memory of home and hearth from seasons past--with songs from The WIz, Allegro, Oliver!, The Most Happy Fella and many more.  

There's nothing that Broadway likes better than a proper musical "farewell." Here are some graceful "exit stage right"s from Hamilton, She Loves Me, Hello Dolly!, Promises Promises, and more.

To celebrate the upcoming PBS/Great Performances airing of "Holiday Inn," we'll face the music and dance along with Irving Berlin's great Hollywood songs, performed by Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman and more.

Here's our program would be like back in 1971; songs from shows currently running--Follies, No No Nanette--and a special visit in our studio with the young Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber with their concept album, Jesus Christ Superstar.

We're starting--and finishing--this episode with songs by the quintessential queen of lyric writing. Renditions by Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, and shows such as SEESAW and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN.

Our annual Halloween show on "Blood-vay to Main Street" is charged with electricity as we send up Frankenstein and his monster--join Count Larry Maslon for an hour of show tunes with a lot of heart--and brains!

It's election time and show tunes are sweeping the country. Here are great campaigns songs and tributes to participatory democracy about from Annie, Of Thee I Sing, Hamilton, and more.

Spend a little time with this astonishing Coleman/Fields score. Performers include Gwen Verdon, of course, but also Shirley MacLaine, Bobby Short, Juliet Prowse, and Sammy Davis, daddy-o! Fun, laughs, good times!

"B" is for the way we l-o-v-e Broadway; "W" is for "Wow--Nat King Cole!"; "A" is author Will Friedwald, who joins us to discuss his new Nat Cole bio; "Y" is you're gonna dig this very, very extra-ordinary episode.