Broadway To Main Street

Our holiday date from Broadway's The Prom is Christopher Sieber, live in our studio from Times Square, sharing beloved songs from Scrooge, Annie, Spamalot and a brand-new cut from The Prom.

From our radio studio in the Hotel Astor, high above Times Square...a recreation of a 1930s broadcast, featuring songs performed by Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Johnny Mercer, and our special guest, George Gershwin, who will play his latest songs.

A thoughtful retrospective of the Broadway artists we lost in 2018, including Marin Mazzie, Barbara Harris, Gary Beach, Patricia Morison and more.

The mist of May is in the gloaming and it's time to celebrate this classic Lerner and Loewe score with a sneak preview of the 2017 New York City Center cast recording with Kelli O'Hara, joined by other great renditions from Robert Goulet, Shirley Jones, and others.

Front and center, the most fierce and fearless heroines of the America musical demonstrate their performative persistence. Jennifer Holliday, Barbra Streisand, Tammy Grimes, Julie Andrews, and more.

A merry march through the music of the madcap Marxes--the songs of Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and sometimes Zeppo, from the movies and the Broadway shows they inspired. Hooray, hooray, hooray!

BLOOD-Vay to Main Street's annual Halloween broadcast, taking you on a haunted houseful from the Broadway beyond! Songs from Fiddler on the Roof, The Lion King, Next to Normal, Ghost and more.

Go into your trance as we look at the "improbable" 1964 musical version of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, with a mélange of the Broadway cast, the London cast, a dash of cabaret singers, and Noel Coward himself.

MEDIEVAL MUSICALES Forsooth! We're having a Middle Ages crisis on our program, verily, with songs from Camelot, A Connecticut Yankee, Spamalot, Canterbury Tales and others.

Cabaret virtuoso Eric Comstock joins us in the studio to honor the supreme musicianship of Mel Tormé; songs by Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Jule Styne, Cy Coleman, and the Velvet Fog himself.

Great shows--Funny Girl, South Pacific, Evita, Les Misérables--and the great songs you forgot were in them: the stealth ballads that fly under the radar and break your heart. Streisand, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Julie Andrews and more.

The sidekicks and supporting players that kept Broadway in stitches for decades: scene-stealers from The Producers, Waitress, Guys and Dolls, and more.

A survey of songs discussed in your host’s brand-new book—yes! “Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America,” recently published by Oxford University Press. If you listen to this program every week, this one’s for you!

We celebrate "Doc" Simon's bountiful contribution to the American musical, with selections from Promises, Promises; Sweet Charity; Little Me; and more.

We motor our way to Detroit with the radio on: Motown's best artists--Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, the Four Tops, the Jackson 5--get it together and knock some Broadway classics out of the ballpark!

During vacation week, we're trading in Broadway for Hollywood and Vine: great title movie themes from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, sung by Andy Williams, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Tom Jones, Sinatra and many more.

Oh, what a star role, oh, what a show!  We'll tango through Lloyd Webber and Rice's score with a roundelay of Evas: Patti LuPone, Elaine Paige, Elena Roger, and Madonna.

The decade of the 1940s was Broadway's greatest game changer: original cast recordings of Pal Joey, Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific and so much more.

We present the Wham of Sam at its swingingest: Broadway songs rendered over four decades from The Pajama Game, Carousel, Sweet Charity, Les Miz, and more.

The Lerner/Lane score returns (fittingly) from the past with versions from Barbra Streisand, Barbara Harris, Steve Lawrence, Oscar Peterson, and the current Daisy, Melissa Errico.