Broadway To Main Street

Special guest Ann Harada helps us trip lightly through great holiday numbers from Meet Me in St. Louis, She Loves Me, and The Sound of Music, as well as classics performed by Frank Sinatra, Dolly Parton, Tony Bennett and others.

On this episode of BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, I'll be looking at "Songs My Father Taught Me"; a generation's worth of great music, stretching back to the 1920s.

This week, in which America has shared its memories of JFK and his legacy, we turn to what was, by all accounts, his favorite musical and the show which defined an era: CAMELOT.

Jo Stafford was America's favorite pop singer of the 1940s and 50s; she had a real affinity for the Broadway songbook, and for the songs of Frank Loesser in particular.

Is there a key to success in a Broadway musical? Irving Berlin thought there were 88 keys – and that's what we celebrate on our broadcast: "I Love a Piano."

Ding-dong! It's "Trick or Treat!" on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, or as our Halloween host refers to it: BLOODVAY TO MAIN STREET.

Celebrate the astonishing voice and vibrant personality of Audra McDonald, enthralling us with songs from Ragtime, St. Louis Woman, Porgy and Bess, 110 in the Shade, Annie and others.

Discover how Broadway made the transition from the Golden Age to the Age of Aquarius with "Broadway Swings the Sixties", featuring great songs from Bye Bye Birdie, Golden Boy, Man of La Mancha, and Your Own Thing.

On "Kurt Weill in Berlin," we celebrate the astonishing early career of one of the world's greatest theater composers.

Take my hand – and let me lead you – o, stranger! – through the Paradise that is Wright and Forrest's KISMET.

Want a week-end getaway? All aboard for "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," a journey by air, rail, and highway of the musical theater scenery.

An anthology of one of America's greatest composer's work for the stage, including numbers from the Cotton Club and shows such as Bloomer Girl, St. Louis Woman, and Jamaica with an all-star cast.

This week on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, we salute Eydie Gorme and her indelible way with a tune with "Eydie (and Steve), featuring songs from Gypsy, On a Clear Day, Golden Rainbow, and Mame.

BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET is leaving the Theatre District with this program and playing a wide variety of songs that have NOTHING to do with Broadway: great, great songs from the movies, the pop charts, bossa nova, French chanson and more.

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.

Selections from Stephen Sondheim's score are performed by Zero Mostel, Nathan Lane, Phil Silvers, and others: comedy this afternoon.

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.

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.

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.

It's triple your pleasure, triple your fun with "Tremendous Trios," as we celebrate some of the best three-person numbers in Broadway history.