Broadway To Main Street

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.

A compilation of the wackiest, most wonderful pairings of singer and song. Improbable? Yes, but delightful.

Selections include rare cast recordings, along with renditions by Lena Horne, Ray Charles, Rosemary Clooney, and Mercer himself.

Start spreading the news: a tribute to the greatest city in the world – New York City.

We're hitting the Big Time on this episode – an entire program devoted to the glorious days of vaudeville and its influence on the American musical.

Welcome to the chills, spill, thrills, ghouls and goblins of the musical theater.

No minimum, no cover charge: only the finest cabaret artists of the last five decades tackling the Broadway songbook with class, elegance, and intimacy.

Our candidates for greatest political musical score include Of Thee I Sing, I'd Rather Be Right, Mr. President, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

We're going to rock around the Theatre District with The Four Tops, The Doors, Janis Joplin, James Brown, the Mamas and the Papas, Elvis Presley and those four irrepressible mop tops from Liverpool!

Princes come, princes go – but there was never a prince of Broadway like Alfred Drake.

The only Broadway musical to feature a score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David – and what a score it is!

The Broadway bell has rung and it's time to take your seats. We go "back to school" with a full syllabus of songs about teaching, learning, and everything in between.

Nothing's quite the same as the Pajama Game – or the talented team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross who brought Broadway two of its biggest hits in the 1950s: the back-to-back smashes The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees.

In honor of Labor Day, this episode is a tribute to our nation's working men and women. Workers from cops to dance hall girls to cleaning women to whalers to union organizers sing for their supper.

A tribute to the composer who took the mid-1970s by storm and won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, a Grammy, and a Pulitzer Prize.

A retrospective of Noel Coward's influence on the American scene; starting with his Las Vegas appearances in 1955, through the Broadway musicals Sail Away, The Girl Who Came to Supper, and High Spirits.

The first of our two-part tribute to the Master, featuring songs originating from England in the 1920s and 1930s.

Highlights from the "Comedy Tonight!" concert from Guild Hall in East Hampton (July 29, 2012).

Jazz writer and critic Will Friedwald joins us in bringing the Broadway songbook to the boites and hangouts along 52nd Street.

Our Independence Day broadcast highlights--of course--the Tony Award-winning 1776.