Broadway To Main Street

Author and NYT critic Jesse Green joins us to discuss the composer's memoir, SHY, on he which collaborated, and her career. Songs performed by Carol Burnett, of course, plus Victoria Clark, Faith Prince, and more.  

Do you know how the lady in the harbor feels? Great torch songs from Broadway musicals sung by Sara Bareilles, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Eydie Gormé and many more.  

An hour-long tribute to our hero, who's twice as big as life in our book; songs from Promises, Promises, The Fantasticks, Chicago, Carnival and more, plus some rarities.  

It's Halloween weekend, so the host of "Blood-vay to Main Street," Count Larry Maslon celebrates another creepy guy in a black cape. Come with us, along with Michael Crawford, Ramin Karimloo, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban and more as we explore this groundbreaking show.  

ANGELA LANSBURY Strike the band up--a tribute to one of the all-time greats of the American Musical Theater. Songs from Mame, Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast, among many others--including some real rarities. We think she's just sensational.  

From the pages of the world's greatest fiction to the stages of the American musical--great shows such as Big River, Oliver!, Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, and more provide listeners with a trip to the library.

The Humble King of Café Society gets the full treatment; choice cuts, some rare, all well-done, from the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Cy Coleman, and Burt Bacharach.  

Not cheek-to-cheek, but nose-to-nose--great duets of conflict, contrast, and contrariness from Les Misèrables, Annie Get Your Gun, Follies, Zorbà and more.

Thank Heaven for this 1958 masterpiece, with a score for the ages by Lerner and Loewe. Performances from the film, outtakes, and various pop and stage renditions (Vic Damone, Andre Previn).  You'll remember it well!

In honor of Her Majesty's passing, we're presenting an updated version of our 2018 episode about Britain's royal family. Songs from I and Albert, Rex, Camelot, and more.

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; songs from Working, The Pajama Game, Pins and Needles, and more.  

For our annual August tribute to film composers, we spotlight four giants of the 1960s: Elmer Bernstein, John Barry, Burt Bacharach, and Richard Rodney Bennett. Highlights from their major movie and theater achievements of the era.

And people called it Ragtime . . .\ we celebrate the unique syncopation of this score. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie and more.

It was an era when life was just a bowl of cherries, there was good news, whoopee, with cream in your coffee. Explore Broadway's happiest hits from the 1920s and early 30s with Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, and more.

It’s summertime and we’re cranking up the car radio and listening to songs about every major city or state from Maine to California, from I-95 to the I-10; tunes from Ragtime, The Most Happy Fella, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and more. 

  Do you hear the actors sing? We've lined up an all-star cast--Colm Wilkinson, Patti LuPone, Hugh Jackman, Sierra Boggess, Ramin Karimloo, and more--to bring this great musical home.  

The Broadway catalogue of Judy Garland is celebrated on her centenary. Classic songs by the Gershwins, Rodgers with Hart and Hammerstein, Jule Styne, Noël Coward and more (and partnered by Sinatra, Crosby, and Liza among others).

We invited Kelli O'Hara to our virtual studio for a chat and an hour of her most stunning performances from South Pacific, Light in the Piazza, Bridges of Madison County, O'Hara rarities and much more.

The second part of our two-part interview with Mark Eden Horowitz, editor of "The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II": Now, we move on to OH2 and Rodgers, Sondheim, and the "what-ifs" of this mighty career. Songs performed by Nat King Cole, Audra McDonald, Dinah Shore, and more.

The first of a two-part interview with the editor of "The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II," Mark Eden Horowitz, with brand-new insights of our greatest lyricist. With songs performed by Irene Dunne, Paul Robeson, Sarah Vaughan and more.