Broadway To Main Street

A special preview, featuring music (much of it as yet unreleased!) from Six, A Strange Loop, Paradise Square, Mr. Saturday Night, MJ The Musical, The Music Man and more.

Fifty years ago, these were among the nominees: Raúl Julia, Clifton Davis, Alexis Smith, Phil Silvers, Barry Bostwick, Mildred Natwick, and more. Join us as we stumble through a song or two and lie about ourselves a little.

Modesty is not a virtue here, showcasing more than a dozen Broadway characters with VERY healthy egos: Songs from Camelot, The Sound of Music, The Producers, and more--plus a special Carly Simon tribute!

Riffing off Billy Crystal's turn in Mr. Saturday Night, we look at those top bananas who brought their comic chops to Broadway: Phil Silvers, Rose Marie, Fanny Brice, Bert Lahr, Lucille Ball, Jerry Lewis, Buddy Hackett, Andrea Martin and more.  

The world's gone mad today, but we still get a kick out of this Cole Porter masterpiece. Here's the full score, plus a foredeck of Reno Sweeneys: Ethel Merman, Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and more.

We're celebrating the centennial month of this marvelous singer with a variety of songs written by Richard Rodgers, from Jumbo to The Sound of Music.  

We celebrate how to succeed on Broadway through the life and achievement of five-time Tony nominee (and two-time winner) Bobby Morse. All of his major shows and performances are featured.

Spring has finally sprung and with it a musical bouquet of tunes with a floral motif from Hadestown, Gypsy, On a Clear Day, The Sound of Music and more.

In 1963, Frank Sinatra put together an exciting experiment: four of the greatest musicals recorded in the studio with the era's best singers of popular music: Frank, Sammy, Dean, Bing, Dinah, Keely and more.  Will Friedwald joins us to discuss this ambitious project.

A funny girl, a funny lady, and a pioneer in American popular culture. Join us for a gorgeous hour as we play the songs she made famous, sung by Fanny and others, including Kaye Ballard, Alice Faye, and Barbra Streisand, of course.  

We've got your number--in fact, more than a dozen numbers from the fabulous Cy Coleman/Carolyn Leigh score. Original and revival casts--Sid Caesar, Martin Short, Faith Prince--plus Sarah Vaughan, Judy Garland, and more.

Broadway musicals have provided happy homes for Hollywood stars for decades; join Tinseltown legends such as Antonio Banderas, Lauren Bacall, Hugh Jackman, Vivien Leigh, and others for their on-stage triumphs.

We travel out of time, out of sight to those far away places with the strange sounding names--Bali Ha'i, Camelot, Oz, Shangri-La--that have lent their mysteries to Broadway for decades.

Go east, young tunesmiths! Great Hollywood songwriters try their respective hands at Broadway musicals with such shows as Ballroom, Skyscraper, Oh Captain!, Shangri-La, and others.

Come play wiz us as we celebrate Stephen Sondheim's unique score with Ted Sperling, artistic director of MasterVoices. Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, plus Madeline Kahn, Mandy Patinkin, Steve Lawrence and more.

A big parade of songs by The Music Man's music man. Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, Tammy Grimes lead off, of course, but Perry Como, Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., and a famous quartet (not barbershop) from Liverpool follow right behind.  

Dino's Broadway canon is selective but swinging, pally. The King of Cool staggers through classic songs by Lerner and Loewe, Jule Styne, Comden and Green, Rodgers and Hart, and more.

Such lovely Dick Rodgers-y music, how can you be still? Our tribute to the 1965 musical, with lyrics by Sondheim, performed by the original cast, plus Eydie Gormé, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne and more.  

Broadway sounds its trumpet on-stage and off, with great performances of "brassy" material by Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand and more, along with solos from the likes of Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and other cornet men.

We kick off our second decade on the air by visiting with some very special friends from over the last ten years: David Garrison, Ann Harada, Lewis J. Stadlen, Veanne Cox, Malcolm Gets, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano sharing stories and songs.  Here's to us!