Broadway to Main Street

Sundays at 3pm

BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET is devoted to music that began on the Broadway stage.  Each episode of “Broadway to Main Street”—will celebrate an important show or legendary songwriter or examine a historical or cultural movement.  The songs will be drawn from classic albums, rare recordings, and surprise interpretations, supplemented by host Laurence Maslon’s commentary, guest appearances, and news from Broadway.

“Every song we’ll play will have originated on Broadway, but in addition to the stars who made these songs famous, we’ll also hear from the great artists of film, popular recording, jazz, and the cabaret scene, and discover some of their majestic interpretations of this glorious music, in order to give our listeners a sense of how vast, how entertaining and how enlightening the American musical stage has been for over a century.  Whether our listeners have tuned in from their living room or their car radio or one of those new fangled mobile devices, they’re going to have the best seat in the house.”

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Local Programming Podcast
4:00 pm
Sun May 19, 2013

Carousel

With June about to bust all over, today we're turning to that masterpiece of narrative musical theater, Rodgers and Hammerstein's CAROUSEL. Joining us to watch the blossoms fall are John Raitt, Barbara Cook, Shirley Jones, Frank Sinatra, Richard Kiley and Louis Armstrong--jes' their time to, I reckon!

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Local Programming Podcast
4:00 pm
Sun May 5, 2013

Go Into Your Dance

With "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" about to re-emerge on West 55th Street (ON YOUR TOES at Encores!), today on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, we're asking listeners to "Go Into Your Dance."  Not a lot of words, but some of the greatest dance music from the stage, including WEST SIDE STORY, A CHORUS LINE, ON THE TOWN and more. So, shall we dance?
Originally broadcast on 5/05/13
 

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Local Programming Podcast
4:00 pm
Sun April 28, 2013

Haunted Heart

That haunting refrain? We've got several on today's broadcast of BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET.  On "Haunted Heart," we look at the musical stage's depiction of memory, lost love, spectral visitors, omniscient mentors, and how music connects us to the presence of the past. Shows include HIGH SPIRITS, THE HAPPY TIME, and CATS, with evocative singers such as Jo Stafford, Julie Andrews, and Nina Simone.
Originally broadcast on 4/28/13
 

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Local Programming Podcast
12:25 pm
Mon April 22, 2013

Brush Up Your Shakespeare

The greatest lyricist of all time? Well, it could be the playwright whose birthday we celebrate this week: William Shakespeare, the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon. On today's episode, we listen to some original music (I mean, really original Elizabethan music) as well as musicals inspired by Shakespeare: THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, KISS ME, KATE, WEST SIDE STORY. Forsooth!  Odd's bodkins!
Originally broadcast 4/21/12

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Local Programming Podcast
4:00 pm
Sun April 14, 2013

My Funny Hammerstein

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