Broadway to Main Street

The greatest director/choreographer of the last century, Jerome Robbins, gives us something to talk about; in conversation with his biographer, Amanda Vaill, with dance music from On The Town, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roo f and more.

We remember Jerry Herman, a great American songwriter, with his biggest hits and some rarities sung by Angela Lansbury, Joel Grey, Barbra Streisand, and Jerry himself, among others.

This holiday season, territory folks should stick together. We're backstage with Mary Testa, Aunt Eller in the current Oklahoma! , for a passel of the best holiday music from Broadway and beyond.

We remember the great legends of the Broadway songbook who left us in 2019: Carol Channing, Harold Prince, Jo Sullivan Loesser, Doris Day, Albert Finney, and more.

Hey, cats--head down to the Village for an hour of beatniks, hepcats, and hippies in the American musical: Hair , of course, but also Wonderful Town, The Nervous Set , Bob Dylan, and more.

Pearlie Mae--so nice to have you back where you belong. Pearl Bailey in a jaw-dropping series of performances of songs by Gershwin, Weill, Berlin, Rodgers, and from the scores to St. Louis Woman and Hello, Dolly !

Make someone happy and enjoy this ambitious score from Comden/Green/Styne. Do Re Mi was a good old-fashioned show and we'll hear Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, plus Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald and more.

Sometimes Broadway is luckier the second time around: revivals that made us rethink great masterpieces. Alan Cumming in Cabaret , Audra McDonald in Carousel , the Yiddish Fiddler and more.

Look around, look around: it's autumn in the greatest city in the world. New York in a melancholy mood--songs performed by Ethel Merman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bobby Short, Mel Tormé and more.

Velcome to Blood-vay to Main Steet! Count Larry Maslon stirs up a cauldron of Halloween classics: witchy warblings from Bette Midler, Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Idina Menzel and a circle of sorceresses!

On the 60th Anniversary of Billy Wilder's classic film, we'll play music from the movie, as well as a syncopated medley of tunes from various stage adaptations; performers include Robert Morse, Tommy Steele, and, of course, Marilyn Monroe.

We're sending of loads of lovely love in memory of the divine Diahann Carroll: her stunning performances from House of Flowers, No Strings, Sunset Blvd , and the American Songbook, joined by Pearl Bailey, Judy Garland and more.

The eternal music of George Gershwin: here are some of his greatest songs, played by the composer himself, with a contrasting assist from Sarah Vaughan, Fred Astaire, and Ethel Merman.

The spotlight remains on Judy Garland, as we listen to her glorious renditions of the Broadway songbook of the 1950s and 60s, joined by Howard Keel, Ethel Merman and daughter Liza.

Judy Garland is back in the spotlight and, in an unprecedented two-part episode, we look at her glorious commitment to the Broadway songbook from the first part of the 20th Century, joined by friends such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra

Here are performances that leap out of the recording studio and into your heart and soul. Sammy Davis, Jr. and Carmen McRae, Frank Sinatra, and Johnny Hartman from pop music and Robert Morse, Elaine Stritch and Audra McDonald from Broadway.

This is for those of you with an interest in pirates: we'll sail the musical seas on this vacation weekend with songs from Titanic, Sail Away, The Last Ship and more.

Richard Rodgers' 1962 score--for which he wrote lyrics and music--is a little-known Broadway treasure.  Diahann Carroll, Nat King Cole, Marilyn Maye and others take us on a tour. 

A sampling of the great songs that Broadway composers wrote just for Hollywood pictures: Tinseltown tunes by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Kander and Ebb, Sondheim and more.

Sin, seduction, and Satan: the infernal side of musical theater from Hadestown, Damn Yankees, The Apple Tree --all the way back to Offenbach and Irving Berlin.

We give our regards to the dawn of the American musical: greats songs by Kern, Cohan, Berlin, and Herbert, sung by Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Tony Bennett, Nina Simone and more.

The greatest jazz pianist of our time joins us to take a tour of wonderful tunes--by Bernstein, Loesser, Kern and others--played by Bill and his trio, joined by Tony Bennett, Sherie Rene Scott and more.

It's an hour of great big stuff as the composer/lyricist of The Band's Visit, Tootsie, The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels joins us live in the studio.

In honor of the immense contribution of the LGBTQ community--on and off-stage--to the heart of Broadway, we look at La Cage aux Folles, Fun Home, The Prom , some unforgettable songs by Noel Coward, Cole Porter, and more.

In advance of the new 2019 revival recording, we'll look at the history of how this seminal score appeared in different versions throughout the years, with Decca A&R man Brian Drutman. Plus a sneak preview of the new recording and others.