Broadway to Main Street

Here are the Broadway musicals you'd kill for: Sweeney Todd, Baker Street, A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder and many others.

Sammy Davis, Jr. and Anthony Newley were musical soulmates: two powerhouse little chaps--one performer, one composer--who rendered some of the most powerful show music of the 1960s and 70s.

It was the sweet spot of the Golden Age of the American Musical: the 1950s.

To celebrate Valentine's Day we're looking at the early stirrings of love on the Broadway stage--West Side Story, Bye Bye Birdie, 13--and contrasting it with the kind of love that endures through time--Gigi, Follies, The Bridges of Madison County.

They dominated London's theatre scene in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s—but they never made it across the pond: great British musicals, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Barry, John Williams, and Lionel Bart.

Has there ever been a more fascinating rhythm than the feet of Fred Astaire?

In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, we look at the way that Broadway has dealt with the issue of civil rights, especially in the African American community.

George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Harold Arlen and others sell their own material like nobody else.

Broadway's fairest lady is Julie Andrews and she made her major musical theater appearances singing the words of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.

Our annual holiday show features actor/singer/pianist Malcolm Gets, currently in the revival of Allegro.

It was the greatest revue of the 1930s, brilliantly crafted by Irving Berlin and Moss Hart, and yet it never had an original cast album and has never been revived on Broadway.

Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Broadway's favorite lyricist team, are back with a vengeance.

An hour of dark dreams and creepy nightmares from the Broadway stage--including sequences from Sweeney Todd, The Phantom of the Opera, Lady in the Dark, and Oklahoma!

Hey, jealous lover! That green-eyed monster, jealousy, rears its musical head this week, with songs of vituperation, envy, sadness, and loss: from The Pajama Game, Kean, Follies, St. Louis Woman and more.

In celebration of the new Library of America edition American Musicals (1927-1969): The Complete Book and Lyrics to 16 Broadway Classics, this broadcast will feature a great song from each of these seminal shows.

What's more fun that a great Broadway song? Making fun of a great Broadway song!

What good is sitting alone in your room--unless you're listening to Broadway to Main Street's tribute to Kander and Ebb's classic examination of Weimar Berlin, Cabaret?

The harvest moon shines down on Broadway to Main Street as we look at the coming of autumn, and how the seasonal change reminds us of the land and the good folk who work on it. Songs from Oklahoma!, Shenandoah, Candide, Knickerbocker Holiday, and others.

It's a helluva show! On The Town represents New York, New York at its most ebullient and most touching.

Experience the full history and tradition of Fiddler on the Roof with a celebration of its score.

Our first original broadcast for the fall of 2014 celebrates opening all those new windows and embracing all those new possibilities as September dawns upon us.

What are the fifteen most popular songs from the Broadway canon? We'll do a Top 15 Countdown--from West 54th Street to West 41st Street; from Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue--of the songs that topped the charts.

This hour, celebrating is all-Feinstein, all-Ira, with music by George Gershwin, of course, but also by Harold Arlen, Burton Lane, and Jerome Kern.

Come away with us, via Bali Ha'i, to Rodgers and Hammerstein's masterpiece.

A special tribute to a special legend: Elaine Stritch.