Broadway to Main Street

One of the stalwarts who keep Broadway music alive on the stage, in recordings, and on TV, Robert Goulet's commanding baritone and steely charm made him a fan favorite for decades.

With all the excitement of the World Cup upon us, Broadway to Main Street will go around the globe in 60 minutes, bringing you show-biz anthems from South America, Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa.

The 1970s were an incredibly eclectic time in popular music and the Broadway stage was no exception.

To celebrate the 2014 Tony Awards, we'll hear a selection of the nominees, plus some of the actresses and actors up for the major awards, including new recordings of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Beautiful, Bridges of Madison County, and others.

In preparation for the 2014 Tony Awards, we look at life with Tony 50 years ago: shows like Funny Girl, She Loves Me, 110 in the Shade and Hello, Dolly!, the night's grand champion.

The music is sweet, the words are true: Jerome Kern was one of America's most glorious composers.

Here are seven giants of the American musical: Ethel Merman, Elaine Strich, Howard Keel, Mandy Patinkin, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, and Barbara Cook--each singing one of their greatest songs twice--with a lifetime's experience between each version.

In this episode, Broadway to Main Street gives 'em the "ooh-la-la": musicals with a French accent, in honor of Irma La Douce – that rarity, a great French musical.

Broadway to Main Street celebrates the Prince of Broadway, with songs from shows he wrote—Jubilee, As Thousands Cheer, Lady in the Dark—and shows he directed—My Fair Lady, Camelot, along with some choices selections from the man himself.

Standards and rarities from the songbooks of Rodgers and Hart, Noel Coward, Stephen Sondheim, Arlen and Mercer and others, performed by Sammy Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Christopher Plummer, and many more.

Forget the whole-a Napa Valley – the most happy listeners will be among the vineyards of the East End as we celebrate one of the finest scores in musical theater history: THE MOST HAPPY FELLA.

Cole Porter's KISS ME, KATE is wunderbar from start to finish, so enjoy this 1948 masterpiece with us, featuring Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Marin Mazzie & Co. joined by Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Keely Smith.

She was one of the most original voices of the 20th Century. Nina Simone devoted her life and her career to a variety of styles: blues, jazz, protest songs, but she always loved the classic Broadway songbook.

This program is a veritable Hooray For Hollywood: an hour devoted to those songs written expressly for the film versions of classic Broadway shows.

This week on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, we look at the tensions between "Upstairs, Downstairs": master and servant, mistress and maid, in the American musical.

Bing Crosby is joined by Fred Astaire, Danny Kaye, Al Jolson, and Rosemary Clooney to pay tribute to Irving Berlin and his tunes, which became indelibly linked to the American consciousness.

A look at Sid Caesar's contribution to comedy and Broadway, along with the "Your Show of Shows" Writers's Room geniuses: Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, and Michael Stewart.

This Sunday, January 5th, we're celebrating the second anniversary of our show: "It Takes Two". Songs that do double duty to present double the pleasure, double the fun.

On this program, we're joined by producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper, author of "Untold Stories of Broadway," who'll take us on a musical tour of the secrets to be discovered at Broadway theaters.

We're opening a new window onto 2014 this week on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET with songs that look to the New Year with resolution, fortitude, and optimism.

Special guest Ann Harada helps us trip lightly through great holiday numbers from Meet Me in St. Louis, She Loves Me, and The Sound of Music, as well as classics performed by Frank Sinatra, Dolly Parton, Tony Bennett and others.

On this episode of BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, I'll be looking at "Songs My Father Taught Me"; a generation's worth of great music, stretching back to the 1920s.

This week, in which America has shared its memories of JFK and his legacy, we turn to what was, by all accounts, his favorite musical and the show which defined an era: CAMELOT.

Jo Stafford was America's favorite pop singer of the 1940s and 50s; she had a real affinity for the Broadway songbook, and for the songs of Frank Loesser in particular.

Is there a key to success in a Broadway musical? Irving Berlin thought there were 88 keys – and that's what we celebrate on our broadcast: "I Love a Piano."