Broadway to Main Street

Ding-dong! It's "Trick or Treat!" on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, or as our Halloween host refers to it: BLOODVAY TO MAIN STREET.

Celebrate the astonishing voice and vibrant personality of Audra McDonald, enthralling us with songs from Ragtime, St. Louis Woman, Porgy and Bess, 110 in the Shade, Annie and others.

Discover how Broadway made the transition from the Golden Age to the Age of Aquarius with "Broadway Swings the Sixties", featuring great songs from Bye Bye Birdie, Golden Boy, Man of La Mancha, and Your Own Thing.

On "Kurt Weill in Berlin," we celebrate the astonishing early career of one of the world's greatest theater composers.

Take my hand – and let me lead you – o, stranger! – through the Paradise that is Wright and Forrest's KISMET.

Want a week-end getaway? All aboard for "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," a journey by air, rail, and highway of the musical theater scenery.

An anthology of one of America's greatest composer's work for the stage, including numbers from the Cotton Club and shows such as Bloomer Girl, St. Louis Woman, and Jamaica with an all-star cast.

This week on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, we salute Eydie Gorme and her indelible way with a tune with "Eydie (and Steve), featuring songs from Gypsy, On a Clear Day, Golden Rainbow, and Mame.

BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET is leaving the Theatre District with this program and playing a wide variety of songs that have NOTHING to do with Broadway: great, great songs from the movies, the pop charts, bossa nova, French chanson and more.

Let's pretend we've been invited up to Cole Porter's apartment in the Waldorf Astoria; it's after dinner and the cognac's been poured, and the greatest cabaret singers of all time have stepped up to the piano to entertain us.

Selections from Stephen Sondheim's score are performed by Zero Mostel, Nathan Lane, Phil Silvers, and others: comedy this afternoon.

We turn to the music of Coward and the short plays from 1936 that comprise "Tonight at 8:30," along with wistful and witty songs from the Coward songbook performed by the composer himself, Gertrude Lawrence, Bobby Short, Carmen McRae and others.

The groundbreaking musical by Rodgers and Hart is celebrated in various cast and studio recordings, along with vocal support from Chet Baker, Steve Lawrence, Patti LuPone, Ella Fitzgerald, and Bobby Short.

Wonder of wonders! For this episode of BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, we're privileged to have Sheldon Harnick in the studio for an hour of great stories and great songs.

It's triple your pleasure, triple your fun with "Tremendous Trios," as we celebrate some of the best three-person numbers in Broadway history.

In celebration of Steve Ross' new album of Noel Coward treasures ("Noel Coward: Off the Record"), the debonair cabaret celebrity will be joining me in the studio to open our trunks, as it were, and rediscover wonderful songs cut from classic shows.

The Tony Awards is Broadway's big night; this broadcast is devoted to the musical highlights of the 2012-13 season, with selections from MATILDA, KINKY BOOTS, as well as from albums not-yet-released, such as PIPPIN, CINDERELLA, and MOTOWN.

In celebration of the renewed interest in F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY, "Broadway to Main Street" is extending all the way to East Egg.

With June about to bust all over, today we're turning to that masterpiece of narrative musical theater, Rodgers and Hammerstein's CAROUSEL.

Listen to some of the greatest dance music from the stage, including WEST SIDE STORY, A CHORUS LINE, ON THE TOWN and more.

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.

We stretch BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET all the way to the Champs Elysees in our tribute to Paris – after all, it's April! So, with the chestnuts in blossom, we'll hear Maurice Chevalier, Sammy Davis, Colette Renard, Judy Garland & others.

In the spirit of the season of renewal and resurrection, we look at some of the amazing comebacks on the Broadway stage.

Among the great musical theater songwriting teams of the 1930s, Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz provided the wittiest and most haunting of tunes.

Curtain up! Light the lights! BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET is back in full podcast/broadcast mode with a salute to that most ebullient of composers, Jule Styne.