Broadway to Main Street

The perfect Fourth of July musical--more relevant than ever. So, sit down for an hour with this classic as we hear the Broadway cast and the rare film soundtrack, united for posterity.

This episode draws its inspiration from the great theatrical illustrator Al Hirschfeld.  We're joined by the chief archivist of his work, David Leopold, for a musical survey of his favorites: the Gershwins, Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong and more.  Watch along at: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=psDdsefFUMA

' Feudin' and fussin' and fightin'--on-stage and off-stage: West Side Story, Hamilton, Camelot and two gals named Patti and Audra.

Broadway to Main Street is all ready for the big event-and you will be too! All the major nominees from 2025 are featured:  Maybe Happy Ending, Death Becomes Her, Buena Vista Social Clu b--and more.

We look back at Broadway fifty years ago to see what was worthy of recognition then. A lot, as it turns out: The Wiz, Angela Lansbury in Gyps y, Shenandoah, Bernadette Peters and much much more.

A special tribute to a great composer, Charles Strouse. Classic and rare tunes from Golden Boy, Bye Bye Birdie, Annie, Applause and many more.

As a run-up to the Great Performances l PBS broadcast of "Girl from the North Country" (May 23), we gather 'round the Bob Dylan legacy and the Broadway songbook, including many renditions by Dylan himself.

Following Tolstoi's dictum , we look at all sorts of families across the years on Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Next to Normal, Falsettos, The Addams Family and more.

We march through a tribute to the composer/lyricist with a variety of performances--Mary Testa, Christian Borle, Malcolm Gets, Finn himself--with classics and rarities.

Look out--Bobby Darin is back, in Just in Time with Jonathan Groff on Broadway. Here is Darin working his magic with more than a dozen Broadway classics--giving you the real thing, 

Unless you just want to conga, join us to enjoy this great Bernstein-Comden-Green score; renditions by Rosalind Russell, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald, Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews and more. 

We open up the funny papers and celebrate Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman, Little Orphan Annie and all the other great cartoon and comic strip characters that made it to Broadway.

Taking our cue from the new Broadway musical  Operation Mincemeat, we look at songs that inspired--and were inspired by-- the WWII homefront here and in the UK:  Bernstein, Berlin, Coward, Weill, Bart and more. 

To celebrate the upcoming Encores! concert of this rare Kurt Weill/Alan Jay Lerner musical, we're putting together a version of the score with performances by Jo Stafford, Nanette Fabray, Kaye Ballard and Victoria Clark and others.

Three of the greatest pop-rock voices of the 1970s--Toni Tennille, Karen Carpenter, and Linda Ronstadt--contributed some beautiful renditions of our favorite show tunes; you'll be on top of the world.

The highways and by-ways of the American musical in songs from 42nd Street, Sunset Boulevard, Park Avenue ....you get the idea.

Hey, how are ya? This masterful comedian held down several major musicals on stage, film, and TV--we play some of the hilarious highlights.

Each day is Vale ntine's Day here at Broadway to Main Street, but we are joined by Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano for a gli mpse at their new album, Painting the Town, and some gorgeous Broadway romantic duets.

One of America's most glorious and enduring singers tackling Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kern, Loesser, Weill, Coward, Bock and Harnick and more. MWAH!

Together we go through a bouquet of Roses--Ethel, Angela, Bernadette, Patti and more--to celebrate the current revival of this remarkable Styne/Sondheim/Laurents musical.

We begin our 14th year on the air with a round-up of songs I like from shows I don't; everybody's favorites but mine: The Golden Apple, Wonderful Town, Pippin, Into the Woods and more.

We look at a monumental score by Kern and Hammerstein that just keeps rolling along in imaginative and compelling renditions by Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Bill Evans, Audra McDonald, Peggy Lee and more.

The inimitable Broadway performers who exited stage right in 2024; grand knowing Gavin Creel, Glynis Johns, Steve Lawrence, Janis Paige, Ken Page, and so many more.

It's "Happy Holidays" with our special guest, Bryce Pinkham, as we "spin" favorites of the season including great songs performed by Michael Bublé, Judy Garland, Steve and Eydie, and Mr. Pinkham himself.

Santa Claus is giving a preview of some of the best end-of-year show tune releases. Performances by Cynthia Erivo, Jeremy Jordan, Nicole Scherzinger, and Stephen Sondheim, among many others.