Broadway to Main Street

A tribute to our nation's working men and women. Workers from cops to dance hall girls to cleaning women to whalers to union organizers sing for their supper; songs from Working, The Pajama Game, Pins and Needles , and more.  

For our annual August tribute to film composers, we spotlight four giants of the 1960s: Elmer Bernstein, John Barry, Burt Bacharach, and Richard Rodney Bennett. Highlights from their major movie and theater achievements of the era.

And people called it Ragtime . . .\ we celebrate the unique syncopation of this score. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie and more.

It was an era when life was just a bowl of cherries, there was good news, whoopee, with cream in your coffee. Explore Broadway's happiest hits from the 1920s and early 30s with Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, and more.

It's summertime and we're cranking up the car radio and listening to songs about every major city or state from Maine to California, from I-95 to the I-10; tunes from Ragtime, The Most Happy Fella, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , and more. 

  Do you hear the actors sing? We've lined up an all-star cast--Colm Wilkinson, Patti LuPone, Hugh Jackman, Sierra Boggess, Ramin Karimloo, and more--to bring this great musical home.  

The Broadway catalogue of Judy Garland is celebrated on her centenary. Classic songs by the Gershwins, Rodgers with Hart and Hammerstein, Jule Styne, Noël Coward and more (and partnered by Sinatra, Crosby, and Liza among others).

We invited Kelli O'Hara to our virtual studio for a chat and an hour of her most stunning performances from South Pacific, Light in the Piazza, Bridges of Madison County,  O'Hara rarities and much more.

The second part of our two-part interview with Mark Eden Horowitz, editor of "The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II": Now, we move on to OH2 and Rodgers, Sondheim, and the "what-ifs" of this mighty career. Songs performed by Nat King Cole, Audra McDonald, Dinah Shore, and more.

The first of a two-part interview with the editor of "The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II," Mark Eden Horowitz, with brand-new insights of our greatest lyricist. With songs performed by Irene Dunne, Paul Robeson, Sarah Vaughan and more.  

A special preview, featuring music (much of it as yet unreleased!) from Six, A Strange Loop, Paradise Square, Mr. Saturday Night, MJ The Musical, The Music Man and more.

Fifty years ago, these were among the nominees: Raúl Julia, Clifton Davis, Alexis Smith, Phil Silvers, Barry Bostwick, Mildred Natwick, and more. Join us as we stumble through a song or two and lie about ourselves a little.

Modesty is not a virtue here, showcasing more than a dozen Broadway characters with VERY healthy egos: Songs from Camelot, The Sound of Music, The Producer s, and more--plus a special Carly Simon tribute!

Riffing off Billy Crystal's turn in Mr. Saturday Night, we look at those top bananas who brought their comic chops to Broadway: Phil Silvers, Rose Marie, Fanny Brice, Bert Lahr, Lucille Ball, Jerry Lewis, Buddy Hackett, Andrea Martin and more.  

The world's gone mad today, but we still get a kick out of this Cole Porter masterpiece. Here's the full score, plus a foredeck of Reno Sweeneys: Ethel Merman, Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and more.

We're celebrating the centennial month of this marvelous singer with a variety of songs written by Richard Rodgers, from Jumbo to The Sound of Music .  

We celebrate how to succeed on Broadway through the life and achievement of five-time Tony nominee (and two-time winner) Bobby Morse. All of his major shows and performances are featured.

Spring has finally sprung and with it a musical bouquet of tunes with a floral motif from Hadestown, Gypsy, On a Clear Day, The Sound of Music and more.

In 1963, Frank Sinatra put together an exciting experiment: four of the greatest musicals recorded in the studio with the era's best singers of popular music: Frank, Sammy, Dean, Bing, Dinah, Keely and more.  Will Friedwald joins us to discuss this ambitious project .

A funny girl, a funny lady, and a pioneer in American popular culture. Join us for a gorgeous hour as we play the songs she made famous, sung by Fanny and others, including Kaye Ballard, Alice Faye, and Barbra Streisand, of course.  

We've got your number--in fact, more than a dozen numbers from the fabulous Cy Coleman/Carolyn Leigh score. Original and revival casts--Sid Caesar, Martin Short, Faith Prince--plus Sarah Vaughan, Judy Garland, and more .

Broadway musicals have provided happy homes for Hollywood stars for decades; join Tinseltown legends such as Antonio Banderas, Lauren Bacall, Hugh Jackman, Vivien Leigh, and others for their on-stage triumphs.

We travel out of time, out of sight to those far away places with the strange sounding names--Bali Ha'i, Camelot, Oz, Shangri-La--that have lent their mysteries to Broadway for decades.

Go east, young tunesmiths! Great Hollywood songwriters try their respective hands at Broadway musicals with such shows as Ballroom, Skyscraper, Oh Captain!, Shangri-La , and others.

Come play wiz us as we celebrate Stephen Sondheim's unique score with Ted Sperling, artistic director of MasterVoices. Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, plus Madeline Kahn, Mandy Patinkin, Steve Lawrence and more.