The Dress Circle with Ted Otten and Michael Kownacky
Sundays at 7 pm
With music drawn from their personal and vast music collection, our co-hosts feature the best of Broadway, stage music from around the world, film scores, and the performing arts.
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This program is looking at four cast recordings that we purchased over the past 30 years or so and put away for "safe keeping." They recently surfaced when we cleaned (a little), and we thought we'd share them with you while we still knew where they were.
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We're completing our celebration of the stage life of Chita Rivera with songs from some of her later Broadway outings including "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "The Rink," "The Visit," and revivals of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and "Nine."
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We lost Chita Rivera in January of last year, and with her death, we've lost one of the last bright lights from the Golden Age of the Broadway musical. This is the first of two programs looking at her six decade long career with songs from as many musicals as we have on recording.
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We're surveying 116 years, between 1998 & 2024, of Broadway musical history as we look at a dozen of the shows that opened on Broadway this month.
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"Hello, Dolly!" was 60-years old on 1/16/24, so to celebrate it, we're playing most of the songs in the score from a variety of Broadway and foreign cast recordings.
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Since winters have been so strange for us in the east, we decided to revisit a program we've done in the past looking at winter weather through the musicals, so we'll hear songs about cold, ice, snow, and other things "winter" from sixteen musicals.
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We're celebrating the incredible talents of lyricist E.Y. Harburg through six of his Broadway musicals: "Finian's Rainbow," "Bloomer Girl," "Jamaica," "The Happiest Girl in the World," "Flahooley," and "Darling of the Day."
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We're spanning 137 years of Broadway musical history as we look at some of the shows that opened in New York in January. From 1887's "The Old Homestead" to this year's "Days of Wine and Roses," we've got 14 songs from a variety of wonderful sources.
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We've turned to the musicals to help get everyone ready for the New Year with some "happy" songs. The shows span eight decades of theatre history.
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To celebrate Christmas, we've turned to musicals from Broadway and London as well as television and film for a charming program of joyful singing.