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We're welcoming October with our monthly survey program looking at musicals that opened this month on Broadway. We're spanning 107 years of theatre history across the 13 shows on this week's playlist.

We're looking at ten songs from the "ABBA" musical "Chess" on this week's Dress Circle from three recordings: The original concept recording, the Broadway cast recording, and The 2008 Royal Albert Hall concert recording to sample the score in honor of National Chess Day.

We've turned to seven musicals this week for some ballets from shows like "On Your Toes," "Babes in Arms," and "Li'l Abner" as well as extended dances from two others.

This week's program looks at a variety of musicals and revues, once again, but this time they're small-scale works with casts ranging from one to four performers.

We're looking at some of the shows that opened in New York in September, and this month's playlist covers 116 years of American theatre history.

Tom Jones was the lyricist/librettist of the composing team of Schmidt and Jones, and we sadly lost him in September. We're celebrating his incredible talents on this week's program through just a few of the musicals he wrote with Harvey Schmidt including the longest-running musical, "The Fantasticks."

We're staying at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts this week for Puccini's "Wild West" opera, "La Fanciulla del West." After the opera, we'll fill the afternoon with more music inspired by "the west" from composers like Meredith Willson and Antonin Dvorak.

This weeks' Sunday Opera is actually two one-act operas by George Benjamin followed by a grand ballet, We'll begin with "Picture a Day Like This" followed by a retelling of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" entitled "Into the Little Hill." After the opera, we turn to Prokofiev and his delightful ballet "Cinderella."

This concert broadcast Monday (10/2) presents pieces written by the four young composers who attended the 2023 Edward T. Cone Composition Institute with the NJ Symphony in July.