Broadway

We know that spring sprang last month, but it seems as though all of the flowers bloomed around here this week (at least, that’s what our eyes and sinuses have been telling us). Since that’s the case, we thought we’d honor spring springing with a program of “spring” songs on this week’s Dress Circle (4/27 7:00 p.m.).

Sometimes, one just needs a place, a special place to find solace and comfort, and we’re going to look at fourteen of our favorite places to escape on this week’s Dress Circle (4/20 7:00 p.m.).

Every once in a while, silly happens, and one must recognize it. With that in mind, this week’s Dress Circle (4/13 7:00 p.m.) is born of silly but filled with some wonderful songs as we look at songs about “hands” for Palm Sunday.

We’re welcoming in April with our regular monthly feature on this week’s Dress Circle (4/4 7:00 p.m.) by looking at some of the shows that opened in New York this month, and we’re spanning 114 years of musical history in doing so!

March is almost over, but we’re still in time for one of the monthly celebrations on this week’s Dress Circle (3/30 7:00 p.m.): celebrating Foreign Language Month! We’ve dug through out collection to come up with fourteen songs from English language musicals from foreign casts.

March 23rd is Meteorology Day, and since it’s the chance for a bit of “calendar art” we’re going to celebrate it on this week’s Dress Circle (3/23 7:00 p.m.). How? We’ve searched databases to find songs about meteorological events, and we’ve found quite a few.

The theme for this week’s Dress Circle (3/16 7:00 p.m.) came about as we were researching ideas for future programs. We noticed that almost all musicals feature songs where someone is leaving, telling someone else to leave, hinting someone else should leave, or is caught between leaving and staying. We came up with a list long enough to do several programs, so we thought we’d start this week with songs “Saying Goodbye or Not.”

In the past, we’ve “marched” into March, but we’ve decided to “Parade into March” on this week’s Dress Circle (3/9 7:00 p.m.) with songs from a variety of musicals from stage and screen. We’ve done a program of parades before, but this time, the titles must contain the word “parade.”

Happy March, the month of aquamarines, daffodils, and robins – oh, and quite a few musicals opening in New York, some of which we’ll be featuring on this week’s Dress Circle (3/2 7:00 p.m.). We’ve chosen fourteen musicals for our playlist that spans 125 years of Broadway history this time.

Over the years, we’ve often said that pieces were some of our “favorites,” and we do have many. We tried to wrangle them into a manageable size, but we still had enough for several programs. With this in mind, this week’s Dress Circle (2/23 7:00 p.m.) will look at some of our favorite overtures and opening numbers because we had far fewer of those than we did individual songs.