Broadway

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 sampling eight different cast recordings of Rodgers and Hammerstein's war-time musical "South Pacific" for a program that includes all of the songs even including the song generally cut from the score, "My Girl Back Home."

This program does exactly what the title states: we're looking at the title songs from musicals with single-word titles like "Mame," "Prettybelle," "Oliver!," and "Sarafina!".

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 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.

We're heading back to school through the musicals and songs from well-known and lesser-known shows that look at various aspects of "academia."

This program looks at the various ways walking appears in songs from musicals like "Greenwillow," "Mame," "Shall We Dance?," "The Full Monty" and many more.

This is the third in the series of programs looking at songs from musicals classified as "I Want" songs. This time, we'll look at the songs that don't say "I Want" in the title or, sometimes, not even in the lyrics although they still function the same.

This month's survey of New York openings covers 121 years of Broadway history from the long forgotten show "Sally in Our Alley" to the recently opened musical version of "Back to the Future" in a transfer from London's West End. Join us for another varied hour of excellent music and performances.

This is the second program in our series looking at "I want" songs from the musicals and looks at the more casual "I Wanna" from twelve musicals like "Mack and Mable," "The Producers," and "Josiah for President."