Film Musicals

We’re remembering the career of songwriter Charles Strouse on this week’s Dress Circle (7/27 7:00 p.m.) through songs from his stage and screen career. Strouse is probably best known for his work with Lee Adams with whom he penned some of his most successful shows including “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Applause,” and “Golden Boy” although his longest-running musical, “Annie,” was written with Martin Charnin.

With everything going on, we’re looking everywhere we can to find some happiness, and, of course, we turned to the musicals, and on this week’s Dress Circle (7/20 7:00 p.m.), we’ve compiled a playlist of some of the songs that make us happy.

We’re going where the “neon lights are bright” and “there’s magic in the air” on this week’s Dress Circle (6/29 7:00 p.m.) as we look at songs about Broadway from stage and screen. Even though a great deal of music has been written about being on the stage and theatres, we decided to limit it to only those songs that expressly mention “Broadway” in their titles.

This week’s Dress Circle (6/8 7:00 p.m.) is a return to one of our favorite topics, “Involuntary Musical Imagery” otherwise known as stuck song syndrome, sticky music, and cognitive itch, or, as the Germans call them, orhwurm. Of course, their earworms. Those pesky songs that you love to hate. You hear them, and they stay with you for a very long time afterwards.

Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman were an integral part of the Walt Disney family where they were known simply as “The Boys.” Most people will recognize some of their songs like “It’s a Small World” and “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” but on this week’s Dress Circle (1/19 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to be looking at some of their songs from stage and screen with which listeners might not be familiar or know that they wrote them.

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.

This program has turned to musicals from off- and on Broadway and Hollywood for a variety of songs that begin with the words "If you..."

With all of the "ifs" running around, we thought we'd turn to the musicals to see just how many songs there were out there that start with "if," and we found far more than we expected. This time, we're looking at only a few of the many songs we found that start with "If I" and end up talking about love and many other things.

This program takes a look at songs from the musicals about "words"

This is our second show looking at the behind-the-scene voices who sang songs for stars like Deborah Kerr, Cyd Charisse, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Rita Moreno, and Natalie Wood. Those voices were provided by Marni Nixon, Carol Richards, Martha Mears, Betty Wand, and more.