Ira Gerswhin

We're not really fans of politics, so this primary season, we're featuring primary colors found in songs from a variety of musicals from stage and screen.

One of the reasons we love musicals is that most of them include a variety of musical styles in their scores. For some reason, we decided to look at musicals that include rags of various kinds, and, along with two slow rags called drags, we'll be looking at fourteen songs on this week's program.

We looked at music of George Gershwin last week on The Dress Circle, and this week (7/15 7:00 p.m.) we’ll concentrate on lyrics by his brother Ira but…