Jule Styne

August is Happiness Happens month, and nothing makes us happier than a musical, so on this week’s Dress Circle (8/25 7:00 p.m.), we’re looking to fourteen songs about happiness from a variety of musicals.

We've combined the New York musical openings for July and August (for some reason) and arrived at a playlist of 11 shows spanning 153 years of Broadway history. We've also decided to turn to the overtures or opening orchestral pieces to give a fuller sense of these scores.

We're looking at 100 years of Broadway history on this week's Dress Circle as we look at some of the shows that opened in New York on this week's program. Our earliest show is "Step this Way" from 1916, and our most recent opening is the last musical to open in May, 2016's "Paramour" by Circque du Soliel.

This program looks at five musicals for which Stephen Sondheim only contributed musicals including the three complete musicals: "West Side Story," "Gypsy," and "Do I Hear a Waltz?" and additional lyrics for "Candide" and "The Mad Show."

We’re surveying musicals from 130 years of theatre history on this week’s Dress Circle (9/4 7:00 p.m.) beginning with a long-forgotten musical from 1891 entitled “Mavourneen” to Broadway’s most recent September opening (or reopening), “Waitress.”

According to at least one prognosticating groundhog, we’re in for six more weeks of winter, so there’ll be six more weeks to happily stay in and listen to…

For many, holiday preparations are already at a fever pitch, that’s why we’re taking a break this week (12/3 7:00p.m.) from holiday fare to take a look at…