Oscar Hammerstein

Once again, we’re getting ready for Valentine’s Day on this week’s Dress Circle (2/8 7:00 p.m.), and even if you don’t have a Valentine per se, you should really treat yourself by tuning in this week for “Non Love Love Songs” for the day that you make as special as you want. These are “Non-Love Love Songs” because they aren’t the usual “Moon – June – Spoon – I love you songs” one generally expects at this time. These, sometimes in a rather sneaky manner, hint or imply love and possible happy endings.

We’re turning to the first of two programs on this week’s Dress Circle (10/19 7:00 p.m.) that will feature some of our favorite songs from stage and screen musicals and soundtracks. Michael is up first, and he’s chosen 13 vastly different songs that really do express his rather eclectic tastes, and by no means is this even the tip of the iceberg of the list of his “favorites.”

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."

Our third and final program in this series Looks at television musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Livingston and Evans, Hugh Martin, and more.

This week's program looks at Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals which are comparatively unknown: "Allegro," "Me and Juliet," and "Pipe Dream."