Ragtime

On last week’s Dress Circle, we played several instrumental pieces, and you kindly let us know that you liked to hear orchestral versions of musicals, so on this week’s program (12/8 7:00 p.m.), we’ll hear symphonic suites from five shows with which you are mostly likely familiar.

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're surveying 121 years of Broadway history as we look at 14 of the many shows that opened in New York (and on their way) this month.

We’re celebrating a Broadway leading man on this week’s Dress Circle (11/29 7:00 p.m.) as we shine a spotlight on Brian Stokes Mitchell. In this first…

We never like to do this type of a program, but we felt compelled to remember another wonderful performer whom we lost far too early on this week’s Dress…

We’re happy to be celebrating the career of a very special performer on this week’s Dress Circle (9/23 7:00 p.m.) as we present a program in our “So Far”…