Richard Rodgers

Even though September is a quiet month for Broadway musical openings, we've turned to twelve shows covering 123 years of Broadway history from 1898 to 2021 for some wonderful songs.

We're looking at fourteen songs from shows that opened in New York in March that span 112 years of musical theatre history from "The Pink Lady" to the revival of "Sweeney Todd."

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."

This week's program looks at 15 songs from musicals by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart but in performances by "pop" singers from the 30's through 90's.

This program is taking a second look at some of the numerous ballets found in Broadway musicals from the familiar, "Oklahoma!" to the totally forgotten, "Shangri-La."

We're surveying 112 years of New York Musical Theatre as we look at shows that opened in April beginning with a 1911 show by Nora Bayes and Jack Norwood entitled "Little Miss Fix-It" through to the stage version of the film "New York, New York" that is opening later this month.

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

We're beginning a series of programs looking at musicals written expressly for television. This week, our playlist includes five shows, two written in 1957, two written in 1958, and one in 1967. Our composing teams include Jule Styne, Leo Robin, Richard Rodgers, Alec Wilder, William Engvick, and Cole Porter

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."