Stephen Schwartz

Many of us are making our preparations for Thanksgiving, and since the day of family, friends, eating, parades, and football is coming fast upon us, this week’s Dress Circle (11/24 7:00 p.m.) will offer some “turkeys’ for the holiday. Those turkeys are musicals that didn’t run more than ten performances on Broadway, many through no fault of their own.

Shakespeare seems to get credit for a great many things, but this time, he deserves it even if the quote is a bit “off.” We’re “Gilding the Lily” on this week’s Dress Circle (8/15 7:00 p.m.), well, we’ve amassed songs about beauty and its secrets, dressing to impress or excess, and a few make-up tips from a variety of musicals.

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.

This is a program featuring 14 musicals that played between 1 and 12 performances on Broadway, so for a variety of reasons, these could be called turkeys. With that said, we're offering up these musical turkeys for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

We're continuing our look at musicals written for television with four more - two from 1957 "The Adventures of Marco Polo" which adapted music by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" which used themes by Edvard Grieg, one from 1958, "Little Women" by Richard Adler, and a version of "Pinocchio" entitled "Geppetto" featuring music by Stephen Schwartz.

This week’s Dress Circle (7/26 7:00 p.m.) is for the birds - literally. We’ve got feathered friends of all shapes and sizes including some that are…