Television Musical

We've turned to the musicals and songs that say "thanks" in one way or another for this season of "thanksgiving." We have songs from Broadway, the West End, and the big and small screens. it's a bit of fun for the holiday weekend.

This program looks at two heroines of the "Old West," Annie Oakley through Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" and Calamity Jane through the musical by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster from a variety of recordings.

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 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.

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 is the third program of CD bonus tracks. This time, it's the second program of some special tracks that we found on CDs of stage and television musicals.

This program is the first of two that will sample some of the myriad bonus tracks added to the CDs of stage and television musicals from cut songs, to demos, to pop covers of songs in the scores, to interviews.

This program is a collection of stage, film , and television musical songs about going back and being in school.

The Dress Circle this week (12/19 7:00 p.m.) is featuring the first of two programs for the season which we’ve entitled “Holiday Memories.” Many of the…