Webcasts

Opera Lafayette performs Philador's Les Femmes Vengees on The Lyric Stage Sunday (11/12 at 8 pm).

This week's program looks at a variety of musicals and revues, once again, but this time they're small-scale works with casts ranging from one to four performers.

We've turned to seven musicals this week for some ballets from shows like "On Your Toes," "Babes in Arms," and "Li'l Abner" as well as extended dances from two others.

We're looking at ten songs from the "ABBA" musical "Chess" on this week's Dress Circle from three recordings: The original concept recording, the Broadway cast recording, and The 2008 Royal Albert Hall concert recording to sample the score in honor of National Chess Day.

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 program does exactly what the title states: we're looking at the title songs from musicals with single-word titles like "Mame," "Prettybelle," "Oliver!," and "Sarafina!".

Tom Jones was the lyricist/librettist of the composing team of Schmidt and Jones, and we sadly lost him in September. We're celebrating his incredible talents on this week's program through just a few of the musicals he wrote with Harvey Schmidt including the longest-running musical, "The Fantasticks."

We're looking at some of the shows that opened in New York in September, and this month's playlist covers 116 years of American theatre history.

We're heading back to school through the musicals and songs from well-known and lesser-known shows that look at various aspects of "academia."