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The Dress Circle: Songs from the Shows of August

August is the month of poppies and peridots and 115 years of musical theatre history on this week’s Dress Circle (8/1 7:00 p.m.).  We’ll begin with “In Dahomey,” a 1903 show with music by Will Marion Cook and lyrics by Paul Laurence Dunbar.  From there, we’ll jump to our most recent opening in “Pretty Woman: The Musical” which opened on August 16 and ran for just over a year and 420 performances.  Along the way, we’ll sample songs from some well-known and lesser-known works as we usually try to do.   The well-known shows will include “1776,” “Me and My Girl,” “42nd Street,” and “La Cage aux Folles.”  On the lesser-known side, we’ll hear from Irving Berlin’s Score to “The Ziegfeld Follies of 1927,” the Jerome Kern / P.G. Wodehouse 1917 hit “Leave It to Jane,” and a show that began life at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse entitled “Gettin’ the Band Back Together.”  

Join us again for some excellent performances from the world of the Broadway musical.

Michael is program host and host of the WWFM Sunday Opera, Sundays at 3 pm, and co-host of The Dress Circle, Sundays at 7 pm.
Ted Otten is co-host of The Dress Circle