Broadway To Main Street

Bing Crosby is joined by Fred Astaire, Danny Kaye, Al Jolson, and Rosemary Clooney to pay tribute to Irving Berlin and his tunes, which became indelibly linked to the American consciousness.

A look at Sid Caesar's contribution to comedy and Broadway, along with the "Your Show of Shows" Writers's Room geniuses: Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, and Michael Stewart.

This Sunday, January 5th, we're celebrating the second anniversary of our show: "It Takes Two". Songs that do double duty to present double the pleasure, double the fun.

On this program, we're joined by producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper, author of "Untold Stories of Broadway," who'll take us on a musical tour of the secrets to be discovered at Broadway theaters.

We're opening a new window onto 2014 this week on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET with songs that look to the New Year with resolution, fortitude, and optimism.

Special guest Ann Harada helps us trip lightly through great holiday numbers from Meet Me in St. Louis, She Loves Me, and The Sound of Music, as well as classics performed by Frank Sinatra, Dolly Parton, Tony Bennett and others.

On this episode of BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, I'll be looking at "Songs My Father Taught Me"; a generation's worth of great music, stretching back to the 1920s.

This week, in which America has shared its memories of JFK and his legacy, we turn to what was, by all accounts, his favorite musical and the show which defined an era: CAMELOT.

Jo Stafford was America's favorite pop singer of the 1940s and 50s; she had a real affinity for the Broadway songbook, and for the songs of Frank Loesser in particular.

Is there a key to success in a Broadway musical? Irving Berlin thought there were 88 keys – and that's what we celebrate on our broadcast: "I Love a Piano."

Ding-dong! It's "Trick or Treat!" on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, or as our Halloween host refers to it: BLOODVAY TO MAIN STREET.

Celebrate the astonishing voice and vibrant personality of Audra McDonald, enthralling us with songs from Ragtime, St. Louis Woman, Porgy and Bess, 110 in the Shade, Annie and others.

Discover how Broadway made the transition from the Golden Age to the Age of Aquarius with "Broadway Swings the Sixties", featuring great songs from Bye Bye Birdie, Golden Boy, Man of La Mancha, and Your Own Thing.

On "Kurt Weill in Berlin," we celebrate the astonishing early career of one of the world's greatest theater composers.

Take my hand – and let me lead you – o, stranger! – through the Paradise that is Wright and Forrest's KISMET.

Want a week-end getaway? All aboard for "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," a journey by air, rail, and highway of the musical theater scenery.

An anthology of one of America's greatest composer's work for the stage, including numbers from the Cotton Club and shows such as Bloomer Girl, St. Louis Woman, and Jamaica with an all-star cast.

This week on BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET, we salute Eydie Gorme and her indelible way with a tune with "Eydie (and Steve), featuring songs from Gypsy, On a Clear Day, Golden Rainbow, and Mame.

BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET is leaving the Theatre District with this program and playing a wide variety of songs that have NOTHING to do with Broadway: great, great songs from the movies, the pop charts, bossa nova, French chanson and more.

Let's pretend we've been invited up to Cole Porter's apartment in the Waldorf Astoria; it's after dinner and the cognac's been poured, and the greatest cabaret singers of all time have stepped up to the piano to entertain us.