Broadway To Main Street

We're taking it nice 'n' easy, matching gems by Cole Porter with incomparable renditions by Frank Sinatra.

A tribute to the great British musicals that never made it across the pond.

Sammy Davis dominates the proceedings in a knockout performance, with rare outtakes, cut numbers, and Quincy Jones in the corner.

On the cusp of a New Year, BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET turns to show tunes that express optimism, hope, and various resolutions for the future; shows include SAIL AWAY, WEST SIDE STORY, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, and SHE LOVES ME.

Join us as we celebrate the career of Barbara Cook, from plucky ingenue to one of our most compelling interpreters of popular song.

My co-host is the jolliest elf in the Theatre District, Jordan Gelber, the star of ELF. We'll be stuffing our Broadway stockings with show tunes about the holidays from BABES IN TOYLAND to MAME to PROMISES, PROMISES to CAROLINE, OR CHANGE.

With a nod to the show’s current revival, we take a look at America’s most indomitable orphan from her comic strip and radio days through her Broadway, film, and television incarnations.

A compilation of the wackiest, most wonderful pairings of singer and song. Improbable? Yes, but delightful.

Selections include rare cast recordings, along with renditions by Lena Horne, Ray Charles, Rosemary Clooney, and Mercer himself.

Start spreading the news: a tribute to the greatest city in the world – New York City.

We're hitting the Big Time on this episode – an entire program devoted to the glorious days of vaudeville and its influence on the American musical.

Welcome to the chills, spill, thrills, ghouls and goblins of the musical theater.

No minimum, no cover charge: only the finest cabaret artists of the last five decades tackling the Broadway songbook with class, elegance, and intimacy.

Our candidates for greatest political musical score include Of Thee I Sing, I'd Rather Be Right, Mr. President, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

We're going to rock around the Theatre District with The Four Tops, The Doors, Janis Joplin, James Brown, the Mamas and the Papas, Elvis Presley and those four irrepressible mop tops from Liverpool!

Princes come, princes go – but there was never a prince of Broadway like Alfred Drake.

The only Broadway musical to feature a score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David – and what a score it is!

The Broadway bell has rung and it's time to take your seats. We go "back to school" with a full syllabus of songs about teaching, learning, and everything in between.

Nothing's quite the same as the Pajama Game – or the talented team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross who brought Broadway two of its biggest hits in the 1950s: the back-to-back smashes The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees.

In honor of Labor Day, this episode is a tribute to our nation's working men and women. Workers from cops to dance hall girls to cleaning women to whalers to union organizers sing for their supper.