Broadway To Main Street

Good grief! An entire episode of music inspired by the Peanuts gang to celebrate Charles M. Schulz's 100th birthday. Songs from Off-Broadway, Broadway, TV, records, and films.

A toast to all the Broadway champions, on-stage and off-, who left us in 2022: Angela Lansbury, Robert Morse, Lucy Simon, Pat Carroll, and many more.

THE 2022 HOLIDAY SHOW People who listen to “Broadway to Main Street” this Christmas Day are the luckiest people in the world. Our special guest is Julie Benko, currently the alternate greatest star in Funny Girl; songs include classics written by Jule Styne, among others, and performances by Benko, Streisand, Garland, Cantor and more.  

Petula Clark's 90th birthday serves as a perfect motivation for a look at her career devotion to the music of Broadway. Selections from Finian's Rainbow, Sunset Blyd, The Sound of Music, and many more.

A cornucopia of new recordings that will brighten up every show tune fan's holiday season: music from Barbra Streisand, Sutton Foster, Lea Michele, Sara Bareilles, and more.

Author and NYT critic Jesse Green joins us to discuss the composer's memoir, SHY, on he which collaborated, and her career. Songs performed by Carol Burnett, of course, plus Victoria Clark, Faith Prince, and more.  

Do you know how the lady in the harbor feels? Great torch songs from Broadway musicals sung by Sara Bareilles, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Eydie Gormé and many more.  

An hour-long tribute to our hero, who's twice as big as life in our book; songs from Promises, Promises, The Fantasticks, Chicago, Carnival and more, plus some rarities.  

It's Halloween weekend, so the host of "Blood-vay to Main Street," Count Larry Maslon celebrates another creepy guy in a black cape. Come with us, along with Michael Crawford, Ramin Karimloo, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban and more as we explore this groundbreaking show.  

ANGELA LANSBURY Strike the band up--a tribute to one of the all-time greats of the American Musical Theater. Songs from Mame, Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast, among many others--including some real rarities. We think she's just sensational.  

From the pages of the world's greatest fiction to the stages of the American musical--great shows such as Big River, Oliver!, Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, and more provide listeners with a trip to the library.

The Humble King of Café Society gets the full treatment; choice cuts, some rare, all well-done, from the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Cy Coleman, and Burt Bacharach.  

Not cheek-to-cheek, but nose-to-nose--great duets of conflict, contrast, and contrariness from Les Misèrables, Annie Get Your Gun, Follies, Zorbà and more.

Thank Heaven for this 1958 masterpiece, with a score for the ages by Lerner and Loewe. Performances from the film, outtakes, and various pop and stage renditions (Vic Damone, Andre Previn).  You'll remember it well!

In honor of Her Majesty's passing, we're presenting an updated version of our 2018 episode about Britain's royal family. Songs from I and Albert, Rex, Camelot, and more.

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; songs from Working, The Pajama Game, Pins and Needles, and more.  

For our annual August tribute to film composers, we spotlight four giants of the 1960s: Elmer Bernstein, John Barry, Burt Bacharach, and Richard Rodney Bennett. Highlights from their major movie and theater achievements of the era.

And people called it Ragtime . . .\ we celebrate the unique syncopation of this score. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie and more.

It was an era when life was just a bowl of cherries, there was good news, whoopee, with cream in your coffee. Explore Broadway's happiest hits from the 1920s and early 30s with Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, and more.

It’s summertime and we’re cranking up the car radio and listening to songs about every major city or state from Maine to California, from I-95 to the I-10; tunes from Ragtime, The Most Happy Fella, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and more.