Broadway To Main Street

Our annual celebration of film composers is brought to a new level with our guest Steven C. Smith, who conducts us on a tour of great composers--Max Steiner, David Raksin, Bernard Herrmann, and more--and their work on film and on stage.

A quicker picker-upper to celebrate four decades of a true Broadway original. Songs from On The Town, Do Re Mi, plus rare recordings of Ms. Walker singing Sondheim, Kern, Gershwin and others.  

It’s still here. We welcome the return of live productions on Broadway with a bouquet of songs celebrating indomitability, change, and survival. Some of Broadway’s greatest—Merman, Streisand, Hudson, Bacall, Jolson, and more—clear the decks for a bright and rosy future.  

Goddard Lieberson produced some of the most admired and beloved Broadway cast albums of all time at Columbia Records: South Pacific, My Fair Lady, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line and more. A toast to the highlights of his incredible achievements.  

To honor Bay Street Theater's August concerts under the stars, we march through Lerner and Loewe's classic score with Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, plus Richard Harris, Mel Torme, Chris Connor and more.

The most unique of all of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, discussed in exquisite detail with our special guest, Ted Chapin. Renditions by Tony Bennett, Audra McDonald, Coleman Hawkins, among others.

And the living is...you know the rest. Great songs from the Broadway stage about the joys of the season, from Grease to The Most Happy Fella to Porgy and Bess to Mamma Mia!  

Unsung champions of the Broadway songbook--if you don't know them, you should: Jackie and Roy, Lee Wiley, Buddy Clark, Felicia Sanders, Matt Monro, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and more.  

A tribute to one of the American Musical Theatre's most ambitious songwriters. We're joined by Steven Blier, artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, plus amazing renditions of Blitzstein's work by Patti LuPone, Rosemary Clooney, Audra McDonald, Paul Robeson and more.

Grab a Mai Tai, put on your capri pants, and listen to some of the most lounge-worthy Broadway show tunes, sung by Steve and Eydie, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Julie London, and more.

Everything is rosie with our expansive tribute to this beloved star of stage (Bye Bye Birdie) and screen (Mary Poppins, etc.).  Guest selections include Chita Rivera, Mary Tyler Moore, and of course Julie Andrews--plus some Dick Van Dyke show tune rarities!

We're celebrating what would have been "Tony Sunday" with a festival of the most honored Tony Award winners--performers who have won multiple medallions: Audra McDonald, Angela Lansbury, Nathan Lane, John Cullum, Chita Rivera and many more.  

Our Memorial Day Weekend tribute to the servicemen and servicewomen who fought and died for our country--expressed in songs by George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hammerstein among others, with a finale of the heart-rending "Ballad for Americans."

  Fifty years ago, the Tonys celebrated Company, The Rothschilds, No No Nanette, and more during a very complex and pivotal season; listen to all the nominees and winners.  

One hundred years after her first recording, we celebrate one of the greatest singing actors in American entertainment. Timeless songs, including "Heat Wave," "Stormy Weather," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," and of course "Supper Time."

In time for Mother's Day, a personal souvenir of the show tunes I learned from my mom: classics from A Little Night Music, My Fair Lady, South Pacific and from great singers such as Paul Robeson, Gertrude Lawrence, and Steve Lawrence.

Wilkommen to some of the hottest nightclubs in Broadway history; songs from Cabaret, Pal Joey, Guys and Dolls, Once, Flower Drum Song and more. A bushel and a peck of great tunes.

A long-awaited episode that's too good, at least. Sondheim's masterpiece, devoured by an all-star line-up: Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Josh Groban, Judy Collins, and many more.

To celebrate his streaming show, "John Cullum: An Accidental Life", we look at the legacy of one of our great Broadway stars in On A Clear Day, 1776, Shenandoah, On the Twentieth Century--and Mr. Cullum joins us for an interview!

The magical sounds of the city heard by night owls and songbirds; tunes from great Broadway shows sung by Sammy Davis, Jr., Ethel Merman, Steven Pasquale, Peggy Lee, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and more.