Broadway Revisited

September 1-4: (00-G45-00035, 08/29/00) Working.  Broadway Revisited begins the 2000-2001 season with a Labor Day Weekend visit to the musical version of Studs Terkel's Working, with the brand new recording of the L. A. Theatre Works production.

September 8-11: (00-G45-00036, 09/05/00) What's New. There have been several good new shows and reissues since our last quarterly catch-up. We sample them on this week's Broadway Revisited.

September 15-18: (00-G45-00037, 09/12/00) The Songs of Harry Warren.  Harry Warren had even more songs on the Hit Parade than Irving Berlin, but not everyone knows his name.  This week's Broadway Revisited offers a corrective.

September 22-25: (00-G45-00038, 09/19/00)  Politics and Poker  We're in the season when politicians are scurrying around the landscape seeking office.  This week's seminar on Broadway Revisited examines the game.

September 29-October 2: (00-G45-00039, 09/26/00) Season Preview--- 2000-2001 on Broadway.

October 6-9: (00-G45-00040, 10/03/00) The "Show Time" Series.  Back in the ‘fifties, Victor records produced new recordings of the hit songs from sixteen classic shows, using the best available talent.  This week, Broadway Revisited samples them all.

October 13-16: (00-G45-00041, 10/10/00) "Of Thee I Sing"  This week Broadway Revisited recognizes the current presidential campaigns with the prescient Pulitzer Prize winner, "Of Thee I Sing", written by George and Ira Gershwin in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan.

October 20-12: (00-G45-00042, 10/17/00) The Songs of Yip Harburg. The lyricist who put the rainbow in "The Wizard of Oz" also wrote dozens of other shows and songs.  This week we review his life and work.

October 27-30: (00-G45-00043, 10/24/00) Words by Sondheim, Music by Others.  For the last forty years, Stephen Sondheim has been writing shows with his own words and music, but in his early days, he wrote "West Side Story" with Leonard Bernstein's music and "Gypsy" with that of Jule Styne.  We revisit them both this week on Broadway Revisited.

November 4-6: (00-G45-00044, 10/31/00) The Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre.   Back in the ‘sixties, Frank Sinatra recorded four classic musicals with him and his friends, including Dean Martin, Dinah Shore, Rosemary Clooney, Sammy Davis, Jo Stafford, and Bing Crosby.  We'll sample "South Pacific", "Kiss Me Kate", Finian's Rainbow", and "Guys and Dolls" this week, when Broadway Revisited revisits the Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre.

November 11-13: (00-G45-00045, 11/7/00) Curtain Up.  This week, there won't be any words with the music on Broadway Revisited, when we devote the hour to overtures, the bright and lively music that defines the Broadway "sound".

November 18-20: (00-G45-00046, 11/14/00) Two by Rodgers and Hammerstein.  Two Rodgers and Hammerstein classics are on this week's menu when Broadway Revisited samples a rare recording of "The King and I" with Robert Merrill and Dinah Shore and the original cast recording of "Oklahoma".

November 25-27: (00-G45-00047, 11/21/00)Turkey Leftovers. For our post-Thanksgiving show, Broadway Revisited is packed with good songs from shows that closed almost before they opened.  Turkey leftovers on Broadway Revisited.

December 2-4: (00-G45-00048, 11/28/00) Come to the Cabaret.  Cabaret isn't just a Broadway show, but the venue where theater music is performed long after the shows close.  This week's Broadway Revisited is a survey of the lively current cabaret scene.  We'll hear songs by old masters like Kern and Rodgers sung by new talent from coast to coast.  Come to the cabaret—  on Broadway Revisited.

December 9-11: (00-G45-00049, 12/5/00) Classics Revisited.   Many of the familiar songs from Broadway shows have changed from the way they sounded in the shows from which they came.  This week on Broadway Revisited we'll match several pairs of originals and transformations on a program we're calling Classics Revisited.

December 16-18: (00-G45-00050, 12/12/00) Musicals on DVD and Videotape.  "Annie Get Your Gun" is just one of the classic musicals now available for screening in your living room.  This week Broadway Revisited surveys the new releases on video tapes and discs, with audio clips from fourteen of them.  That's home entertainment, this week on Broadway Revisited.

December 23-25: (00-G45-00051, 12/19/00) The Wizard of Oz.  This year's Broadway Revisited Christmas gift will be a visit with "The Wizard of Oz".  The book was written a century ago and the musical has enriched us for sixty years.  As bonus tracks we'll hear some rarely heard Broadway Christmas songs.  "The Wizard of Oz" plus, this week on Broadway Revisited.

December 30-January 1: (00-G45-00052, 12/26/00) Soundtrack of the Century.  A year ago, when Broadway Revisited  recognized the reported turn of the millennium with a review of the twentieth century, we threatened to repeat it this year for the correct end of the century,
December 31, 2000.  Join us for a look back from the early days to the present on Broadway Revisited's Soundtrack of the Century.

January 6-7: (01-G-45-0001, 01/02/01) The Great Ziegfeld.  Between 1896 and 1932, Florenz Ziegfeld produced 83 Broadway shows, leading the transition from the music hall to the modern musical comedy.  This week, Broadway Revisited reviews his life and work, illustrated with a baker's dozen of songs from his shows.

January 13-14: (01-G-45-0002, 01/09/01) Bernstein's Broadway.  Leonard Bernstein only wrote a few Broadway shows, but most of them are classics.  This week, Broadway Revisited covers Bernstein's Broadway, with an extended visit with his "Candide".

January 20-21: (01-G-45-0003, 01/16/01) A Gershwin Jukebox.  We did a count of the recordings in our library, and there are more songs by George & Ira Gershwin than anybody else.  This week Broadway Revisited presents an hour of some of the best.

January 27-28: (01-G-45-0004, 01/23/01) A Select "Babes in Arms".  Rodgers and Hart's "Babes in Arms" had one of the worst of all musical books and one of the best of all scores.  This week on Broadway Revisited we'll skip the story and hear the great songs.

February 2-4: (01-G-45-0005, 01/30/01): Operetta's Greatest Hits.   Lively music by Jacques Offenbach announces this week's Broadway Revisited — Operetta's Greatest Hits.  Operetta paved the way for the Broadway musical, and this week we'll survey the field from the eighteenth century to now.  Operetta revisited this week on Broadway Revisited.

February 9-11: (01-G-45-0006, 02/06/01): My Funny Valentine.  For Valentine's Day weekend, Broadway Revisitedpresents an assortment of theatrical love songs, some of them tender, but some comic Valentines, too.  My Funny Valentine, this week on Broadway Revisited.

February 16-18: (01-G-45-0007, 02/13/01): New Stuff— Discs, Books, and Video.  A song from the new reissue of Vincent Youmans' score for Hit the Deck, is one of the fifteen or so songs this week on Broadway Revisited when we sample the season's new books and records, including a couple of new Broadway shows.  New paper and plastic, this week on Broadway Revisited.

February 23-25: (01-G-45-0008, 02/20/01): The Words and Music of Irving Berlin.   Someone asked Jerome Kern about Irving Berlin's place in American music.  Kern replied, "Irving Berlin is American music."  On Broadway Revisited this week, we'll illustrate his life with about one per cent of his 1500 published songs.  The words and music of Irving Berlin, this week on Broadway Revisited.

March 2-4: (01-G-45-0009, 02/27/01): American History 101.  Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" will be heard on Broadway Revisited this week when we sample three shows about America's past, "Assassins", "Sing for Your Supper",and "1776".  American History 101, this week on Broadway Revisited.

March 9-11: (01-G-45-0010, 03/6/01): Country Broadway.  Authentic country music sometimes reaches New York stages, and this week, Broadway Revisited samples most of these shows from 1934 to now, featuring a generous selection from "Pump Boys and Dinettes".  This week, Broadway Revisited goes Nashville.

March 16-18: (01-G-45-0011, 03/13/01): Broadway Weather Report.  "Stormy Weather" is one of many weather songs written by Harold Arlen, and we'll play several of them this week on Broadway Revisited, along with other meteorological observations.  Come here to hear Come Rain or Come Shine, on this week's Broadway Revisited.

March 23-25: (01-G-45-0012, 03/20/01): Global Broadway.  "Fiddler on the Roof" in Hebrew is just one of several  Broadway shows in translation we'll sample on Broadway Revisited this week, when we observe Broadway's contribution to the global economy.

March 30-April 1: (01-G-45-00013, 03/27/01): Singing Songwriters.  Harold Arlen liked to sing his own songs.  We'll hear several of his recordings on this week's Broadway Revisited, along with a few from Dorothy Fields and others in a program of songwriters singing themselves.  Singing songwriters, this week on Broadway Revisited.

April 6-8: (01-G-45-00014, 04/03/01): Spring Is Here—  A salute to the vernal equinox.  The calendar says "spring", so this week Broadway Revisited welcomes the season with an assortment of songs about April, May, and June from Rodgers & Hart, Tom Lehrer, William Shakespeare, Sigmund Romberg and other authorities.  Swing into Spring on Broadway Revisited.

April 13-15: (01-G-45-00015, 04/10/01): "Carmen Jones"--- Bizet on Broadway.  "Carmen", like "Porgy and Bess", is a song-filled opera, and Oscar Hammerstein's English version, along with his "Oklahoma", was a Broadway hit in 1943.  Hear it this week on Broadway Revisited.

April 20-22: (01-G-45-00016, 04/17/01): Gender Wars.  "What Is a Man?", asked Rodgers and Hart in "Pal Joey", and Lerner & Loewe wondered "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like A Man?" in "My Fair Lady".  With these and a dozen other similar inquiries, this week Broadway Revisited will explore the conflict.

April 27-29: (01-G-45-00017, 04/24/01): Annies Get Your Guns.   Ethel Merman was Broadway’s first Annie Oakley, but since then the role has been played by many others, including Mary Martin, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, and Bernadette Peters.  This week, Broadway Revisited presents as many as will fit in an hour.

May 4-6: (01-G-45-00018, 05/01/01): “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”.  The legendary homicidal barber in history and as on stage in the Sondheim musical.  Musical mayhem this week on Broadway Revisited.

May 11-13: (01-G-45-00019, 05/08/01): Ben Bagley Revisited.  The late Ben Bagley recorded dozens of albums of otherwise lost songs by the great Broadway songwriters from Kern to Bernstein.  This week Broadway Revisited  honors  his memory with selections from many of these in a program we call Ben Bagley Revisited.

May 18-20: (01-G-45-00020, 05/15/01): The New Spring Line.  The season’s new discs, books and musical videos.

May 25-27: (01-G-45-00021, 05/22/01):  Louis Armstrong on Stage and Screen.   It’s the centennial year of Louis Armstrong’s  birth, and this week Broadway Revisited reviews his contributions to musical theater as a performer, a recording artist, and an influence on American singing styles.

June 1-3: (01-G-45-00022, 05/29/01): Tony Preview.  This year’s Tony Awards will be announced on Sunday.  Hear the nominees this week when we review the 2000-2001 season on Broadway Revisited.

June 8-10:  (01-G-45-00023, 06/05/01): Porgy and Bess. (Part one)  Gershwin’s opera as it might have been a Broadway musical, performed by Ray Charles, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, and other appropriate contributors.

June 15-17:  (01-G-45-00024, 06/12/01):  Porgy and Bess. (Part two)  Gershwin’s opera as it might have been a Broadway musical, performed by Billie Holiday, Cleo Laine, Louis Armstrong, and other appropriate contributors.

June 22-24:  (01-G-45-00025, 06/19/01): The Songs of Harry Warren.  Harry Warren  had even more songs on the Hit Parade than Irving Berlin, but not everyone knows his name.   This week's Broadway Revisited offers a corrective.

June 29-July 1:  (01-G-45-00026, 06/26/01): American History 101.  For the July Fourth , Broadway Revisited samples three shows about America’s past, Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins”, “Sing for Your Supper”, and “1776".  American History 101, this week on Broadway Revisited.

July 6-8:  (01-G-45-00027, 07/3/01): Classics Revisited.   Many of the familiar songs  from Broadway shows have changed from the way they sounded in the shows from which  they came.  This week on Broadway Revisited we'll match several pairs of originals and  transformations on a program we're calling Classics Revisited.

July 13-15:  (01-G-45-00028, 07/10/01): Bernstein’s Broadway.  Leonard Bernstein only wrote a few Broadway shows, but most of them are classics.  This week, Broadway Revisited covers Bernstein’s Broadway, with an extended visit with his “Candide”.

July 20-22:  (01-G-45-00029, 07/17/01): Ziegfeld: The Barnum of Broadway.  Between 1896 and 1932, Florenz Ziegfeld produced 83 Broadway shows, leading the transition from the music hall to the modern musical comedy.  This week, Broadway Revisited reviews his life and work, illustrated with a baker’s dozen of songs from his shows.

July 27-29:  (01-G-45-00030, 07/24/01): Operetta’s Greatest Hits.   Lively music by Jacques Offenbach announces this week’s Broadway Revisited — Operetta’s Greatest Hits.  Operetta paved the way for the Broadway musical, and this week we’ll survey the field from the eighteenth century to now.  Operetta revisited this week on Broadway Revisited.

August 3-5:  (01-G-45-00031, 07/31/01): The Words and Music of Irving Berlin.   Someone asked Jerome Kern about Irving Berlin's place in American music.  Kern replied, “Irving Berlin is American music.”  On Broadway Revisited this week, we'll illustrate his life with about one per cent of his 1500 published songs.  The words and music of Irving Berlin, this week on Broadway Revisited.

August 10-12:  (01-G-45-00032, 08/07/01): Gender Wars.  “What Is a Man?”, asked Rodgers and Hart in “Pal Joey”, and Lerner & Loewe wondered “Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like A Man?” in “My Fair Lady”.  With these and a dozen other similar inquiries, this week Broadway Revisited will explore the conflict.

August 17-19:  (01-G-45-00033, 08/14/01): “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”.  The legendary homicidal barber in history and as on stage in the Sondheim musical.  Musical mayhem this week on Broadway Revisited.

 August 24-26:  (01-G-45-00034, 08/21/01): Annies Get Your Guns.   Ethel Merman was Broadway’s first Annie Oakley and Reba McEntire is the latest, and in between the role has been played by many others, including Mary Martin, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, and Bernadette Peters.  This week, Broadway Revisited presents as many as will fit in an hour.
 
 

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