The 2004-2005 Season
September 3-5: (04-G-45-00035,
08/31/04): Working.
Broadway Revisited begins the 2004-2005 season with a Labor Day
Weekend visit with the musical version of Studs Terkel's “Working”,
sampling three different productions.
September 10-12: (04-G-45-00036, 09/07/04): The Summer’s New Broadway Paper and Plastic.
There were so many new books, videos, and recordings over the summer
that we’ll have two programs of new releases— next week from Hollywood,
this week from Broadway.
September 17-19: (04-G-45-00037, 09/14/04): The Summer’s New Hollywood
Paper and Plastic. Part two of our reviews
of the new releases.
September 24-26: (04-G-45-00038, 09/21/04): Songwriters Talk and
Sing. Samplings of lectures in which
songwriters talk about their work— and demonstrate it.
October 1-3: (04-G-45-00039, 9/28/04): The Shows of Lerner and
Loewe. They wrote a lot more musicals than
My Fair Lady.
October 8-10: (04-G-45-00040, 10/5/04): Politics and Poker. For
the election season, this week’s Broadway Revisited revisits Broadway’s
take on campaigns. Politics and Poker on Broadway Revisited.
October 15-17: (04-G-45-00041, 10/12/04): ‘Tis Autumn. Broadway
salutes autumn, from falling leaves to falling snow.
October 22-24: (04-G-45-00042, 10/19/04): The New Broadway
Season. What’s happening in 2004-2005.
October 29-31: (04-G-45-00043, 10/26/04): Halloween. The
Phantom, the Spider Woman, that whole crowd.
November 5-7: (04-G-45-00044,
11/02/04): Lerner without Loewe. The lyrics of Alan Jay
Lerner with the music of Burton Lane, Kurt Weill, and others.
November 12-14: (04-G-45-00045,
11/09/04): “Finian’s Rainbow”. The Harburg-Lane classic
about magic, romance, and politics.
November 19-21: (04-G-45-00046,
11/16/04): Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. A selection of
Broadway songs sung by two great Broadway stars.
November 26-28: (04-G-45-00047,
11/23/04): Broadway by the Year. Every June, a Town Hall
concert salutes the musicals of a past season. We’ll sample these
concerts covering years from 1925 to 1964.
December 3-5: (04-G-45-00048,
11/30/04): Autumn New Paper & Plastic. The season’s
new books, records, and videos.
December 10-12: (04-G-45-00049,
12/07/04): “Brigadoon”. A rare recording of the complete Lerner
and Loewe score.
December 17-19: (04-G-45-00050,
12/14/04): London’s Broadway. An assortment of original
cast performances from the West End.
December 24-26: (04-G-45-00051,
12/21/04): Mickey Mouse Music. Mickey Mouse first appeared
in September 1928, but 2004 was his official 75th birthday.
December 31-January 2: (04-G-45-00052,
12/28/04): Celebrate the New Year with Bobby Short.
January 7-9: (05-G-45-00001, 1/4/05): Cy
Coleman. Composer Cy Coleman died late last year and this
week we review his five decades on Broadway.
January 14-16: (05-G-45-00002,
1/11/05): “A Little Night Music”. This week Broadway
Revisited lightens this season of long dark nights with an hour
of midnight sun, and the musical version of Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of
A Summer Night, Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.
January 21-23: (05-G-45-00003,
1/1805): Tony Bennett and Maureen McGovern.
A pair of singers who keep alive the songs of Kern, Arlen, Rodgers and
Hart and other classic songwriters.
January 28-30: (05-G-45-00004,
1/25/05): Faith, Hope and Therapy.
When the stress of life gets you down, there's relief in show tunes.
This week, Broadway Revisited offers some faith, hope, and therapy.
Contemporary answers to modern problems from assorted shows, this week
on Broadway Revisited.
February
4-6: (05-G-45-00005, 2/1/05): Arlen @ 100. Harold
Arlen was born in February 1905, and this week Broadway Revisited
celebrates his centennial with a review of his life and work.
February 11-13: (05-G-45-00006, 2/8/05): My Funny Valentine.
For Valentine’s Day weekend, Broadway Revisited presents an assortment
of theatrical love songs, some of them tender, but some comic
Valentines, too. My Funny Valentine, this week on Broadway
Revisited.
February 18-20: (05-G-45-00007, 2/15/05): Pelham Grenville
Wodehouse. P.G. Wodehouse, best known as
an English novelist, was one of the founding fathers of the classic
American musical.
February 25-27: (05-G-45-00008, 2/22/05): New Winter Paper and
Plastic. The new records, books and videos
of the season.
March 4-6: (05-G-45-00009, 3/1/05):
Remembering Jerry Orbach. From “The Threepenny Opera” to
“42nd Street”.
March 11-13: (05-G-45-00010, 3/8/05):
Bernstein’s Broadway. The shows of Leonard
Bernstein
March 18-20: (05-G-45-00011, 3/15/05):
Sondheim @ 75. This month, Stephen Sondheim reaches the
three-quarters mark and his fiftieth year on
Broadway.
March 25-27: (05-G-45-00012, 3/22/05):
Operetta’s Greatest Hits. From Vienna and Paris to
Broadway.
April 1-3:
(05-G-45-00013, 3/29/05): Spring Is Here. A
salute to the vernal equinox.
April 8-10: (05-G-45-00014, 4/5/05): “The Girl Friend” meets “The Boy
Friend”. A revival of a 1926 Rodgers and
Hart show and a 1953 West End 1920s pastiche.
April 15-17: (05-G-45-00015, 4/12/05): Sarah Vaughan and Billy
Eckstine. And Gershwin, Berlin, and more.
April 22-24: (05-G-45-00016, 4/19/05): Going Places. From
Kalamazoo to Cancun.
April 29-May 1: (05-G-45-00017, 4/26/05): “The Pajama Game” and “Damn
Yankees”. Jerry Ross and Richard Adler
only wrote two shows together and both were hits.
May
6-8: (05-G-45-00018, 5/3/05): Fifty Years Ago. The
Broadway seasons plus or minus 1955 were rich with memorable shows, and
this week Broadway Revisited remembers a dozen of them.
May 13-15: (05-G-45-00019, 5/10/05): “Show Boat”. This
week on Broadway Revisited you can hear quite a bit of the classic
score by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern, from “Make Believe” to “Ol’
Man River”. Life upon the floating stage this week, with Broadway
Revisited and “Show Boat”.
May 20-22: (05-G-45-00020, 5/17/05): Global Broadway. "Intellectual
Property" is one of our few remaining exports. During Think
Global Week, Broadway Revisited presents more than a dozen foreign
language performances of songs heard in productions of Broadway shows
from around the world.
May 27-29: (05-G-45-00021, 5/24/05): The Spring’s New Paper and
Plastic. New books, videos, and compact
discs.
June 3-5: (05-G-45-00022, 5/31/05):
Tony Awards Preview. The Tony Awards will be given Sunday
night. We’ll hear all the nominees this week on Broadway
Revisited.
Singers and
Songwriters Summer
Biographies are featured this summer on Broadway Revisited, including
those of Dorothy Fields, Jule Styne, and Harold Arlen, all of whom were
born a century ago in 1905, and of Stephen Sondheim, who turned
seventy-five this year. They alternate with recitals of the great
songs by great singers. The programs include remembrances of
lyricist Fred Ebb, composer Cy Coleman, and singer-pianist Bobby Short,
all of whom died this year.
June 10-12: (05-G-45-00023,
6/7/05): Ella and Louis. In the 1950's, Ella Fitzgerald
and Louis Armstrong recorded five lps of show tunes as duets.
We’ll sample as many songs that fit in the hour.
June 17-19: (05-G-45-00024,
6/14/05): Cy Coleman. Composer Cy Coleman died late last
year and this week we review his five decades on Broadway.
June 24-26: (05-G-45-00025,
6/21/05): Tony Bennett and Maureen McGovern. A pair of
singers who keep alive the songs of Kern, Arlen, Rodgers and Hart and
other classic songwriters.
July 1-3: (05-G-45-00026,
6/28/05): Arlen @ 100. Harold Arlen was born in February
1905, and this week Broadway Revisited celebrates his centennial with a
review of his life and work.
July 8-11: (05-G-45-00027,
7/5/05): Bobby Short. We remember the great cabaret
conservator of the great songs who died earlier this year.
July 15-17: (05-G-45-00028,
7/12/05): The Lyrics of Dorothy Fields. A celebration of
the lyrics of Dorothy Fields, who was born a hundred years ago this
week.
July 22-24: (05-G-45-00029,
7/19/05): Mabel Mercer and Robert Clary. Mabel Mercer came
form England and Robert Clary is from France, both masters at singing
Broadway.
July 29-31: (05-G-45-00030,
7/26/05): The Songs of Kander and Ebb. Lyricist Fred
Ebb died last September, and we remember him with the songs he wrote
with composer John Kander.
August 5-7: (05-G-45-00031,
8/2/05): Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine. And Gershwin,
Berlin, and more.
August 12-14: (05-G-45-00032,
8/9/05): Sondheim @ 75. Last March, Stephen Sondheim
reached the three-quarters mark and his fiftieth year on
Broadway.
August 19-21: (05-G-45-00033,
8/16/05): Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. Classic
Broadway sung by master singers.
August 26-28: (05-G-45-00034,
8/23/05): The Shows of Jule Styne. Along with songs for
movies and Frank Sinatra, Jule Styne wrote a string of Broadway hits
including “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “Bells Are Ringing”, and
“Gypsy”. We celebrate his birth a century ago this week on
Broadway Revisited.