The 2005-2006 Season
September 2-4: (05-G-45-00035,
8/30/05): This Land Is Your Land. We begin
our 2005-2006 Season with a Labor Day Weekend recognition of working
people through the songs of Woody Guthrie, as heard in the off-Broadway
show “Woody Guthrie’s American Song”.
September 9-11: (05-G-45-00036, 09/06/05): The Summer’s New Broadway
Paper and Plastic. New books, videos, and
recordings.
September 16-18: (05-G-45-00037, 09/13/05): Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers. The RKO years.
September 23-25: (05-G-45-00038, 09/20/05): Opera.
A not too reverent visit with another branch of musical theater.
September 30- October 2: (05-G-45-00039, 9/27/05): Marin Mazzie and
Jason Danieley. A pair of the newer stars
on Broadway, who happen to be husband and wife.
October 7-9: (05-G-45-00040, 10/4/05): Las Vegas Live. Musical
theater in Nevada. Broadway songs in all-star Vegas concerts.
October 14-16: (05-G-45-00041, 10/11/05): ‘Tis Autumn. Broadway
salutes autumn, from falling leaves to falling snow.
October 21-23: (05-G-45-00042, 10/18/05): The New Broadway
Season. What’s happening in 2005-2006.
October 28-30: (05-G-45-00043, 10/25/05): Adam and Eve The
Book of Genesis has often been revised, and this week Broadway
Revisited presents Mark Twain’s version. We’ll blend readings
from Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve with songs from the Jerry Bock and
Sheldon Harnick musical version. The Apple Tree, this week on
Broadway Revisited.
November 4-6: (05-G-45-00044,
11/01/05): Three by Gilbert & Sullivan. Pinafore, The
Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado, as seen on the BBC.
November 11-13: (05-G-45-00045,
11/09/05): Jimmy Van Heusen. Jimmy Van Heusen wrote dozens
of classic songs for Broadway and Hollywood, mostly with the lyrics of
Sammy Cahn or Johnny Burke.
November 18-20: (05-G-45-00046,
11/15/05): Nat Cole & Carmen McRae. Classic Broadway
songs performed by great singers.
November 25-27: (05-G-45-00047,
11/22/05): Turkey Leftovers. Hit songs from flop shows.
December 2-4: (05-G-45-00048, 11/29/05):
New Fall Paper and Plastic. New Broadway books, videos, and
recordings.
December 9-11: (05-G-45-00049,
12/06/05): Rodgers & Hammerstein on Film. “Oklahoma”,
“State Fair”, and “The Sound of Music”.
December 16-18: (05-G-45-00050,
12/13/05): Two by Sondheim and Lapine. “Sunday in the Park
with George” and “Into the Woods”, lyrics and music by Stephen
Sondheim, books by James Lapine.
December 23-25: (05-G-45-00051,
12/20/05): Orphans. Annie Warbucks, Dorothy Gale, and
Oliver Twist.
December 30-January 1: (05-G-45-00052,
12/27/05): Jule Styne. The composer born on New Year’s Eve
a hundred years ago.
January 6-9: (06-G-45-00001, 1/3/06):
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 13-15: (06-G-45-00002,
1/10/06): Architecture. Buildings on Broadway.
January 20-22: (06-G-45-00003,
1/17/06): The Return of Musical Comedy. “The Producers”,
“Spamalot”, and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”.
January 27-29: (06-G-45-00004,
1/24/06): How to Succeed. Advice to the ambitious.
February 3-5: (06-G-45-00005, 1/31/06):
Mister Abbott. George Abbott directed more than a hundred
Broadway shows, from Rodgers and Hart to Kander and Ebb. We
sample seventeen of them.
February 10-12: (06-G-45-00006,
2/7/06): “Porgy and Bess” in Jazz. As songs rather than
arias, Gershwin’s music would make a fine Broadway show.
February 17-19: (06-G-45-00007,
2/14/31/06): Barbra Streisand and Harold Lang. The
co-stars of “I Can Get It for You Wholesale” with assorted show tunes.
February 24-26: (06-G-45-00008,
2/21/06): “Bells Are Ringing”. Judy Holliday in the
classic show by Comden, Green, and Styne.
March 3-5: (06-G-45-00009, 2/28/06): New
Winter Paper and Plastic. New books, records, and videos.
March 10-12: (06-G-45-00010, 3/07/06):
Choreography. How composers fit the music to the
choreographer’s style. Examples include Jerome Robbins, Fred
Astaire, and Bob Fosse.
March 17-19: (06-G-45-00011, 3/14/06):
Irving Berlin. From the Bowery to Broadway.
March 24-26: (06-G-45-00012, 3/21/06):
Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy. Good songs, good singers.
March 31-April 2: (06-G-45-00013, 3/28/06):
“Moby”. The lost Herman Melville musical.
April 7-9: (06-G-45-00014, 4/4/06):
Dancing Up Broadway. New dance steps from “The Charleston”
to “The French Mistake”.
April 14-16: (06-G-45-00015, 4/11/06):
Elaine Stritch. Songs from all of her shows from the
Broadway Baby who’s been there from 1946 till now.
April 21-23: (06-G-45-00016, 4/18/06):
Two by Cole Porter. “Anything Goes” with Merman and
Sinatra and “Jubilee” with Gordon MacRae.
April 28-30: (06-G-45-00017, 4/25/06):
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”. Songs from the Jule Styne-Leo
Robin musical, and Carol Channing reading from the source: “Lorelei’s
Diary”, by Anita Loos.
May 5-7: (06-G-45-00018, 5/2/06):
Crosby and Clooney. Bing and Rosie swing the classics.
May 12-14: (06-G-45-00019, 5/9/06):
Family Values. Broadway salutes Mother’s and Father’s
Days.
May 19-21: (06-G-66-72957, 5/16/06):
Hammerstein before Rodgers. Before Rodgers and Hammerstein
there was Romberg and Hammerstein and Hammerstein and Kern. The
early years of Oscar Hammerstein.
May 26-28: (06-G-66-72978, 5/23/06):
“Lady in the Dark”. Kurt Weill’s first Broadway hit and
Ira Gershwin’s last Broadway success. Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill,
Moss Hart, and Sigmund Freud.
June 2-4: (06-G-66-72979, 5/30/06):
The New Spring Line. The season’s new paper and plastic.
June 9-11: (06-G-66-72980,
6/6/06): The Tony Awards Preview. A review of
the 2005-6 Broadway season and a preview of the June 11 awards ceremony.
June 16-18: (06-G-66-72981,
6/13/06): Get Out of Town. Suggestions for your summer
vacation.
June 23-25: (06-G-66-72982,
6/20/06): Gender Wars. A seminar on the permanent war
between men and women. The panelists include the usual
suspects— Kern, Sondheim, Porter, and Gershwin.
June 30-July 2: (06-G-66-72983,
6/27/06): American History 101. Three shows about
America’s past: “1776", “Assassins”, and “Sing for Your Supper”.
A Summer of Shows: Around the world
without leaving Broadway.
July 7-9: (06-G-66-72978, 7/4/84):
“Kismet”. Our summer tour begins in Baghdad. This
week Broadway Revisited samples the Borodin musical, “Kismet”, as
performed by Robert Merrill and Regina Resnick.
July 14-16: (06-G-66-72985, 7/11/06):
“The Boys from Syracuse” & “On Your Toes”. The first
of these Rodgers and Hart shows is set in ancient Greece, and “On Your
Toes” is about the Russian ballet.
July 21-23: (06-G-66-72986, 7/18/06):
“The Threepenny Opera”. The Brecht-Weill Berlin show, set
in Victorian England.
July 28-30: (06-G-66-72987, 7/25/06):
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”. Zero
Mostel in Stephen Sondheim’s take on ancient Rome,
August 4-6: (06-G-66-72988, 8/1/06):
“The Most Happy Fella”. Frank Loesser’s Italian
operetta set in the Napa Valley.
August 11-13: (06-G-66-72989,
8/8/06): “She Loves Me”. Bock and Harnick’s
illustration of romance in a Budapest perfume shop.
August 19-20: (06-G-66-72990,
8/15/06): “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”.
Shakespeare’s travelers to Milan rock in Galt McDermott’s musical
version of his play.
August 25-27: (06-G-66-72991,
8/22/06): “My Multilingual Lady”. We end our
summer world tour in Edwardian England, and to ice the cake, we’ll hear
“My Fair Lady” in eight languages.